Another month, another opportunity to watch some classic movies in Miami. With summer still a couple of months away, it’s time to check out some good ol’ classics instead of the big blockbusters. Here’s what’s showing around town in May. Blue Starlite Drive-in May 6 and 7, the Blue Starlite…
With the MiFo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in town, there’s an abundance of options for audiences to check out some queer films. This could be your only chance — otherwise, you’ll have to wait months and hope for a theatrical or online release. Halfway through the festival, there are…
It’s time for every cinephile who wants a heavy dose of queer cinema in their lives to get excited: The MiFo (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) LGBT Film Festival is hitting the city this month. Formerly the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) is now split into two editions — one here…
Theatrical productions of all sorts come through Miami often. But one that strives for innovation within a time-worn structures is a rare thing. The Hammer Trinity, by director Nathan Allen and writer Chris Matthews of the House Theatre of Chicago, is being billed by the Adrienne Arsht Center as “the…
There are a whole lot of classic films showing throughout Miami, which is pretty damn exciting. Here’s what to look forward to in the month of April: Cosford Cinema The Douglas Sirk retrospective that kicked off in March with All That Heaven Allows (and a film it inspired – Far From…
Hearts of Palm, world-premiering at the Miami International Film Festival this week, sorrowfully repeats the phrase “El la amaba y ella lo amaba” (“He loved her and she loved him”). The repetition emphasizes what audiences know from the moment the movie begins: filmmaker Monica Peña is telling a story about…
It’s a new month, so that means a new list of classic movies. March offers an abundance of films in Miami, specifically because of the Miami International Film Festival happening the first two weeks, but that doesn’t mean the cinemas are stopping the good ol’ classics, though. Here’s what your…
Miami is a relatively young city, so few of its buildings have been standing for more than a century. The Tower Theater, on SW Eighth Street, is close enough to that triple-digit number. Built in 1926, the movie theater celebrates its 90th birthday this year. Throughout the decades, it has…
This year’s Miami International Film Festival includes one program so intensely native to the city that it’s titled “I’ve Never Not Been From Miami.” Premiering Monday, March 7, at the Olympia Theater, it includes ten short films that pair top independent filmmakers with vital artists. For many of those involved,…
This year, the Miami International Film Festival dedicates a significant portion of its lineup to female filmmakers. If you don’t have time to make it through the 20-plus films by women at the festival this year, check out our picks. Honorable Mention: WeinerEven before its debut at Sundance, Weiner had…
The Oscars — a night that critics and movie lovers everywhere dread. The evening is a showcase of films that mislead the world into thinking they’re the best of the year when, in reality, they’re just the best-marketed. Enter stage left: #OscarsSoWhite. Enter stage right: host Chris Rock spending most…
Dick Tracy is coming to town, and with him arrives one helluva party. This Saturday, the Olympia Theater will celebrate its 90th birthday with a 35mm showing of Warren Beatty’s classic 1990 film. “Dick Tracy is a film that borrows and blends lots of wonderful elements in telling its story:…
The evolution of 35mm showings in Miami has been fascinating and no one has brought it all out to the population better than Secret Celluloid Society. Nearly two years after Nayib Estefan launched the midnight movie revival with Shirley’s at Gramps, and a year after he made the move to…
It has become impossible to say the words “women aren’t funny” — regardless of a lot of boring, unfunny men trying hard to do so. Miami’s Villain Theater proves women comics are seriously hilarious, which is why they are part of the Saturday Gigantic lineup every week. On Thursday, February…
It has been weeks since the Oscar nominees were announced and Carol, which many viewers and critics alike were rooting for, found itself robbed of a Best Picture nomination. “You know, it happens,” says the film’s producer, Christine Vachon, shrugging it off. “We got six nominations. I can’t engage in…
Another month has passed and another arrived. Cinema remains much the same. Most of what is new in theaters this month isn’t worth your time, and with Oscar-nominated films being replayed to death, it’s better to turn to the classics. Here’s what’s showing in Miami this month: Christine Vachon and…
As the late great David Bowie says in one of his coolest tunes, “Fashion! Turn to the left. Fashion! Turn to the right. Oooh, fashion!” And, obviously, it’s because fashion is pretty exciting. The folks at Fashion Project, Bal Harbour Shops’ cultural space, are well aware of this and here…
It takes a talented filmmaker to emit the aura of early Roman Polanski films in his work. Evgeny Ruman, whose new work The Man in the Wall is showing at the Miami Jewish Film Festival this month, never intended for that to happen. “I wasn’t thinking about Polanski specifically, although I…
Plenty of films explore the notion of discovering oneself, but few are so deeply rooted as those by filmmaker Andrew Haigh. From his best-known feature, Weekend, to his television series, Looking, self-discovery is an essential factor that makes his films work, and his latest, 45 Years, is no exception. On…
For movie-buffs and movie-lovers alike, the name Charlie Kaufman rings a bell. After all, he’s the guy behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation to name a few. But he and Duke Johnson — the co-director of Anomalisa — seem to just be getting started with delivering fascinating…
One can never have enough LGBTQ events in a city like Miami. Not only are we uniquely prideful, but we’re heavy on the Latino, too. Whereas the Latinos have the annual Calle Ocho festival, the gay Latinos now have Gay8 (or GayOcho!). In its first year, the Latino LGBTQ art, music…
If a first feature is meant to be one’s calling card, Deniz Gamze Ergüven is a name the world won’t soon be forgetting. Her debut, Mustang, premiered at Cannes and won the Europa Cinemas Label Award and, just this week, was nominated for Best Foreign Lanuage Film for the 88th…
