MONDAY JANUARY 2, 2017 *** THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL *** directed by WES ANDERSON *** with RALPH FIENNES, EDWARD NORTON, HARVEY KEITEL, WILLIAM DAFOE, MATHIEW ALMARIC, JEFF GOLDBLUM, BILL MURRAY, JUDE LAW and a bunch of other great actors…

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DECEMBER 26TH Cinematiki Maui Presents: A Fish Called Wanda, Directed by John Cleese & Charles Crichton, Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline

Posted on December 23, 2016 | 1 comment

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An ambitious and sexy con artist uses every tool at her disposal to obtain a fortune in jewels. To help in her plan, she woo’s her lover’s deadly henchman and then his attorney, eventually falling in love with one of them.

 

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THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL 8th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION !!! BEST WISHES FOR LOVING, HEALTHY HOLIDAYS !…THE CINEMATIKI WILL BE DARK FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS…and we shall return…SOOOON…

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Posted on November 19, 2016 in Uncategorized

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Monday November 14, 2016 ***SPECIAL EVENT *** “DAY FOR NIGHT” directed by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT *** interpreted by JACQUELINE BISSET, JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD, CATERINA VALENTE AND JEAN-PIERRE AUMONT

Posted on November 11, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Come to howl at the full moon and help us celebrate the Cinematiki’s 8th Anniversary and J.J.’s birth day…

We are presenting “Day for Night” by Francois Truffaut . A film about films and the people that populates the world of cinema … It is one of two Truffaut films featured on Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best Films of the Century, along with The 400 Blows.. It has also been called “the most beloved film ever made about filmmaking.”

it was the first film that we showed at the Cinematiki eight years ago… since then we’ve seen and discussed over 350 films…

we are still curious and learning…

we also like to party…don’t you ???

Drinks and Food Pot luck

from 5:45 PM

 

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MONDAY NOVEMBER 7 “THE LAST SENTENCE” directed by JAN TROELL, starring Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, and Ulla Skoog

Posted on November 4, 2016 | Leave a comment

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Academy Award Nominated Director, Jan Troell is one of Sweden’s most acclaimed filmmakers. “The Last Sentence” was the Stockholm International Film Festival’s official selection. It is based on the life of crusading Journalist, Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief of one of Sweden’s leading newspapers. This film high-lights his one-man battle against Nazism.

“A work of a master director, ultimate storytelling”

“Extremely compelling film about a conflicted man”

***Cinematiki has recently subscribed to FANDOR films, allowing us to stream art films from all over the world. “The Last Sentence” is our first FANDOR film. Yahoo!

 

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***MONDAY OCTOBER 31st, 2016 *** “WILD TALES” ******* directed by Damián Szifron ***** starring Ricardo Darin, Oscar Martinez, Darío Grandinetti… Mónica Villa

Posted on October 29, 2016 | Leave a comment

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We thought it would be opportune to show this highly acclaimed film on Halloween…It was  waiting for the right night to be viewed and discussed …”Wild tales” (Relatos Salvajes)  is a 2014 Argentine black comedy anthology film composed of six standalone shorts, all written and directed by Damián Szifron, united by a common theme of violence and vengeance  in  surreal situations that are played with gusto by culturally incorrect characters…

It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, and Darío Grandinetti, and was co-produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar. The film’s musical score was composed by Gustavo Santaolalla. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, won the Best Film Not in the English Language at the 69th British Academy Film Awards, and also won the Best Ibero-American Film at the 2nd Platino Awards.

 

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***MONDAY OCTOBER 24th, 2016 *** “THE FRONT” ******* directed by Martin Ritt ***** starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel and Herschel Bernardi

Posted on October 22, 2016 | Leave a comment

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It sort of started with Dalton Trumbo who wrote last weeks film “Roman Holiday” when he was still blacklisted in Hollywood and could not write screenplays under his own name and he had to use some other writer as  a “front.” This week film ” The front”  is  directed by Martin Ritt with a story written by Walter Bernstein and features  one of those rare appearances by Woody Allen as an actor, interpreting a certain character in a role of a film from another director…hmmm…i’m curious about what he brings to the character and also there is a super interesting supporting cast featuring; Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Andrea Marcovici and Michael Murphy…

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ONE NEVER KNOWS…

Posted on October 19, 2016 | Leave a comment

Motion picture pioneer Auguste Lumière  was born in Besançon, France, and his father was a former painter who had taken up photography. Auguste and his younger brother Louis studied science in Lyon, and opened a successful business producing photographic plates. Their father returned home from a trip to Paris in 1894, full of descriptions of Thomas Edison’s new Kinetoscope: a peephole machine that pulled strips of film in front of a light source, creating the illusion of movement. The Lumière brothers began work on a device that would project the images, and in February 1895, they patented their cinématographe, which was an all-in-one camera, developer, and projector. A month later, they shot their first footage of workers leaving their factory in Lyon. They held their first public screening that December, showing 10 short films – each of them about a minute long – depicting scenes from everyday life. One film in particular provoked a strong reaction: the Lumières had filmed a train pulling into a station head-on, and the audience members screamed and scrambled out of their seats, believing the train was about to plow through the screen into the theater.

Auguste Lumière wasn’t much interested in pursuing further developments in motion picture technology, being more interested in medical research. He reportedly said, “My invention can be exploited . as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.”

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MONDAY OCTOBER 17th, 2016 ***** “ROMAN HOLIDAY” ***** directed by William Wyler ***** starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn & Eddie Albert

Posted on October 15, 2016 | Leave a comment
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After we saw the film “Trumbo”we became interested in some of the films he had written.
Trumbo was a member of the “Hollywood Ten,”  because he refused to testify before congress regarding his communist ties he was black listed until the early 60s.
Unable to find work in California he moved to Mexico city and continued to write screen plays. He used a pseudonym or other writers as a front. It was during this period he wrote the screen play for “Roman Holiday.” In 1993 Trombo was posthumously awarded an Oscar for this screen play.

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**************** LAST MINUTE CHANGE *************** We will show the French version of “FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS” titled ***”MARGUERITE” *** MONDAY, OCTOBER 10th, 2016 *** We will still get the Stephen Frears version with Meryl Streep when it becomes available.

Posted on October 8, 2016 | Leave a comment

margueriteParis, 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman, lover of the music and the opera. She loves to sing for her friends, although she’s not a good singer. Both her friends and her husband have kept her fantasy. The problem begins when she decides to perform in front of a real audience.  

 

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