Reviews of upcoming films with one-night-only screenings, commercial theatrical runs, or recently released on home video.
You and the Night / Les Rencontres d’apres minuit (Yann Gonzalez, France, 2013, 91 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, Monday, April 7 at 8:45pm & Tuesday, April 8 at 9:15pm» First, I should clarify: I pixellated Eric […]
Domestic (Adrian Sitaru, Romania, 2013, 85 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, Friday, April 4, 4:30pm & Saturday, April 5, 4:30pm» Since 2000, it usually takes the Wisconsin Film Festival or campus screenings for recent Romanian cinema […]
The Madison Film Forum is committed to providing you with opportunities to stream interesting movies and provide a wider context around the area’s theatrical screenings. With an eye toward this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival, we thought […]
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 […]
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2013, 90 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, Saturday April 5, 9:15pm & Tuesday April 8, 3:00pm» As I mentioned in my post covering some of this year’s Wisconsin Film […]
The Madison Film Forum is committed to providing you with opportunities to stream interesting movies and provide a wider context around the area’s theatrical screenings. With an eye toward this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival, we […]
The Men of Dodge City (Nandan Rao, 2012, 93 min) The Other Men of Dodge City (Nandan Rao, 2014, 77 min) 4070 Vilas Hall, Sun Mar 16, 7pm» Rumor has it that after Terrence Malick finished The Thin […]
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, […]
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen, Singapore, 2013, 99 min) Wisconsin Film Festival, April 5, 9:00pm & April 6, 1:45pm» Anthony Chen’s debut feature, Ilo Ilo, won the Best First Film prizes at the Cannes and London […]
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 […]