You Don’t Need to Miss These 30 Films That Missed Madison in 2015
The 2016 Missed Madison Film Festival was a collaborative effort involving Four Star Video Cooperative, LakeFrontRow, Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee, and Madison Film Forum. Thirty reviews were posted between Monday, January 11 through Friday, January 15, 2016.
For an overview of the Missed Madison Film Festival project, click here.
Thank you to all of the new readers who checked out the participating websites. We hope to continue the Missed Madison Film Festival next year, so please give us any feedback or suggestions you have in the comments below or on our Facebook event page.
In addition to links to the reviews and podcasts, we’ve included links to local and streaming resources where you can find the films. For titles that have not been released for home video, we recommend that you sign up at GoWatchIt and add them to your queue so that you will receive updates when they become available.
Be sure to check out Capital Times film critic Rob Thomas’s shout out to the Missed Madison Film Festival at his Madison Movie blog.
The January 7 issue of Isthmus is no longer on the stands, but you can still read Jay Rath’s article about the Missed Madison Film Festival online.
Go to the WORT-FM archives to listen to the “Wages of Cinema” segment of the January 12 episode of Fire Worship! (cue to 1:34:40). Host JoAnne Powers moderated a discussion of the Missed Madison Film Festival with Madison Film Forum’s James Kreul, Four Star’s Lewis Peterson, and LakeFrontRow’s Grant Phipps.
Links below updated August 21, 2016
Day Five: Friday, January 15
Alléluia | Fabrice Du Welz | Belgium | 2014 | 95 minutes
Reviewed by the Four Star Video Podcast
Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Experimenter | Michael Almereyda | USA | 2015 | 90 minutes
Reviewed by Craig Johnson at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt
Field Niggas | Khalik Allah | USA | 2015 | 60 minutes
Reviewed by James Kreul at Madison Film Forum
Queue at GoWatchIt for availability updates
The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Greece | 2015 | 118 minutes
Reviewed by David Klein at Lake Front Row
Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Maps to the Stars | David Cronenberg | USA | 2014 | 112 minutes
Reviewed by Jason Fuhrman at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Story of My Death | Albert Serra | Spain | 2013 | 148 minutes
Reviewed by Grant Phipps at LakeFrontRow
Queue at GoWatchIt for availability updates
Day Four: Thursday, January 14
Court | Chaltanya Tamhane | India | 2014 | 116 minutes
Reviewed by James Kreul at Madison Film Forum
Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Entertainment | Rick Alverson | USA | 2015 | 98 minutes
Reviewed by James LaPierre at WUD Film Presents
Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Human Capital | Paolo Virzi | Italy | 109 minutes
Reviewed by the Four Star Video Podcast
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt
Kilo Two Bravo | Paul Katis | UK | 2014 | 108 minutes
Reviewed by Jake Smith at Madison Film Forum
Netflix | Amazon Video | GoWatchIt
Rocks in My Pockets | Signe Baumane | USA, Latvia | 2014 | 88 minutes
Reviewed by Grant Phipps at LakeFrontRow
Consult Vimeo and GoWatchIt for Video on Demand resources
Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | Germany | 2015 | 138 minutes
Reviewed by Erik Oliver at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt
Day Three: Wednesday, January 13
Eisenstein in Guanajuato | Peter Greenaway | UK, Netherlands | 2015
Reviewed by Chris Lay at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt
The Fool | Yuriy Bykov | Russia | 2014 | 121 minutes
Reviewed by James Kreul at Madison Film Forum
Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
In My Father’s House | Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg | USA | 2015 | 93 minutes
Reviewed by Vincent Mollica at WUD Film Presents
Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Love | Gaspar Noé | France | 2015 | 135 minutes
Reviewed by Emily Caulfield at Madison Film Forum
Netflix | GoWatchIt
Slow West | John Maclean | UK | 2015 | 84 minutes
Reviewed by David Klein at LakeFrontRow
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Amazon Prime | GoWatchIt
The Voices | Marjane Satrapi | USA | 2014 | 107 minutes
Reviewed by the Four Star Video Podcast
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Amazon Prime | GoWatchIt
Day Two: Tuesday, January 12
Black Coal, Thin Ice | Diao Yinan | China | 2014 | 106 minutes
Reviewed by the Four Star Video Podcast
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt
Blind | Eskil Vogt | Norway | 2014 | 100 minutes
Reviewed by Grant Phipps at LakeFrontRow
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Fandor | GoWatchIt
Buzzard | Joel Potrykus | USA | 2014 | 97 minutes
Reviewed by Taylor Hanley at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Amazon Prime | GoWatchIt
Christmas, Again | Charles Poekel | USA | 2014 | 80 minutes
Reviewed by Chris Lay at Madison Film Forum
Amazon Prime | Fandor | GoWatchIt
Spring | Justin Benson | USA | 2014 | 105 minutes
Reviewed by Vincent Mollica at WUD Film Presents
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Amazon Prime | GoWatchIt
The Tribe | Myroslav Slaboshpytskly | Ukraine | 2014 | 90 minutes
Reviewed by James Kreul at Madison Film Forum
Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt
Day One: Monday, January 11
Bone Tomahawk | Charles Poekel | USA | 2014 | 80 minutes
Reviewed by Chris Lay at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Madison Public Library | Amazon Prime | GoWatchIt
Cop Car | Jon Watts | USA | 2014 | 86 minutes
Reviewed by the Four Star Video Podcast
Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt
Hard to Be a God | Alexei German | Russia | 2013 | 170 minutes
Reviewed by James Kreul at Madison Film Forum
Four Star | Netflix | Fandor | GoWatchIt
National Gallery | Frederick Wiseman | USA | 2014 | 180 minutes
Reviewed by Grant Phipps at LakeFrontRow
Queue for availability updates at GoWatchIt
Office | Johnnie To | Hong Kong | 2015 | 117 minutes
Reviewed by Jake Smith at Madison Film Forum
Queue for availability updates at GoWatchIt
The Mend | John Magary | USA | 2014 | 111 minutes
Reviewed by Ani Biswas at WUD Film Presents
Netflix | GoWatchIt
Sorry I was just back from vacation to NYC
Would like to attend next year.
No worries, this is a “virtual festival,” where we have collaborated with Four Star Video and cinema websites in Madison to highlight films that missed Madison and provide links to where you can find them.
So browse through the titles, follow links to the reviews of films that you might be interested in, and follow links to resources where you can rent or stream them. Thanks for your interest!
Hello all–
here’s an update from Madison Public Library! Now in our LINKcat catalog:
Lobster
Maps to the Stars
Court
Entertainment
Victoria
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
The Fool
In My Father’s House
The Tribe
Hard to be a God is in a queue to order- should show up in the library catalog later this month.
Not sure if anyone is still viewing this list… but wanted you to know!
Liz the DVD/Blu-Ray librarian at Central
This is great, thanks Liz!