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Category Archives: Program Notes

Attend: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS at Central Library Cinesthesia, February 7 @ 6:30 p.m.

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.

Posted byJason FuhrmanFebruary 6, 2019February 6, 2019Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, 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.

Posted byJason FuhrmanDecember 4, 2018Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, Program Notes

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.

Posted byJason FuhrmanOctober 30, 2018Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, Program Notes

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.

Posted byJason FuhrmanOctober 2, 2018Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, Program Notes

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.

Posted byJason FuhrmanSeptember 4, 2018Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, Program Notes

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.

Posted byJason FuhrmanAugust 1, 2018Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, Program Notes

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.  

Posted byJason FuhrmanJuly 5, 2018Posted inCinesthesia Program Notes, Program Notes

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.

Posted byJames KreulJune 29, 2018June 29, 2018Posted inProgram Notes, Rooftop Cinema Program Notes

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.

Posted byJames KreulJune 22, 2018June 22, 2018Posted inProgram Notes, Rooftop Cinema Program Notes

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.

Posted byJames KreulJune 14, 2018Posted inProgram Notes, Rooftop Cinema Program Notes

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