November 5, 2024

Madfilm Meetup: SELMA ($5) at Marcus Point, Tue Jan 27, 7:10pm

Selma-MarchMadfilm Meetup:

Selma | Ava DuVernay | USA | 2014 | 127 min

Marcus Point Cinemas, Tuesday, January 27, 7:10pm»

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This week we catch up with a film that has been around for a few weeks but surely should not be missed: Ava DuVernay’s civil rights era drama Selma, starring David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Admission is $5 as a Movie Tuesday at Marcus Point.

Join Madison Film Forum contributors James Kreul and Jake Smith at the screening. With the Madfilm Meetups, the Madison Film Forum provides opportunities to attend great films and meet people doing the same.

Selma has had an overwhelming positive response from film critics, earning a 99% Tomatometer Rating at Rotten Tomatoes. You can find a collection of reviews at our Flipboard Magazine:

Flipboard wide MFF

Review highlights include:

“This is lucid in its political analysis and sobering in its depictions of racially motivated violence, though it sometimes comes off as stolid.” Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

“This is a film about work: the work at hand, the work it takes to do the work, and, for an audience in 2015, the question of whether the work worked.” Wesley Morris, Grantland

“If Selma is limited by the kind of film it needed to be and by what its studio proprietors wanted to sell, it’s still the best and most intimate fictional portrayal of the civil rights movement, by a long shot.” Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“With Selma, DuVernay has pulled off a tricky feat, a movie based on historical events that never feels dull, worthy, or lifeless; it hangs together as a story and not just part of a lesson plan.” Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice