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Film Series

O Cinema South Beach • 1130 Washington Ave • Miami Beach $11 Adults • $9.50 Seniors/Students/Children/Military • $7.50 O Cinema Members

LA ANTENA (THE AERIAL) Friday, January 13th • 7 pm - 9 pm In a futuristic city, the residents have lost their voices to both the omnipotent Mr. TV and the nameless corporation that runs the metropolis. A fairy tale about the power of the human voice. In a wintry metropolis in the year xxx, the mercilessly bad Mr. TV rules. The whole city is without a voice, and he has monopolized word and image. People watch TV and eat the TV meals produced by Mr. TV, and in turn, Mr. TV is working on a sinister plan with a dangerous hypnotic machine that operates through the TV to ensure that all life will be subjected to him forever. To achieve this, he kidnaps the only one who still has a voice: a stunningly beautiful singer. An inventor witnesses the kidnapping and flees with his family to an old broadcasting mast in an attempt to thwart approaching doom. L’INHUMAINE (THE INHUMANE WOMAN) Saturday, January 14th • 1 pm - 3 pm Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her, and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself. Claire Lescot, haughty and mysterious opera singer, seems to despise humanity. A young admirer kills himself for her. She sings despite the tragedy, but cannot remain insensitive… An emblem of French cinema, L’INHUMAINE is a combination of the arts. Architectures by Robert Mallet-Stevens, set designs by Fernand Léger, Alberto Cavalcanti and Claude Autant-Lara, costumes by the great designer Paul Poiret… Marcel L’Herbier surrounded himself with prestigious avant-garde collaborators to direct a rare Art Deco film, a true symbol of French cinema.

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GRAND HOTEL • Sunday, January 15th • 2 pm - 4:00 pm A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. At a luxurious Berlin hotel between the wars, the once-wealthy Baron Felix von Gaigern (John Barrymore) supports himself as a thief and gambler. In this lavish adaptation of the successful Broadway play, the baron romances one of his marks, the aging ballerina Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), and teams with dying accountant Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore) against his former boss, crooked industrialist Preysing (Wallace Beery), and his ambitious stenographer, Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford).

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