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Alisyn Amant is a film writer for Tone Madison, Gen Z Critics, and The Daily Cardinal. Her all-time favorite movie is Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006).

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The Rockford Peaches celebrate a nail-biting win on the field. They wear their gloves and other equipment with their pink, short-skirt uniforms and baseball caps. Mae (Madonna) jumps into the arms of her best friend Dorris (Rosie O'Donnell) while Dottie (Geena Davis) laughs and cheers with the rest of the team.
“A League Of Their Own” pitches an enduring dramedy of resilience

Penny Marshall's feminist baseball chronicle screens at the Memorial Union Terrace on August 7.

A photo shows the band Czarbles performing at Mickey's Tavern in Madison in 2019. The band members are blurry with motion, and a chalkboard in the background advertises drink specials.
Czarbles returns, and a new Rooftop Cinema season begins

Plus more events we recommend checking out in Madison, August 1 through 7 edition.

In a frilly, peach-colored, Georgian era dress, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) gives an aggrieved look at herself in the mirror. A vase of pink flowers sits to her right on the dresser in the middle ground of the shot.
A queen’s coming-of-age in “Marie Antoinette”

Watch Sofia Coppola's decadent 2006 costume drama on the Memorial Union Terrace after dusk on July 10.

A few Madison events, July 4 through 10, 2022

Baby Tyler with Soot, power-pop, and a whole lot of good film offerings.

Pain and pineapples: “Chungking Express” sensationally captures the anguish of young adulthood

Wong Kar-wai's international breakthrough from 1994 screens in a new 4K restoration at UW Cinematheque on April 16.

Making a last-minute 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival itinerary

A Courtney Barnett documentary, "107 Mothers," "Ȋntregalde," "Claydream," and other recommendations, in brief, from our film writers.

For better and worse, “Heathers” asks its audience to laugh at the extremities of being human

Michael Lehmann's exaggerated and stylish glimpse into the late 1980s screens on a 35mm print at UW Cinematheque on April 1.

Wrapping up 2021 with a sense of cinematic possibility

Seven of "Tone Madison's" film crew reflect on changes to their viewing habits, thrills, and anxieties of the pandemic year(s).

“Fabian: Going To The Dogs” evokes a visceral nostalgia across cinematic histories

Dominik Graf's romantically charged epic period drama, an adaptation of Erich Kästner's 1931 novel, is screening on November 17 as part of Spotlight Cinema.