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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, [...]

2023-02-07T15:27:26-05:00February 7, 2023|, |

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 [...]

2023-01-31T12:10:33-05:00January 31, 2023||

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 [...]

2023-01-31T12:01:05-05:00January 31, 2023||

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 [...]

2023-01-17T12:06:48-05:00January 17, 2023|, |

‘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 [...]

2023-01-17T11:50:52-05:00January 17, 2023||

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 [...]

2022-11-28T11:50:54-05:00November 28, 2022|, , |

‘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 [...]

2022-11-21T12:23:50-05:00November 21, 2022|, |

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 [...]

2022-09-26T11:01:59-04:00September 26, 2022||

SIDNEY Screening + Panel Discussion

Join us for an illuminating panel discussion with Cosford Cinema’s Rene Rodriguez, University of Miami professor Dr. Terri Francis, and local filmmaker Cathleen Dean. The discussion will take place at Tower Theater Miami before the screening of SIDNEY. From producer Oprah Winfrey, this revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an iconic actor, filmmaker and activist at the center of Hollywood and the Civil Rights Movement. Featuring candid interviews with Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Lenny Kravitz, Barbra Streisand, and Spike Lee, this is a [...]

2022-09-21T17:02:34-04:00September 21, 2022|, |