Documentary Films

MIFF: Interview with Brigitte Berman, Director of Hugh Hefner

PRNewsFoto/Playboy Enterprises, Inc.​Hugh Hefner is old. He's so old that Hollywood types have started projects based on his legacy. There are the rumors (tweeted by Hefner himself) that Diablo Cody is writing a movie about him. And one of the documentaries at this year's Miami Film Festival is Hu ... More >>

Uncle Luke's Title Track to Rakontur's The U Will Make Your Ears Bleed Orange and Green

Every Miamian's favorite booty-smacking relative, Uncle Luke, did the title track for The U, a documentary about the chaotic rise of the University of Miami's football squad, by Rakontur, the group that brought us Cocaine Cowboys. As part of ESPN's "30 for 30" series, it will air December 12 at 9 p. ... More >>

Celebrate Sailor Jerry's Tattoo Legacy Tomorrow With a Documentary, Jacuzzi Boys, and Free Booze!

​Here's a last-minute heads up: Tomorrow night is the local screening of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, the new documentary about the life and times of the tattoo legend. Born Norman Keith Collins, he became the go-to ink man in Hawaii, where he developed his singular style on the bodies of hard-living ... More >>

Brett Ratner Invites You to Bask in His Greatness with a Retrospective DVD

​Miami Beach's own Brett Ratner holds the questionable distinction of being Hollywood's reigning hack director. Critics abhor the filmmaker for brining an unsatisfactory ending to the X-Men trilogy, stretching racial stereotypes into the three-film Rush Hour series, and helming Red Dragon, the mos ... More >>

Friday Food Funnies: Sushi

We're going with a sushi theme this week, with a couple of seafood-related ha-ha's thrown in because, as it turns out, very few people have ever written or said anything funny about raw fish. If you've heard any good nigiri jokes, please feel free to share 'em with us.I never eat sushi. I have troub ... More >>

No Love for Locals

Rising stars from UM say state film commission favors out-of-towners.

Old Man Bebo

Last Night: Heavy Metal in Baghdad at Sweat Records

Absurdistan

The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

Doc Block

Nonfiction continues its ascent onscreen.

Feeling Feverish?

Maybe too Hard

Beat the Crowd

DVD releases for the week of July 12, 2007

Pierre Dørge

Iraq's Cinema of Longing

A conversation with director James Longley

Oliver Stone Gets Fined for Cuba Visit

Little Misses

Introducing the best movies of 2005 you probably didn't see

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

Cameron Crowing

Why We Need DVDs

Bad Education

Students at Paul Green's rock school are learning some serious riffs, but at what price?

Excess Hollywood

Some interesting horror flicks, a couple of relationship movies, and plenty of action save summer from sequels

Super Size This

Pop History

BEST LOCAL LATIN ROCK BAND

Locos Por Juana

On Edge

A local documentary film festival takes on topics not for the timid

Israel In Sight

Catching the Death Boat Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star Seeing the Middle East in all its colors

Think Different

Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

BEST FILM FESTIVAL

Miami International Film Festival

Soundman God

Who knew you knew Tom Dowd, or at least heard him

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Film in the Florida Room

A Miami couple hosts a documentary festival and tries to shore up the arts at the same time

South American Style

Colombia spawns its own posse of angry young rappers

Rewind/Fast Forward Fest

Florida's Moving Image Archive pulls out some fine footage

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

Gender Vender

The Gay & Lesbian Film festival is back, bigger and more diverse than ever

Rock and a Hard Place

Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

Best Video Store

Lion Video

Kulchur

Stop in the name of love

Behind the Screens

Festival director Robert Rosenberg plans ahead

Same-Sex Celluloid

Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Hair to Die For

The Big Tease

China's Shtetl

Passport to Life: Destination Shanghai

Pride of Gay Film

Our Cinema, Ourselves

Images of Exile

No money. No filmmaking experience. No hope for commercial success. Minor details didn't stop Joe Cardona and Alex Anton from exploring their Cuban heritage.

Tales of Two Gotham Cities

Shadow Plays

Full of dark truths, new Cuban films and videos raise the shades on the island's past, illuminate its present, and -- maybe -- predict its future

Generalissimo Francis

Gabfellas

Three by Scorsese