Category: movies
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Medal of Honor
Bleak. Medal of Honor was bleak. You may think you know bleak, but until you’ve seen this movie, set in Romania during the Soviet era, you don’t know jack. If I had to live in a place like that for more than five minutes I think my heart would permanently harden like cement. The movie’s Read.
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Night Shifts
We went to see Nachtschicht (Night Shift) mostly because it was shot in Berlin. Not so much a documentary as it is a video collage of footage shot by following various people with a video camera and encouraging them to express their rambling thoughts. I guess the idea that they were all people who did Read.
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The Pipe
The Pipe is a David and Goliath documentary in which the people of a small Irish fishing village fought the Shell Oil Company to a standstill as the corporation tried its damndest to build a pipeline through the middle of the village. It was that part about “through the middle of the village” that really Read.
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Troll Hunter
Troll Hunter is one of those raw-footage tapes supposedly found at the scene of a disaster, or sent to a television station in the mail. Shot by three college kids taping a documentary about a guy they suspect of being a poacher discover, they find out instead that he’s the one remaining field agent of Read.
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Potiche
When I watch French comedies, I begin to see why they like Jerry Lewis so much. I also get the feeling they would’ve been able to enjoy The Three Stooges if only Moe, Larry and Curly had been women. The line waiting to get into this movie was awe-inspiring! I didn’t even bother to go Read.
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Cluney Brown
Cluny Brown was a screwball comedy from 1938 starring Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones and a baby-faced Peter Lawford. I’ll watch just about anything at the Wisconsin Film Fest, but if I don’t get at least one black-and-white classic into the mix I don’t feel as if I’ve achieved movie-watching closure. “I’d forgotten how broadly they Read.
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The Red Chapel
You’ve heard that the best jokes write themselves? The Red Chapel movie is about a couple of Danish comedians who offer their act to North Korea to take a satiric jab at the government’s idea of cultural exchange. Over the course of the movie, which showcases sightseeing trips to monuments and schools, their act has Read.
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Marwencol
Mark Hogencamp suffered brain damage after being beaten into a coma outside a bar in New York state. He discovered a way to work through the emotional and physical trauma by collecting action figure dolls, dressing them in army uniforms and imagining elaborate dramas taking place between them in a bar he cobbled together with Read.
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Project NIM
Project NIM was about a chimpanzee who could communicate through sign language, except that the movie wasn’t about the experiment, it was about the monkey. It was one of the most amazingly tragic stories I’ve ever heard. When he was just two weeks old, Nim was taken from his mother by Herb Terrace, a linguist Read.
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Beneath Hill 60
Beneath Hill 60 was our first movie on day two of the Wisconsin Film Festival. I gave it four out of five – really enjoyed it, but I was expecting to find out a little more about the difficulties of digging a mine under German lines in the middle of a war, and did not Read.
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