Reviews of upcoming films with one-night-only screenings, commercial theatrical runs, or recently released on home video.
Review: One Screening Only Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? | Anthony Newley | UK | 1969 | 106 minutes UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, Friday, February 5, 7:00pm» All the […]
MFF’s James Kreul reviews UW Cinematheque’s 2016 Opening Weekend in Isthmus Pick up this week’s Isthmus to read reviews of Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut and Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights by Madison Film Forum‘s own James Kreul. Hitchcock/Truffaut […]
Field Niggas | Khalik Allah | USA | 2015 | 60 minutes Queue at GoWatchIt for availability updates James Kreul discusses Kahlik Allah’s Field Niggas, a vivid entry in the genre of on-the-street portraiture, shot […]
Missed Madison Film Festival Maps to the Stars | David Cronenberg | Canada, Germany, France, United States | 2014 | 111 minutes Four Star | Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt Maps to the Stars receives its […]
Missed Madison Film Festival Experimenter | Michael Almereyda | USA | 2015 | 90 minutes Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt Michael Almereyda (Nadja, Hamlet) returns with a stylistically playful biopic of experimental […]
Missed Madison Film Festival Court | Chaitanya Tamhane | India | 2014 | 116 minutes Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt A man is caught in the middle as rational logic and social prejudices clash in Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court. […]
Missed Madison Film Festival Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | Germany | 2015 | 138 minutes Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt Erik Oliver contemplates the contemporary long take and its audacious use […]
Missed Madison Film Festival The Fool | Yuriy Bykov | Russia | 2014 | 116 minutes Madison Public Library | GoWatchIt The Fool was a late addition to the lineup this week, suggested by everyone’s favorite […]
Missed Madison Film Festival Eisenstein in Guanajuato | Peter Greenaway | UK, Netherlands | 2015 Four Star | Madison Public Library | Netflix | GoWatchIt Chris Lay suggests that Eisenstein in Guanajuato is not for […]
Missed Madison Film Festival Love | Gaspar Noé | France | 2015 | 135 minutes Netflix | GoWatchIt Emily Caulfield argues that Gaspar Noé’s latest provocation is just as messy and alive as anyone in […]
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