GEMS: October 30 – November 3, 2024
Another German winner in the spotlight this week is Jan Ole Gerster’s feature directorial debut A Coffee in Berlin, which garnered six German Film Academy Awards, including Outstanding Feature Film, Best Director and Best Actor. Featured in #MiamiFF 30’s Cinema 360° presented by Viendomovies program, A Coffee in Berlin (formerly titled Oh Boy), follows a law-school […]
Thought, feeling, and a healthy dose of melodramatic passion are almost always prevalent in Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio’s films, and his native country provides him with copious material to expose his directorial acumen. Italy’s recent contentious debate over euthanasia provides the framework for Bellocchio’s multi-layered exploration of life, love and politics in Dormant Beauty (Bella […]
The increasing number of intimate and evocative films featuring the tastes, aromas and, ultimately, characters behind food and haute cuisine continues to grow in popularity, proving that moviegoers do indeed enjoy feasting in the dark. Nimrat Kaur as Ila, The Lunchbox poster; Irrfan Khan as Saajan Fernandes Topping the culinary-themed feature film list is an […]
You’re likely not a show biz insider if you’re wondering “Who was (or is) Shep Gordon?” He’s the quintessential Hollywood manager, and the subject of Canadian funnyman Mike Myers’ directorial debut, Supermensch – The Legend of Shep Gordon. The homage/doc delivers on behind-the-scenes gossip and insights, but goes beyond the normal showbiz biography, offering deeper […]
Two Much film poster; Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas We were saddened to hear the news of Antonio Banderas’ and Melanie Griffith’s split this past weekend, as their whirlwind romance began in Miami during the filming of Fernando Trueba’s romantic screwball comedy Two Much in 1995. It’s a coincidence that a 35mm Retrospective screening of […]
Robert De Niro Jr. When you hear the name Robert De Niro, you think of one of our greatest actors, but there was another man by that name who was a very talented painter. It was his father, Robert De Niro Sr. It’s been more than 20 years since De Niro Sr.’s death at age […]
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan with Palme d’Or prize; Winter Sleep poster We are proud to extend a massive round of applause to an international array of masterful MIFF alumni directors (from Turkey, Italy, Germany, Spain, Canada, Hungary and Argentina) who took home awards at Cannes this past weekend. Standing O for Turkish filmmaker and writer […]
film poster; Marine Vacth and ‘client’ in Young & Beautiful Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard in The Immigrant; film poster Stemming from a long history of silent-era melodramas to the present day, prostitution pays…at the box office and beyond…as evident by the latest crop of complex characters, at times comedic, though more often rife with […]
Iconic 1779 painting depicting Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray After a nearly a decade, BAFTA-winning British director Amma Asante made a triumphant return to MIFF this past March to present her second feature film, Belle, voted “audience favorite” by Miami Film Society members. Belle also took home the The International Jury […]
Finding Vivian Maier co-director John Maloof at MIFF 2014 (Regal South Beach); film poster Shot by shot the world is coming to know the elusive Vivian Maier (1926-2009), a career nanny who left behind a cache of 100,000 negatives of her captivating street photography—images that she zealously hid from the eyes of others. The spellbinding […]
Vampire of the Coast (1909); Alice Hollister in The Vampire (1913); Bela Lugosi as Dracula The history of vampire films dates back to the era of silent films with Vampire of the Coast (1909), cited as “the first silent vampire film,” though it’s actually a pirate film and has nothing to do with vampires. Several […]
Two weeks in advance of its highly-awaited Miami commercial debut, this year’s Lexus Audience Award winner is already taking a commanding lead as one of the year’s most successful independent films. Woody Allen, John Turturro Following its opening weekend, Italian American actor, writer, and filmmaker John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo brought some very good news to […]
What would it take to kill a man? One of two questions presented, and answered, in Chilean Director-screenwriter Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ To Kill a Man (Matar a un hombre). Meek and middle-aged Jorge (Daniel Candia) rarely fights back, a fact that becomes obvious when he allows the neighborhood bully, Kalule (Daniel Antivilo), and his gang […]
“Graça” (a.k.a. Grace) dir. by Anna Clara Peltier, Brazil, 2013 The first (and in my opinion, best) short of the program follows an adolescent girl during her synchronized swimming practice. Grace is going through puberty and has just gotten her first period, a moment that is changing her both inside and out. Her body […]
By Raychel Lean, Miami Future Cinema Critic If a middle-aged Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were ever to go fishing and find a packet of blow on the beach, it might play out somewhat like Here’s the Deal. Beneath Suso and Manuel’s learned adult sensibilities, there’s that flicker of mischief. But – wait – is […]
By Raychel Lean, Miami Future Cinema Critic Imagine you dropped dead right now. A slightly morbid thought, I’m aware, but just humor me for a second. All right, so you’re dead. Your life, up to the moment you began reading this paragraph, is a finished project. There’s nothing more you can add, not a single […]
The Miami International Film Festival’s theme this year, “Every Character Under the Sun,” has been portrayed clearly in at least three of the films presented thus far. What is sweeter than a pre-adolescent romance? A silver romance between Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer in Director George Radford’s adaptation of Elsa & Fred. When Fred, a grumpy old […]
Maybe you don’t go to the movies with your family too often because that usually entails having to translate for mami and papi what’s happening on screen and why the audience is laughing. The last time you got dragged along to a theater with them was to watch Mr. Bean’s Holiday in which they kicked […]
STAY TUNED… For the second successive year, Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), March 7–16, 2014 will be posting Miami Future Cinema Critics blogs on this page beginning on Monday, March 10th. The aim of the program is to provide Miami-based film aficionados with a fascinating opportunity to discover new cinema – outside of the roughly […]
This month, Sundance Film Festival joins Miami International Film Festival in the “30” club, as Robert Redford’s annual snowy gathering celebrates the same anniversary that MIFF celebrated last March. As always, there is growing excitement and buzz about the new films and the filmmakers that will be in attendance. Numerous past MIFF attendees and friends […]
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