Wisconsin Film Festival
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A 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival preview in full bloom
Nine of our writers offer their picks and advice on the annual cinematic rite of spring that runs between April 4 and 11.
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Movie notes and open-hearted discourse
From the desk of a juror: reflecting on past and present moviegoing ethos after this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival.
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Chandler Levack’s “I Like Movies” reaches through personal history to find reconciliation
The Toronto-based writer-director discusses her debut feature, which screens at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 20.
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Nick Prueher of Found Footage Festival stomps baskets and lawsuits in “Chop & Steele”
The archivist comedian shares his insights on his career beginnings with Joe Pickett and new documentary premiering at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 18.
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Searing themes and fleeting presences in five 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival selections
As the festival gets underway, a quick look at a quintet of compelling international documentaries and narrative features.
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The flourishingly bittersweet “I Like It Here” captures the golden essence of humanity
Documentarian Ralph Arlyck’s latest autobiographical feature premieres locally at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 16 and 17.
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Form follows function in “Geographies Of Solitude” and “The Tuba Thieves” and their sensory studies of the natural world
The experimental documentaries by Jacquelyn Mills and Alison O’Daniel make their local premieres at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 14, 15, and 16.
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The 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival goes grindhouse galore
Grindhouse Releasing’s co-founder Bob Murawski presents three obscure, unflinching genre gems—”The Tough Ones,” “Hollywood 90028,” and “Impulse”—on April 15, 17, and 18.
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Young French Cinema illuminates modern familial complexities
Dual dramas “Mother And Son” and “The Sixth Child” premiere locally at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 14, 15, and 18.
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Trying to reconcile the irreconcilable in “Beyond Human Nature”
Michael Neelsen, co-founder of StoryFirst Media, talks with us about his new true-crime documentary, which premieres at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 15.
