Madfilm Meetup: Movie Tuesday
Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, USA, 2014, 119 min)
Marcus Eastgate Cinemas, Tuesday, November 25, 7:10pm»
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It is clear from the showtimes available that we don’t have much longer to catch Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman on the big screen in Madison. So join us to catch what many people are calling the one of the most innovative films of the year, starring Michael Keaton as a washed up cinema superhero hoping to revive his career with an ambitious Broadway production.
The Madison Film Forum wants you to stream one great film every week, attend at least one great film every month, and meet people doing the same. We don’t sponsor these screenings, we just support them by showing up.
The film currently has an 94% Tomatometer rating at Rotten Tomatoes. After our Saturday Matinee Meetup, we will update our Flipboard Magazine with a collection of Birdman reviews.
Review highlights (on both sides) include:
“Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of such ethereal dramas as Babel and 21 Grams, counterbalances the wicked backstage comedy with surreal flights of fancy, pondering the gulf between dubious celebrity and artistic immortality.” J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
“A funny, frenetic, buoyant and rambunctiously showboating entertainment in which Mr. Iñárritu himself rises high and then higher still.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“I’m jazzed by every daring, devastating, howlingly funny, how’d-they-do-that minute in Birdman. Powered by Michael Keaton’s pinballing tour de force, Iñárritu’s cinematic whirlwind is an exhilarating high. No true movie lover would dare miss it.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“It’s a white elephant of a movie that conceals a mouse of timid wisdom, a mighty and churning machine of virtuosity that delivers a work of utterly familiar and unoriginal drama.” Richard Brody, New Yorker
“Birdman proves that a movie – the grabbiest, most kinetic film ever made about putting on a play – can soar on the wings of its own technical prowess, even as the banality of its ideas threatens to drag it back down to earth.” Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune