Particle Fever (Mark Levinson, USA, 2013, 99 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, Saturday April 5 at 11:00am & Sunday April 6 at 3:15pm» “Fever” is perfectly used in the title. From talking to the people in […]
Lola (Jacques Demy, France, 1961, 90 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, Friday April 4, 12:15pm & Tuesday April 8, 5pm» Lola deviates from the normal into the unreal. It starts with one man sulking about his […]
Cairo Drive (Sherief Elkatsha, Egypt, 2013, 77 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, April 8, 6:30pm & April 9, 3:45pm» Cairo Drive captures the streets of Cairo, Egypt from 2009, before the first Egyptian revolution, to 2012, […]
Documentaries! The Wisconsin Film Festival will showcase documentaries with subjects that range from films about scientific discoveries, to small town problems, to inspirational stories of surprising heroes. Here is a quick survey of some highly […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hitchcock Week: Part Three of Five This week the Madison Film Forum will present reflections on the next five films in the UW Cinematheque’s Hitchcock Masterworks series. These are not intended as reviews for readers who […]
Aftershock (Nicolás López, USA/Chile, 2012, 89 min) UW Cinematheque, Sat Feb 8, 9:00pm» Aftershock, directed by Nicolas Lopez and written by Lopez and Eli Roth, follows a group of tourists in Chile whose partying is rudely […]
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer & Christine Cynn, Denmark/Norway, 2013, 115 min) Union South Marquee Theater Thu Jan 30 @ 9:30pm; Fri Jan 31 @ 6:00pm» Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing is a […]
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