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Maxwell Courtright

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Maxwell Courtright is a social worker and film writer living in Chicago.

Maxwell's Latest Articles

An illustration by Shaysa Sidebottom shows a film camera against an abstract background. Emanating from the camera's lens are a ghost, a hand holding an umbrella, and various other objects including a framed picture, a book, and a smiley face.
Outdoor cinema continues, and Mad Lit DJ Block Party lights up State Street
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August 21, 2022

Plus more events we recommend checking out in Madison, August 22 through 28 edition.

A promotional photo shows the two members of Anteloper, Jaimie Branch and Jason Nazary, standing on a tennis court and facing the camera.
A few Madison events, July 11 through 17, 2022
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July 10, 2022

Seething improvisation from Anteloper, dance heavyweights at Musique Electronique, and more music and film highlights.

A member of the Jane Collective carries the group’s banner at a protest in Chicago. The women's gender symbol ♀ substitutes for the all the letter Os in "Women's Abortion" Service.
“Jane: An Abortion Service” is an instructive oral history of the Chicago group’s activism
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July 8, 2022

Kate Kirtz and Neil Lundy's 58-minute abortion rights documentary from 1995 screens at Madison Public Library's Central branch in Room 301 on July 12.

A re-shot scene from "The Black Diamond" (1989) where revolutionaries have killed a family of dissidents. Director Abdulkhalek Halil was ordered to reduce the amount of gore in the original take so as to not make the communists seem overly brutal.
“What We Left Unfinished” poses tough, relevant questions about the relationship between propaganda and true art
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July 5, 2022

Mariam Ghani's insightful, archival documentary sees a Madison premiere at UW Cinematheque on July 8.

A few Madison events, July 4 through 10, 2022
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July 3, 2022

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

“Notre Musique” and “The Dante Quartet” cerebrally expand upon studies of the “Divine Comedy”
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April 26, 2022

In conjunction with UW-Madison's "Dante After Dante" symposium, UW Cinematheque presents two experimental films by Jean-Luc Godard and Stan Brakhage that riff on the "Divine Comedy" on April 30.

The sensual catalyst of literature in “A Tale Of Love And Desire”
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April 5, 2022

The Wisconsin Film Festival hosts the Wisconsin premiere of Leyla Bouzid's literally (and literarily) poetic coming-of-age film on April 9 at Wisconsin Union Theater.

Getting personal with an in-person 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival
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March 10, 2022

After perusing the film guide that is publicly unveiled today, our film team shares thoughts and ecstatic observations.

La Movida Madrileña celebrates a period of radical invention in Spanish film
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February 8, 2022

UW Cinematheque's annual co-presented LACIS series kicks off on February 11 with the art-horror trip "Arrebato," and continues with a groundbreaking trans documentary and an early satire from Pedro Almodóvar.

Wrapping up 2021 with a sense of cinematic possibility
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December 21, 2021

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