Category: Wisc Film Fest
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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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Talkies
Tickets went on sale for the Wisconsin Film Fest at noon today. We had the films we wanted to see picked out the night before and sat waiting with the web browser of the most dependable computer in the house parked on the film fest web site, mouse-clicking finger poised ready to hit the “buy Read.
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Hot Pink
A few of our picks for the upcoming Wisconsin Film Fest, if you’re interested: Wednesday, March 30th 13 Assassins: “Takashi Miike’s rousing spectacle is a remake of a little-known 1963 film by the same title, but is clearly the heir to the ultimate posse-gatherer, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. As his crimes against humanity are detailed Read.
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WFF final day
Our first film of the day was a short documentary, Growing In Knowing: The Gateway to Midvale Garden. Scrap metal artist Erika Koivunen gets the kids of the Midvale Elementary School to bring her boxes of scrap metal, and she shows them how she makes a garden gateway out of it. I would have given Read.
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WFF day four
They gave us ballots we could use to rate each film we saw, 1 being the worst and 5 being the best ratings we could give. I gave films a three if I thought they were merely average, four if I would have recommended them, two if I would not have recommended them. I saved Read.
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