After nearly two full weeks of movie screenings, directors’ lectures, and more, the Miami International Film Festival’s 2012 edition wrapped up Saturday with the announcement of this year’s winners at the Gusman. While you were drinking your way from premiere gala to premiere gala and celebrity-spotting at red carpet events,…
Three more days, 45 more screenings of films from around the globe. It’s time to kick our Miami movie madness into high gear. Five MIFF-tastic theaters, distributed across several Miami neighborhoods for your viewing convenience, are offering British-born, star-studded thrillers, Cuban zombie flicks, culture clashing comedies, and reels of down-home…
Human existence is striding a lot easier these days.A mere hundred years ago, a trip from the Far East to the Americas could take longer than the 16- or 17-hour flight it takes now. Nowadays, though, you can be in Moscow, New York, and Honolulu all in the same 24-hour…
Today ist ein fantastischer day für some films von all over the world. We’ve got a German-Chinese film that makes UFO sightings into a source of societal commentary, an Italian-American laugh-laced drama about the complex life of a soon-to-be college student, and some made-in-Miami animated film noir. The Miami International…
The Miami International Film Festival delivers Chinese hip-hop and Argentine culture clashes
Friends With Kids: An unconventional parenting setup in a highly standard rom-com
In Darkness, grueling but familiar, dramatizes another Holocaust horror
John Carter: A lively, visually crafty pleasure
Silent House: Reality-horror gets a questionable upgrade
Los Amigos Invisibles didn’t have the time — or the money — to make a movie about the Venezuelan funk band’s 20 year-history. Luckily, bassist José Rafael “Catire” Torres ran into old friend Juan Miguel Marín at the Miami International Airport last year. Marín’s band opened for the Venezuelan funksters…
Today’s MIFF picks are all about grit and glam. We’ve got a movie about two junkie degenerate brothers in Ecuador, a documentary about the lives of supermodels past their prime, and an exquisite British screen adaptation of a classic 1950s play. Twelve other films from Italy, Denmark, Russia, Canada, Colombia,…
Miami International Film Fest is well underway and there’s one film in particular that’s setting our radar abuzz. The HBO documentary film, About Face: The Supermodels, Then and Now is the brainchild of Miami native, celebrated photographer, and documentary maker, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.It may be hard to believe that models have any…
It’s day five of the MIFF and us raging film fiends are so strung out on 35-millimeter spools of the chronic that ushers have to carry our delirious asses up the aisles of every theater. But with five more glorious days left to go, quitting is not an option.Here are…
Ladies, let us remind you of something we have learned after watching four seasons of Basketball Wives: don’t date an athlete. We can only imagine how great it is to whip at your man’s American Express black card at Neiman Marcus and have him pay for your Loubs. Yet, from what…
View photos from the Magic City premiere here.Back in October, we sat down with writer, creator and director Mitch Glazer to chat about the highly anticipated new show coming to Miami called Magic City. We got to check out the set, met the cast, watched a few scenes be filmed,…
This weekend at the MIFF was a marathon of thought-provoking film, decadent parties, and endless question and answer sessions with directors from around the world. And it was just the beginning. The festival has a full week left to show the remainder of its 103 selected films. Maybe you were…
God bless all things Portuguese. The sultry gene pools of Brazil and Portugal have spawned for us bronzed glamazons like Gisele Bündchen, dashing demi-gods like bad boy soccer superstar (and unabashed Emporio Armani underwear model) Cristiano Ronaldo, and sexy screen stud Rodrigo Santoro (best known as the silver-sheathed, Spartan-slaying Xerxes…
Last night, director Sebastián Cordero, an indie festival champ and a charming Ecuadorian hippie film nerd, made the Miami International Film Festival the site of the North American premiere of Pescador, a subtle and unique comedy about amateur drug trafficking in South America. Both the director and the lead actor,…
In two tag-team events that made Mexican mariachi music seem hip, had guests drinking frozen Patrón cocktails out of glowing Wet Willie’s-style vats, and drew The Real Housewives of Miami away from their, uh, house work, the Miami International Film Festival celebrated its official opening last night at the Gusman…
The only problem with a 10-day, 100-film international flick fest like the Miami International Film Festival invading our beautiful city is knowing where to begin. (Well, that and the risk of losing your golden tan as a consequence of holing up in movie theaters for a week and a half.)…
Miami has seen its fair share of movies filmed right here in the 305: There’s Something About Mary, Bad Boys II, Marley and Me, Scarface, and let’s not forget From Justin to Kelly (Oh yes, we just went there.) But when it comes to TV, our bona fide Miami options…
Mariachi Gringo, which opens the Miami International Film Festival Friday, is the story of Edward (Shawn Ashmore, of X-Men fame), a 30-year-old guy who lives with his parents and works a lame job at a postal shop out in Greenville, Kansas. Gringo? You betcha. His skin is nearly translucent, his…
