Week of July 15, 2010
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FILM Thursday 7/15 COPING WITH CHANGEAfter a busy highway opens near a previously isolated home, a family fights to maintain its happy, routine life despite the whirring of speeding cars in "Home." Suspicions about the unknown, long-term health effects of living so close to the highway cause tension. 4:20 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. MYSTERIOUS CATCH In 2009 Irish film "Ondine," a fisherman finds fairytale love in a strange way after drawing in a mysterious woman in his nets. At first appearing dead, the woman comes alive before his eyes. The two fall passionately in love, but just as it seems that the fairytale romance is forever, reality strikes. 4:30 and 6:50 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. MIXING POLITICS Set in the '60s and '70s in a small Italian town, "Mio Fratello é Figlio Unico" ("My Brother is an Only Child") centers on the relationship of two brothers, which remains strong despite political differences — until they fall for the same woman. The film takes place over 15 years, exploring the country's changing sociopolitical landscape through the brothers' relationship. 6:30 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. 007's FRENCH COUNTERPART Dashing French intelligence agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code named OSS 117, teams up with a sexy Israeli agent in 1960s Bossa Nova Brazil in "OSS 117: Rio Né Repond Plus" ("OSS 117: Lost in Rio") to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a long list of WWII French allies. The film is peppered with biting satire and wit, poking fun at French chauvinism and arrogance. In French with English subtitles. 9 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. COPS GONE BAD Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil star as two detectives turned bitter rivals vying for the same top position in "36." Who gets the job? The first person to stop a gang of armed robbers that have committed seven bloody murders in Paris within a year. As competition between the two intensifies, the line between moral and immoral thins to criminal. 9:10 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. Friday 7/16 BEHIND THE HEARTMilton Glaser, the brain behind the "I [heart] NY" campaign, is profiled in a documentary by Wendy Keys. 7 p.m. The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, 1001 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Members free. Nonmembers $10. Details: (305) 535-2644 or Lydia@thewolf.fiu.edu or www.wolfsonian.org. Saturday 7/17 CUBAN BEATSCuban music and dance in the 1960s are detailed in 1964 documentary "Nosotros la Música" ("We Are the Music.") 4:25 p.m. Additional showing 2:05 p.m. July 18. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm.
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