Director Jonathan Demme gives the psychological horror thriller a distinctively feminist twist in his acclaimed adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling novel, The Silence of the Lambs.
Category Archives: Program Notes
Attend: BEING THERE at Central Library Cinesthesia, December 6 @ 6:30 p.m.
A stately satire of modern media consumption and American politics, Hal Ashby’s Being There feels more prescient than ever.
Attend: THE DEAD ZONE at Central Library Cinesthesia, November 1 @ 6:30 p.m.
A successful fusion of two extremely different artistic visions, David Cronenberg’s overlooked adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Dead Zone has become scarier than ever, in view of the contemporary political climate.
Attend: BLUE VELVET at Central Library Cinesthesia, Thursday, October 4 @ 6:30 p.m.
A mind-bending psychosexual odyssey and a visionary piece of popular transgressive cinema, David Lynch’s breakthrough film, Blue Velvet, looks at the underbelly of a picturesque, well-ordered American small town.
Attend: SUNSET BOULEVARD at Central Library Cinesthesia, Thursday, September 6 @ 6:30 p.m.
A sensational Hollywood story of ambition, fame, greed, and narcissism, Billy Wilder’s classic Sunset Blvd. reveals the dark side of Los Angeles’ dream factory, while seducing us with the power of its own manufactured images.
Attend: TIMBUKTU at Central Library Cinesthesia, Thursday, August 2 @ 6:30pm
A radical re-examination of Islamist fundamentalism, Abderrahmane Sissako’s complex, vibrant, and ravishing Timbuktu finds something poignantly human in the interwoven stories of a town occupied by jihadist invaders.
Attend: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA at Central Library Cinesthesia, Thursday, July 5 @ 6:30pm
In Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart rehearse a complex, nuanced, and shape-shifting psychological drama that blurs the lines between playacting and reality.
Program Notes: INAATE/SE at Rooftop Cinema, Fri Jun 29 at 9:30pm
Rooftop Cinema concludes its 2018 season with the hybrid documentary INAATE/SE, which re-imagines the Seven Fires Prophecy from the Ojibway tribe to comment on contemporary Native American experience.
Program Notes: CANYON CINEMA 50 TOUR at Rooftop Cinema, Fri Jun 22 at 9:30pm
Rooftop Cinema continues its season with the first and only screening in Madison (so far) of the Canyon Cinema 50 Tour, a tribute to the historically important and still vibrant and crucial distributor of experimental films.
Program Notes: SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE at Rooftop Cinema, Fri Jun 15 at 9:30pm
As the “party with a purpose” continues at the Madison Reunion conference downtown and on campus this weekend, Rooftop Cinema showcases two films that remind us how things have changed and how things have stayed the same since 1968.