Wednesday, April 6, 8:00 pm: Niagara, at SoundScape

This 1953 noir thriller stars Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten was directed by Henry Hathaway. Married couple George (Cotten) and Rose (Monroe) Loomis are vacationing in Niagara Falls. George, a WWII veteran, is slowly unraveling. He believes he is going insane from his time in the war. What he doesn't know is that Rose, with her lover Patrick, is trying to drive him crazy in an attempt to murder him. Polly Cutler (Jean Peters), in Niagara Falls with her husband Ray (Max Showalter) on their honeymoon, becomes the unfortunate bystander who gets caught up in the intrigue between the Loomises. Murder, sex and lust play a strong part in the film. Marilyn Monroe in her first top-billed film role, is a femme fatale, seductively dressed in tight clothes revealing her sensual figure.

Wednesday, April 20, 7:00 pm
Thursday, April 21, 7:00 pm
Friday, April 22, 7:00 pm
River of Grass Florida Premiere, at Miami Beach Cinematheque

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Read the New Times interview
with Kelly Reichardt

Writer/Director Kelly Reichardt began her feature film career in 1993 with the darkly funny River of Grass. The film brought Reichardt back to the setting of her adolescence, the suburban landscape of southern Florida where she grew up with her detective father and narcotics agent mother. The story follows the misadventures of disaffected house-wife "Cozy", played by newcomer Lisa Bowman, and the aimless layabout "Lee", played by up and comer Larry Fessenden. Reichardt described the movie as "a road movie without the road, a love story without the love, and a crime story without the crime," foreshadowing themes she'd return to in later films. Sundance Collection at UCLA, and TIFF, restored and re-mastered this film in high quality digital 2k.

Nominated: Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Debut Performance

Wednesday, April 20, 8:00 pm: The Day After Tomorrow, at Soundscape

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A 2004 climate disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid and Sela Ward. Across the world, violent weather due to rapidly melting polar ice causes mass destruction. Astronauts at a space station see three massive hurricane-like super storms, with temperatures that instantly freeze anything they come into contact with. The weather becomes increasingly violent, causing traffic-jammed Manhattan streets to become flooded knee-deep. As the storm worsens, a massive surge generated by the freak superstorm hits Manhattan. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall (Gyllenhaal) heads to the City to rescue his son Sam and his friends, who have sought shelter with a large group of people in the New York Public Library.

Wednesday, April 27, 8:00 pm: What Lies Beneath, at SoundScape

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This 2000 horror/thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Claire Spencer (Pfeiffer) lives on a lake in Vermont with her husband, renowned scientist Dr. Norman Spencer (Ford). A couple has just moved in next door and are heard to frequently engage in loud arguments. Overhearing Mary Feur sobbing one day, Claire becomes concerned. When she sees Mary's husband Warren seemingly dragging something that resembles a body bag in the middle of the night and putting it in the trunk of the car, she suspects that Mary has been murdered. Claire begins spying on Warren and soon witnesses strange occurrences when she is alone in her house and becomes convinced that Mary is dead and haunting her.