Category: Wisc Film Fest
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Comrade Kim Goes Flying
We saw two really good films today, the first one at the beginning of the day and the other one at the end of the day, that sort of bookended the day and made it worth going out for. And we saw two stinkers. One of them stunk so bad it took under thirty minutes Read.
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A different film fest
The Wisconsin Film Fest still has a few more days to run, but all those shows will be out at the Sundance movie theaters, which makes this as good a time as any to make a few interstitial comments about the festival in general: We started going to the WFF because we love watching movies, Read.
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Baggy Trousers
Another favorite from the British Arrows, the best of television advertising for 2012: Madness singing a much more relaxed rendition of Baggy Trousers than I’ve ever heard before. Been stuck in my head all day. Just in case your memory needs refreshing, here’s a link to the original version. Read.
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The Moo Man
The best movie I saw all day today was The Moo Man, a documentary about a dairy farmer in Britain, because cows. Who doesn’t like cows? Not people who I want to talk to, that’s for sure. I’ll bet you can watch this documentary on Netflix. If you can’t, you should get it somewhere else, Read.
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Tiger Tail in Blue
I am not nearly clever enough to completely understand what was going on in Tiger Tail in Blue, our second-to-last film on this, the third day of the Wisconsin Film Festival. The film focuses on Christopher, an Aspiring Writer who waits tables on the night shift at a Chicago restaurant to bring in some money. Read.
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Aldi tea advert
We watched The British Arrows last night. It was an hour-long collection of the best television advertisements of 2012. This one gave me the best belly laugh of the evening! Read.
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Photobomb!
Between movies, we had time enough to drive up to Brasserie V to check out some of the imported beers and fill up on some delicious pub food! Read.
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Dragon Inn
I’m not sure what I can say about Dragon Inn that would do it justice. A classic chop-socky film that goes great with a bag of popcorn and a bottle of beer, I didn’t expect anything from it but lots and lots of kung-fu action, and that’s exactly what I got. It had an evil Read.
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Unfinished Song
What if I told you that Terrance Stamp could not only play the lead in a movie about a devoted husband dealing with the loss of his wife to cancer, but that he could melt your heart doing it? You’d say I was nuts, right? And I’d expect you to say that, because until last Read.
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M
Talk about lost in translation: M, a 1931 murder mystery from Germany about a psycho stalking and killing the children of Berlin, was remade in Hollywood twenty years later in such a hamfisted way that you can’t help laughing at the goofy lines and the clownish acting. That’s not just my opinion, that’s an observation. Read.
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