Cinematiki Maui

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We have been waiting for this film to come out and we are VERY excited to show it!

The director of the movie is Martin Scorsese, returning to the rich soil that he has tilled and sown before, in “Mean Streets” (1973), “Goodfellas” (1990), “Casino” (1995), “The Departed” (2006), and the opening episode of “Boardwalk Empire,” in 2010. The new film is adapted by Steven Zaillian from a book by Charles Brandt, partly based on conversations with the real Frank Sheeran, who died in 2003, and titled “I Heard You Paint Houses.”

“Patient, composed, and cool to the point of froideur, Martin Scorsese’s latest film, speculating on the fate of Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), slows the passage of time.” -The New Yorker

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Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation.

“Gathering his obsessions together like old friends, Pedro Almodóvar has made one of his richest and most sombre films yet.” from The New Yorker

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Martín and Mariana are slightly damaged people who live in buildings just opposite one another. While they often don’t notice each other, separation might be the very thing that brings them together.

“Smart, wordy and sweetly sympathetic to lives lived online, ‘Sidewalls’ coasts on Martín and Mariana’s twin voice-overs, alternate musings on themselves and their city.” -Jeannette Catsoulis from the New York Times

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We are showing this film again. It won best foreign language film in 2009.

It is an absolutely impeccable, great film. Superb cinematography, the film basically explores what “passion” is to the human being.

Don’t miss this!

Tom & JJ

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Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio di Benedetto.

Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the king that will grant him a transfer from the town, in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate, and he must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to submissively accept every task entrusted to him by successive governors, who come and go as he stays behind.

“Argentinian drama about an 18th-century invader going mad is intoxicating, spellbinding – and one of the best movies of the year” -Rolling Stone Magazine

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With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, The Price of Everything dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a mirror up to our values and our times — where everything can be bought and sold.

After seeing Never Look Away, the film loosely based on Gerhard Richter’s life, we thought it might be interesting to see this film because it includes an interview with the mature artist. The Price of Everything was created by Nathaniel Kahn (Louis Kahn’s son, who did the splendid film My Architect, a run away favorite for most of our regulars).

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This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.

JJ and I thought it would be good to see this Fassbinder film after the two fabulous Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck pictures. All of them deal with WWII. -TS

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-From the same director as Never Look Away 

–Never Look Away was a big hit, a fan favorite, and followed by a fabulous discussion.

–The Lives of Others was Von Donnersmarck’s first film and it received an academy award for best foreign film in 2006

–We saw this film on February 6, 2012. It was well received then and we thought after the lively discussion last week that we should visit it once again.