BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Tone Madison - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://tonemadison.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Tone Madison
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20220313T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20221106T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20230312T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20231105T070000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20240310T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20241103T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230407T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230407T205500
DTSTAMP:20260404T070348
CREATED:20230331T161740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T231656Z
UID:17135-1680894000-1680900900@tonemadison.com
SUMMARY:Throne Of Blood at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Samurai warrior Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) brutally murders an innocent castle guard (Takeshi Kato) with his sword after assassinating his lord in his sleep. \nAmong the countless cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth over the years\, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne Of Blood (1957) stands out as the most unorthodox\, transplanting the bard’s classic fable of ruthless political ambition from medieval Scotland to feudal Japan. In conjunction with University Theatre’s upcoming production of Macbeth (April 20 through 30)\, UW Cinematheque is theatrically presenting this atmospheric\, dreamlike\, and visually striking period drama on 35mm. \nThe legendary Toshiro Mifune portrays a seasoned samurai warrior\, Taketoki Washizu\, who finds himself entangled in a self-fulfilling prophecy after securing an important victory on the battlefield. Upon returning to their lord’s castle through Spider’s Web Forest\, Washizu and his friend\, Yoshiaki Miki (Minoru Chiaki)\, encounter a spectral soothsayer who portends their futures. As in the Scottish play\, Kurosawa’s retelling follows a decorated soldier who reluctantly murders his sovereign and ascends to power at the behest of his shrewd\, manipulative spouse (Isuzu Yamada). \nKurosawa was especially attracted to Macbeth\, once calling it his “favorite Shakespeare.” He preserves the essence of the bard’s play\, while elevating it to new aesthetic and cultural heights. Shot on Mount Fuji\, Throne Of Blood conjures a timeless\, otherworldly landscape enshrouded in mist and dense fog as the tragedy of its antihero unfolds. Intricately weaving the literary source material with stylized elements of Noh theater\, exquisite attention to historical detail\, and modern filmmaking techniques\, Kurosawa creates a poetic\, universal meditation on the human condition. With regard to his cinema\, the director has stated\, “When I look at Japanese history—or the history of the world for that matter—what I see is how man repeats himself over and over again.” \n—Jason Fuhrman
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/throne-of-blood-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://d3hccd6dowbbba.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/02124835/throneofblood-calendar.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230412T201500
DTSTAMP:20260404T070348
CREATED:20230407T022440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T231622Z
UID:17194-1681326000-1681330500@tonemadison.com
SUMMARY:Terra Femme (with live narration by Courtney Stephens) at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:A blemished celluloid shot of one of many international waterways that Courtney Stephens has collected in “Terra Femme.” \nCourtney Stephens’ new documentary-performance Terra Femme (2021) seeks out the female gaze in films and literature about travel. Following a troubling diagnosis several years ago\, Stephens left an industry job to focus on her own projects\, which led to several years’ worth of archival exploration of early travel films by or featuring women. Stephens outlines these adventures in voiceover (live at this Mills Folly Microcinema event)\, with the archive-digging itself as a kind of travel as she globe-hops to flesh out the lives of the sometimes-anonymous camera operators. \nThe footage runs the gamut of the banal to the beautiful. Landscapes from vastly different parts of the world alternate with more casual verité shots of people coming and going\, walking and talking. Stephens’ reflections are wide-ranging\, as she considers the micro-narratives as well as what they may tell us about women’s filmmaking as a whole. She notes the demystifying experience of looking at all of this material back to back\, seeing so many valuable pieces of personal history from a vantage point that most often reveals their redundancies. \nStephens calls the film a work of “feminist retrieval\,” with the hope that by digging into each story\, “a nobody becomes a somebody.” Traveling with the film herself seems like a necessary way to complete the project—to have some element that can react and change as she moves the piece from city to city. It’s a rare opportunity for a screening\, not just to see a unique version of the film with live voiceover but to maybe—by virtue of being part of the filmmaker’s journey—be part of the project’s development itself. \n—Maxwell Courtright
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/terra-femme-with-live-narration-by-courtney-stephens-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://d3hccd6dowbbba.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/02124817/terrafemme-calendar.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230420T223000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070348
CREATED:20230413T052857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T212124Z
UID:17242-1681412400-1682029800@tonemadison.com
SUMMARY:2023 Wisconsin Film Festival at multiple venues
DESCRIPTION:The film festival guide’s cover art by Christina King shows a wildly decadent (and filmic easter egg-stuffed) birthday cake to commemorate the festival’s 25th year. \nThis year is a milestone for the Wisconsin Film Festival in a few ways. First\, 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of a festival that reliably comes through with considerable heft. Second\, this will be the festival’s last time holding a large portion of its screenings at Hilldale\, so next year’s event will likely be a very different experience from those of the past decade. Amid all this\, the festival is also taking new risks\, this time in the form of a sold-out “secret screening” on April 14 at the Marquee in Union South. Programmers have kept the details of this firmly under wraps\, even publishing a playfully redacted entry for the screening in this year’s festival guide. \nMost years\, the festival boasts more than 150 titles spanning international cinema\, narrative features\, documentaries\, “Wisconsin’s Own” films\, restored classics\, experimental short films\, and even some kid-friendly selections—all programmed with an eager embrace of both prestige and sleaze. Tone Madison‘s film team has been digging into the highlights over the past month\, so please make sure to catch up! If you appreciate their work\, help us do more of it by donating to Tone Madison. Your contributions literally help us pay these excellent writers. \n\nTreat yourself to the 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival\nWe like movie posters: A 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival gallery\nThe dead ends of language in the open-ended short film\, Noise\nTrying to reconcile the irreconcilable in Beyond Human Nature\nYoung French Cinema illuminates modern familial complexities\nForm follows function in Geographies Of Solitude and The Tuba Thieves and their sensory studies of the natural world\nThe flourishingly bittersweet I Like It Here captures the golden essence of humanity\nSearing themes and fleeting presences in five 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival selections\nNick Prueher of Found Footage Festival stomps baskets and lawsuits in Chop & Steele\nChandler Levack’s I Like Movies reaches through personal history to find reconciliation\n\n—Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/2023-wisconsin-film-festival-at-multiple-venues/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Culture,Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://tonemadison.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/wff2023calendar.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230428T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230428T204000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070348
CREATED:20230420T182801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T231556Z
UID:17311-1682708400-1682714400@tonemadison.com
SUMMARY:Police Story III: Supercop at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Inspectors Jessica Yang (Michelle Yeoh) and Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) stand side by side with fists and a gun at the ready. \nAlthough both are wonderful in their own rights\, there’s really no need to watch Police Story (1985) or Police Story II (1988) in order to enjoy the standalone speedway of antics and action in Stanley Tong’s Police Story III: Supercop (1992). \nAs the second to last screening in the 2x series at UW Cinematheque this spring\, Police Story III will have you double-pumping your fists in excitement at Michelle Yeoh\, who plays Inspector Jessica Yang\, and Jackie Chan\, who plays Inspector Chan Ka Kui\, narrowly escaping a room full of ready-to-explode ammunition. A familiar cast also returns to support Chan—the titular “supercop”—including his sometimes-supportive supervisor\, “Uncle” Bill (Bill Tung)\, and his sweet and somewhat impulsive wife\, May (Maggie Cheung). \nThe film’s plot is wrapped up with Inspectors Yang and Ka Kui’s undercover infiltration of a drug ring\, which takes them around mainland China and eventually into Malaysia. Through their earnest displays of fighting prowess\, grit\, and some clever disguises\, Yang and Ka Kui work their way up and eventually earn the respect of the ruthless and Tetris-obsessed crime boss\, Chaibat (Kenneth Tsang). More trouble ensues\, and the charismatic duo fights their way through with acrobatic flips\, high kicks\, and sometimes-borrowed guns. The story is fast-paced and frantic\, but the precise details of it melt away when the action and explosions start up; all that matters are Yeoh and Chan’s increasingly death-defying stunts. \nPolice Story III feels like a feature-length version of catching motorcyclists pop wheelies while riding down East Wash on a warm summer evening. Whether you’re like me\, and relatively new to the joys of the action genre\, or you are a seasoned Jackie Chan fan\, this film (screening here in its original international version) is a surefire good time. \n—Hanna Kohn
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/police-story-iii-supercop-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://tonemadison.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/policestorysupercop-tone.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR