O Cinema Miami Beach

Filmmakers Kareem Tabsch & Dennis Scholl will participate in a live post-film Q&A after the 8:00pm screening on Friday, Feb. 15th, immediately followed by a reception in the lobby. Long before Art Deco was a movement and prior to the arrival of the youth culture of MTV and Miami Vice, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country.

Winner of the 2019 GOYA for Best Film! A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players. Marco is an arrogant and ill-mannered basketball coach. After an altercation at work that gets him detained, he is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of differently-abled players who generally operate under the eye of kindly old-timer Julio. This funny and smart comedy confronts head on issues of prejudice with…

O Cinema Miami Beach Synopsis: Torn between his desire to become a powerful man and his duty to uphold his culture’s values, Rapayet (José Acosta) enters the drug trafficking business in the 1970s and finds quick success despite his tribe’s matriarch Ursula’s (Carmiña Martínez) disapproval. Ignoring ancient omens, Rapayet and his family get caught up in a conflict where honor is the highest currency and debts are paid with blood. A sprawling epic about the erosion of tradition in pursuit of…

DIRECTED BY: MIKHAIL KALATOZOV | 1964 | 2H 20M | UNRATED | IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES I AM CUBA (SOY CUBA) is one of the landmarks of world cinema, first revealed to American audiences 30 years after its production. Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, born in Georgia and praised for THE CRANES ARE FLYING (1957), set out to create a Cuban film as powerful as Eisenstein’s BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, a rallying point for a nascent revolution. With a script by the Soviet Union’s…

The Block is seeking ideas for new films about the many different neighborhoods that make up Miami. Five Miamians will be selected to pitch their concepts in front of a jury and a live studio audience for a chance to win up to $14,000 in funding for their projects. The top three chosen will receive help making their film from the University of Miami’s Department of Cinema and Interactive Media, in addition to free access to the Lynn and Louis…

FILM: Knock Down The House Four exceptional women mount grassroots campaigns against powerful incumbents in KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE, an inspiring look at the 2018 midterm elections that tipped the balance of power. When tragedy struck her family in the middle of the financial crisis, Bronx-born Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had to work double shifts as a bartender to save her home from foreclosure. After losing a loved one to a preventable medical condition, Amy Vilela didn’t know what to do with the…

Red Joan (2018) The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy. Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at…

Walk + Grub North Beach  Put on your comfy shoes, gather your friends and family and prepare your appetite for the Walk + Grub North Beach. The neighborhood of North Beach invites you to taste the dishes of some of the best restaurants in the area. Your $30 fee includes samplings of food and beverage from over 10 restaurants on your Walk + Grub night. All ages welcome. For tickets, click here. Check-in location is at O-Cinema, 500 71st Street…

FILM: Halston (2019) HALSTON tells the story of a complicated man—in both his craft and his business decisions—from the mouths of those who knew the man best. Frédéric Tcheng, a great documentarian of fashion luminaries like Valentino, Diana Vreeland, and Raf Simons, takes an unconventional approach to the bio-doc by creating a narrative (starring Tavi Gevinson, a fashion icon of a different generation) through which to frame the story of this enigmatic designer, which allows Tcheng to delve deeper into this…

FILM: Rolling Thunder Revue, A Bob Dylan Story When: Tuesday, June 11 at 8:00 PM Where: O Cinema Miami Beach About: ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year. Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese. One Night Only. Find tickets here.

FILM: Boyz n the Hood (1991) When: Thursday, June 13 at 9:00 PM Where: O Cinema Miami Beach About: Join O Cinema & Hip-Hop House in celebration of the late John Singleton’s 1991 masterpiece, BOYZ N THE HOOD, as we send one up for the fallen giant of cinema. Serving as an early ’90s clarion call to those unaware of how bad conditions of poverty, substance abuse, gang violence, and systemic racial discrimination had become for young, black men in inner-city…

FILM: The Souvenir (2019) Set in the ’80s and based on writer/director Joanna Hogg’s real-life experiences, THE SOUVENIR elegantly elevates quotidian moments into a story of unforgettable love. The intensely naturalistic dialogue hints at the characters’ disquietude and vulnerability as they slowly unravel. Though the film features an outstanding supporting cast—including Tilda Swinton and Richard Ayoade—it’s Honor Swinton-Byrne’s breakout performance as Julie that embodies the film’s core: a woman grappling with separating fact from fiction as her ambitions are jeopardized by her first real romance. For tickets…

The Proposal (2018), Screening and Q&A ft. Director Jill Magid When: Saturday, June 15 at 11:30 AM (Brunch), 12:30 PM (Film) Where: O Cinema, 500 71 Street About: Art Films presents the best of films by and about artists paired with food & mimosas, followed by a post-film discussion. Co-presented by O Cinema and Oolite Arts. This edition will feature the screening of THE PROPOSAL which world premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Director and visual artist Jill Magid will be present…

FILM: Pavarotti (2019) From the filmmaking team behind the highly-acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years, PAVAROTTI is a riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people. Academy Award-winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of The Voice…The Man…The Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage…

FILM: The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) Director/co-writer/composer Joe Talbot makes an astonishing feature debut, transfiguring one man’s intimate despair into a timely story that questions who has a rightful claim to a city’s identity. Inspired by the real-life story of Jimmie Fails, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO elegantly engages with a loss of cross-cultural connection as one individual seeks belonging in the new incarnation of his hometown. For tickets and…