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  Twenty Years Later, Run Lola Run Is Still Vital Viewing

  September 21 at 8:30 a.m.

  You'd think a 20-year-old indie film from Germany would have lost its mojo by now. But experiencing the quirky Run Lola Run all these years later remains satisfying if not truly thrilling. A mix of sci-fi, slapstick, and romance, the movie was director Tom Tykwer's third and a breakout hit in 1998.

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  Terence Nance, Who Voiced a Trippy Chris Bosh, Will Direct LeBron James' Space Jam 2

  September 20 at 9:52 a.m.

  If you're not from Miami, you probably know Terence Nance as the showrunner of the experimental HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. Perhaps you saw the lengthy profile of him in the New York Times this summer, or if you're into indie film, you know his works An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and Swimming in Your Skin Again, which earned raves at festivals such as Sundance.

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  Seeing Miami Through Anthony Bourdain's Eyes

  September 19 at 9 a.m.

  “Miami sneaks up on you. Or do we change and find ourselves sneaking up, washing up, ending up in Miami? It’s the kind of place you say, ‘That could never be me.’ And then it is.” That was how Anthony Bourdain saw Miami.

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  Miami Film Festival's Gems 2018 Announces a Lineup of Oscar Hopefuls

  September 19 at 8:30 a.m.

  Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival Gems 2018 has announced its full lineup, and the movies include several Oscar hopefuls from across the globe. Both opening- and closing-night films have been submitted for the Foreign Language category by their respective countries.

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  Support Afrobeta's Film About Its First Trip to Cuba, Birthright?!

  September 17 at 9:21 a.m.

  Like many first-generation Americans of Cuban descent, married couple Christina "Cuci" Amador and Tony Smurphio — also known as the musical duo Afrobeta — were taught that Cuba was not on their travel agenda. After being exiled from their homeland in the '50s, their parents, like many others, never returned. It was a sort of fuck-you to Fidel Castro and his crew.

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  John Leguizamo Is Directing Movie About Miami Jackson Chess Champs

  September 14 at 8:30 a.m.

  South Florida entrepreneur Carla Berkowitz was flipping through the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine one morning in 1997 when she came across an article about teenage chess players. The story, written by John Dorschner, chronicled the lives of students at Miami Jackson Senior High School as they competed in statewide and national chess tournaments...