Week of January 12, 2012
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FILM Friday 1/13 MILL & CROSSPieter Bruegel's epic masterpiece "The Way To Calvary" depicts the story of Christ's Passion set in Flanders under brutal Spanish occupation in 1564, the year Bruegel created his painting. From among the more than 500 figures that fill Bruegel's remarkable canvas, "The Mill and the Cross" focuses on a dozen characters whose life stories unfold and intertwine in a panoramic landscape populated by villagers and red-caped horsemen. Among them are Bruegel himself, his friend and art collector Nicholas Jonghelinck, and the Virgin Mary. 7 p.m. Additional screenings through Jan. 15. Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami, 1111 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables. UM students free. Seniors, UM alumni, faculty, non-UM students and staff $7. Others $9. Details: (305) 284-4861 or www.cosfordcinema.com. "THE LOOK" Documentary "The Look" is a biographical study of actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films. 9 p.m. Additional screenings through Jan. 15. Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami, 1111 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables. UM students free. Seniors, UM alumni, faculty, non-UM students and staff $7. Others $9. Details: (305) 284-4861 or www.cosfordcinema.com. MELANCHOLIA The Bill Cosford Cinema presents encore screenings of "Melancholia." Directed by Lars von Trier, the film follows two sisters with an already strained relationship who are challenged by an impending disaster when a mysterious planet is set to collide with earth. 9 p.m. Additional screening on Jan. 14. Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami, 1111 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables. UM students free. Seniors, UM alumni, faculty, non-UM students and staff $7. Others $9. Details: (305) 284-4861 or www.cosfordcinema.com. Sunday 1/15 OPERA IN CINEMAPuccini's operatic take on the Wild West is sprinkled with Hollywood glitz in this splashy production from the Netherlands Opera. "The Girl of the Golden West" (La Fanciulla del West) stars blonde bombshell soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the cowgirl Minnie. Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Hollywood-style production updates this Wild West story to the capitalist culture of Wall Street, reflecting Puccini's innovatory spirit. In a new angle on the age-old love triangle theme, corrupt Sheriff Jack Rance (Lucio Gallo) and charismatic criminal Dick Johnson (Zoran Todorovich) vie for the love of glamorous blonde and devout Christian Minnie, finding her way in a man's world. Carlo Rizzi conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Noon. Additional performance on Jan. 17. Bill Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami, 1111 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables. $18-$22. Details: (305) 284-4861 or www.cosfordcinema.com. Saturday 1/14 LIVE FROM LONDONThe Coral Gables Art Cinema presents begins a series of live recorded performances from the National Theatre of London with "Collaborators," a surreal play and comic journey into the fevered imagination of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov living in the Soviet Union of Josef Stalin, written by screenwriter John Hodge, known for "Trainspotting." 1 p.m. Additional performance on Jan. 15. Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables. $14 children 12 and under. $16 members. $18 seniors and students. $20 others. Details: (786) 385-9689 or info@gablescinema.com or www.gablescinema.com. Thursday 1/19 "TAKING ROOT"The Miami Beach Botanical Garden hosts a screening of "Taking Root," an 80-minute film by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater that tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights and defend democracy. 7-9 p.m. Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach. $8 for members of sponsoring organizations Environmental Coalition of Miami and Beaches, Greenspace/Tree Advisory Group and the Green Book Club. $10 others. Details: www.mbgarden.org.
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