Movie Journal: Notebook
Micro-Wave Cinema Series concludes four years of indie programming with five screenings in Spring 2018
Final series will debut with David Franklin’s As Far as the Eye Can See on Sunday, February 11, 7:00pm in 4070 Vilas Hall
The Micro-Wave Cinema Series announced on its Facebook page that it would conclude its programming in Madison with a series of four feature films and one night of shorts for Spring 2018.
The final series will kick-off with David Franklin’s As Far as the Eye Can See on Sunday, February 11. The film stars Jason London (Dazed and Confused) as a 40-year-old former piano prodigy now living on his family’s North Texas farm that has gone fallow.
“I hope we go out with a bang,” Micro-Wave programmer Brandon Colvin explains in the Facebook post, “I’m moving to Arkansas, where I hope to resurrect MWCS in the near future. It’s been a great four years.” The final Madison screening on Sunday, April 29 will be Colvin’s own Sabbatical, starring Robert Longstreet and Kentucker Audley, which previously screened at the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival.
Program descriptions and event pages are forthcoming on the Micro-Wave Cinema Series Facebook page. The film titles and dates are as follows, which each screening starting at 7:00 pm in 4070 Vilas Hall (821 University Avenue):
February 11: As Far as they Eye Can See, David Franklin
March 4: A Feast of Man, Caroline Golum
March 18: Tormenting the Hen, Theodore Collatos
April 15: Friends of Micro-Wave Shorts
Parthenon, Frank Mosley
Mommy Moments, Nora Stone
Mohammad So-and-So, Chris Bell
Greek Yogurt, Tor Åanestad & Nich Boissoneault
This Castle Keep, Gina Telaroli
April 29: Sabbatical, Brandon Colvin
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