event Real To Reel Cinema: Billy The Kid
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Thu Dec 3
7:30 pm
Real To Reel Cinema: Billy The Kid at Fredric March Play Circle
In the 2007 documentary Billy The Kid, director Jennifer Venditti zips herself into the world of a Maine teenager who regards himself as "just different in the mind." The sweet, hyper-eyed Billy isn't necessarily nuts, but helplessly abuzz with imagination, curiosity, rock 'n' roll, puppy love, and moral convictions. Venditti first discovered Billy as a casting director on a fiction film and is clearly drawn to his non-clique-based take on nonconformity. Rather than a simple portrait of a teenage weirdo, Billy The Kid digs up plenty that's universal and hopeful about its protagonist, not blinded by his romantic outsider mindset but full of admiration for it anyway.
Fredric March Play Circle 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI
In the 2007 documentary Billy The Kid, director Jennifer Venditti zips herself into the world of a Maine teenager who regards himself as "just different in the mind." The sweet, hyper-eyed Billy isn't necessarily nuts, but helplessly abuzz with imagination, curiosity, rock 'n' roll, puppy love, and moral convictions. Venditti first discovered Billy as a casting director on a fiction film and is clearly drawn to his non-clique-based take on nonconformity. Rather than a simple portrait of a teenage weirdo, Billy The Kid digs up plenty that's universal and hopeful about its protagonist, not blinded by his romantic outsider mindset but full of admiration for it anyway.
Updated 11/24/2009
