Category: Wisc Film Fest
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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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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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