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Celluloid City: Blood and Wine Filmed at Jimbo's Place, Coral Gables, and Little Havana

Florida was America's film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of...
August 10, 2010
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Florida was America's film capital until the Puritanical residents of Jacksonville ran those industry heathens out to California in the 1920s. But Miami knows how to treat those denizens of debauchery, which is why they keep coming back to Miami to film movies. In Celluloid City, we spotlight some of the classics shot right in our own backyards. 


Picture a movie starring Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine, then round out the cast with Jennifer Lopez, Stephen Dorff, and Judy Davis. All star in Blood and Wine, a 1996 neo-noir thriller set in the Magic City. The script involves jewelry theft, sex, betrayal, adultery, and characters arbitrarily smashing inanimate objects. But you've likely never heard of it, right? Here's why.

Here's the trailer:


This heist flick didn't receive the promotion it deserved. It even

became an entry in Ebertfest, Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival.

Blood and Wine wasn't

nominated for a single award, unless you count seashells. Michael Caine

won the Silver Seashell Award from the San Sebasti​

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The execs at 20th Century Fox might have their reasons for not marketing this flick properly. Although we at the New Times are primarily devoted to busting up male escort plots, we do find it highly suspect that Fox sat on Blood and Wine for ten years before releasing it on DVD.

It's also difficult to find JLo's other pre-Selena work, such as Hotel Malibu and Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7. Wonder if the episode "Coincidence or Conspiracy" from Lopez's short run television series Second Chance can be found on YouTube...eh, probably not. Latinas still can't get no love in Hollywood.

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