MMoCA Spotlight Cinema Fall 2013 Screening Calendar

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October 10, 2013, 7:00 p.m.American Promise 2013, USA, 140 min., HDDirs.: Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson

American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michle Stephenson,middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras ontheir son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through one of themost prestigious private schools in the country. In the spirit of Michael AptedsUp series, the film chronicles the boys divergent paths from kindergartenthrough high school graduation at Manhattans Dalton School, as they grow upand mature. American Promise is a provocative and intimate documentary thatpresents complicated truths about Americas struggle to come of age on issues

of race, class and opportunity. An official Selection of the 2013 Sundance FilmFestival.

Official Site: http://www.americanpromise.org/Press Kit/Stills: http://www.americanpromise.org/press.htmlTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icbq_5RsMB8


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October 17, 2013, 7:00 p.m.Our Children ( perdre la raison )2012, Belgium/France, 111 min., HDDir.: Joachim LafosseCast milie Dequenne, Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup

Thirteen years after her indelible performance in Rosetta, milie Dequenne wasagain awarded Best Actress the Cannes Film Festival for Our Children. She starsas Murielle, whose marriage to Moroccan-born Mounir is put under duress whenthey move in with Andre, his wealthy adoptive father. Andres surface generositysoon proves suffocating, and his closeness with Mounir makes Murielle a pawn inher own family. Based on a harrowing true story, this powerful psychodramarecalls A Woman Under the Influence by way of Gaslight. Nothing short ofrevelatory youll be convinced [Dequenne] may be the best European actor of

her generation Time Out New York.

UniFrance Site: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/32673/our-childrenPress Kit: http://medias.unifrance.org/medias/66/56/79938/presse/our-children-2012-press-kit-english-1.pdfTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NahXt2OhS3Y


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October 24, 2013, 7:00 p.m.Museum Hours 2012, Austria/USA, 107 min., HDDir.: Jem CohenCast Mary Margaret OHara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits

This thoroughly modern film from independent cinema icon Jem Cohen unfoldslargely amongst the 16th century masterworks hanging in the hushed galleries ofViennas Kunsthistorisches Museum. Anne, a Canadian in town to visit herhospitalized cousin, forges an unlikely bond with Johann, a wryly philosophicalmuseum guard. Drawing on his actors biographies and freely incorporatingdocumentary interludes, Cohen treats his characters with the reverence usuallyreserved for the Rembrandts displayed around them, crafting a deeply human,serene and soulful portrait of cross-cultural friendship. Quietly amazing, sneakilysublime this movie is rigorously and intensely lifelike, which is to say that its

also a strange and moving work of art A.O. Scott New York Times.Rapturous. A film of such intelligence and originality that radical seems theonly accurate word Village Voice.

Official Site: http://www.museumhoursfilm.com/start_E.htmPress Kit/Stills: http://www.museumhoursfilm.com/dl/MH_PressKit.pdfTrailer: https://vimeo.com/67156091


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November 7, 2013, 7:00 p.m.Let the Fire Burn 2013, USA, 95 min, HDDir.: Jason Osder

In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, first time documentarian JasonOsder crafts a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller.On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and theradical black liberation group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of localauthorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupiedrow house. TV cameras captured the inferno that quickly escalated and ultimatelyresulted in the tragic deaths of 11 people (including five children) and thedestruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to

...let the fire burn. Using only archival news coverage and interviews, Osderbrings to life a tumultuous and largely forgotten clash between government andcitizens in modern American history.

Official Site: http://www.letthefireburn.comPress Kit: http://bit.ly/17pi9LOTrailer: https://vimeo.com/74386937


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December 5, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Bastards (Les salauds )2013, France, 100 min., HDDir.: Claire DenisCast Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel Subor

Mysterious and enveloping, the latest cinematic puzzle box from French masterClaire Denis (Beau Travail, White Material) follows one familys unraveling at thehand of a wealthy businessman. Loosely inspired by William Faulkners Sanctuaryand Akira Kurosawas The Bad Sleep Well, this labyrinthine descent into thedarkest realms of capitalism, crime, and family is impossible to shake off.Shooting digitally for the first time, Denis beautifully brings her signatureatmospheric, elliptical style into a new age. The rarest of cinematic objects acompletely contemporary, disturbingly relevant film noir Amy Taubin, Sightand Sound. Official Selection, 2013 Cannes, New York Film Festivals.

Official Site: http://www.lessalauds-lefilm.comStills : http://www.lessalauds-lefilm.com/presse/Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D__eY2cVF5k

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MMoCA Spotlight Cinema Fall 2013 Screening Calendar