Jimbo’s Wisconsin Film Festival Dispatch: Day One
Despite a technical glitch on our end, not the Festival’s, Day One (or, more exactly, Evening One) went very well. As Jake Smith and I sat down at Manakamana at the Chazen Museum, we both […]
Independent Cinema
David Gordon Green’s JOE Reviewed at SXSW
Our friend Jacob Mertens has posted a review of David Gordon Green’s Joe, which he attended at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin. Joe is also one of the opening night features at this […]
Capsule Reviews: Festival Short Takes from Jim and Jake
Yes, I know what I said at the beginning of our Wisconsin Film Festival coverage about capsule reviews. We followed through on that pledge with some roomy discussions of seven feature films or programs (and […]
ARTS EXTRACT PODCAST Wisconsin Film Fest Preview, Part Two
You’ve been refreshing your podcast app all week, and finally here it is! This past weekend, our Wisconsin Film Festival coverage partners, Scott Gordon at Arts Extract and David Klein at LakeFrontRow, were kind enough to invite Jake […]
Wisconsin Film Festival Capsule Reviews @ ISTHMUS and THE DAILY PAGE
I had the opportunity to contribute to this week’s Isthmus coverage of the Wisconsin Film Festival with four capsule reviews: The Rocket, Shooter and Whitley, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, and Village at […]
Capsule Review: Nandan Rao DODGE CITY Double Feature
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 […]
Sneaky Auteurism: Interview with Brandon Colvin, Micro-Wave Cinema
While our Wisconsin Film Festival coverage is in full swing, we will continue to cover Madison’s many other film offerings. The Micro-Wave Cinema Series, run by Brandon Colvin, is perhaps one of the lesser known […]
Jimbo’s Mock Draft: Navigating the #wifilmfest Schedule
The problem with most Festival highlight articles (including ours) is that they don’t take into account the reality of what is actually available at a given time and what you might miss that plays opposite […]
The Big Docs at the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival
Documentaries! The Wisconsin Film Festival will showcase documentaries with subjects that range from films about scientific discoveries, to small town problems, to inspirational stories of surprising heroes. Here is a quick survey of some highly […]
The Big Indies at the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival
In the spirit of that rushed sensation of looking over the Wisconsin Film Festival schedule for the first time, I’m giving myself only a few hours to write this from first draft to posting. I’ve […]