Category: entertainment
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Summer Wars
After scurrying from the UW campus up to cap square to watch Weather Gazers at the Bartell theater, we had to scurry back again to the Union theater on the UW campus to watch Summer Wars, the last film on our schedule for this year’s film festival. Next year, we’ve got to try a little… Read.
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Weather Gazers
After watching Sasha at the Play Circle theater on the UW campus, we had thirty minutes to hoof it all the way into town to the Bartell theater on the other side of cap square to see Weather Gazers. I’m pretty sure we’ve done more walking these past five days than we have in the… Read.
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Sasha
The last day of the film festival! *sigh* Five days seems like a lot, until it’s over. Our first film on the last day was Sasha, about a boy with a crush on his piano teacher, which probably would’ve been all right with his parents if his piano teacher had been a woman, but he… Read.
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Slightly Unsettling Shorts
Our last viewing on Friday night was a collection of short films shown at Monona Terrace: Blueberry was the story of a small girl, her enormous python and a dad temporarily distracted by a break-up. What could go wrong? The point of Animal Control was completely lost on me. Honestly, I have no idea what… Read.
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Parking
Synopsis of Parking: Man is driving home from work, stops to buy a cake for dinner with his wife, can’t get home on time because various people keep double-parking next to his car. Man is involved in a series of otherwise unrelated incidents that I though were really pretty boring and went on way too… Read.
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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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