Recommended Film Screenings
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Much of the early buzz around Anvil! The Story Of Anvil made Sacha Gervasi's documentary about the unheralded '80s metal band sound like a real-life This Is Spinal Tap. But the film plays more like the metal version of ...
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The 35-minute program Things Are Always Going Wrong gathers about a dozen experimental shorts made in L.A. in the '60s and '70s that the Academy Film Archive has restored. The selections not only reveal the region's wealth of avant-garde filmmakers, but also a fragmented portrait of Southern California itself: Gary Beydler's 1974 short "Pasadena Freeway Stills" manipulates a series of still photographs of the freeway into a slowing and speeding moving image, and "By The Sea," a ...
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Masayuki Suo—a director better known in his native Japan for the 1996 romantic comedy Shall We Dance?—follows a wrongfully charged man through the draconian tangles of the Japanese justice system in the procedural thriller I Just Didn't Do It. Ryo Kase stars as a young commuter railroaded into jail when a schoolgirl accuses him of molesting her on a subway. When the film was released in 2007, Japan's criminal conviction rate hovered a fraction of a ...
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Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's 1972 drama The Sparrow made bold departures in both politics and technique. Chahine's storyline around the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and its neighboring Arab states caused the Egyptian government to ban the film, but his fragmented, episodic narrative built around separate yet related plotlines earned him yet more recognition as a film pioneer. The Sparrow examines corruption and political and familial divides through plot strains including a soldier preparing to fight in ...
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Before the reign of TV, kids had to go out to the movies and catch serial "cliffhangers" to thrill in the episodic exploits of their superheroes, leaving each segment wondering what would happen next. One of the best-regarded of these ...
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The Union's ever-intriguing Starlight Cinema series of avant-garde film and multimedia performances returns for a spring run with Winnipeg artist Daniel Barrow, whose Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry hinges on a live stunt he calls "manual ...
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More sweet-natured than Rob Reiner’s previous directorial effort, This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride won a devoted cult audience in 1987 with its charming satire of fairy-tale romances. Screenwriting legend William Goldman, who deftly adapted his own darker source novel, has the most fun with the secondary characters—Cary Elwes’ dashing hero Westley is continually upstaged by memorable performances from the rest of the cast, including Wallace Shawn as the shrimpy, egomaniacal Vizzini, the late André The Giant ...
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Just Announced The Beloit International Film Festival is better than its "BIFF" acronym suggests
February 8, 2010 | 3:00pm -
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feature Sundance's Madison tease: Festival buzz on The Runaways
January 26, 2010 | 12:00pm -
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Just Announced Local filmmakers unveil a new (and old) violent and druggy monthly film series Chapel
January 22, 2010 | 4:00pm -
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Contest Win tickets to meet and greet Gov't Mule at House Of Blues
January 18, 2010 | 2:44pm -
