Emerging from a mid-1970s sea of Bruce Lee imitators, Jackie Chan quickly established himself as a singular talent, directing his own films and leading a highly disciplined stunt team.
Carlos López Estrada's welcome debut, in collaboration with co-writers and co-stars Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, feels a lot like a feature-length version of the first season of the FX series Atlanta (but in Oakland here)...
A delirious blend of superhero action and supernatural wuxia, The Heroic Trio (1993) is a truly weird showcase for three of Hong Kong’s biggest female stars.
Television Event, the 2020 documentary by Jeff Daniels (not that one) about the making of The Day After, is a relatively straightforward telling of events, as Daniels gathers a somewhat random collection of people who made the film happen.
Meyer appears here in person to introduce his 1983 TV disaster drama, which features a mix of notable actors of the time (Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, and Steve Guttenberg) and local people cast for maximum Kansas-ness...
Along with Stuart Gordon’s other late-period films King of the Ants (2003) and Edmond (2005), Stuck (2007) depicts ordinary people’s capacity for evil.
For all its constant pressures of time, chronicling the vicissitudes in a day in the life of a Chinese takeout deliveryman, Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou's microbudget masterpiece Take Out (2004) possesses a timeless empathy.
The loosely Edgar Allan Poe-adapted The Pit And The Pendulum (1991) graphically depicts the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition.
Distant (2002) unfolds in a seamless succession of long takes that throws into sharp relief the immense divide between the two individuals.
Italian director Lina Wertmüller succeeds in Seven Beauties (1977) by bringing a European sensibility to a European event, slowly stripping away any notion of being more than a body trying to survive with the inherently macabre humor of that notion.
Stuart Gordon's kinky, outrageous experiment in body horror concludes a retrospective of the director's work.
The milieu of Seidl's films provides a unique sandbox for looking at our difficulties in living with modern history. In his newest film, Rimini (2022), he explores this plight by way of a washed-up lounge singer.
Please note: For now, this is a listing of events that Tone Madison is hosting—including our quarterly-ish Office Hours meetups and occasional shows and workshops. We do not currently produce a listing of events around town, though we would like to in the future. But we do still preview shows, screenings, and other events around town in our stories.
If you are looking for a good local events calendar, we strongly recommend visiting our friends at Madison Minutes.
Want to send us info about an event? Email editor@tonemadison.com; please include all of the acts involved in the event, date, venue, showtime, ticket information, and any other information you think we should know. Send this information at least three weeks before the date of the event. We try to give everything fair consideration, but we do not and cannot preview all events, and we do not run submitted promotional copy.
