Category: festivals
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full
I’m still a little full after last night’s visit to The Old Fashioned. It’s the kind of restaurant where you go to order a sandwich that’s so big you couldn’t possibly eat it in one sitting, and because it’s just that big they give you an order of fries you have to split in half Read.
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Hypothermic
I froze my ass off today. Really. I have no ass. I sat in line with My Darling B – stood, for a while, but mostly sat, so I’m defaulting to that – for five hours this morning to buy tickets for the Great Taste of the Midwest. The skies were clear, the day was Read.
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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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