Recommended Film Screenings
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If the greatest films of all time are also the most prismatic, Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece Rashomon deserves its high slot in the pantheon for simultaneously encouraging and questioning every interpretation tossed in its direction. From the opening shots of an almost biblical torrent of rain, Kurosawa blankets the screen in layers of obscurity, filtering “the truth” through ambiguous images, conflicting testimonies, self-serving motivations, and subjective memory. Expanded from a pair of Ryunosuke Akutagawa short stories, the film employs a ...
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By switching perspectives from the haunted to the haunters, Tim Burton’s 1988 black comedy Beetlejuice turns the ghost story on its head, and nearly matches the delirious invention of his 1985 debut, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. First and foremost ...
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By switching perspectives from the haunted to the haunters, Tim Burton’s 1988 black comedy Beetlejuice turns the ghost story on its head, and nearly matches the delirious invention of his 1985 debut, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. First and foremost ...
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A McDonald’s training video called “Inside And Outside Custodial Duties” first sparked Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett’s interest in the weird videotapes hiding in Dumpsters and at garage sales. With the Found Footage Festival, they share their found ...
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Film features
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feature Movie reviews: The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Blind Side, Precious
November 19, 2009 | 3:01pm -
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feature Movie reviews: Pirate Radio; New York, I Love You; and The Box
November 12, 2009 | 3:27pm -
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feature See Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox for free
November 12, 2009 | 2:36pm -
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feature Firestarter stokes the flames of Milwaukee's growing film scene
November 12, 2009 | 12:00am -
