Coral Gables Magazine

Silver Screen Mornings: "Duck Soup"
2026-04-01 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax) | Coral Gables Branch Library, 3443 Segovia Street
Join Coral Gables Art Cinema for a screening of “Duck Soup,” starring Groucho Marx. The film follows the fictional nation of Freedonia as Rufus T. Firefly is appointed president, leading to political tension with neighboring Sylvania. As spies infiltrate the government and diplomatic relations break down, the story unfolds through a series of satirical and comedic exchanges.

Secret Screening
2026-04-01 20:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Attend a special April Fools’ Day mystery screening featuring a cult classic film. The title will remain a surprise until the screening begins. The event takes place on Wednesday, April 1 at 8:00 pm and offers a one night only opportunity to watch a film that helped shape a major genre in cinema. Guests will discover the selection when the lights go down.

My Neighbor Totoro
2026-04-04 11:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Watch a screening of “My Neighbor Totoro,” the animated film by director Hayao Miyazaki. The story follows sisters Satsuki and Mei, who move to the countryside with their father while their mother is recovering in a nearby hospital. While exploring the surrounding forest, the girls encounter Totoro, a large and mysterious creature who lives in an ancient camphor tree and is visible only to children. The film reflects on childhood imagination and the relationship between people and the natural world.

Pay What You Can Per TicketJapanese with English Screening

The Audience
2026-04-05 13:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Watch a filmed presentation of “The Audience,” the stage play by Peter Morgan that explores the private weekly meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. The production depicts conversations with leaders including Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and David Cameron, offering insight into the role of the monarch during moments of political and personal significance. The play was recorded live in London’s West End in 2013 and later became one of the most viewed productions in the National Theatre Live series.

The Notebook
2026-04-08 17:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Set in Seabrook, North Carolina in the 1940s, The Notebook follows Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, two young people from different worlds who fall deeply in love over one summer. When the season ends, war and circumstance force them apart. In the present day, an elderly man visits a nursing home and reads aloud from his notebook to a woman whose memory is fading, drawing her back to a love story that never truly left her.

This special screening is presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at Coral Gables Art Cinema, and serves as a preview of The Notebook stage musical coming to the Arsht Center May 5 through 10. The stage production is based on Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel and features music by singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. Tickets and more information for the Arsht run are available online.

A Life Illuminated
2026-04-10 18:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
A Life Illuminated follows Dr. Edie Widder, a trailblazing marine biologist and one of the first women to explore the ocean’s twilight zone, as she descends 3,300 feet into the ocean’s deepest and darkest waters. From capturing the first-ever footage of the giant squid to uncovering the glowing mysteries of deep-sea bioluminescence, Widder embarks on her most ambitious mission yet: documenting a bioluminescent phenomenon that could reshape our understanding of life on Earth.

Directed by Tasha Van Zandt and an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, the film screens with a post-screening conversation moderated by documentary programmer Thom Powers.

Featuring: Tasha Van Zandt, DirectorModerated by: Thom Powers, Documentary Programmer

TheyDream
2026-04-10 21:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
TheyDream is an autobiographical documentary two decades in the making. Director William D. Caballero returns to his family’s history in Fayetteville, North Carolina, weaving together new 2D and 3D animations, live-action vérité, archival materials, and intimate conversations with his mother to trace how art becomes a lifeline in the wake of loss.

The film’s visual approach is unlike anything else in contemporary documentary. Caballero uses miniature artistry, handcrafted figurines, digital rotoscoping, and full 3D motion-capture to literally transform himself and his mother into their ancestors, reanimating family stories with honesty, complexity, and love. The result is at once a deeply personal portrait and a cinematic act of survival, tracing a family’s path through grief and toward connection.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmakers, moderated by documentary programmer Thom Powers.

Featuring: William D. Caballero, Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Animator Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Producer, Co-Writer Elaine Del Valle, Producer, Co-Writer Milly Caballero, Film ParticipantModerated by: Thom Powers, Documentary Programmer

Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon
2026-04-11 12:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon is a feature documentary about Sonia Manzano, known to millions as Maria from Sesame Street. The film traces her journey from a young girl in the South Bronx who found refuge in television to becoming the first Latina in a regular role on American TV, through 44 groundbreaking years on Sesame Street, and into her current work as the creator of Alma’s Way.

Directed by Ernie Bustamante, the film blends interviews with notable figures, original animation, and scripted scenes to build a portrait of a woman whose work shaped the childhoods of generations of Americans.

The Miami Film Festival will honor Sonia Manzano with its Impact Award at the screening, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and film subject.

Featuring: Sonia Manzano, Film Subject Ernie Bustamante, Director Renee Cafaro, Executive Producer Sean Puglisi, Editor

Cookie Queens
2026-04-11 14:45 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age documentary about one of America’s most beloved annual rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season. Behind the Thin Mints and the badges lies an $800 million business, and director Alysa Nahmias places four girls, ages 5 to 12, at the center of it.

The film follows the girls and their families through the annual selling season with candor and warmth, capturing the real pressures underneath the smiles: long hours, ambitious sales goals, and the weight of high expectations. For these girls, selling cookies is less about sisterhood and more about a first encounter with commercialism, competition, and what it means to succeed. Nahmias balances the humor and heart of childhood with an honest look at what America asks of its youngest participants.

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026-04-11 17:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Mary Oliver was a best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private. Her poems cross every divide, inspiring liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites alike. If poetry had a pop icon, Oliver would be it.

This documentary draws on interviews with Oliver’s friends and archival footage to offer the clearest portrait yet of her wild and precious life. Poems are read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with producer, director, and editor Sasha Waters.

Featuring: Sasha Waters, Producer, Director, Editor

Broken Voices
2026-04-15 19:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
“Broken Voices” is a coming-of-age drama set in early 1990s Prague, following thirteen-year-old Karolína as she earns a coveted place in a world-famous girls’ choir — joining her older sister among a cohort of fiercely driven young talents. When Karolína’s voice draws the attention of the admired and enigmatic choirmaster, his favoritism feels, at first, like a hard-won triumph. But as his attention deepens into something more troubling, the distinction between privilege and exploitation begins to unravel.

Inspired by the real-world Bambini di Praga case, the film examines the dynamics of power, ambition, and institutional silence with unflinching care. It neither sensationalizes nor looks away, tracing instead the interior landscape of a girl navigating resentment from peers and her sister, misplaced trust in an authority figure, and the slow, painful education of understanding what has been done to her.

Kateřina Falbrová delivers a performance of striking restraint and depth as Karolína — capturing the way a child can simultaneously understand too much and not enough. Her work earned a Special Jury Mention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where the film also took home the Europa Cinemas Label Award.

Miami Film Festival: “Stranger Than Fiction: Um Short Documentary Award”
2026-04-16 14:30 | Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146
The Miami Film Festival presents “Stranger Than Fiction: UM Short Documentary Award.” The program features five short documentaries competing for the University of Miami Documentary Award, spanning subjects from immigration and identity to justice and the unexpected.

The lineup includes “Arepas En Bici,” following a chef cycling through San Francisco while reflecting on his immigration journey and Venezuelan culinary roots; “If You Really Love Me, Outlive Me,” a close look at honky-tonk musician Dale Watson and his wife Celine Lee, told through their music and life in Americana; “They Call Me The Tattoo Witch,” set in Hanoi, where tattoo artist Tran Ngoc uses her work to transform scars and challenge the stigma surrounding tattoos in Vietnamese society; “Oh Whale,” the story of a small Oregon town, an exploding whale, and the reporter who brought the story to national attention; and “Hilda O. Vs The State of New York,” in which 81-year-old Hilda Onley pursues legal action against New York State for abuse she suffered as a teenager in 1958 at the New York State Training School for Girls.

The UM Documentary Award will be presented during the program.

The Stranger
2026-04-17 15:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Based on Albert Camus’s foundational 1942 novel, The Stranger (L’Étranger) follows Meursault, a French Algerian clerk whose radical emotional detachment places him at odds with everyone around him, from his grieving neighbors to the colonial society that ultimately sits in judgment of him. When he kills an Arab man on a sun-scorched beach, it is not guilt or remorse that seals his fate in court, but his refusal to perform either.

Director François Ozon brings Camus’s existentialist masterwork to the screen with striking fidelity and fresh cinematic imagination. Photographed in rich black-and-white, the film captures both the sensory heat of Algiers and the cool remove of its protagonist’s interior world. Benjamin Voisin delivers a career-defining performance as Meursault, present in body, absent in soul, while Rebecca Marder brings warmth and complexity to Marie, the woman who loves him despite understanding, perhaps better than anyone, that he cannot love her back.

The Stranger is a film about what happens when one man refuses to lie, about grief, about motive, about remorse, in a world built entirely on necessary fictions. Ozon’s adaptation does not soften Camus’s moral provocation. It sharpens it, framing colonial Algeria as a society in which an Arab’s death matters far less than a Frenchman’s emotional performance.

Purple Rain
2026-04-18 21:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Rock star Prince makes his feature film debut in this highly autobiographical blockbuster. Headstrong and vulnerable, young musician The Kid struggles with inner demons and a turbulent home life — an alcoholic father, a mother caught in the cycle of abuse. But the chaos fuels his music, driving a raw, electrifying sound that transforms the struggling young rocker into a star. The film won both an Academy Award and a Grammy Award.

Two Prosecutors
2026-04-19 12:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Based on the novella by celebrated Soviet writer Georgy Demidov and directed by Sergei Loznitsa, this film follows an idealistic young prosecutor played by Aleksandr Kuznetsov who is dispatched to investigate the unlawful imprisonment of a subversive writer held without evidence under the Stalin regime. What begins as an isolated case quickly reveals itself as part of something vast, entrenched, and deliberately obscured.

Loznitsa, one of cinema’s most unflinching chroniclers of totalitarian history, brings Demidov’s story to the screen with characteristic restraint and moral precision. The film does not traffic in melodrama. It builds its horror methodically, through paperwork, testimony, and silence, showing how ordinary institutions become instruments of cruelty and how good intentions dissolve on contact with a system designed to perpetuate itself.

A film about complicity, courage, and the limits of justice in a state that has made injustice its founding principle.

Silver Screen Mornings: "Strangers on a Train" (PG)
2026-04-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Coral Gables Branch Library, 3443 Segovia Street
“Strangers on a Train,” the 1951 psychological thriller from director Alfred Hitchcock, remains one of cinema’s most chilling studies in obsession and culpability. When a charming but dangerous psychopath proposes a diabolical pact to tennis star Guy Haines, what begins as idle conversation on a train becomes an inescapable nightmare. The screenplay, adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s 1950 novel by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde, crackles with tension and moral ambiguity. Starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker, the film is a portrait of how easily an ordinary life can be upended by one wrong encounter. Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 2021 by the Library of Congress for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance, Strangers on a Train endures as essential Hitchcock.

With & Without: A Coral Story
2026-04-22 18:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Watch a screening of “With & Without: A Coral Story,” a documentary that examines the impact of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease on coral reef ecosystems. The film follows scientists studying the outbreak since it was first identified in 2014 and explores the ongoing effort to understand the disease and protect coral reefs. Through interviews with researchers and marine experts, the documentary looks at the environmental challenges facing coral reefs and the role human activity plays in their decline

All my Sons
2026-04-25 12:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
A filmed stage production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” directed by Ivo Van Hove and recorded live in London’s West End. The production stars Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean Baptiste and centers on the Keller family as they confront the consequences of wartime business decisions. Joe Keller’s financial success during the war becomes tied to a criminal investigation involving defective aircraft parts, forcing the family to face questions of responsibility, loss, and accountability

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2026-04-25 20:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair brings Quentin Tarantino’s definitive revenge saga to the screen in its complete, rarely screened form. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. What follows is a relentless hunt through the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before a final reckoning with Bill himself. Presented with a classic intermission, this is the full, uncut experience of one of cinema’s most stylish and visceral revenge stories.

Reds
2026-04-26 11:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Selected by Mitchell Kaplan, Reds arrives in a brand new 4K restoration for a landmark screening of Warren Beatty’s sweeping historical epic. The film follows the volatile romance between activist journalists Louise Bryant and John Reed, set against the upheaval of the early twentieth century. From the outbreak of WWI to Louise’s assignment in France, through Reed’s radicalization in Russia and his disillusionment with the Soviet propaganda machine, the film moves between intimate personal drama and world-altering historical forces. Beatty’s ambitious blend of dramatic narrative and interviews with the era’s major social radicals remains one of American cinema’s most singular achievements.

Silver Screen Mornings: Sullivan's Travels (TV-G)
2026-04-29 10:00 - 12:00 | Coral Gables Branch Library, 3443 Segovia Street
“Sullivan’s Travels” follows John L. Sullivan, a successful Hollywood director known for light comedies who sets out on a cross-country trip to better understand life during the Great Depression. Traveling incognito, he aims to inform a more serious film project focused on economic hardship and social reality. The film stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake, and was written and directed by Preston Sturges. Blending satire and drama, the film examines Hollywood’s role in shaping public perception during the studio system era, while incorporating Sturges’s signature dialogue and ensemble of character actors.

Shakespeare in Love
2026-05-03 12:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
A screening of “Shakespeare in Love” tells the story of a young William Shakespeare struggling with writer’s block as he attempts to complete a new play. While developing a comedy titled Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter, he meets Lady Viola, whose presence inspires both his writing and the story that would eventually become Romeo and Juliet. The film follows the challenges of theatre production, creative pressure, and personal relationships during Shakespeare’s early career.

My Darling Clementine
2026-05-03 14:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
An 80th anniversary screening of “My Darling Clementine,” directed by John Ford, presents one of the defining works of the American Western. The film follows Wyatt Earp, portrayed by Henry Fonda, as he arrives in Tombstone and takes on the role of marshal after the murder of his brother and the theft of their cattle.

Based loosely on accounts associated with Wyatt Earp, the film focuses on the establishment of law in a frontier town, balancing elements of drama, character study, and understated humor. Ford’s direction emphasizes composition, pacing, and atmosphere, contributing to the film’s lasting influence within the genre.

Often cited alongside other landmark Westerns such as “The Searchers” and “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” the film remains a reference point for directors including Steven Spielberg. This screening offers an opportunity to revisit Ford’s interpretation of the Earp story and its place in American cinema history.

Welcome Space Brothers
2026-05-08 17:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
A one-night-only preview examines the Unarius Academy of Science, followed by a Q&A and presented alongside a new exhibition at the Museum of Sex Miami.

The film tells the true story of the Unarius Academy of Science, an extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school and self-healing community founded in 1970s California. Led by Ruth E. Norman, the group evolved from a fringe movement into a recognizable presence through its prolific public access television productions in the 1980s.

Directed by Wille, the documentary examines the group’s beliefs, media presence, and cultural impact, offering a detailed look at an unconventional chapter of American spiritual history. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Wille, along with Kevin and Tracey Kennedy of the Unarians, providing additional context and firsthand perspective.

The General
2026-05-09 20:15 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
A 100th anniversary screening of “The General” marks a rare opportunity to revisit one of silent cinema’s defining works. Released in 1926 and set during the American Civil War, the film follows a train engineer whose locomotive is stolen by Union spies, sending him on a relentless pursuit to recover both the train and the woman he loves.

Directed by and starring Buster Keaton alongside collaborator Clyde Bruckman, the film is recognized for its large-scale practical stunts and precise physical comedy, much of it performed by Keaton himself. Though it initially underperformed, “The General” has since been reevaluated as a landmark in film history, praised by figures such as Orson Welles for its enduring influence.

Presented in honor of National Train Day.

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
2026-05-10 23:00 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
Nominated for the 2026 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” follows a young girl growing up as a foreigner in post-war Japan. The story centers on Amélie’s early childhood, where a quiet, contained world begins to shift after a small but transformative moment sparks her curiosity and awareness.

As she forms a close bond with her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, the film explores themes of identity, cultural displacement, and emotional connection. Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb and directed by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, the film uses a distinct animated style to reflect a child’s perspective while examining memory and belonging.

Recommended for ages 8+.

Super Fly
2026-05-13 18:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
“Super Fly” (1972) screens as part of Bookends of Black Cinema: The Classic and the Cult, a two-day, two-film retrospective exploring notable works from across the spectrum of Black cinema.

Directed by Gordon Parks Jr., “Super Fly” follows Priest (Ron O’Neal), a suave top-rung New York City drug dealer looking to get out of the game. Working with his reluctant friend Eddie (Carl Lee), Priest devises a scheme to make one last big deal before retiring for good. When a desperate street dealer tips off the police, Priest finds himself in an uncomfortable arrangement with corrupt narcotics officers and sets his plan in motion to leave the business and stick it to the man.

Each screening in the series is followed by a panel discussion moderated by Ale Duckenfield-López and featuring Josiah Howard, author of “Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.”

Blue Heron
2026-05-16 14:15 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
“Blue Heron” screens as part of Bookends of Black Cinema: The Classic and the Cult, a two-day, two-film retrospective exploring notable works from across the spectrum of Black cinema.

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, hoping for a fresh start. But their new beginning is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy, pushing their parents toward a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

We're No Angels
2026-05-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Coral Gables Branch Library, 3443 Segovia Street
In this 1955 film, three escaped convicts from Devil’s Island take refuge in a small shop run by a warm, welcoming family during the Christmas season. What starts as a scheme to rob the store and disappear takes an unexpected turn after the men share a holiday meal with the family — and learn of the hardships they’re facing. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Joan Bennett, “We’re No Angels” is equal parts caper and Christmas story, a quietly charming film about unlikely kindness.

Diamonds
2026-05-20 17:30 | Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave.
In “Diamonds,” director Ferzan Özpetek assembles a group of his favorite actresses, women he has worked with and women he has loved, with the intention of making a film about women. He observes them, takes notes, and says little, until his imagination transports them all to another era. In that past, the hum of sewing machines fills a workshop run entirely by women, men occupy only the margins, and cinema is told from a perspective rarely given center stage: costume.

Loneliness, passion, anxiety, devastating loss, and unbreakable bonds blur the line between reality and fiction, between the actresses and their characters, between rivalry and sisterhood, between what is seen and what is not.
