‘Dying to Direct’ Premiere
World premiere of 30 min short film. To purchase tickets visit, https://miamifilmfestival2023.eventive.org/films/63d8210109050900cfb004c1.
Echoing Josephine Baker: ‘Touki Bouki’ by Djibril Diop Mambéty
FILM + CONVERSATION EVENT With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Characterized by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative "Touki Bouki" is widely considered one of the most important African films ever made. Introduction by Dr. Patoimbasba Nikiema, [...]
Global Frontiers Screening Series: ‘A Life On Our Planet’
Join us for our third installment in a new breakthrough monthly film series at the Cosford Cinema focusing on current world issues such as migration and social inclusion, peace and security, aging populations, democracy, climate change, and artificial intelligence. Each screening will be preceded by a wide-ranging, multi-media conversation between Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez and a special guest. The series continues on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 2 p.m., with “David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet” (2020), a visually stunning but terrifying documentary about the crises that threaten [...]
The Sight & Sound Top Ten: ‘Vertigo’ (1958)
The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time. Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics and journalists from around the world. The results are published in Sight & Sound, a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute. VERTIGO | YEAR: 1958 | DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock | 4K Digital projection | RUNNING TIME: 128 minutes | RATED: PG (for adult [...]
Hargrove by Eliane Henri
This film chronicles the journey of trumpet legend Roy Hargrove’s last year as he embarks on his final European summer tour while reflecting on his life and the wisdom he wants to impart on young musicians. Screening is followed by panel discussion with filmmaker Eliane Henri.
The Sight & Sound Top Ten: ‘Jeanne Dielman’
The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of the top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films of All Time. Launched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since, the poll includes filmmakers, critics and journalists from around the world. The results are published in Sight & Sound, a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute. Some screenings in the series will be followed by a panel discussion featuring local critics and scholars. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU [...]
‘Knock at the Cabin’ Free Screening
Come catch an early *free* screening of the latest thriller by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (“The Sixth Sense,” “Split”) at the Cosford Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Monday Jan. 30. Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge star as a couple with an adopted daughter who get a knock at the door of their remote cabin. The four visitors (led by Dave Bautista) inform the two men and their child that one of them must die in order to save the world from extinction. Based on the novel “The Cabin at the End [...]
Watching Movies with Nadege Green: FRIDAY (1995)
Join Nadege Green and Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez for a *free* screening and discussion of the 1995 comedy "Friday." Nadege Green is a writer, researcher, and audio producer. She is the founder and leader of Black Miami-Dade, an emerging online digital platform that resists the erasure of Miami-Dade’s Black past. She is also the editor of the final installment in “The Miami Trilogy,” a three-book project exploring contemporary Miami. This final edition will center on community narratives around gun violence in Miami-Dade including essays, poems, photos, and illustrations [...]
‘Until the End of the World’ Director’s Cut Free Screening
Moving Image Alliance, in collaboration with the Bill Cosford Cinema, presents this rare screening of the director's cut of the sci-fi action/drama "Until the End of the World." UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991) | 4K RESTORATION | DIRECTOR: Wim Wenders | RUNNING TIME: 287 minutes | RATED R for language and sensuality. Director Wim Wenders’ decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic was conceived as the ultimate road movie. The film follows the restless Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger (William Hurt) possessing a device that [...]
Watching Movies with: Phil Lord
Join Phil Lord and Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez for a screening and discussion of the dark comedy "Harold and Maude." Phil Lord is a Miami native who began his film career with “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” co-directed by his creative partner Christopher Miller. Since then, the duo directed “21 Jump Street” (2012), “The Lego Movie” (2014), “22 Jump Street” (2014) and shared the Best Animated Feature Oscar for co-producing “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018). He also produced the Oscar-nominated “The Mitchells vs the Machines” and wrote [...]