"The Blue Angel" and "Darling"
10/30/12, 6p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami FL 33131
19th Floor Auditorium
www.miamijazzsociety.com
 
The Blue Angel –
Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a professor at the town’s university. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he comes there to confront them. But he is attracted to Lola. The next night he comes again–and does not sleep at home. This causes trouble at work and his life takes a downward spiral.  (Drama/Musical)
 
Darling –
Young, attractive and vivacious, model Diana Scott is firmly decided to become rich and famous as well. To succeed, she does not hesitate to take bold steps. After a while, she literally strikes gold: she meets Robert Gold, a well-known TV journalist, who not only introduces her into new social and professional circles, but also abandons his family to live with her. Diana seems to have happily combined success and love. However, in those roaring sixties, others are ready to offer her even more money, fame, and, seemingly, fun than Robert can…  (Drama/Romance)

“Stranger Than Paradise" and "Broadway Danny Rose"
10/23/12, 6p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami FL 33131
19th Floor Auditorium
www.miamijazzsociety.com
 
Stranger Than Paradise –
This is about a self-styled New York hipster who is paid a surprise and quite unwelcome visit by his pretty sixteen-year-old Hungarian cousin. From initial hostility and indifference a strange affection grows between the two exiles. Due to complete boredom they decide to visit their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to sunny Florida where they lose all their money and unwittingly gain a fortune. With a final ironic twist, they are at the end, back where they began.  (Comedy/Drama)
 
Broadway Danny Rose –
Danny Rose is a manager of artists, and although he’s not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to help his acts. So when Lou Canova, a singer who has a chance of making a come-back, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. This problem is Lou’s mistress Tina. Lou wants Tina to be at his concerts, otherwise he can’t perform, but he’s married, so Danny has to take her along as if she was his girlfriend. Danny however gets more than he has bargained for when two mobsters come looking for the guy who has hurt their brother by stealing the heart of Tina, the girl he loves.  (Comedy)

The Golden Blaze" and "Bicycle Thieves"
10/16/12, 6p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami Fl 33131
19th Floor Auditorium
www.miamijazzsociety.com
Free Entry
 
The Golden Blaze –
This incredible feature-length animated movie follows the troubles of two school kids. Fierce rivals, the two regularly butt heads over all manner of issues, ranging from the trivial to the important. The film enters the fantasy realm as an accident occurs and the two boy’s fathers suddenly possess some lethal superpowers, allowing them to enter into battle at the behest of their offspring. A bizarre, funny, and exciting movie, GOLDEN BLAZE is an innovative treat for all fans of fast-paced animated action films. (Animation/Family)
 
Bicycle Thieves –
A poor young father in postwar-ravaged Rome who finally finds work putting up Rita Hayworth posters around town, only to have his precious bicycle stolen the first day on the job. In a light moment as the father and his young son chase after the thief, the boy attempts to relieve himself against a wall, and his father lets him know they don’t have time for that. In another scene, the father tracks the thief into the kitchen of a brothel.  (Crime/Drama)

"Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Castle Keep"
10/09/12, 6p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami FL 33131
19th Floor Auditorium
www.miamijazzsociety.com
Free Entry
 
Once Upon a Time in the West –
Story of a young woman, Mrs. McBain, who moves from New Orleans to frontier Utah, on the very edge of the American West. She arrives to find her new husband and family slaughtered, but by who? The prime suspect, coffee-lover Cheyenne, befriends her and offers to go after the real killer, assassin gang leader Frank, in her honor. He is accompanied by Harmonica on his quest to get even. Get-rich-quick subplots and intricate character histories intertwine with such artistic flair that this could in fact be the movie-to-end-all-movies. (Adventure/Western)
 
Castle Keep –
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.  Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI’s occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident. One guy falls in love with a Volkswagon. A baker among them moves in with another baker’s wife. A group of shell shocked holy rollers wander the bombed out streets. A GI art historian tries vainly to protect the castle and its masterpieces. (Drama/Romance/War)

"What a Way to Go" and "Splendor in the Grass"
10/02/12, 6p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami FL 33131
19th Floor Auditorium
http://www.miamijazzsociety.com
Free Enty
 
What a Way to Go –
This lavishly produced, big-budget comedy stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow who is worth $200 million dollars. However, she’s convinced that her fortune is cursed, and she wants to give all her money to the IRS. As she explains her sad tale to her psychiatrist, Dr. Stephanson, it seems that when Louisa was young she had the choice of marrying rich playboy Leonard Crawley or poor but decent Edgar Hopper. She chose Edgar, but soon he became obsessed with providing a fine home and fortune for her; he got rich but worked himself to death in the process. Despondent, Louisa flies to Paris, where she strikes up a romance with expatriate artist Larry Flint. When Larry invents a machine that creates paintings based on sounds, he becomes wealthy and famous — and dies. Louisa returns to America, where she figures to break her streak by marrying Rod, a business tycoon who already has lots of money. He resolves to take life easier and becomes a farmer, only to die in a strange ac
cident with a bull. Louisa is drowning her sorrows one night at a sleazy night spot when she falls for second rate entertainer Jerry. They marry, and a now-wealthy Jerry develops a relaxed, carefree quality to his act that makes him a huge star, which leads to his being crushed by a mob of his biggest fans. (Comedy)
 
Splendor in the Grass -  
It’s 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are "good" kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they expect to get married to each other one day. They also face pressures from their parents who have their own expectation for their offspring. Bud’s overbearing father, Ace Stamper, the local oil baron, does not believe Bud can do wrong and expects him to go to Yale after graduation, which does not fit within Bud’s own expectations for himself. And the money and image conscious Mrs. Loomis just wants Deanie to get married as soon as possible to Bud so that Deanie will have a prosperous life in a rich family. When Bud makes a unilateral decision under these pressures, it leads to a path which affects both his and Deanie’s future. (Drama/Romance)

Miami International Film Festival presents Gerhard Richter Painting
Friday, September 7 at 7:00 PM
Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus
Building 1, Auditorium – Room 1261

Free and Open to the Public

Directed by Corinna Belz

Germany | 2011 | 79 min. | trailer

In German with English subtitles

A thrilling chronicle of legendary German artist Gerhard Richter’s creative process, juxtaposed with intimate conversations and rare archive material.

"A must see… one of the most important living painters shows how he does it."

– The Hollywood Reporter

Recent Cinema from Spain Film Series
Thursday November 8, 2012 through Sunday November 11, 2012
Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts
174 East Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33131
www.miami.recentcinemafromspain.com

EGEDA (Audio-Visual Producers’ Rights Management Association), the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts and the Miami International Film Festival of Miami Dade College Present the Second Recent Cinema from Spain Film Series in November 2012.

Following the tremendous success of last year’s inaugural event, the second edition of the Recent Cinema from Spain Series will return to Miami to host a four day Spanish film event celebrating the diversity of contemporary Spanish Cinema. Taking place at the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, the series will showcase six of Spain’s most recognized films of the year. Ticket and pass holders will enjoy nightly premieres and participate in Q&A sessions with filmmakers and cast members following each film. Kicking off the event will be a red-carpet opening night gala on Thursday, November 8, 2012 followed by a VIP reception. All guests attending the opening night screening will receive a gift bag upon departure.

The Recent Cinema from Spain Series is produced by EDEGA (Audio-Visual Producers’ Rights Management Association), the Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts and the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) of Miami Dade College.

Oscar nominated artist and internationally renowned designer Javier Mariscal has kindly contributed his talents, creating the second edition of the Recent Cinema from Spain Series poster in a vibrant and colourful composition that serves as the series logo and overall theme. The artwork features Madrid’s emblematic Gran Vía with an attractive, youthful Spanish actress welcoming American audiences to experience the latest Spanish film productions, illustrated in the same style as Mariscal’s Oscar nominated animation film “Chico & Rita.”

Miami JazzSociety Film Series
09/25/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
19th Floor
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com
Free Admission, Open to the Public

Paul Robeson –
Paul Robeson was the epitome of the 20th-century Renaissance man. He was an exceptional athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist. His talents made him a revered man of his time, yet his radical political beliefs all but erased him from popular history. Today, more than one hundred years after his birth, Robeson is just beginning to receive the credit he is due. To this day, Paul Robeson’s many accomplishments remain obscured by the propaganda of those who tirelessly dogged him throughout his life. His role in the history of civil rights and as a spokesperson for the oppressed of other nations remains relatively unknown. In 1995, more than seventy-five years after graduating from Rutgers, his athletic achievements were finally recognized with his posthumous entry into the College Football Hall of Fame. Though a handful of movies and recordings are still available, they are a sad testament to one of the greatest Americans of the twentieth century. If we are to remember Paul Robeson for anything, it should be for the courage and the dignity with which he struggled for his own personal voice and for the rights of all people

Marian Anderson –
Marian Anderson was 42 when she sang her legendary open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial on 9 April 1939. Anderson was a famous contralto of the day, and the concert was arranged after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall because she was black. (First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in protest and helped arrange the concert at the Lincoln Memorial.) The concert is legendary in the American civil rights movement and, despite Anderson’s many other musical successes, became the signature moment in her long international career. Anderson broke many other color barriers, including becoming the first African-American to sing at the White House and at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Anderson was the aunt of former Oregon Symphony conductor James DePriest… Anderson was honored on a stamp from the U.S. Postal Service in 2005… Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.

Miami Jazz Society Film Series
09/18/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
19th Floor
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com
Free Admission, Open to the Public

Igby Goes Down –
Igby Goes Down is a personal tale about a 17 year old misfit boy who copes with his mother’s cancer and his father’s insanity by pursuing relationships with older women. Truly an intellectual, Igby is a modern day Holden Caulfield, and the world he lives in is far removed from the high standards of expectation he holds for it. (Comedy/Drama)

Myra Breckinridge –
Myron Breckinridge is waiting for his sex-change operation while a stoned surgeon stumbles into the operating room. Before the drugged doctor begins Myron’s operation, he counsels him. Myron persists and the doctor goes through with it. An enthusiastic audience observing the operation applauds the medical achievement and rises in a standing ovation. After the operation, Myron arrives in Hollywood as Myra while in the rest of the film Myron pops up from time to time as Myra’s alter ego. Myra goes to an acting academy owned by her uncle, Buck Loner, a former cowboy star. The real reason for Myra’s arrival is to claim her half of Uncle Buck’s estate, which she says she’s entitled to. Buck Loner stalls by giving her a job teaching the history of motion pictures. Buck Loner has several friends. One of them is Letitia Van Allen, an ancient Hollywood talent scout. The sex-starved septuagenarian runs an acting agency “for leading men only.” (Comedy)

Miami Jazz Society Film Series
09/11/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
19th Floor
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com
Free Admission, Open to the Public.

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony –
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes, yet complemented each other’s strengths perfectly. Stanton was a gifted writer and radical thinker, full of fervor and radical ideas but pinned down by her responsibilities as wife and mother, while Anthony, a tireless and single-minded tactician, was eager for action, undaunted by the terrible difficulties she faced. As Stanton put it, “I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them.” The relationship between these two extraordinary women and its effect on the development of the suffrage movement are richly depicted by Ward and Burns, and in the accompanying essays by Ellen Carol Dubois, Ann D. Gordon, and Martha Saxton. Not For Ourselves Alone is a vivid and inspiring portrait of two of the most fascinating, and important, characters in American history. (Biography, Social History, Gender Issues)

Miami Jazz Society Film Series
09/04/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
19th Floor
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com

Death in Venice –
In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals. (Drama/Fantasy)

The Miracle Worker –
Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a “half-blind Yankee schoolgirl” named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen’s walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate. (Biography/Drama)

FREE Admission, Open to the Public.

Miami Jazz Society Film Series The Red Balloon and Muppets from Space
08/28/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
19th Fl Auditorium
Miami FL 33131
miamijazzsociety.com

The Red Balloon
In Paris, a French schoolboy makes friends with a red balloon and vice-versa, with the balloon following him around like a pet. It stays out of the reach of other would-be captors, but a gang of boys destroys it eventually. Then other balloons of various sizes and colors descend on the boy from all parts of Paris, and together they lift him into the sky and take him away over the horizon. (Family/Fantasy/Short)

Muppets from Space
After Gonzo receives messages from his breakfast cereal, he determines that he is an alien and tries to contact his alien brethren, but is captured by an overzealous secret government agency determined to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. It’s up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help reunite him with his long-lost family. (Family/Comedy/Sci-Fi/Adventure)

Free Admission, open to the public

Miami Jazz Society Film Series Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years and Modern Times
08/21/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com

Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years
This documentary about Charlie Chaplin focuses on his late years when he lived with his family in a village on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. His personal life and his love for the circus are depicted as well as the late works of his professional career, including his extensive work as a composer. In addition, the film reveals the Swiss intelligence agency’s file on Chaplin. Features numerous archive clips and new interviews with family members and various entertainment stars, including Petula Clark, who sings her Chaplin-written hit “This Is My Song” in his villa. (Documentary/Biography)

Modern Times
Chaplins last ‘silent’ film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital… When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out. (Comedy/Drama/Romance)

FREE admission, open to the public

Miami Jazz Society Film Series Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Mississippi Masala
08/14/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
19th Fl auditorium
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com

Mississippi Masala
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power to assist in the building of a railroad.. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it. Jay gets a rude shock when Anil tells him that Meena is having an affair with a “kaalu” (Black man) named Demetrius Williams, who runs a business cleaning carpets in motel rooms. Watch how tensions rise when salt is rubbed on old wounds, and racism, called “tradition” by some folks in the U.S., raises its ugly head, perhaps to claim more victims – this time Meena and Demetrius – who may not be able to handle the chain of events started by their love for each other. (Romance/Comedy/Drama)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . . (Drama/Romance)

FREE admission, open to the public.

Miami Jazz Society Film Series
08/07/12, 6:00p
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
10th Fl auditorium
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com

Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker. (Documentary)

Putney Swope
Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business “Truth and Soul, Inc.”, he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney… (Comedy)

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
FREE Admission, open to the public.

Miami Jazz Society FREE Film Series
07/17/12, 6:00P
Miami Tower
100 SE 2nd St
Miami FL 33131
www.miamijazzsociety.com

A Separation –

Nader and Simin, a middle class Iranian couple with their only eleven year old daughter named Termeh, are on the verge of divorce. Nader and Simin argue about living abroad to provide better opportunities for daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go because he thinks he must stay in Iran and take care of his father, who suffers from Alzheimers. (Drama)

Sideways –
Miles is a failed writer living a meager existence in San Diego as an English teacher. With his career seemingly fading and the fate of a book hinging on a publisher’s decision, Miles is depressed with himself and what he hasn’t achieved. Jack is a television actor whom some recognize but not many do, as if he were a minor actor who got a taste of success. With his best friend Miles, the two embark on a road trip through California’s wine country. Miles wants to give his friend a nice sendoff before married life, while Jack simply wants to have a fling beforehand. As they’re both nearing middle age with not much to show for it, the two will explore the vineyards while ultimately searching for their identities. (Comedy/Drama/Romance)

FREE Admission, Open to the Public, Cash bar aand snacks available.