Madfilm Meetup: Movie Tuesday
Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | UK | 2014 | 149 min
Sundance Cinemas, Tuesday, March 3, 7:15pm»
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Join us Tuesday at Sundance Cinemas for Mr. Turner, a portrait of British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), directed by Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Drake) and starring Timothy Spall as Turner.
This Meetup will coincide with a post-screening chat with film critic Rob Thomas (madisonmovie.org), sponsored by Sundance Cinemas and The Capital Times.
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. We don’t sponsor these screenings, we just support them by showing up.
Mr. Turner has had a positive response from film critics, earning a 98% Tomatometer Rating at Rotten Tomatoes. You can find a collection of reviews at our Flipboard Magazine:
Review highlights include:
“Mike Leigh takes on the topsy-turvy life of J.M.W. Turner in an exquisitely detailed, brilliantly acted biopic.” Scott Foundas, Variety
“This is less your standard-issue biopic than a foray into the mystery of human feeling.” Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice
“Mr. Turner is a mighty work of critical imagination, a loving, unsentimental portrait of a rare creative soul.” A.O. Scott, New York Times
“Without a speck of pomposity Leigh’s film – one of the year’s best – honors its subject in all his tetchy ambiguity.” Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“Mr. Turner manages to illuminate that nexus between biography and art with elegant understatement.” Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter