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A formally dressed couple on a luxury yacht perch on the bow and reach their arms out in a reenactment of the "king of the world" scene from "Titanic" (1997). The lights of the Sydney Opera House shine behind them in the distance.

“Anyone But You” depicts anyone but the working class

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July 24, 2024

Will Gluck's semi-charming, but oblivious romantic comedy screens at the Memorial Union Terrace on July 29.

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Against a golden-orange CGI city backdrop, two actors stand atop a platform in dark formal attire. The man on the left peers through a spyglass at a hexagon-shaped slide in his other hand. The woman, behind him, looks over at him with intrigue.
What will the future of cinema look like?
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July 16, 2024

Film editor Grant Phipps and contributor Maxwell Courtright effusively ponder a question suggested by filmmaker Gina Telaroli.

In an lavish room, a man in a lightly colored dress shirt and dark-colored tie stands at the right, holding a liquor glass. He stares into the distance with a brooding look. A framed, painted portrait of a woman in a black dress looms over him to the left.
“Laura” is a haunting portrait that looms over cinema to this day
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July 11, 2024

Otto Preminger's classic 1944 noir mystery screens on 35mm at UW Cinematheque on July 17.

At a long shot, a man, with his back turned to the camera, peers out into the open desert marked with some criss-crossing tire tracks. His white Dodge Challenger car is parked to his right.
Action vehicles on America’s sentimentally skewed open road
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July 9, 2024

UW Cinematheque presents a trio of wildly varied 1970s car-centric features across three Fridays in July—"Vanishing Point" on July 12, "Race With The Devil" on July 19, and "Damnation Alley" on July 26.

Five high school students, wearing white button-down uniforms, press themselves against the windows of their classroom. They all look startled and attempt to peer at something below that's off-screen.
“Typhoon Club” candidly captures the whirlwind of adolescence
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July 8, 2024

Shinji Sōmai's 1985 resonant coming-of-age drama screens in a new 4K restoration at UW Cinematheque on July 11.

A woman in her late teens with long brown hair wears a battered leather jacket. She stands along the road near a sandy-rocky beach and coastline with her right arm and thumb pointed out towards the road in an effort to hitchhike.
The free-roaming “Vagabond” is a character study as empathy test
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July 5, 2024

Agnès Varda's powerfully elusive drama from 1985 screens on 35mm at UW Cinematheque on July 10.

A woman and man in their early 40s stand outside a movie theater at night in front of an illuminated poster display case that contains films from various eras. The couple look at one another with soft endearment, as the woman on the left folds a piece of paper and prepares to hand it to the man on the right.
“Fallen Leaves” records a lasting love letter to the movies and to romantic well-being
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July 1, 2024

Aki Kaurismäki's latest brisk, endearing feature screens at UW Cinematheque on July 4.

A middle-aged man wearing a Hawaiian shirt slumps onto the bar counter in a drunken stupor with a beer bottle in his right hand. An ashtray with cigarette butts sits on the counter to his left. Neon lights of the night can be seen in the distance, including the Neon Boots bar sign.
“Blood Simple” exudes giddy nihilism in its sordid existential entanglements
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June 13, 2024

A 35mm presentation of the Coen brothers' 1984 neo-noir debut feature kicks off the UW Cinematheque's summer series on June 19.

A simple screenshot of the URL at "https://cinema.wisc.edu/series/2024/summer/international-discoveries" with two red-outlined circles highlighting the information at the heart of this commentary: the heading of "International Discoveries" and "Director: Woody Allen."
Woody Allen is not an “international discovery”
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May 30, 2024

Asking UW Cinematheque staff to reconsider their June 20 screening of Allen's latest movie, "Coup De Chance."

Two women are shown seated in the front seats of a convertible in the film "Desert Hearts." They both wear sunglasses, and stare out ahead into the open road as the asphalt and desert stretch out into the distance behind them.
The revolutionary lesbian gaze of “Desert Hearts”
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May 23, 2024

Donna Deitch's 1985 road-movie romance screens at the Chazen on May 29 as part of Cat Birk's "Becoming Horse Girl" movie series.