Week of August 27, 2009
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FILM Thursday 8/27 THEATER SCREENINGThe Gusman Center hosts a screening of 1980s classic "Flashdance." The theater will host a happy hour before the film and a dance party on the Gusman's stage after. 7 p.m. Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, 174 E Flagler St., Miami. Details: (305) 374-2444 or www.gusmancenter.org. FAMILY TIES The Miami Beach Cinematheque presents "Adoration" by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan. The film begins with a high school French teacher who gives her class a translation exercise based on a news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. But the assignment has a profound effect on one student, who imagines the story is about his family. 7:15 p.m. Ends Aug. 30. Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Española Way, Miami Beach. $15 members, students and seniors, $18 others. Details: (305) 673-4567 or www.mbcinema.com. FOREIGN DRAMA The Miami Beach Cinematheque hosts a screening of the 1963 film "High and Low." The film follows Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper. The movie is a race-against-time thriller and a penetrating portrait of contemporary Japanese society. 8 p.m. Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Española Way, Miami Beach. $15 members, students and seniors, $18 others. Details: (305) 673-4567 or www.mbcinema.com. AN UNCOMMON RELATIONSHIP The Miami Beach Cinematheque hosts a screening of Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience." The film follows a high-end call girl living in Manhattan trying to expand her "business," while her real boyfriend enjoys the fruits of her labor. 9:15 p.m. Ends Aug. 30. Miami Beach Cinematheque, 512 Española Way, Miami Beach. $15 members, students and seniors, $18 others. Details: (305) 673-4567 or www.mbcinema.com.
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