Check Out Our Alternative Screening Calendar!
It is far too hard to keep track of upcoming one-off screenings or limited runs that last less than a week in Madison. Well, we here at the Madison Film Forum have addressed that issue […]
January 2014
CUTIE and NOSTALGHIA Reviews on Our Flipboard
Check out the Madison Film Forum Flipboard magazine for curated articles, reviews, and videos related to screenings and events in and around Madison. The Flipboard magazine will be updated each weekend with links provided on the Madison Film […]
Stream LETHE by Lewis Klahr at Vdrome Jan 14-23
Now through January 23 you can stream experimental animator Lewis Klahr’s short film, Lethe, at Vdrome. As described at their website, Vdrome is “an online platform that offers regular, high quality screenings of films and […]
Lessons From Chicago: Northwest Chicago Film Society on Film Exhibition
It is astonishing to realize that, in a little over five years, 35mm film has gone from a widely-supported exhibition format to the sole province of non-theatrical venues: public libraries like Northbrook, college-affiliated groups like […]
Review: CUTIE AND THE BOXER @CTEK Fri Jan 17
Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, 2013, 82 min.) UW-Cinematheque Fri Jan 17, 7PM» Painters often fight their blank canvases, but instead of a brush as his chosen weapon, Ushio Shinohara uses boxing gloves. Zachary […]
Micro-Wave Cinema Series Begins Sun Jan 19
On Sunday, January 19, 7PM at 4070 Vilas Hall, the Micro-Wave Cinema Series will host its debut screening. They will showcase a double-feature of films written and directed by Zach Weintraub The International Sign for […]
Stream J.J. Murphy’s Favorite Indie Films of 2013
This week on his blog, UW-Madison professor J.J. Murphy posted his list of favorite independent films of 2013. As he points out in his entry, many of the films played at the 2013 Wisconsin Film Festival, […]
Welcome to the Madison Film Forum!
The Madison Film Forum is a new website dedicated to promoting film culture in Madison on two fronts: providing contextual information for local screenings and improving the viewing experience in the digital domain. We want […]
Hitchcock / Truffaut Interview Audio Recordings
As you may know, the UW-Cinematheque will present a series of Alfred HItchcock films on Sundays at the Chazen Museum starting on January 26. As part of our efforts to provide contextual information for local […]
David Bordwell on the Art of the Martial Arts Film
The Toronto International Film Festival YouTube channel has recently added videos of three talks by UW-Madison’s own David Bordwell. One, embedded above, is on the Art of the Martial Arts Film. Another is a panel discussion […]