Category: festivals
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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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13 Assassins
There’s no way I could top this on-demand movie review from Ground Zero: “13 Assassins” takes the men-on-a-mission cliche of Westerns and samurai movies and dresses it in crazy pants. The movie is just this: Twelve samurai and one fool are dispatched to kill the evil Lord Naritsugu, who’s protected by both his political associations Read.
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Pink Saris
Here’s the blurb for the movie Pink Saris that made me want to see it: Sampat Pal Devi doesn’t take any guff. A short, powerful woman in a hot pink sari, she fearlessly challenges and intimidates men twice her size in a community where she is considered a second-class citizen at best. Leader of the Read.
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Haircut
Day off from work today with My Darling B – AWESOME! And not just today but tomorrow and Friday, too, so we can cram as much movie watching into the five days of the Wisconsin Film Festival as possible. The festival doesn’t kick off until six o’clock this evening but we took the whole day Read.
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