Category: Wisc Film Fest
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Margaret
Allison Janney is one of my favorite actors. I’ve seen her in Juno, Ten Things I Hate About You and American Beauty, among a few other movies, but she’s probably still best known for playing the part of CJ Cregg in the television series The West Wing. Janney enters an early scene in Margaret dragging Read.
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We’re Not Broke
We’re Not Broke is a mess of a documentary. I can’t figure out which one of several stories the film’s makers are trying to tell: Multinational corporations don’t pay income taxes, or; multinational corporations are corrupting politics, or; grass-roots organizations are reigning in the corruption of government by multinational corporations. I think that last one Read.
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Sleepless Night
The discussion at the office one day was what kind of action movies we liked. “I like blowing-shit-up movies,” one guy said. “I could watch shit getting blown up all day.” One gal liked action movies with lots of sex in them. One guy liked action stars that beat the crap out of everyone and Read.
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The Day He Arrives
It looks as though we’re doomed to see at least one really boring movie each day of the film festival this year, and yesterday it was The Day He Arrives. It wasn’t as bad as Keyhole, thank goodness – that’s a bar set so low that it’s going to take a limbo master of a Read.
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between
After Monsieur Lazhar, My Darling B and I stopped in at The Icon to relax between shows with a couple glasses of wine and maybe a few tapas for snacks. Okay, this has been bugging me all night: What’s the correct plural for tapas, anybody? Or is that already a plural? Wait, I’ll check the Read.
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WIFF day one
AND THIS IS IT! The first day of the Wisconsin Film Festival! Well, actually, yesterday was, but I was too tired yesterday night to write this. Sue me. My Darling B was so excited that she couldn’t sleep! I thought I was pretty jazzed about it, but she was so crazy into it that she Read.
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like
Know where I am right now? I’m not at work! It’s the first day of the Wisconsin Film Festival, so My Darling B and I took today and the rest of the week off. I could have gone to work. I could have spent another day working for The Man before we went to the Read.
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awful
Almost twenty-two hours after tickets went on sale for the Wisconsin Film Fest, My Darling B is still trying to get tickets to a couple of the shows we wanted to see. One of them is sold out, but she’s so darn sure she ought to have tickets to it that she’s written to one 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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