Welcome to the Madison Film Forum!

The Madison Film Forum is a new website dedicated to promoting film culture in Madison on two fronts: providing contextual information for local screenings and improving the viewing experience in the digital domain.

We want Madison cineastes to stream at least one great film every week, attend at least one great film every month, and meet people who are doing the same.

Support Your Local Film Venues

In the coming weeks we will help those facing various obstacles preventing them from going out and seeing great movies on the big screen with an audience.

• We will help you find campus and alternative venues.
• In addition to our own reviews, we will embed trailers and provide links to other resources about films you will not read or hear about in the local media.
• Our Flipboard magazine will provide a convenient way to read positive and negative reviews of films playing at local venues.
• Our future plans include group outings to commercial theaters, because who wants to go to their first Bollywood film at AMC Star Fitchburg 18 alone?

Stop Settling for Mediocre Films on Netflix

How many times have you heard people complaining that there is nothing good on Netflix? With a little work, there is no reason that the cineaste experience can’t extend to the digital domain. We will help you do that work.

• Our coverage of local screenings will include links to related films currently streaming on Netflix and other digital providers.
• We will provide links to blogs and websites currently dedicated to streaming good films, like our sister site, Instant View Film Festival.
• We will follow up our local coverage of those films that might only play once in town and let you know when they are streaming or on DVD/Blu-Ray.

We’re Mobile Friendly (Until the Movie Starts)

We are not HTML code-heads, but we will do our best to make sure that the Madison Film Forum site is usable on browsers, tablets, and phones. Bookmark this page on your phone browser and plan your next movie while waiting for the trailers to begin.

Who Are We?

We are anyone who wants to work for positive changes in Madison film culture. Is that you? Then you are the Madison Film Forum. Go to the Discussion forum where you can recommend films to other readers and voice your ideas about Madison film culture.

The initial contributors to the website, however, are James Kreul and Jake Smith, both of whom have experience in academic film studies as well as general film fandom.

• James Kreul has been a programmer for the UW-Cinematheque and the inaugural Wisconsin Film Festival. In addition to occasional film articles for Isthmus, he also writes the Instant View Film Festival blog.
  
• Jake Smith is an occasional film reviewer and blogger in Madison, and has lived in the area for 13 years.  He once watched 101 heist films in 101 days, and knows far too much about James Bond.  
  

We will be fine-tuning the website over the next few weeks, so feel free to send feedback or suggestions to info@madfilm.org.

Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to a great 2014.