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Sara Batkie is the author of the story collection Better Times, which won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Prize and is available from University of Nebraska Press. She received her MFA in Fiction from New York University. Her writing can be found online at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Chicago Review of Books, Crooked Marquee, and LitHub, among others.

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The author, Sara Batkie, stands with her back of the camera in front of a slate-grey wall. She turns her head to the side, pointing with her thumbs to the green and black floral design on the back of her 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival volunteer tee shirt.
From the lens of a film festival volunteer
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May 7, 2024

Engaging insights at the movies and with audiences during and after the 26th annual Wisconsin Film Festival this past April.

A man's head with a meat cleaver stuck in it sits atop a ceramic plate on a red felt-like tablecloth.
Eating the rich, and everyone else, in “Delicatessen”
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March 11, 2024

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's cutting dystopian black comedy from 1991 screens in a new restoration at UW Cinematheque on March 16.

The two main characters of the film "Groundhog Day," Rita and Phil, sit on a mood-lit hotel bed. They wear white and gray semi-formal but relaxed clothing, and smile affectionately at one another. A partially eaten pizza in an open cardboard pizza box is on the bed in front of them.
No tomorrow: confronting sobriety with “Groundhog Day”
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January 26, 2024

It's the commitment itself that matters.

A basic four-image collage collects colorful stills from different movies mentioned in this compilation piece. At top left is "Barbie," in shades of pink, as Margot Robbie's Barbie drives her convertible and harmonizes with Ken (Ryan Gosling) in the backseat. To its right, a dark red-toned still of "Sanctuary" shows the co-leads, Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, during a moment of respite. Below that, Tanya Tagaq sings into a microphone on a neon blue-lit stage during a performance scene in "Ever Deadly." On the bottom left, neighbors Lizzy (Michelle Williams) and Jo (Hong Chau) stare up towards the sky from a Portland, Oregon, sidewalk.
Getting closer to fine cinema: our year in Madison moviegoing
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December 20, 2023

In 2023, Tone Madison's film writers went to some interesting places, and unearthed some new favorites.

A young Iranian couple with dark hair wearing ambiguous expressions are framed at close-up, and look down at the camera.
“Dancing In The Dust” pits man against nature in more ways than one
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December 4, 2023

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's dramatic 2003 debut feature screens in a new DCP restoration at UW Cinematheque on December 8.

A man (Pee-wee Herman) with an exaggerated, yet ambiguous expression wears a glen plaid suit and red bowtie. He puts his left hand to his ear and stares off-screen to the left.
Childhood dreams (and nightmares) brightly live again in “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”
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August 29, 2023

UW Cinematheque celebrates Paul Reubens with a screening of Tim Burton's absurdist adventure-comedy on September 1.