Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia, 2013, 98 min) Sundance Cinemas Screening Room, One week starting Fri Feb 28» Wadjda is a ten-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who is told that respectable women do not ride bicycles. However, she […]
Tuesday, March 4: The Wind Rises at Point Cinemas, 9:30pm» Let’s go see some movies on Tuesday nights in Madison. On Tuesday, March 4, let’s go see what will be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film after his […]
Joi Baba Felunath: The Elephant God (Satyajit Ray, India, 1979, 112 min) UW Cinematheque, Fri Feb 28, 7pm» A detective, a writer, and a bodybuilder… You might expect a “walk-into-a-bar” kind of […]
Here are some quick words about two films you should try to catch tonight (Cairo Station) or before it leaves the theater after Thursday (Gunday). Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, Egypt, 1958, 77 min) Union South […]
Madison Film Forum contributor Taylor Hanley was recently profiled on the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science News site for her research on perception and Immersive 3-D technology like the Oculus Rift headset. Many of us […]
Tuesday, February 25: The Great Beauty at Sundance Cinemas, 6:50pm» Let’s go see some movies on Tuesday nights in Madison. This Tuesday’s 6:50 screening of The Great Beauty at Sundance will be followed by a […]
Tony Manero (Pablo Larrain, Chile, 2008, 98 min) UW Cinematheque, Sat Feb 22, 4pm» Raul, a 50 year-old man, is obsessed with Saturday Night Fever (1977). His life revolves around this film and becoming John Travolta. When […]
The Madison Film Forum is pleased to announce that we will partner with local websites Arts Extract and LakeFrontRow for what should prove to be the most extensive coverage of the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival. The […]
Exit Elena (Nathan Silver, 2012, 72 min) Soft in the Head (Nathan Silver, 2013, 71 min) 4070 Vilas Hall, Sun Feb 23, 7pm» During this time of year, conventional wisdom holds that screens […]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Guy Maddin for an article in this week’s Isthmus. Be sure to pick up a copy, anywhere downtown, or read it online at The Daily Page. Meanwhile, here is […]
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