Film
Explore Madison’s art-house screenings and the adventurous corners of local cinema.
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Ja’Tovia Gary’s films earnestly confront Black identity in an overly saturated, visually contradictory culture
The multimedia artist’s avant-garde essays, “The Giverny Document” and “Quiet As It’s Kept,” screen at Arts + Literature Laboratory on May 22.
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From the lens of a film festival volunteer
Engaging insights at the movies and with audiences during and after the 26th annual Wisconsin Film Festival this past April.
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Oblique journeys in film (and) criticism
Another post-film festival meditation on our current spaces for dialogue.
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The painterly and methodical martial arts landscapes of “A Touch Of Zen”
King Hu’s epic, influential wuxia masterpiece from 1971 screens on 35mm at UW Cinematheque on April 27.
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The dense storytelling of “The Beast” connects our parasocial past, present, and future
Bertrand Bonello’s latest psychological, postmodernist period drama premieres locally at AMC Fitchburg 18 on April 26.
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The reckless, Springsteen-inspired revelry of “Streets Of Fire”
Walter Hill’s wild “rock ‘n’ roll fable” from 1984 screens on 35mm at UW Cinematheque on April 26.
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“Take Me Somewhere Nice” offers a gently absurdist look at the vicissitudes of contemporary Balkan life
Writer-Director Ena Sendijarević visits the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 8 to present her candy-coated existential comedy.
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In “String Theory: The Richard Davis Method,” the storied jazz bassist takes the lead
Michael Neelsen’s new documentary on the late musician and UW-Madison professor premieres at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 7.
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“Light Needs” and “Parallel Botany” use the film medium as a means to map plant consciousness
Jesse McLean’s feature documentary, Magdalena Bermudez’s experimental short, and three other botanical shorts screen in a Wisconsin Film Festival program on April 6.
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“Melomaniac” is a blurry but striking snapshot of an obsessive documentarian
Katlin Schneider’s roughshod ode to Chicago indie-rock show taper Aadam Jacobs screens at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 6.
