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SUMMARY:The Green Knight at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:Sir Gawain (Dev Patel) bows before the titular knight (Ralph Ineson) in the overgrowth of a small chapel\, as golden light spills in. \n“The Green Knight” is also screening at Union South Marquee on November 5 at 6 p.m. \nDavid Lowery’s medieval art house fantasy The Green Knight (2021) asks its viewers to listen deeply to the breaths in between its siren calls as much as it commands observation of its treacherous cinematographic splendor—far beyond the conscious limitations of its sourced Arthurian adaptation. \nIn fact\, Lowery’s contained epic unspools like the From Software version of that centuries-old Celtic tale and visual manifestation of Camelot. With the multi-platform release of runaway hit Elden Ring this past winter\, those links hold even firmer in comparing their open worlds\, the game’s Roundtable Hold\, and the film’s wooded green chapel\, which recalls the many churches strewn about The Lands Between. Like the best moments in the worlds of Hidetaka Miyazaki\, The Green Knight is built on the pretensions of mysticism\, dreaded dreams\, and dark witticisms rather than pointedly dense orations or adherence to conventionally bloated motivations of high fantasy. \nDaniel Hart’s score further evokes memories of the aforementioned game (with compositions by Tsukasa Saito) in the hushed\, dissonant chants reverberating through foggy horizons and off-kilter semitone string phrasings that clash with the percussive snaps and rhythms of internal conflict. The music’s beckoning undulations always drums up those inner demons. So much of the film resides in subconscious life and death\, soaked in the sex and violence of nature—rock\, ash\, water\, vines\, wood\, blood\, cum\, amniotic fluid. The plot dissolves into a headless id\, a flailing man (Dev Patel) in a kingdom of myth. \nOne of the most indelible films of last year. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/the-green-knight-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Armageddon Time at Marcus Point Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Johnny Davis (Jaylin Webb) and Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) both smile while running through a tunnel under a bridge in a park. \n“Armageddon Time” is also screening at Marcus Palace Cinema and AMC Fitchburg 18. \nIn James Gray’s Armageddon Time (2022)\, assimilation comes with the crushing weight of responsibility that can never really be lived up to. Based on Gray’s own adolescence in 1980 New York City\, his semi-fictionalized analogue Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) is a daydreaming\, quietly defiant Jewish sixth grader\, who strikes up a friendship with Johnny Davis (Jaylin Webb)\, a black student repeating the grade. When both are singled out as troublemakers by their teacher Mr. Turkeltaub (Andrew Polk)\, their relationship awakens Paul to his fishbowl of privilege\, as Johnny continually bears a greater brunt of the consequences for their shared schemes. \nPaul is more than a little naive of the true circumstances of Johnny’s problems at home (left to fend for himself most of the time\, living with his grandmother who has dementia). For better or worse\, the film stands as Gray’s admission of guilt for the implications of actions he once didn’t understand. The film’s steady perspective and its lessons are centered more on Paul than Johnny\, who isn’t quite as fleshed out. Gray sticks to what he knows\, even as he acknowledges the pain it caused back then. \nArmageddon Time really excels in showcasing the gap between Paul and Johnny’s family support networks\, however flawed they may be. Paul’s mother Esther (Anne Hathaway)\, father Irving (Jeremy Strong) and especially his grandfather Aaron Rabinowitz (Anthony Hopkins) are exasperated by his artistic dreams\, his inattention in school\, and friendship with Johnny\, often giving him conflicting advice. But they clearly care\, even in their lack of understanding him. \nPaul truly connects with his grandfather who tells him to “be a mensch” and stick up for the less privileged\, while also paying to take him out of the public school to place him in the private school that his older brother Ted (Ryan Sell) attends. There Paul encounters Fred Trump (John Diehl) and Maryanne Trump (Jessica Chastain)\, the latter who gives a speech extolling the virtues of the Reaganite bootstrapping. While Paul’s family hates Reagan\, they sincerely believe his mixing with this crowd of elitists will ensure their survival. To twist the old Carlin adage\, it’s a big club\, and you better try your damndest to get in it. \n—Lewis Peterson
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/armageddon-time-at-marcus-point-cinema/
LOCATION:Marcus Point Cinema\, 7825 Big Sky Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Tone Madison NewsMatch 2022 Kickoff Party at Imaginary Factory
DESCRIPTION:Tone Madison invites you to celebrate the launch of our year-end fundraising campaign—and help us unlock $15\,000 in matching funds from the national NewsMatch program! We simply cannot do this without the direct financial support of our readers\, so we also want to express our thanks by showing you a good time. We’ll be holding our NewsMatch kick-off party on Saturday\, November 5 at Imaginary Factory at 7 p.m. \nTone Madison staff and contributors will be on hand to answer your questions\, spin some records\, and we’ll be filling up I.F.’s walls with projections of the original editorial illustrations and photos we’ve published this year. Anyone who donates $50 or more during the evening may challenge Tone Madison publisher Scott Gordon to a ping pong match. You can donate directly at tonemadison.com/donate\, and you can support us by ordering drinks! \nImaginary Factory will be serving its playful\, innovative cocktails and mocktails until 11 p.m.\, donating 20% of night’s the proceeds to support Tone Madison’s independent journalism. Soups I Did It Again will be serving food throughout the evening. \nWe’ll have some other details to share soon about our year-end campaign\, including a few other fun events during November and December. Sign up for our newsletter to keep up.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/tone-madison-newsmatch-2022-kickoff-party-at-imaginary-factory/
LOCATION:Imaginary Factory\, 1401 Northern Court\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tone Madison Events
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SUMMARY:Bev Rage & The Drinks\, Heavy Looks\, Heather The Jerk at Mickey's Tavern
DESCRIPTION:Glitz\, grime\, and glamor abound in Chicago band Bev Rage & The Drinks’ live show. Bev Rage infuse their scrappy queer-punk with sardonic venom and pointed bursts of genuine affection. Since releasing the Don’t Know Shit demo in 2016\, the band’s shifted a few members and refined their sound. Exes & Hexes\, the band’s recent full-length\, is the most polished entry of Bev Rage’s discography and a direct result of year’s worth of artistic evolution. Charming\, disarming\, raucous\, and rousing\, Bev Rage will find themselves nicely complemented by Madison acts Heather The Jerk and Heavy Looks\, who each flirt with similarly engaging dynamics. Heather The Jerk will be playing a rare live show following 2021’s fiery Cable Access TV—one of Tone Madison‘s top albums of that year—while Heavy Looks will be continuing a whirlwind run of local dates to support the recently-released Apathy.  \n—Steven SpoerlExes & Hexes by Bev Rage & the Drinks
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/bev-rage-the-drinks-heavy-looks-heather-the-jerk-at-mickeys-tavern/
LOCATION:Mickey’s Tavern\, 1524 Williamson St.\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Magdalena Bay\, Bayli at Majestic
DESCRIPTION:Magdalena Bay (Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin) pose in colorful outfits against a sky blue background in this digitally enhanced promotional photo by Lissyelle Laricchia. \nFor over six years\, the duo Magdalena Bay (Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin) have been cultivating their vivacious sound\, style\, and presence after dropping a spaced-out cover of Tears For Fears’ revered “Head Over Heels.” From regularly interactive Monday live streams on Twitch to comedic TikTok promos to a plethora of full-length music videos that meld digital and analogue aesthetics of the past three decades\, Mica and Matt are now their own DIY brand of instantly charming pop personality. \nTheir tuneful penchant for all these appealing amalgamations was perfectly distilled on last year’s conceptual dance-pop record Mercurial World\, which playfully envelopes a range of sonic influences from progressive electronic\, crushed bitpop\, synthwave\, and R&B. The first single\, “Chaeri\,” is a magnified reflection on pandemic-fueled isolation and seasonal affective disorder\, pulsating with Lewin’s darkly flirtatious house beat that just melts into Tenenbaum’s introverted\, smoldering vocal performance throughout. \nOn the Luminelle label’s recently re-released deluxe edition of the record—which features a few remixes\, several bonus tracks\, and over a dozen anonymous confessions by Mag Bay’s most avid fans—the duo continues to extend their embrace of genres. Those include psychedelic pop (“All You Do“) and synth funk on the sugary rainbow that is “Unconditional\,” a Pee-wee’s Playhouse-meets-’90s Nickelodeon celebration of ecstatic\, uncontainable affection with an unrelentingly groovy electric bass line. \nWhile citing the individual appeal of the group’s singles is significant\, Mag Bay has also bucked the trend of writing in vacuum\, crafting a seamless album experience through mastering the typically arduous art of the segue. Mercurial World is not only remarkably produced in their widening musical lane (with contemporary influences of Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek)\, but it’s a sparkling showcase of a steady artistic vision. Boasting such definable hooks with an almost elusively crystalline slickness\, their upbeat earworms complement the theatricality and glam bent to their live shows\, complete with costume sets and a live drummer\, Nick Villamizar (who has roots in Mica and Matt’s former progressive rock band from the early-mid 2010s\, Tabula Rasa). \nVersatile NYC-based alternative R&B artist Bayli opens. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/magdalena-bay-bayli-at-majestic/
LOCATION:Majestic Theatre\, 115 King Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Rimini at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:At a long shot from a glitzy stage\, singer Richie Bravo (Michael Thomas) leads his dozens of fans in a singalong. \nExcerpt from Maxwell Courtright’s review: \nThe milieu of writer-director Ulrich Seidl’s films provides a unique sandbox for looking at our difficulties in living with modern history. This sort of blank stare towards contemporary pain is nothing new for Seidl\, who continues in this very Austrian vein found in films by Michael Haneke and writers like Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard\, in particular\, seems like a touchstone\, as he shares with Seidl a deep sense of frustration with the Austrian national identity. (Bernhard famously forbade the performance of his plays in Austria following his death in 1989.) Both authors struggle with the post-Holocaust identity of their country\, where they clearly feel they hold a sort of hereditary responsibility for the atrocities of yore. There is no clear path forward.  \nSeidel repeatedly underlines protagonist and lounge singer Richie Bravo (Michael Thomas)’s Trump-like qualities in the film\, from his melting spray tan to the cheap decal self-portraits that decorate his home with thumbs-ups and toothy grins. But Seidl retains some sympathy for this oaf\, as his failures are soft. Bravo is a true buffoon who has inherited a debt he’s not prepared to atone for. He’s on the other side of luck without a family\, relying on outdated music with an ever-declining fan base for his income. For Bravo\, his overheated pop hits of yesterday are the cultural equivalent of a Band-Aid for a deep wound\, and his struggles to create a life for himself in the remote locale of Rimini are reminiscent of a country unsure how to move beyond its past.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/rimini-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Aaron Brenton's Shutter Step\, Yin Waster\, Hannah Edlén at Dark Horse ArtBar
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Edlén’s forays into the avant-garde will prove especially illuminating at Dark Horse come Friday\, as the experimental musician will be accompanied by visual artist—and frequent Edlén collaborator—Ryan Lansing (of a few Madison music projects\, including ambient duo Good Corners). Edlén\, whose track “Butterfly Funeral” was listed as one of Tone Madison’s favorite songs of 2021\, will play second. Warped folk duo Yin Waster will open the night\, bringing the aggressively ambient bent that dominates their just-released The 1446 EP to the show. Aaron Brenton’s Shutter Step will be on hand to close things out with their distinctly modern take on jazz fusion. Combined\, this is one of the more eclectic and varied three-band bills that will be on offer throughout the week\, swinging an impressive gamut of styles. All of the performers here have clear artistic conviction\, creating an intangible common thread that’s tied this lineup together in a nice bow.  \n—Steven Spoerl \nThe 1446 EP by Yin WasterPhoto: Hannah Edlén\, via the artist’s Bandcamp.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/aaron-brentons-shutter-step-yin-waster-hannah-edlen-at-dark-horse-artbar/
LOCATION:Dark Horse ArtBar\, 756 E Washington Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Homie Fest II at The Rigby
DESCRIPTION:Fourteen exciting emo or emo-adjacent bands in one day at $20 is a bargain that’s reflective of the genre’s storied DIY upbringing. Cartwright\, Man Alive\, Endswell\, Honey Creek\, Equipment\, Excuse Me\, Who Are You?\, Tiny Voices\, Good News Dudes!\, Riot Nine\, The Sinner And The Saint\, Dear Mr. Watterson\, Nosebleeds\, Barely Civil\, and Kulek make up an enticing\, one-day lineup. Nearly all of the bands hail from various corners and pockets of Wisconsin\, including several from Madison. Ohio-based Equipment register as one of the clear standouts here\, joining Tone Madison favorites Dear Mr. Watterson in that regard. Here’s what we had to say about Dear Mr. Watterson’s 2021 EP Confusion Perfected: \n“Confusion Perfected‘s outsize energy\, riff-happy approach\, teeth-gnashing ferocity\, and unabashed scruffiness place it in territory that has rarely been inhabited this strikingly since Titus Andronicus’ 2008 debut The Airing Of Grievances. In lesser hands\, the end result of that combination usually winds up being an abject mess that amounts to ambitious ideas and poor execution. Dear Mr. Watterson adeptly avoids that trap\, channeling a playful precociousness that evens out the material’s jittery nature.” \n—Steven Spoerl\n \nConfusion Perfected by Dear Mr. Watterson \n\nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/homie-fest-ii-at-the-rigby/
LOCATION:The Rigby\, 119 East Main Street\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Bereft\, Aseethe\, Corridoré\, The American Dead\, PV\, Whisky Pig at BarleyPop Live
DESCRIPTION:Bereft turned elements of black metal\, doom\, and post-rock into extended\, searing tracks that often felt like they were trying to surmount an overwhelming emotional tide. The Madison band’s atmospheric-black-metal tendencies emerged in full force on 2014’s debut album Lost Ages\, and the doom elements became more ruggedly pronounced on their 2017 follow-up\, Lands. Standout tracks like Lost Ages‘ “Unwelcome” and Lands closer “Waning Light” balanced heaviness with a vulnerability that always felt convincing and true. The band was at work on new material when guitarist/vocalist Alex Linden died in December 2021\, at the age of 36. \nThe remaining members of Bereft—guitarist vocalist Zach Johnson\, bassist Cade Gentry\, and drummer Jerry McDougal—plan to keep making music together\, but not under that name. At this last Bereft show\, the trio will play a set of music from across the band’s career. You won’t hear any attempts here to fill in Linden’s versatile guitar work or the deep\, growling chasm of his vocals. As Johnson told us in a recent story\, “in this way\, [Linden’s] absence isn’t just seen and felt\, it’s heard.”  \nAll proceeds from the show will go toward a music-lessons scholarship fund in Linden’s name at Madison Music Foundry\, honoring Linden’s deep commitment to music as an artist\, fan\, and community member. All the other acts playing at this show\, including Iowa City-based Aseethe and Madison epic-metallers Corridoré\, shared stages and friendship with Bereft throughout its memorable and tragically truncated existence. \n—Scott Gordon \nLands by Bereft
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/bereft-aseethe-corridore-the-american-dead-pv-whisky-pig-at-barleypop-live/
LOCATION:BarleyPop Live\, 121 West Main Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Case Kämäräinen at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:Split between the US\, Finland\, and Poland\, Case Kämäräinen‘s international dynamic pays off in the quartet’s versatility. The project is currently made up of drummer Tomi Kämäräinen\, pianist Tuomo Uusitalo\, saxophonist Marek Konarski\, and bassist Myles Sloniker. Sloniker is the group’s lone American member and Konarski the only Polish member. Uusitalo and Kämäräinen both presently call Finland home. Each of Case Kämäräinen’s four members brings a distinct\, aggressive dynamic to the band’s performances\, muscling their way into strikingly complementary cacophonies of dueling harmonies and tasteful dissonance. \nMystique From The North\, Case Kämäräinen’s latest album\, taps into a more melancholic approach but it suits the material (Konarski and Kämäräinen are the only two from this live iteration to have played on the album). Even with that melancholic bent\, the record makes allowances for fiery playing\, as is the case on “Cabin Feaver\,” showcasing both the band’s inventiveness and range. \n—Steven Spoerl \n \nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/case-kamarainen-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:A Community Conversation And Performance: What Is A Woman? Reconstructing And Redefining at Memorial Union Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:UW-Madison’s Social Justice Hub and the Trans Advocacy Madison group aim to unpack “how socially constructed definitions [of gender] are counterproductive” at this event\, which will combine a facilitated community discussion and an open mic. (Those interested in participating can reach out to the event’s organizers at sjhevents@studentaffairs.wisc.edu; the event is open to “performances of any type”). While the organizers didn’t want to simply put on a reactive event\, this one is especially welcome in light of the rash of transphobia Madison and the campus have experienced over the past year. From a full-on TERF conference to bigoted chalk messages to fascist goon Matt Walsh’s October visit to UW-Madison\, the need for community and solidarity is as urgent as it’s ever been. The poke at Walsh’s grossly manipulative propaganda film is hard to miss in the event’s title\, but the spirit of the event is more proactive than just a response. \n—Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/a-community-conversation-and-performance-what-is-a-woman-reconstructing-and-redefining-at-memorial-union-rathskeller/
LOCATION:Memorial Union Rathskeller\, 800 Langdon St\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Politics
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SUMMARY:CodaFest at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:The first-ever CodaFest is a five-night festival that impressively encompasses the sheer variety of jazz and improvised music Café Coda has showcased in Madison since opening in 2017. The top-line acts are two veteran\, boundary-pushing musicians who retain their fiery vitality today: saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell\, playing Wednesday night in a trio with bassist Jakob Heinemann and drummer Tim Russell\, and Marshall Allen\, leading the ongoing interstellar voyage of the Sun Ra Arkestra on Saturday night. Those highlights alone are a testament to the Willy Street venue’s ability to bring in great music\, and its deep commitment to the history and practice of jazz. \nCodaFest’s lineup also incorporates two jazz documentaries: Jazz In Exile (screening Thursday at 2 p.m. followed by a discussion with director Chuck France) details the careers of Black jazz musicians who left the United States to live and work in Europe\, and an episode from Ken Burns’ Jazz documentary\, titled A Masterpiece By Midnight (screening Friday at 2 p.m.)\, which surveys the splintering and development of jazz music from 1960 onward.  \nOther highlights throughout the fest include Chicago-based pianist/vocalist Alexis Lombre (Sunday at 3 p.m.); Coda owner Hanah Jon Taylor with bassist Reggie Workman\, drummer Dushun Mosley\, and pianist Luke Leavitt (Saturday\, 5 p.m.); and a duo set from guitarist Louka Patenaude and pianist Paul Hastil (Thursday\, noon). The festival has some free afternoon events and a range of prices for ticketed events (there’s also an all-access pass option for $275)\, so I’d recommend taking a thorough look at Coda’s events and tickets pages to plan ahead. \n—Scott Gordon \nthe Ritual and the Dance by Roscoe Mitchell & Mike Reed
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/codafest-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Light Sleeper at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) is shown writing at a desk in his largely empty apartment at night\, shirtless. There is a tall\, stylized lamp behind him and a wine bottle sitting on the table next to a glass. \n“They figure you can tell a D.D. anything. Things they would never tell anyone else\,” drug dealer John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) narrates in writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1992 film Light Sleeper. The line frames  a scene that features David Spade as one of LeTour’s customers\, sitting in his underwear and going off on an unhinged philosophical rant while snorting cocaine. \nIt’s quite comic but helps draw us into LeTour’s illicit but comfortable world\, illustrating the control he tries to exert over his life as he navigates a range of shady\, unpredictable characters and absorbs the news that his boss (Susan Sarandon) wants to get out of the business. Cinematographer Ed Lachman’s shots of rainy Manhattan streets and half-lit car interiors\, alongside the baritone vocals of Michael Been’s song “World On Fire\,” combine in the film’s powerful opening.  \nThis being a Schrader film\, all his  trademark elements are at work: the lonely male protagonist\, his desperate fixation on a woman (Dana Delany\, as LeTour’s ex Marianne)\, and the mounting sense that the narrative is  bound for a final spasm of violence. Then again\, Roger Ebert wrote at the time of Light Sleeper‘s release: “This movie isn’t about plot\, it’s about a style of life\, and the difficulty of preserving self-respect and playing fair when your income depends on selling people stuff that will make them hate you.”  \nLeTour at once understands the bleak confines of his life but holds out hope for something greater. Even in Dafoe’s remarkable career\, this performance is a standout: tightly wound\, both aloof and deeply needy\, all those edges sharpened to a handsome prime. He makes it pretty alluring to get wrapped up in an existence most of us would not actually want to share. \n—Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/light-sleeper-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:The Plains at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:A shot from the backseat of Andrew Rakowski’s Hyundai Elantra shows him (right) and director David Easteal in the passenger’s seat (left) shortly after leaving their office park for the day. \nExcerpt from Grant Phipps’ review and interview with director David Easteal: \nDavid Easteal finds a new meditative grammar for the road movie in The Plains (2022)\, a rigorously composed docufiction epic about our habitual commute\, the intimacy of impermanence\, and the subtly direct intermediary of technology. \nIn the casting of himself as a secondary character to the film’s principal traveler (and occasional chauffeur) Andrew Rakowski\, Easteal’s film feels endlessly amidst a journey—treading on business routes and Monash Freeway beyond the suburbs of Melbourne\, Australia\, meandering through the life and times of its quinquagenarian driver over a 12-month period. A fixed static shot in the backseat of Rakowski’s compact Hyundai Elantra frames his world view\, quite literally\, as he peers out at the skyline and his fellow 5 p.m. commuters rolling along between traffic lights and km/h speed limit signs. But it’s the audible space within the car’s interior and Rakowski’s routine that command attention over a nearly three-hour duration\, whether it’s listening to the hum of talk radio (on 93.1 and 105.9 presets) for a minute after turning the ignition\, phoning his longtime wife Cheri or 95-year-old mother Inga at a nursing home (through his earbuds)\, chatting with fellow barrister and firm colleague Easteal\, or simply sitting speechless as the gusting ambiance of the roadway fills the vehicle’s cozy\, confined environs. \nIn its series of plainspoken\, philosophical car conversations\, The Plains shares some commonality with the tradition of Iranian art cinema from the minds of Abbas Kiarostami (Taste Of Cherry\, Ten) or Jafar Panahi (Taxi Tehran). But the film’s earnest virtues align it more closely with the nearly dialogue-free documentary Cousin Jules (1972)\, Dominique Benicheti’s enthralling\, almost devout five-year chronicle of an elderly French couple’s daily agrarian rituals. Easteal reapplies a similar aesthetic to Benicheti’s to construct a film deeply rooted in the customs of contemporary Australia and shifting landscapes like so many other places in the post-industrialized Western world (including Madison).
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/the-plains-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221118T204500
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SUMMARY:All Is Forgiven at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Annette (Marie-Christine Friedrich) and her young daughter Pamela (Victoire Rousseau) listen to the piano at a family gathering. \nExcerpt from Alisyn Amant’s review: \nAs Mia Hansen-Løve’s directorial debut\, All Is Forgiven (2007) is the logical birthplace of the cinematic tone that becomes distinct in her later films\, like Bergman Island (2021). She immerses viewers in moments of intense realism with characters Victor\, Annette\, and Pamela in the majority of the 105-minute running time. Take\, for example\, the portrayal of Victor’s addiction: one may expect the archetypal\, gritty\, and raucous scene of a person shooting heroin into their veins or snorting cocaine amidst dancing bodies and loud music. In All Is Forgiven\, the picture of addiction instead becomes a man wandering from park to park to find a dealer\, slipping away from outings with his daughter to run “errands” and waking up to the anticlimactic overdose of a lover. The expository tension between a dependence on drugs and the decay of a family still makes room for the subtle details of life: the sound of shoes on pavement or gravel\, the ripples of water on the surface of a pond\, the rustling of leaves and flowers. \nWhile that pervading sense of reality successfully creates an intelligent\, picturesque aura\, it simultaneously becomes a detriment to the viewer’s ability to connect with its characters as fixtures in a story. Moments that are supposed to be seen as monumental and emotional\, according to the typicality of narrative structure\, fall flat in service to realism. But regardless of one’s preference for the levels of tilt toward realism or romanticism\, All Is Forgiven is nonetheless an admirable debut that showcases the cinematic notions of a then-budding\, now-established director.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/all-is-forgiven-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221120T203000
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SUMMARY:Sonata (2021) at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:Grzegorz Płonka (Michal Sikorski) plays the piano in his father’s study. \nComing-of-age biopic Sonata (2021) closes out the Polish Film Festival at the Union South Marquee\, which begins on Sunday\, November 13\, with Illusion (2022)\, and then continues the following Sunday\, November 20\, with a triple feature of Fucking Bornholm (2022)\, Black Sheep (2022) and Sonata. \nBartosz Blaschke’s film is based on the true story of Grzegorz Płonka (Michal Sikorski)\, who is misdiagnosed with autism as a child in the mid-1990s\, only to discover at age 14 that he actually suffers from hearing loss that prevented him from processing the upper registers necessary to understand speech. When Grzegorz finally gets fitted with a hearing aid thanks to the insistence of a home caregiver\, he’s set upon a difficult road toward a meaningful life: learning to speak and read in his teens\, and obsessively devoting himself to becoming a concert pianist\, with his ultimate goal to perform Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” (which lends the film its name).  \nThe film uses similar audio effects to Sound Of Metal (2020) in the scene where Grzegorz finally hears clearly for the first time\, allowing the audience to perceive as he does. Previously\, his relationship with music consisted of pounding on a piano to feel the vibrations. Sonata also shares Sound Of Metal‘s more nuanced take on a disability narrative rather than standing as a simple triumph-over-adversity tale: much emphasis is put on Grzegorz’s early life being left to languish due to sheer institutional indifference despite the efforts of his exasperated parents (Małgorzata Foremniak and Lukasz Simlat) to get someone to respond on a human level instead of just enforcing the rules and their own expectations. \nWhen Grzegorz finally speaks\, he often has a frustratingly black-and-white interpretation of social interactions\, and a megalomaniac focus on his life goal of becoming a pianist. At every turn\, he’s met by people who qualify his talent as “playing well for a deaf person.” Grzegorz doesn’t so much want to prove them all wrong as he gets stuck on not fully grasping why someone would want to keep him from fully expressing himself. Understandably\, he lashes out when clashing once again with the harshness of those more concerned with checking boxes than letting him release his pent-up emotions.  \n—Lewis Peterson
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/sonata-2021-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221130T201500
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
CREATED:20221126T225031Z
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SUMMARY:Mills Folly Microcinema: Seeing Pink\, videos by Ariel Teal at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:A still from “Becoming” (2018)\, borrowed from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer\,” of Teal’s favorite character Faith (Eliza Dushku) dancing at a club. \nFilm MFA and former instructor at UW-Milwaukee Ariel Teal\, who now studies social work in Madison\, will appear in person at this Mills Folly Microcinema event. While Teal is bringing three films that have made the rounds at experimental festivals in recent years\, they will also be premiering two new works\, Seeing and Pink Movie. \nTeal’s dual professional backgrounds have had an impact on their work in the exploration of personal trauma channeled through techniques from found footage and essay film. Difficult and direct as their practice may be\, it also has a sort of interior tenderness related to Teal dealing with their own trauma on their own terms. These films aren’t tailor-made for audiences so much as they embody a unique form of therapy to serve as a reminder for others of how their own lives may be fragmented in memory. \nAs on-screen texts in films like Becoming (2018)\, Monday Night (2018)\, and Romantic Getaway (2020) alternate between blunt descriptive statements and cut-up abstractions\, Teal shows a poetic control of their words at the sentence-level. Monday Night particularly highlights this\, with the language revealing entendres as it circles back on itself in fragments. “I hate that I didn’t see it coming” is shortened to “I hate that I\,” which is further simplified to an evocative “I hate.” \nThis trauma-informed cinema breaks with the clichés one might associate with the idea. Teal reads between the lines of the narratives we create for ourselves. Intertextual readings stand out here\, and the filmmaker intuitively understands the way our self-narratives are shaped by our aspirations toward beloved characters and forms (Buffy The Vampire Slayer and sitcom “special episodes” are central to Becoming and Romantic Getaway\, respectively). \nIf the existing work is any indication\, viewers can expect further developments in this direction from Teal’s new shorts that explore intersections of culture and the self with bracing clarity.  \n(Viewer’s note: the program features flashing lights and printed descriptions of sexual assault.) \n—Maxwell Courtright
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/mills-folly-microcinema-seeing-pink-videos-by-ariel-teal-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T205000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
CREATED:20221126T214255Z
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SUMMARY:When You Read This Letter at UW Cinematheque
DESCRIPTION:Nightclub dancer Lola (Claude Borelli) stands ready to remove her clothes in front of the rakish Max (Philippe Lemaire)\, who regards her with smug indifference. \nExcerpt from Jason Fuhrman’s review: \nDirector Jean-Pierre Melville’s overlooked existential noir melodrama presents a counterpoint to his more popular crime films and period pieces—such as the underworld comedy of manners\, Bob Le Flambeur (1956)\, the elegant character study of an impossibly cool contract killer\, Le Samouraï (1967)\, and the gripping thriller about the French Resistance\, Army Of Shadows (1969). \nTaken at face value\, the film may appear to lack the cool precision\, calculated restraint\, and mood of contemplative ennui that define Melville’s subsequent output. However\, its atmospheric cinematography\, stylistic complexity\, and haunting ambiguities bring When You Read This Letter (1953) into alignment with the director’s most sophisticated creations. \nFilmed largely on location in Cannes\, France\, with ravishing black-and-white photography by Henri Alekan\, it holds up as a vivid panorama of a bygone time and place. The implausible\, somewhat bizarre plot of the film—which involves con artists\, blackmail\, a sadomasochistic novitiate\, sexual violence\, tragic car accidents\, an unsuccessful suicide attempt\, grand larceny\, and a tangled love triangle—feels surprisingly lurid for what was supposed to be a very “conventional” and “sensible” picture. With its many twists\, turns\, and abrupt tonal shifts\, the narrative sometimes veers toward the surreal.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/when-you-read-this-letter-at-uw-cinematheque/
LOCATION:UW Cinematheque\, 821 University Ave / 4070 Vilas Hall\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T223000
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SUMMARY:Evening With Nick Moran and Friends at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Madison’s music community has the privilege of experiencing so very much of Nick Moran. The bassist’s work in the local jazz scene alone would be pretty tough to sum up—though the highlights include his role as the gregarious host of the New Breed Jazz Jam\, co-founding the brilliant Afro-Latin jazz outfit Golpe Tierra\, and his musical bridge-building trips to Cuba. But it’s not often that we get a night solely focused on his accomplished\, versatile playing. At this ALL show\, Moran will explore a whole spectrum of his musical interests and collaborations in a series of solo pieces\, duos\, and small groups. “The night will feature música criolla del Peru\, bossa nova\, straight ahead jazz and jazz standards\, reggae\, and hip hop\,” Moran tells Tone Madison. Featured players will include drummer Wayne Saltzman II\, vocalist Michelle Duval\, saxophonist/pianist Pawan Benjamin\, and his bandmates in the long-running hip-hop outfit dumate. Moran has worked tirelessly on stage and behind the scenes to bring us a lot of excellent music and make it more accessible to local audiences\, so it’s good to see him get a chance to be the center of attention.  \n—Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/evening-with-nick-moran-and-friends-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T233000
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SUMMARY:Kainalu\, Javier Reyes\, The Earthlings at Majestic
DESCRIPTION:Ever since emerging in 2017 with the Bloom Lagoon EP\, multi-instrumentalist/producer/songwriter Trent Prall has channeled slick psychedelia through his project Kainalu. With a meticulous ear\, Prall blends Hawaiian influences\, decidedly funky touches\, and a yearning to grapple with complex themes\, working with a rich palette and giving himself plenty of room to evolve. This hometown show will celebrate the November release of Kainalu’s second full-length album\, Ginseng Hourglass.  \nThe nine-song project sharpens Prall’s ability to hone in on specific sounds\, making every synth patch\, drum hit\, and breathy vocal phrase feel intentional while giving it all room to flow. The guitar sounds on the title track build from taut\, trebly chords to a fuzzy haze\, creating a hopeful arc around lyrics that contemplate surrender and control (“Open and listen / The more you resist them / Sands of your ginseng winding down”). The little details and the big questions are always in a conversation here. Loss and doubt leave an especially heavy mark on “Queen Of Wands” and “Zizia\,” which also showcase Prall’s gift for capturing truly exquisite bass sounds—bright and plucky but digging in deep\, just like the songs themselves. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nPhoto by Julianna Photography.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/kainalu-javier-reyes-the-earthlings-at-majestic/
LOCATION:Majestic Theatre\, 115 King Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221202T233000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
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SUMMARY:Haunted Ones at Crucible
DESCRIPTION:Vincent Presley and Lacey Smith’s reissue-focused label Secret Records and their Haunted Ones DJ nights both focus on ferreting out treasures from the weirder corners of post-punk\, industrial\, and left-field electronic music. This edition of Haunted Ones at Crucible will focus on selections from across the careers of drummer/producer Martin Atkins (who has played with bands including Ministry\, Public Image Ltd.\, and Killing Joke) and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Kevin Ogilvie (best-known as the co-founder of Skinny Puppy). The occasion: Secret Records’ November 25 vinyl reissue of Bedside Toxicology\, Atkins’ and Ogilvie’s 1998 collaboration under the name Rx. This setup seems like the perfect excuse to play a bunch of great industrial music involving two people who’ve played foundational roles in the genre\, and at a venue that couldn’t be a better fit for those sounds. \n—Scott Gordon \nRx (Ohgr & Atkins) – Bedside Toxicology (SR37) no download sales please. by RxImage: Detail from Haunted Ones poster designed by Ryan Dunn.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/haunted-ones-at-crucible/
LOCATION:Crucible\, 3116 Commercial Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221203T201000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
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SUMMARY:After Yang at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:Techno-sapien Yang (right) sets a camera timer to take a photo of his foster family\, then moves into frame with the rest of them (father Jake\, mother Kyra\, and daughter Mika)\, all smiling. \nKogonada retools futuristic technological conventions into a poignant tale of connection in After Yang (2021)\, a filmic tone poem\, a metaphysical chamber play on the virtues of our differences\, between the multicultural and the human and nonhuman. \nBased on a short story by Alexander Weinstein\, the film moves through an unspecified future time when couple Jake and Kyra (Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith) are raising an adopted Chinese daughter\, Mika “Mei Mei” (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) with the aid of android or “techno-sapien” Yang (Justin H. Min). Yang’s presence as a surrogate sibling to Mika not only offers peace of mind but fosters both a subliminal and plainspoken bond to her heritage. However\, this is momentarily severed when Yang inexplicably shuts down one night\, forcing Jake to repair him and familial unity by extension. \nFrom his background in video essays\, Kogonada lends the film a soft\, appealing precision\, the same that infused the architectural contours and paths of 2017’s low-key masterpiece Columbus. Where that film was mindfully fixated on symmetry\, After Yang is aglow with geomancy or feng shui principles that are conceptualized in the family’s Joseph Eichler house as a grand tea room and literally harmonized in fragmented song (Mitski’s faithful cover of Lily Chou-Chou’s “Glide”) throughout. The off-screen ring of wind chimes and Aska Matsumiya and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s score\, suspended in pianissimo\, further lend the film the feeling of a visual meditation tape. \nAfter Yang meshes memorial themes explored in other sci-fi dramas like Marjorie Prime (2017) and A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)\, as it’s perennially attuned to loss and the struggle between despair and hope. Ultimately\, the richly edited tapestry of quotidian\, Malickian moments\, sporadically captured and later witnessed through clips in first-person perspective from Yang’s memory bank\, reveal to the characters their collective strengths and soul—a sort of extension of the Buddhist philosophy on layers of consciousness. \nKudos to WUD Film for providing a space for a belated first-time local theatrical screening. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/after-yang-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221208T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221208T183000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
CREATED:20221202T204527Z
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SUMMARY:Greater Madison Music City Music Recovery Framework Release Party at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:The Greater Madison Music City (GMMC) project grew out of years-long efforts to address racial disparities in the local music community\, especially the lack of resources and opportunities for hip-hop artists and musicians of color. Under the GMMC banner\, Madison’s Urban Community Arts Network (UCAN) and the consulting firm Sound Diplomacy have collaborated over the past couple of years on a first-of-its-kind study of music in Madison and Dane County\, with funding from the City of Madison and Dane Arts. More specifically\, GMMC is focusing on the economics and policy landscape at play in local music.  \nGMMC’s first report\, released in summer 2021\, provided an overview of the economic impact of music in the area\, and painted a stark picture of who benefits and who misses out. On December 8\, GMMC will release its latest report\, which makes a number of recommendations for improving the economic lot of musicians\, building up music-driven tourism (arts funding and tourism are very intertwined in city government\, for good or ill)\, and leveling the playing field for marginalized audiences and artists. \nAt this Café Coda event\, GMMC will be presenting the report\, and hopefully initiating a lot more conversation—and of course there will be music\, from DJ M. White. The details of the report don’t become public until the start of the event\, but its findings and recommendations will be worth grappling with. Look for more detailed coverage from Tone Madison once that’s out. \n—Scott Gordon \nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/greater-madison-music-city-music-recovery-framework-release-party-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Politics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221209T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
CREATED:20221202T205203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221202T205203Z
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SUMMARY:Tony Barba Blood Moon Quartet at North Street Cabaret
DESCRIPTION:Saxophonist Tony Barba’s 2020 album Blood Moon introduced a distinct new dimension in an already unpredictable career spanning many corners of jazz and electronic music. On the record\, Chicago guitarist Matt Gold\, Madison bassist John Christensen\, and Milwaukee drummer Devin Drobka joined Barba to flesh out his original compositions\, which leave plenty of room for non-jazz influences and plenty of room for color and mood. From the brisk title track to the bittersweet drift of “The Long Haul\,” these pieces are remarkable showcases of each musician’s rich sonic palette. The Blood Moon quartet will continue to explore their expansive chemistry at this show\, with at least a couple of new compositions in their repertoire. \n—Scott GordonBlood Moon by Tony Barba
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/tony-barba-blood-moon-quartet-at-north-street-cabaret/
LOCATION:North Street Cabaret\, 610 North Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070559
CREATED:20221202T210537Z
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SUMMARY:Eastside Winter Market at Garver Feed Mill
DESCRIPTION:The first day of the two-day Eastside Winter Market will feature a dozen sets of music\, heavy on Madison- and Wisconsin-based acts\, as sonic complement to the local artists and makers selling their wares. (Full disclosure: Tone Madison‘s partner organization\, Communication Madison\, organizes this event.) Things kick off at 11:05 a.m. with the return of queercore project Woke Up Crying\, in the form of a solo set from singer-guitarist Doug Rowe. Flinty but wistful songs like “Sweater Weather\,” from the 2020 EP 3:27 a.m.\, should translate well in a stripped-down setting. The lineup that recorded the EP has since split\, but Rowe has been writing some new material and working on putting together another full-band incarnation of Woke Up Crying.  \nThe day’s music will conclude in different territory altogether\, with a 4:55 p.m. set from electronic artist Hendrix Gullixson\, who got his start in Madison under the name Syneva. Currently based in Minneapolis and performing under just his first name\, Gullixson has gradually evolved his icy ambient vision into something more textured and flexible\, embracing samples and abstraction on recent tracks like “Blue October.” Other highlights on the bill include jazz-inflected singer-songwriter Carisa (2 p.m.)\, a two-piece set from Benjamin Rose and Alex Nelson of mighty queer pop outfit Kat And The Hurricane (2:35 p.m.)\, and psychedelic voyager Def Sonic (3:45 p.m.). \n—Scott Gordon 3:27 a.m. by Woke up Crying \n\nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/eastside-winter-market-at-garver-feed-mill/
LOCATION:Garver Feed Mill\, 3241 Garver Green\, Madison\, WI\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:White Noise at Marcus Point Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Babette Gladney (Greta Gerwig)\, Jack Gladney (Adam Driver)\, and their three children scream while in their red station wagon. The youngest Wilder (Henry Moore) sits masked between Jack and Babette in the front seat looking amused. \nAs a follow-up to his septupuly Oscar-nominated Marriage Story (2019)\, Noah Baumbach has used approximately $80 million of the money Netflix seems to be hemorrhaging lately to do a “one for me” movie—a project that greatly expands his visual ambitions while addressing the only subject that’s a universal concern for our species burdened with sapience. We are going to die. Yes\, you\, the person reading this\, will die someday. That fact and the various complications we create to avoid confronting it is what White Noise (2022) is more or less about. With such a lofty subject to motivate him\, Baumbach has created something sprawling\, messy and totally fascinating\, his analogue to One From The Heart (1981) or Under The Silver Lake (2018). \nAdapted from Don DeLillo’s ’80s satirical novel of the same name\, White Noise follows Jack Gladney (Adam Driver)\, a college professor who has pioneered the field of “Hitler studies\,” and his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig\, in her first acting role since 2018). They’re accompanied by four children from various previous marriages (including Raffey Cassidy of Vox Lux who plays the eldest)\, as well as Jack’s friend and fellow professor Murray (Don Cheadle)\, who hopes to popularize an academic discipline centered on Elvis Presley similar to Jack’s “Hitler studies.” \nThe group navigates a constant Altmanesque cacophony of unending information\, and naturally gravitates toward the biggest spectacle. It can be reasonably assumed that whatever commands the most attention is most important (Jack makes his living from the well of a historical spectacle that will never run dry\, after all)\, while they’re all firmly entrenched in the certainty that whatever disasters are on TV are removed from anything that could happen to them. Of course they are proven wrong\, and history intrudes on day-to-day life in the form of “The Airborne Toxic Event.” The exact nature of the danger is unclear\, but the mere fact that danger is present is enough to disturb the routine. \nThe plot is somewhat of an exaggeration of themes Baumbach has explored for his whole career\, namely the anxiety of trying to place yourself within society. He expands his palette past the character studies he’s made his name on\, incorporating visual references to Brian De Palma’s films\, to Jean-Luc Godard’s Week-end (1967) and Tout Va Bien (1972). Baumbach even casts Fassbinder regular Barbara Sukowa in a cameo toward the end of the film. \nConsumerism at once creates distraction and meaning\, and Baumbach takes care to include a corporate logo in the frame for most of the film’s running time. This ubiquity of branding culminates in an end-credits sequence scored by a new LCD Soundsystem track written especially for the movie. After all\, once you accept you’re going to die\, you might as well get on with your life.  \n—Lewis Peterson
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/white-noise-at-marcus-point-cinema/
LOCATION:Marcus Point Cinema\, 7825 Big Sky Drive\, Madison\, WI\, 53719\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Tokyo Godfathers at Union South Marquee
DESCRIPTION:Gin\, Miyuki\, and Hana debate what to do next in their quest to return an abandoned child they found on the streets of Tokyo on Christmas Eve. \nSatoshi Kon may be best known for his animated\, surrealistic\, psychological thrillers\, so Tokyo Godfathers (2003) may stand out in writer-director-character designer’s oeuvre as a rollicking buddy adventure that just happens to be Christmas-themed. But it’s quite a natural follow-up to Kon’s postmodernist masterpiece Millennium Actress (2001)\, about a reclusive movie star modeled after the real-life Setsuko Hara (of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story). \nTokyo Godfathers boasts a restless pacing and zany energy contained in the dynamic between its trio of drifters—the gruff drunkard Gin (voiced by Tōru Emori)\, boisterous trans woman Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki)\, and penitent teen runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto)—who find an abandoned newborn baby on Christmas Eve and collectively set out to locate her parents based on a mere photograph left at the scene. Through their rag-tag detective work\, the trio uncover truths of their own characters and shortcomings in tragicomic fashion\, realizing they may not be radically different from the struggling parents who saw themselves as incapable of caring for a child. \nWhile something about the film’s developments may feel curbed in its concise 92-minute running time\, Kon’s compellingly larger-than-life staging and beautifully diverse visual flourishes elevate its dramatic rushes through the snowy streets and alleys of Tokyo. Miyuki’s fantastical dream and Hana’s reflective haiku\, in particular\, both offer ruminative respites that showcase the miraculous depths of Kon’s talent that’s deeply missed today. \nWUD Film will be screening the Japanese language version with English subtitles. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/tokyo-godfathers-at-union-south-marquee/
LOCATION:The Marquee Cinema\, 1308 W Dayton St #245\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221216T210000
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SUMMARY:To Space And Back: An Evening Of Piano Trios at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:A trio of headshots of the performing musicians—Shuguang Gong (piano)\, Sahada Buckley (violin)\, and Trace Johnson (cello). \nThis program of chamber works by composers Bedrich Smetana\, Fazil Say\, and Dmitri Shostakovich spans over 150 years—from the lavish romanticism of Smetana’s nearly 30-minute “Piano Trio In G Minor\, Op. 15\,” composed in 1855\, to the creeping dramatism of Say’s more contained “Space Jump\, Op. 46\,” which was first performed less than a decade ago. The evening concludes with Dmitri Shostakovich’s mid-twentieth-century work\, “Piano Trio No. 2 In E Minor.” \nSay’s modern piece\, which performing violinist Sahada Buckley rightfully calls “a total bop\,” swoons with a tense interplay of pizzicato and legato technique between her violin and Trace Johnson’s cello\, before Shuguang Gong’s stark and sticky piano melody sweeps up the strings in a dizzying rush from lower to higher register. If it sounds like the soundtrack to a high-stakes stunt on silent film\, it sort of is\, tributing Felix Baumgartner’s legendary jump from a helium balloon in Earth’s stratosphere as he picks up speed. \nThe three movements of Smetana’s “Piano Trio” actually well-complement Say’s acrobatic work; while they may momentarily offer a brighter sonic palette that evokes the lithe dance of nostalgia\, the piece as a whole is predominantly consumed by a melancholic motif reflective of Smetana’s loss of his eldest daughter. In its finale\, the range of the piano particularly shines as the strings drift atop its piquant pianissimo and full-on forte. \nAfter an intermission\, the trio will conclude with the 25-minute suite of Shostakovich’s “Piano Trio\,” which expresses the same amalgamation of elation and grief in Smetana’s composition. Shostakovich channels these emotions most vividly into the dramatic arc of the final movement\, rife with alluring polarity and a seismic dynamic range. \nReference the event page for a substantial idea about the performers\, but it doesn’t quite compare to hearing the virtuosic potential of Buckley and Johnson\, whose electroacoustic duo Vōchē recently improvised one of the most compelling sets I’ve seen this year\, at Communication. With the dexterous Gong joining Buckley and Johnson for this performance\, “To Space And Back” promises to articulate the reciprocal and interconnected musical journey. \nBuckley\, Johnson\, and Gong are also performing this same piano trio program in Hamel Music Center (Collins Hall) on UW-Madison campus on Monday December 12\, at 7:30 p.m. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/to-space-and-back-an-evening-of-piano-trios-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221218T190000
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SUMMARY:New Music Series: Johannes Wallmann Trio at Arts + Literature Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:Pianist and composer Johannes Wallmann\, chair of UW-Madison’s jazz program\, continued to build on his already-strong discography earlier this year with the release of Precarious Towers on the Shifting Paradigm label. Wallmann has been restlessly exploring different configurations over the years\, and this time he pulls together a quintet that helps him tie the roots of jazz to a range of playful and dissonant tendencies. At this show\, part of a free Sunday series organized by saxophonist Anders Svanoe\, Wallmann will be joined by percussionist Mitch Shiner and trumpeter Russ Johnson. Shiner (who himself chairs a jazz program\, at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee) plays vibraphone on Precarious Towers\, and makes a particularly memorable contribution lending color and conflicted texture to the slinky\, blues-y “Never Pet A Burning Dog.” Johnson has also recorded with Wallmann before\, including on the 2015 album The Town Musicians\, and he’s an adventurous composer/bandleader in his own right\, as you can hear on standout albums like 2014’s Meeting Point and 2018’s Headlands. \n—Scott Gordon \nPrecarious Towers by Johannes Wallman
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/new-music-series-johannes-wallmann-trio-at-arts-literature-laboratory/
LOCATION:Arts + Literature Laboratory\, 111 South Livingston Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221221T230000
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SUMMARY:"Or… (night)" Solstice Celebration at Common Sage
DESCRIPTION:A handbill features a negative image of a sprig of sage with all the relevant event information. \nThere’s uncommon hospitality at Common Sage\, Tim Russell and Liz Sexe’s avant-garde-focused but distinctly cozy house venue. The music-dance power duo welcomed friends into their recreation of La Monte Young’s “Dream House” to mark the composer’s October birthday. As Russell and Sexe continue to get back into the swing of more regular hosting\, they’re planning a send-off to 2022 in the form of a winter solstice celebration\, “Or… (night)\,” as a tribute to another boundary-pushing composer\, James Tenney (and to the longest night). \nRussell and Sexe have gathered an inspiring crew of local talent\, including noisemakers Emili Earhart\, David Henry\, and Ari Smith\, to interpret Tenney’s 1970-1971 piece of indeterminacy\, “For Percussion Perhaps\, Or…” While there are a number of recorded performances that elicit the piece’s nuanced drone via prepared hurdy-gurdy\, trombone\, and electronics\, and even solo keyboard (you like Julia Holter\, right?)\, the instrumental configurations for this house show will remain a surprise. \nBeyond that\, most beckoning about this special event is the union of artistic mediums\, with short film projection by Barry Paul Clark and dancers Sexe and Mauriah Donegan Kraker\, who will all add further visual flair through their kinetic chemistry. \nFor those relatively unfamiliar with Tenney’s history\, take it from writer Bradford Bailey\, who asserts that Tenney’s work encompassed “nearly all of the central conceits used by avant-garde composers during the second half of the twentieth century.” Perhaps there’s no better way to find your way in than through the doors of Common Sage. \nPotluck begins at 7 p.m.\, with performances to follow at 8 p.m. And\, if it’s temperate enough outdoors\, Common Sage will start a fire pit in their backyard. \n—Grant Phipps
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/or-night-solstice-celebration-at-common-sage/
LOCATION:Common Sage\, 934 Drake St\, Madison\, WI\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film,Music
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