After Hours: Women Filmmakers at Coral Gables Art Cinema
In honor of Women's History Month, Coral Gables Art Cinema is dedicating its Saturday night After Hours lineup to women filmmakers. You can catch The Substance director Coralie Fargeat's debut Revenge on March 1, Lynne Ramsay's psychological thriller We Need To Talk About Kevin on March 8, and Kathryn Bigelow's vampire movie Near Dark on March 26. If there's one film you shouldn't miss, it's the concluding film in the series, Julia Ducorneau's bone-crushing, Palme d'Or winning film Titane. Our Take: Taking the auto-erotic fixations of Cronenberg's Crash to strange new territory, Titane centers on auto-show model Alexia (Agathe Rousselle), who was never the same after a titanium plate was installed in her head as a child. Alexia has always shunned humans in favor of cars, but in the span of a few days she takes her anti-social behavior to the next level, going on a brutal killing spree and getting a little too intimate with a hot rod. To evade the cops and find shelter to deal with some grizzly, greasy bodily transformations, she disguises herself as the long-disappeared son of a lonely firefighter, Vincent (Vincent Lyndon). It's here where the film finds its resonant emotional core: Vincent is willing to look the other way, as long as he has someone to call his family. The most shocking thing about Titane may not be its brutal violence — and I mean, this is seriously one of the most unbearably hard-to-watch films I've ever seen — but that it becomes such a tender, outstanding examination of radical acceptance and the ways in which the confines of gender affect us, individually and within the family. 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29 at Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 786-472-2249; gablescinema.com. Tickets cost $10 to $11.75.
The short film Churchill's tells the story of the shuttered punk bar in Little Haiti.
Photo by Alexander Oliva
Last Call Cinema at Gramps
Subtropic Film Festival is shedding light on South Florida's most beloved third spaces in a special block of short films screening at Gramps Wednesday, March 12. Last Call Cinema focuses on a side of Florida unseen on Instagram and in movies, with two films in particular focused on a pair of dive bars that are deeply embedded in local culture. Test of Time: Mac's Club Deuce zeroes in on Miami Beach's oldest bar as it fights for survival, while Churchill's tells the story of the shuttered punk bar in Little Haiti. Two other films will screen, including Dear Florida, described as a love letter to the Sunshine State, and Keep On Rolling, a look at the "boogie van" scene. 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 at Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; gramps.com. Admission is free.In Dreams I Talk With You: A David Lynch Tribute Series
AV Club and Flaming Classics' tribute to the late David Lynch continues with two more free screenings focused on the legendary director's influences. At the Miami-Dade County Main Library on Saturday, March 15, they'll screen French director Jacques Tati's classic Monsieur Hulot's Holiday in 16mm, which partially inspired Lynch's comedic sensibilities. Then, on Wednesday, March 19 at Gramps, the lineup continues with a series of experimental 16mm films from the Miami-Dade County Library collection, interspersed with Lynch's shorts, commercials, and wisdom on filmmaking and creativity. 3 p.m. Saturday, March 15 at Main Library, 101 W Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-2665; mdpls.org. 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19 at Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; gramps.com. Admission is free.Lilly at Cosford Cinema
You may have heard of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first law signed into office by President Barack Obama in 2009. But who is Lilly Ledbetter? Once, she was a factory worker at a Goodyear Tire plant in Alabama who sued her employers for failing for years to pay her on par with her male coworkers. As her case climbed all the way to the Supreme Court, she became an activist and symbol in the fight for women's equality and pay parity. Her story is explored in the new film Lilly, which will screen for free at UM's Bill Cosford Cinema on March 21. Executive producer and UM alumnus Jayne Sherman will make an appearance to speak about the film. 6 p.m. Friday, March 21, at Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables; cosfordcinema.com. Admission is free, but registration is required via events.miami.edu.
Barcelona With Whit Stillman at Coral Gables Art Cinema
The underappreciated middle child in a trilogy that includes Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona is yet another of director Whit Stillman's affectionate takedowns of his Northeastern yuppie milieu. This time we follow salesman Ted and sailor Fred, two hapless American cousins living in Barcelona in the late '80s, as they take up with local women and clash with everyone else. Stillman will make an appearance for a post-film conversation. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 23 at Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 786-472-2249; gablescinema.com. Tickets cost $10 to $11.75.Swept Away at Coral Gables Art Cinema
Debuting in Miami in a brand-new 4K restoration, iconoclastic Italian director Lina Wertmuller's original unconventional castaway romance Swept Away, infamously remade by Madonna and Guy Richie in 2002, will screen at Coral Gables Art Cinema on Thursday, March 27. Our Take: It's a simple premise: What would happen if you put a rich, capitalist woman and her poor, left-wing servant on a desert island together? Swept Away is Wermuller's answer, in which the class-mandated roles of wealthy, haughty Raffaella (Mariangela Melato) and deckhand Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) are reversed when they get shipwrecked on an uninhabited island off the Italian coast. Helpless Raffaella becomes dependent and submissive toward Gennarino, whose survival skills keep them both alive. Intimacy soon follows, but will it continue once they're rescued? The sexual dynamics of Swept Away, in which Gennarino's power and coercion over Raffaella is presented in abstract to make a political point, would never fly if the film were made today. But those attitudes are also what make it interesting from the vantage point of 2025. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27 at Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 786-472-2249; gablescinema.com. Tickets cost $10 to $11.75.
