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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Whenever the schedule for the Wisconsin Film Festival surfaces, as excited as I am for the newer, smaller indie films that Jim discusses here, I am equally if not more excited for work by the […]
It’s that time of year again. Time to pour over the 2014 Wisconsin Film Festival schedule and start planning your festival strategy. Which films will be the hot tickets? Which films will be the overlooked […]
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 […]
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