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A black-and-white image from the film shows a thirtysomething woman with long blonde hair in profile at a medium shot. She blows a bubblegum bubble while operating a steering wheel with her right arm.

Gig workers the world over, “Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World”

Romanian postmodernist director Radu Jude's newest film premieres locally at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 6 and 7.

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A thirtysomething woman (Joanna Arnow) with mid-length long hair kneels submissively (and shirtless) on the floor in a white-walled bedroom. She faces away from the camera and towards her partner, an older man (Scott Cohen), who is fully dressed, sitting in a chair and staring intently at her.
Everyday beauty, autofiction, and BDSM: an interview with Joanna Arnow

The Brooklyn-based filmmaker discusses her deadpan comedy, "The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed," which premieres locally at the 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival on April 5 and 6.

A man and woman huddle close together on the left with alarmed looks on their faces, staring up at a large centipede-like silhouette on the ceiling. An older man with a mustache stands to their right in a white lab coat, and also gazes up with a concerned look on his face.
Screaming in Percepto with schlocky horror classic “The Tingler”

Vincent Price stars as a mad pathologist in William Castle's 1959 flick, which screens twice during the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 5.

A simple tri-image of photos, taken by Maxwell Courtright, from the multimedia exhibit. A ceramic mask sits face-up on a metal platform at the top left; a large grid-mural of sunset images is shown below that. On the right, an elongated collage of repurposed circuit boards in shades of grey and tan.
“Message From Our Planet” captures humanity obsessed with studying and rediscovering itself

In an exhibit running through June 2 at the Chazen Museum of Art, technology provides us the opportunity for our productive failures to find new means of expression.

A rectangular collage of film stills in different colors and intensities. A black-and-white image from "Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World" appears at the top left; the top right displays a character close-up from "Red Rooms" in luminescent red; bottom left displays archival footage in "So Unreal" digitally distorted in shades of green and blue; and the bottom right is a table read from "Ghostlight" in a room with a dark background.
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.

A man's head with a meat cleaver stuck in it sits atop a ceramic plate on a red felt-like tablecloth.
Eating the rich, and everyone else, in “Delicatessen”

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's cutting dystopian black comedy from 1991 screens in a new restoration at UW Cinematheque on March 16.

Two brunette women in their thirties sit on a bed at night and stare lustfully at one another.
“Bound” is a horny condemnation of the straight and narrow

The Wachowskis' remarkably erotic, queer neo-noir from 1996 screens at OutReach on March 13.

In front of a movie theater screen and wooden panels below it, two people sit and look at each other in conversation. David Bordwell, left, wears a red and white plaid shirt, turning towards Kris Johnson-Salazar in a black and white cardigan, who holds the microphone. Both smile.
A small tribute to the titanic David Bordwell, “a real cinephile”

Remembering the film scholar, theorist, professor, and, most significantly, enthusiast.

A packed audience in the foreground faces towards a large movie screen in front of them that is glowing bright white.
“Pictures Of Ghosts” invokes the city of Recife’s historical memory through haunting memoir

Brazilian writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho's sterling essay film premieres in Madison at UW Cinematheque on February 23.

Multisensory moviegoing: the art of pairing film and food in Madison

A local foodie and cinephile shares what's on the menu before (or after) showtime this awards season.