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4:44 Last Day on Earth

106 River Road Abendland SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and SAT, APR 21 • 10:15 PM Other Experimental Shorts from Bartell Theatre Wisconsin’s Own SUN, APR 22 • 6:45 PM 31/75: Asyl Sundance Cinema 2 SEE: Phil Solomon Selects WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • Austria, 2011, color, HD projection • 90 MIN DIRECTOR: NIKOLAUS GEYRHALTER 4:44 Last Day on In English, French, German with English Earth subtitles Acclaimed documentarian Niko- SAT, APR 21 • 4:44 PM laus Geyrhalter creates a stunning Orpheum Theatre and evocative portrait of a continent WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, at night. Comprised of 21 differ- Switzerland, , 2011, color, HD projec- ent sequences fi lmed in 21 Western tion • 85 MIN The Alpha Incident DIRECTOR: ABEL FERRARA European locations over a two-year Abendland the screenplay: Abel Ferrara; cinematography: period, (translated as Ken Kelsch; editing: Anthony Redman; pro- West, or evening land) uses a rigid who, it seems at times, will do almost ducers: Brahim Chioua, Peter Danner, Juan de formalist structure and perfectly anything to win. Dios Larrain, Pablo Larrain, Vincent Maraval; realized compositions to explore cast: Willem Dafoe, Natasha Lyonee, Paz de la Merz gives us amazing access to a number of spaces, landscapes, key party operatives, former leaders, Alps (Alpeis) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Huerta, Shanyn Leigh, Paul Hipp and occupations after the sun goes The latest provocation from Abel and both major candidates, taking us down. Geyrhalter, who aptly calls down the back roads of the nation to Ferrara (Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant, King the documentary a “fi lm poem” of- of New York) is the iconoclastic indie capture each unexpected twist and The Alpha Incident when it was made. Rebane, a sci-fi ten focuses his lens on the growing turn in a contest that is as exciting fi lmmaker’s singular contribution to narrative • USA, 1978, color, 35mm • 86 MIN and horror genre specialist whose service economy: workers in mail as it is unpredictable. In a year in fi lmography also includes The Cap- the end-of-the-world genre, a cycle sorting stations, security surveil- DIRECTOR: BILL REBANE that, in the last year alone, has in- which election politics is at the fore- screenplay: Ingrid Neumayer; cinematography: ture of Bigfoot and the Mystery Sci- lance rooms, nursing homes, and front of our nation’s attention, An ence Theater 3000 favorites Monster cluded Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse beer halls. Though the fi lm eschews Bela St. John; editor: Bill Rebane; executive pro- African Election is a reminder of just ducers: Barbara J. Rebane, Michael D. Graves; A Go-Go and The Giant Spider Inva- and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. non-incidental music or dialogue, it Two artists in love, a successful how valuable and tenuous democ- cast: Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan, John Goff, sion was also a two-time American is a mesmerizing work that will stay racy really is. (TY) Carol Irene Newell, George “Buck” Flower Reform Party candidate for governor actor (Willem Dafoe) and a painter with you long after you leave the Presented with the Wisconsin Center for Film of Wisconsin. (EH) (Shanyn Leigh), spend time in their theater. (TY) and Theater Research high-rise loft in Manhattan the day After the Day After A space probe returns from Mars before doomsday. At 4:44 a.m. the An African Election SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and with a killer disease. A careless mis- Alps (Alpeis) next day, the world will cease to exist Other Experimental Shorts from take unleashes it on a small group THU, APR 19 • 5:00 PM WED, APR 18 • 8:30 PM Wisconsin’s Own thanks to a depleted ozone layer. In trapped in a train station. As the sci- Orpheum Theatre between love-making and medita- SUN, APR 22 • 1:30 PM entists race to fi nd a cure, the infected SAT, APR 21 • 11:30 AM tion sessions, the couple squabble, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art The Alpha Incident struggle to keep their sanity, and if Sundance Cinema 1 contact their other family members, MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • USA, FRI, APR 20 • 9:15 PM they fall asleep, they die. Also released and try to accept their fate while Switzerland, 2010, color, 35mm • 89 MIN UW Cinematheque as Gift from a Red Planet, this fun, low- MADISON PREMIERE • narrative • Greece,

2011, color, HD projection • 93 MIN 2012 • others around and below them react DIRECTOR: JARRETH MERZ 116 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A budget amalgam of The Andromeda DIRECTOR: YORGOS LANTHIMOS co-director/camera: Kevin Merz; director of with denial and panic. Increasingly SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND Strain, Night of the Living Dead and photography: Topher Osborn; editor: Samir writer: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou; useless technology surrounds them REDISCOVERIES, WISCONSIN’S OWN Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Samperisi; composer: Patrick Kirst director of photography: Christos Voudouris; and the rest of the apocalypse is only FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND work of the legendary independent editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis; production Jarreth Merz’s riveting documen- glimpsed through snippets of media Wisconsin fi lmmaker Bill Rebane. designer: Anna Georgiadou; sound: Leandros tary thriller was fi lmed during the Before the Emergency reports. Shot in Gleason, Wis., the site of Ntounis; producer: Athina Rachel Tsangari, three months preceding Ghana’s con- documentary • USA, 1969, color, 16mm Yorgos Lanthimos; cast: Aggeliki Papoulia, Though it is told on a much small- many fi lms in Rebane’s oeuvre, The tentious 2008 presidential election. • 30 MIN Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed, er scale than Melancholia , Ferrara, Alpha Incident boasts a cast that The fi lm looks behind the scenes at DIRECTOR: BILL REBANE Stavros Psillakis like von Trier, uses this specifi c end- includes one-time Hollywood lead- the country’s young democracy, its Before the Emergency is Rebane’s In Greek with English subtitles times scenario to work out some very ing man Ralph Meeker (Kiss Me complex political machinery, and its industrial short fi lm promoting emer- For many cinephiles, this darkly personal issues. 4:44 , however, fi nds a Deadly, Paths of Glory) and drive-in struggles to prove its legitimacy to gency response teams for small com- comic mind game from Dogtooth surprising amount of comfort and hu- movie stalwarts like John F. Goff and its own citizens and fi rst-world con- munities. Keep your hometown safe director Yorgos Lanthimos ranks mor in its story of imminent destruc- George “Buck” Flower. temporaries. At stake in the race are and don’t miss your chance to see this among the most anticipated films tion. 2011 Venice and New York Film Its tense atmosphere and grim the fates of two rival political parties thrill-a-minute program of vintage of the year. Comprised of a nurse, Festivals. (JH) tone are just as effective today as Rebane cinema! a paramedic, a gymnast, and her 7 Bad Intentions (Las Malas Intenciones)

Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives

trainer, the Alps are a clandestine The Amateur Monster Bill’s Bike society dedicated to an especially USA, 1939, color, digital projection • 16 MIN odd public service: when people Movie DIRECTOR: BILL STEUBER die, their grief stricken loved FRI, APR 20 • 9:00 PM Recently restored from the collec- ones seek comfort by hiring the tion of our Wisconsin Center for Film Alps to stand in for the deceased, SAT, APR 21 • 9:30 PM Monona Terrace and Theater Research, Bill’s Bike (ca. lessening the shock of absence. 1939) is a silent short made by Wis- MADISON PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2011, The Alps aren’t particularly consin highway engineer, historical gifted as impressionists, recit- color, HD projection • 97 MIN + 30 MIN POST- FILM Q&A novelist, fi lmmaker, and UW–Madi- ing scripted conversations in a DIRECTOR: KYLE RICHARDS son alum (class of 1930) Bill Steuber. rigid deadpan and making only screenplay: Kyle Richards; editors: Kyle Richards, Steuber made the fi lm to teach bike the most perfunctory gestures Eric Westcott; music: Doug Dobert; producer: safety, and circulated it to classrooms towards physical resemblance Kyle Richards throughout the state — but Bill’s Bike — but do they ever take their SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN transcends the educational genre The Amateur Monster Movie work seriously. What they lack FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND with its lyrical pacing, stunningly in mimicry, they make up for in Werewolves and zombies again aim vibrant Kodachrome color, and unex- devotion, sublimating their own to snack on the living in this hilarious pected superimpositions. Preserva- Richard Nixon, animator Helen Hill, personalities in order to embody and Smokey the Bear. Featuring Bad Intentions and ingeniously low-budget fi rst feature tion of Bill’s Bike was funded by the (Las Malas Intenciones) the deceased from the inside out. from Milwaukee native Kyle Richards. National Film Preservation Founda- original narration, archival audio, Charged with deadpan wit, After a group of Boy Scouts are mys- tion. (JH) commentaries from family members, FRI, APR 20 • 4:00 PM Lanthimos takes his peculiar set- teriously killed by a wolf-like creature and newly recorded music, Amateur Orpheum Theatre up into bold and surprising plac- Amateur Night: Night provides a fascinating history on Cadaverous Island, Walter Romero, SAT, APR 21 • 11:00 AM es, stoking the tension between Home Movies from of small gauge fi lmmaking. high school student, pledges to fi nd out Sundance Cinema 2 the foursome and exploring the what happened. Joining him are a local American Archives Dwight Swanson will introduce WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Peru, nature of identity. The cast, es- stoner, a beautiful girl, two bumbling WISCONSIN PREMIERE • USA, 1915–2005, this program and answer questions

WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG Germany, Argentina, 2011, color, HD projec- color, b/w, 35mm • pecially Aggeliki Papoulia (the cops, the clueless mayor, and a team of 84 MIN about the history of amateur fi lm. tion • 107 MIN older sister in Dogtooth) and Ari- dedicated botanists, all of whom must Dwight Swanson, a noted spe- Produced by the Center for Home DIRECTOR: ROSARIO GARCÍA-MONTERO 2012 • ane Labed (star of the singular do battle with the Undead on the se- cialist on amateur fi lm and one of Movies with support from the Na- creenplay: Rosario García-Montero; cin- Attenberg, which screened at the cluded island… before they become Un- the founders of Home Movie Day, tional Film Preservation Foundation, ematography: Rodrigo Pulpeiro; editing: UW Cinematheque last summer), dead themselves! Complete with gory has curated this very special col- the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, the Rosario Suárez; music: Patrick Kirst, Rosario is uniformly excellent, and serve lection of 16mm and 8mm amateur Haghefi lm Foundation and Cineric, García-Montero; executive producers: Monika low-budget special effects, a knowing Weibel, Juan Carlos Belaunde; producers: (JH) to keep the heightened premise sense of genre conventions, and a cameo fi lms from ’s leading fi lm Inc. Benito Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, Paul grounded in human terms. from Milwaukee legend Mark Borchardt archives, which for the purposes of Typaldos; cast: Fatima Buntinx, Katerina For all their cultivated affec- (of American Movie fame), The Amateur this program have all been blown up American Falls D’Onofrio, Paul Vega, Kani Hart, Melchor Gorrochátegul, Jean Paul Strauss tations, Lanthimis’s films have Monster Movie is the perfect late night to 35mm. The program captures a SEE: Phil Solomon: American Falls In Spanish with English subtitles attracted audiences well beyond snack! (JP) diverse cross-section of communities the expected cult following, across 90 years of history. Piecing Presented with the UW Latin American, American Homes & Iberian Studies Program Dogtooth stands as one of the together family moments, histori- Amateur Night: SEE: Seven Solos In Lima, Peru, during the 1980s, most defiantly strange films ever cal scenes, animation, drama, comic Cayetana is a nine-year-old with a to receive an Oscar nomination, Home Movies from routines and travelogues dating from vivid imagination and a particular and its 2011 Best Foreign Film 1915 to 2005, this compilation dem- An American in American Archives interest in Simón Bolivar and her nod was Greece’s first since 1977. onstrates the eclectic array of enter- Sophiatown THU, APR 19 • 6:45 PM nation’s history. The only child of Alps joins that film and Attenberg tainment, innovation, and enlighten- Come Back, Africa UW Cinematheque SEE: upper-middle class divorced parents, in heralding a burgeoning new ment found in home movies. the far-from-innocent girl devotes wave of Greek cinema. Winner, 100 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A The lineup includes fi lms by aver- much of her time making life diffi cult Best Screenplay, 2011 Venice SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT age Joes (a depiction of a for her family’s servants and drivers. Film Festival. (MK) SPECIAL GUEST SCHEDULED TO ATTEND house party in the early 1960s is Presented with the Wisconsin Center for Film and Not particularly concerned with the WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN one particular highlight) alongside Theater Research rise in terrorism in her country, she 8 notables like Alfred Hitchcock, Bugsy Malone Come Back, Africa

catchy, Oscar-nominated song score contemporary interviews in a style The Biscuit Day by 70s musical legend Paul Williams reminiscent of Michael Apted’s cel- SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts (see also Paul Williams Still Alive in this ebrated Up series. year’s Festival). The Telluride Film Festival called The Biscuit Song The fi lm was the brainchild of Eng- Freyer’s fi lm “a moving, honest ex- SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts lish writer/director , who ploration of the nature of childhood got his start coming up with similar and a celebration of the joyous pos- Bring on the Magic high-concept ideas in the world of sibilities of arts education.” (TY) SEE: Nindy and Other Shorts from British television commercials. While Wisconsin’s Own Parker fl irted with the musical in later Christmas Tree: efforts like Fame and The Commit- A Story in Five Parts Bugsy Malone ments, he’s never made anything as idiosyncratic as his fi rst fi lm, prefer- SEE: Wid Winner and Other Shorts from WED, APR 18 • 6:30 PM Wisconsin’s Own ring more prestigious projects like SAT, APR 21 • 11:00 AM Midnight Express , Burning , Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Angela’s Ashes . Part satire, part Come Back, Africa Bestiaire narrative • United Kingdom, 1976, color, fantasy, part affectionate homage, this SAT, APR 21 • 4:00 PM 35mm • 93 MIN ain’t no Little Rascals short, but Bugsy DIRECTOR: ALAN PARKER SUN, APR 22 • 5:15 PM Malone is not just a cultural curiosity UW Cinematheque screenplay: Alan Parker; cinematography: either. It’s the perfect entertainment is mostly troubled by her mother’s ducer: Denis Côté, Sylvain Corbeil , ; music and lyr- 148 MIN for viewers of all ages. (JH) pregnancy. Convinced that the arrival SECTION: NEW QUEBECOIS CINEMA ics: Paul Williams; executive producers: David SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND of a new baby will literally result in Presented with the Québec Government Offi ce Puttnam, Robert Stigwood; producer: Allan REDISCOVERIES the end of her existence, Cayetana in Chicago Marhall; cast: , , Florrie Carbon Fresh from premieres at the 2012 Dugger, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Dexter Nindy and Other Shorts from An American in starts acting out in strange ways. Fletcher SEE:

Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, Wisconsin’s Own Sophiatown WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Seriocomic in tone, this semi- SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND autobiographical coming-of-age story this staggeringly beautiful meditation WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • on mankind’s need to assert itself REDISCOVERIES USA, 2009, color, b/w, digital projection • is never interested in sentimental- A true cinematic anomaly, there’s Chekhov 63 MIN izing or sugar-coating childhood. over the animal kingdom demands to be experienced on the big screen. never been anything quite like for Children DIRECTOR: MICHAEL ROGOSIN Director Rosario García-Montero, in Bugsy Malone, before or after it was An American in Sophiatown is a an exciting feature debut, brilliantly Unfolding almost entirely behind the THU, APR 19 • 8:15 PM scenes of one of those tourist detours released in 1976. Maybe it’s not the compelling documentary about the develops the underlying socio-polit- fi rst prohibition-era gangster musi- FRI, APR 20 • 4:15 PM making of Come Back, Africa featur- ical themes of Cayetana’s story while where families meander through Monona Terrace faux-natural habits (in this case, cal comedy, but it’s the fi rst one to ing extensive interviews with direc- Fatima Buntinx makes a believable, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • Montreal’s Parc Safari), Bestiaire feature an entire cast of under-14- tor Lionel Rogosin. (JH) memorable impression as our not- year-olds playing the wiseguys and USA, 2010, color, b/w, digital projection • 72 observes, without commentary, an MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Come Back, Africa always-loveable heroine. Winner, their molls. The violence inherent in astounding range of animals in DIRECTOR: SASHA WATERS FREYER narrative • USA, 1959, b/w, 35mm • Best Film, 2011 Mar Del Plata Film the gangster genre is tempered some- 85 MIN Festival. 2011 Berlin and dispiritingly monotonous captivity. editor/producer: Sasha Waters Freyer; story: DIRECTOR: LIONEL ROGOSIN what by the fact that the characters Phillip Lopate; cinematography: Sarah Price Film Festivals. (JH) The shot compositions are striking screenplay: Bloke Modisane, Lewis N’Kosi, and off-center, emphasizing hooves aren’t dispatched with bullets, but FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Lionel Rogosin; cinematography: Ernest and horns, often glimpsed through rather “splurge guns,” which spew Presented with the UW Center for Russia, Antaria, Emil Knebel; editor: Carl Lerner; mu- Before the Emergency Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; and the sic: Chatur Lai; cast: Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah the rigid bars of holding pens. We whipped cream all over their targets. The Alpha Incident UW Russian Flagship Center Makeba, Miriam Makeba, Bloke Modisane, SEE: stare at the animals, and they stare Is there any wonder why this gem has a cult following among adults who “Where does one draw the line Lewis N’Kosi, Morris Hugh back in mutual incomprehension, between experimentation and self- In Afrikaans, English with English subtitles A Behind the creating a mesmerizing effect that saw it as children? Bugsy (a pre-Chachi Scott Baio) indulgence?” Writer Phillip Lopate A remarkable document, Come

Scenes Look at brief detours to a taxidermy work- asked himself that question in 1979, Back, Africa is infl uential American 2012 • shop and drawing class only enhance. is an ambitious hood caught in the “Snowball Fight” middle of a war between gangleaders when he undertook an ambitious independent fi lmmaking pioneer Lio- As Variety critic Robert Koehler nel Rogosin’s exciting follow-up to project: staging Chekhov’s Uncle WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial wrote from Sundance: “Bestiaire is Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. While on the Visions of the Badger State Vanya with fi fth- and his recently rediscovered 1957 movie, magnifi cently sad… an elegy for the road to splurge-dition, Bugsy’s lovelife fi nds him shuttling between the virtu- sixth-graders. On the Bowery (WFF 2011). Like its natural world behind bars,” further Director Sasha Waters Freyer was predecessor, Africa uses non-profes- Bestiaire naming it the “best non-fi ction pre- ous Blousey (Florrie Dugger) and hard- ened nightclub singer Tallulah (Jodie an aspiring fi lmmaker in Lopate’s sional actors to tell a gritty story set THU, APR 19 • 5:30 PM miere so far in Sundance, by several class at the time, and she documented in a milieu rarely captured on fi lm; in Bartell Theatre light years.” Opening Film, 2012 Foster, who appeared in the same year). While the movie’s story the entire project on Super 8 and this special case: Johannesburg at the SUN, APR 22 • 3:00 PM Rendez-vous du Cinema Quebecois. primitive video formats. Thirty-odd height of apartheid. (MK) isn’t so surprising, the spectacle of doz- Sundance Cinema 2 ens of tough-talking and tap-dancing years later, she tracks down her After a marvelous opening mon- MIDWEST PREMIERE • documentary • pre-teens on lushly designed Art-Deco classmates to see what has become of tage/time capsule of daily life in Canada, 2012, color, HD projection • 72 MIN Bill’s Bike sets is delightfully surreal, to say the them. Freyer, whose This American South Africa’s largest city in 1959, DIRECTOR: DENIS CÔTÉ SEE: Amateur Night: Home Movies from least. Adding to the wonderfulness: the Gothic screened at the 2008 Festival, a story emerges that focuses on the director of photography: Vincent Biron; edi- American Archives combines her archival footage with recently-arrived-in-Jo’burg Zacharia tor: Nicolas Roy; sound Fredric Cloutier; pro- 9 Compliance

The Deep Blue Sea

Mgabi. Trying to support a family when overburdened manager Sandra back home in Zululand, Zacharia (the superb Ann Dowd) receives a The Day He Arrives tries to survive in a number of pro- phone call from a police offi cer (Pat (Book Chon Bang Hyang) fessions, each with diminishing re- Healy). The cop accuses teenaged THU, APR 19 • 5:00 PM turns: gold miner, servant in a white counter girl Becky (Dreama Walker) UW Cinematheque household, car-washer, waiter, and of stealing money from a customer SAT, APR 21 • 4:00 PM ultimately a day laborer on the roads. and though Becky claims her in- Sundance Cinema 1 Rogosin shot this masterpiece en- nocence, Sandra complies with the tirely on location in South Africa and offi cer’s orders to detain the younger MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • South Korea, 2011, b/w, HD projection • 79 MIN right under the noses of authorities woman in the backroom of the res- DIRECTOR: HONG SANG-SOO who thought he was making a musi- taurant. Thus begins a downward writer: Hong Sang-soo; director of photogra- cal about “happy natives.” Though spiral of events that, most shocking of phy: Kim Hyungkoo; editor: Hahm Sungwon; it could hardly be described as such, all, actually happened. composer: Jeong Yongjin; producer: Kim one of the fi lm’s undoubted highlights Screenwriter and Director Craig Kyounghee; cast: Yu Junsang, Kim Sangjoong, is the performance of two songs by a Zobel (Great World of Sound) lets his Song Sunmi, Kim Bokyung 27-year-old Miriam Makeba, already frequently disturbing narrative play In Korean with English subtitles on the road to legendary status as both out with all of the creepy precision of Sungjoon is a retired — or is he just a musician and an activist. Michael Haneke, but with an added out of work? — fi lm director back in The fi lm “presents this time and level of detail that allows us to see Seoul to visit an old friend. Over the place in all its vibrancy and sorrow Sandra and her staff as complex and course of a few alcohol-fueled days, through atmospheric scenes of real sympathetic human beings. Zobel he meets up with a past fl ame, hooks daily life and labor... Despair and approached his project as an illustra- up with her doppelganger, and dodg- long-suppressed anger not extin- tion of Stanley Milgram’s famed 1961 es questions about his career. Fans The Day He Arrives (Book Chon Bang Hyang) guished, but made bearable by song experiment on people’s obedience may already recognize this heady and other forms of physical self- to authority. By never condescend- brew of unemployed fi lmmakers, determination.” – Bill Weber, Slant ing to its characters, Compliance romantic entanglements, and heavy fi lm), a world-weary, middle-aged Magazine (JH) encourages the audience to seriously drinking as the unmistakable turf of The Deadly Affair intelligence agent in . When a consider how they would react in this South Korean master Hong Sang-Soo THU, APR 19 • 6:30 PM friend and colleague from the Foreign Compliance situation. You may be quite surprised (guest of the Festival in 2001, pre- FRI, APR 20 • 1:30 PM Offi ce kills himself, Dobbs sets out senting the U.S. premiere of Virgin WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG SAT, APR 21 • 8:30 PM at how this movie makes you feel. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art to uncover the facts while pushing “From its expert performances Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors). against senior offi cials who want it Union South Marquee narrative • United Kingdom, 1966, color, and carefully researched material to At fi rst this amiable, low-key bender 35mm • 115 MIN all swept under the rug. Meanwhile, 2012 • WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, its dead-on evocation of life behind seems another perceptive entry in DIRECTOR: the cuckolded Dobbs tries valiantly to 2012, color, HD projection • 90 MIN + 30 Hong’s long-running series of romantic MIN POST-FILM Q&A the counter at an average Middle screenplay: Paul Dehn, based on the novel save his own marriage to the younger DIRECTOR: CRAIG ZOBEL American burger joint, this is intel- studies, but a strange thing happens as by John le Carre; cinematography: Freddie Ann (Harriett Andersson). Young; editing: Thelma Connell; music: screenplay: Craig Zobel; cinematography: ligent low-budget fi lmmaking that the days start running into each other: The cast of The Deadly Affair in- ; producer: Sidney Lumet; cast: Adam Stone; editing: Jane Rizzo; music: the events start repeating themselves. handles its risky subject matter , Harriet Anderson, Maximillian cludes several more great actors in Heather McIntosh; executive producers: Over the course of three nights — or is with taste and discipline.” — Justin Schell, Harry Andrews, Simone Signoret, Lynn memorable turns, especially Simone David Gordon Green, James Belfer, Carina Chang, Variety (JH) it a single night refracted? — Sungjoon Redgrave, Roy Kinnear, Corin Redgrave Signoret as the dead man’s widow; Alves; producers: Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat, drinks at a bar called Novel, with in- SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND Maximillian Schell as German spy Tyler Davidson, Theo Sena, Craig Zobel; cast: triguing variations each time. Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Cornerman REDISCOVERIES Dieter Frey; Harry Andrews as Both engaging narrative puzzle Camp, Philip Ettinger, Ashlie Atkinson SEE: Wid Winner and Other Shorts from If Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy whetted Dobbs’ cop friend, Inspector Mendel; FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Wisconsin’s Own and clever portrayal of the artist’s your appetite for complex and gritty and, in a bit part, Lynn Redgrave as a The most controversial fi lm to impulse to rewrite their life as it hap- tales of espionage, you won’t want to young actress. premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Curtain Call pens, this is a fi lm that you’ll continue miss this criminally underrated and American director Sidney Lumet Festival, Compliance explores the hu- to turn over in your mind long after it underseen drama, one of the fi rst big brings as much authenticity and at- SEE: Wid Winner and Other Shorts from Virgin, The Day He Arrives man motivations behind one of the Wisconsin’s Own ends. Like screen adaptations of a John le Carré mosphere to the proceedings as he most bizarre news stories of the last is shot in crisp black-and-white, and novel (Call for the Dead). does to his New York-set dramas. The few years. Hong allows the narrative to unfold In a performance that holds up restored 35mm print courtesy of Sony Unfolding during a few hours on in long takes, the better to savor the against those given by Pictures that will be screened shows a busy evening at a Midwestern fast fi ne performances. 2011 Cannes, Lon- and Gary Oldman, the great James off the brooding cinematography by food restaurant, the story begins don, AFI Film Festivals. (MK) Mason is a memorable George Smi- the legendary (Law- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN ley (renamed Charles Dobbs for the rence of Arabia). (JH) 10 Elena The Deadly Affair

account of a young man’s suicide, the married man. An aspiring pop star se- guys. You’ll be on the edge of your great ’s second-to- cretly cuts an illegal record, while her seat rooting for all of the contestants, last fi lm is a rigorous depiction of a fi ancé attempts to break it off with his and leave the theater addicted to Tet- modern world that’s not fi t to live in. gay lover. A new couple embarks on an ris all over again. (TY) Centered around a group of youths endless search for a place to get busy; a (all played, in Bresson’s inimitable group of male friends go to epic lengths Elena style, by nonactors), the story eventu- to score booze (“dog sweat”). SUN, APR 22 • 9:00 PM ally focuses in on Charles (Antoine Many of these problems are uni- Orpheum Theatre Monnier), who fi nds little happiness versal to angry young cinema, but in chasing women, pursuing religion, in the shadow of Iran’s repressive WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Russia, 2011, color, HD projection • 109 MIN furthering his education, and taking morality police they carry serious DIRECTOR: drugs. When psychoanalysis fails and repercussions. For these six twenty- writer: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev; some environmental documentary somethings, just leading a normal life director of photography: Mikhail Krichman; footage deepens his despair, every- becomes a heroic undertaking. editor: Anna Mass; music: Philip Glass; pro- thing seems pointless to Charles. Writer/director/editor Hossein duction designer: Vasiliy Gritskov, Valeriy “Bresson’s chilling visions of daily Keshavarz’s risky fi lming strategy puts Zhukov; executive producer: Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov; producer: life — including a brilliant sequence him in solidarity with his characters, Katya Marakulina; cast: Nadezhda Markina, aboard a bus that depicts the me- inviting arrest in a country known for Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova, Alexey chanical world as a horror — suggest jailing its most acclaimed fi lmmak- Rozin, Evgenia Konushkina its hostility to the passions of youth.” ers (see Good Bye, also screening this In Russian with English subtitles — Richard Brody, The New Yorker year). There’s also a strong aesthetic Presented with the UW Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; and the UW “Even though Bresson has painted payoff: the clandestine camerawork Russian Flagship Center a dark picture of wasted youth and Dog Sweat infuses with the urgency of A domestic thriller indebted to — beauty, one comes out of the fi lm cinéma vérité . Grand Jury Award, 2011 and worthy of — Alfred Hitchcock,

with a sense of exultation. When a (MK) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Austin Film Festival. this Russian knockout is situated at civilization can produce a work of art Dog Sweat (Aragh Sagee) the always uneasy intersection of as perfectly achieved as this, it is hard Ecstasy of Order: love and money. Elena is a former to believe that there is no hope for it.” nurse in her sixties who married — Richard Roud The Tetris Masters reconcile the extraordinary risks of up late in life, attaching herself to a The Deep Blue Sea A newly struck 35mm print will be FRI, APR 20 • 5:00 PM leading a life ruled by the heart. wealthy, older patient named Vladi- shown. (JH) Sundance Cinema 1 SAT, APR 21 • 7:00 PM Davies dramatizes Hester and mir. She’s more maid than spouse, Orpheum Theatre Freddie’s plight with grace and intel- SUN, APR 22 • 3:30 PM minding his lavish, tastefully deco- SUN, APR 22 • 2:00 PM ligence, encouraging the viewer to Documenting Orpheum Theatre rated apartment and leaving only to Sundance Cinema 1 identify with both of the doomed Westphal WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • visit her unemployed son Sergei’s lovers, which makes The Deep Blue Sea USA, 2011, color, HD projection • 92 MIN + WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • United SEE: Seven Solos family in a drastically rougher quar- Kingdom, 2011, color, 35mm • 98 MIN a subtle and complex viewing experi- 30 MIN (2ND SCREENING ONLY) POST- ter of town. Sergei can’t afford to FILM Q&A DIRECTOR: TERENCE DAVIES ence. Capturing wartime London with send his kids to college, and Vladi- Dog Sweat (Aragh Sagee) DIRECTOR: ADAM CORNELIUS Screenplay: Terence Davies, based on the play characteristic restraint, evocative im- mir, like any good one-percenter, re- by Terence Rattigan; executive producers: agery, and poignant music selections, SUN, APR 22 • 1:15 PM cinematography: Daniel Billups; editor: Adam Cornelius; sound engineer: Daniel Rodriguez; fuses to dip into his coffers and help, Lisa Marie Russo, Katherine Butler; producer: Davies has delivered a masterpiece, Bartell Theatre Sean O’Connor, Kate Ogborn; cinematogra- producers: Dain Anderson, Adam Cornelius, forcing Elena to take matters into proving once again that he is one of WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Iran, phy: Florian Hoffmeister; costumes: Ruth Robin Mihara, Vince Clemente her own hands. USA, 2010, color, HD projection • 90 MIN + Myers; cast: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, cinema’s most valuable auteurs. (JP) FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Propelled by a nervously pulsating 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A , Karl Johnson, Barbara DIRECTOR: HOSSEIN KESHAVARZ Tetris. We’ve all played the addic- score by Philip Glass and impeccably Jefford, Ann Mitchell The Devil, Probably fi lm writer: Hossein Keshavarz, Maryam Azadi; tive game with the simple premise: photographed, this exacting In this beautifully photographed (Le Diable Probablement) director of photography: Ehson Karimi; edi- rotate falling puzzle pieces to com- noir packs a timely socioeconomic 2012 • adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s THU, APR 19 • 4:30 PM tor: Hossein Keshavarz, Mollie Goldstein; plete rows of blocks. But how many punch. Director Andrey Zvyagintsev classic play, master director Terence art director: Reza Farhadi producer: Hossein of us can say we’ve mastered it? was widely heralded as the next Tar- WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Davies (Of Time and the City, WFF SAT, APR 21 • 1:15 PM Keshavarz, Maryam Azadi, Alan Oxman; cast: Adam Cornelius’s entertaining and kovsky with his startlingly assured 2009) makes his long-awaited return Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Sara Esfahani, Tahereh Azadi, Shahrokhi The Return Elena Taslimi, Ahmad Akbarzadeh, Rahim Zamani, emotionally compelling documentary debut , and more narrative • France, 1977, color, 35mm • 95 MIN to narrative fi lmmaking. Hester Col- Bagher Forohar, Maryam Mousavi takes us into the world of competi- than solidifi es his status as Russia’s lyer (magnifi cently played by Rachel DIRECTOR: ROBERT BRESSON SECTION: NEW IRANIAN CINEMA tive Tetris. Cornelius tags along with top working fi lmmaker. Weisz) leaves her respectable hus- screenplay: Robert Bresson; cinematography: FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND the organizers of the fi rst ever Clas- Winner of the Special Jury Prize band, a High Court judge, for Freddie ; editing: Germaine Lamy; upon its premiere at the 2011 Cannes music: Philippe Sarde; producers: Stéphane Shot secretly on the streets of sic Tetris World Championship as (Tom Hiddleston), a former R.A.F. Tchalgadjieff, Daniel Toscan du Plantier; cast: they track down experts and crown Film Festival, Elena was nominated pilot. The early days of their relation- Tehran, Dog Sweat vibrantly captures Antoine Monnier, Tina Irassari, Henri du contemporary youth culture in Iran. a master. A sister fi lm to the popular for 10 Golden Eagle Awards (the ship are marked by passion and aban- Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano, Nicolas Deguy The King of Kong (a documentary that Russian Oscar equivalents), winning donment, but as Freddie’s personal In French with English subtitles The diffi culties of growing up Iranian are elucidated through six overlapping inspired one of the Tetris Masters to Best Film and Best Director. 2012 problems multiply, Hester becomes SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND stories of rebellious young adults. seek out competitive play), Ecstasy of Sundance Film Festival. (MK) increasingly alienated from herself REDISCOVERIES Order differs in that there are no bad and society. Soon, she is forced to Told as a fl ashback from a news A feminist carries on an affair with a 11 Filthy Theater: A Film About Joel Gersmann

The Fairy (La Fée)

Chapter One, Everything will be accessories, smoking marijuana, talk- The End OK, won the Sundance Film Festival’s ing on the phone, and conversing SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and with Chuck Wein, who remains an Other Experimental Shorts from Wisconsin’s Own was named by many critics as one of elusive fi gure off-camera. the best fi lms of 2007. Chapter Two, Face might be the best vehicle I am so proud of you, received 27 for displaying what made Edie the The Entertainers awards and was described by the San greatest Warhol superstar, namely FRI, APR 20 • 9:30 PM Francisco International Film Festival her presence on camera. Her radiant Chazen Museum of Art as his “best yet...even the Hertzfeldt facial features have visual impact, SAT, APR 21 • 1:30 PM faithful may be too stunned to laugh.” which is precisely the quality that at- UW Cinematheque Nearly two years in the making, tracted Warhol to her. As Bibbe Han- It’s such a beautiful day documentary • USA, 2012, color, HD projec- the 23-minute sen, who appeared in several Warhol tion • 91 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A is Don’s longest, and most ambitious, fi lms, puts it: “Looking back at me DIRECTOR: MICHAEL ZIMMER, NICK HOLLE piece to date: blending traditional an- looking at it then — we’re getting very SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN imation, experimental optical effects, Proustian here — she had the most SPECIAL GUEST SCHEDULED TO ATTEND trick photography, and new digital amazing and wonderful quality to In this heartwarming documen- hybrids printed out one frame at a live in the fi lm frame. To live there, to tary reminiscent of Spellbound and time, the movie was captured entirely breathe, to inhabit it.” Word Wars, six ragtime piano players on an antique 35mm animation stand, While Edie manages to inhabit an from all parts of the country compete one of the last operating cameras of extremely tight frame, it is the fi nal for the coveted top prize at the World its kind in America. three minutes of Face that prove most Championship of Old-Time Piano The entire animated trilogy will be riveting. Warhol claimed: “All my fi lms Playing’s annual tournament in Peo- screened together for the fi rst time are artifi cial” because “I don’t know via new 35mm prints, along with a where the artifi cial stops and the real ria, Illinois. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt Directors Michael Zimmer and few other surprises from the Hertz- starts.” The major interest in Face is Nick Holle follow the trials and tribu- feldt catalogue, immediately followed how the fi lm explores this boundary. lations of their amateur stars with by a live on-stage interview and audi- UW-Madison fi lm professor JJ ence chat with Don Hertzfeldt. (JH) Murphy will be on hand to introduce quests for a scooter and unlimited insight and intelligence, capturing gas are quickly fulfi lled, and Dom Familiar Grounds the showmanship and skill of one of the fi lm and discuss it afterwards. He (En Terrains Connus) The Exquisite Hour is the author of a new book, The Black begins to think more carefully America’s most fascinating subcul- about his third wish. Of course, Phil Solomon: A Retrospective Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy FRI, APR 20 • 6:00 PM tures. In addition, the fi lm provides SEE: by that point he’s fallen for Fiona, an anecdotal history of ragtime, the Warhol (published by the University SUN, APR 22 • 11:30 AM of Press, 2012). (JM) fairy or not. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art fi rst distinctly American popular Face Candy-colored and scrupulously narrative • Canada, 2011, music, showcasing the private col- FRI, APR 20 • 5:00 PM designed, this is exactly the kind of MIDWEST PREMIERE • The Fairy (La Fée) color, 35mm • 89 MIN lections of some of the music’s most UW Cinematheque enchanting romp one worries they fervent devotees. With unforgettable THU, APR 19 • 7:30 PM DIRECTOR: STÉPHANE LAFLEUR

WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG experimental • USA, 1965, b/w, 16mm • don’t make anymore. Thankfully, characters and nonstop ragtime piano writer: Stéphane LaFleur; director of photography: 66 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Orpheum Theatre this rubber-limbed trio of Belgians Sara Mishara; editor: Sophie Leblond; music: Sagor playing, The Entertainers is a fi lm that DIRECTOR: FRI, APR 20 • 7:30 PM (writers/directors/stars Dominque & Swing; producer: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw; cast: 2012 • truly lives up to its title. (JP) cast: , Chuck Wein Sundance Cinema 1 Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel, Michel Daigle, Suzanne Lemoine, Denis Houle SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND Romy) is reigniting the torch lit by MADISON PREMIERE • narrative • Belgium, In French with English subtitles An Evening REDISCOVERIES France, 2011, color, 35mm • 94 MIN Chaplin and carried by Tati. Em- SECTION: NEW QUEBECOIS CINEMA SPECIAL GUEST SCHEDULED TO ATTEND DIRECTOR: DOMINQUE ABEL, FIONA GOR- bodying their forebears’ madcap with Don Hertzfeldt DON, BRUNO ROMY Presented with the Québec Government Offi ce in The close-up is often used for dra- spirit and elegant visual precision, Chicago FRI, APR 20 • 7:30 PM writer: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, matic emphasis in narrative fi lms, but they veer from skyscraper escapes With its broken-down snowmobiles, Union South Marquee the Pop artist Andy Warhol made en- Bruno Romy; director of photography: Claire to underwater dance sequences Chidéric; editor: Sandrine Deegen; sets: underheated cabins, and perpetual animation • USA, 1997-2012, color, 35mm • tire fi lms using only this shot, often as with effervescent grace. The Fairy 74 MIN + 60 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Nicolas Girault; costumes: Claire Dubien; snowfall, this deadpan Quebecois com- a form of portraiture. Warhol’s many executive producer: Marina Festré; cast: provides a welcome reminder that DIRECTOR: DON HERTZFELDT edy carries a distinctly Wisconsin vibe. silent provide examples Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Philippe physical comedy can be just as SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT Benoit and Maryse are thirtysomething of his predilection for this particular Martz, Bruno Romy thrillingly intelligent as any well- FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND In French with English subtitles siblings with little in common beyond framing, as do some of his other fi lms, crafted dialogue. a certain stubborn wit they inherited Academy Award nominated ani- Henry Geldzahler Outer “Worthy of the best of Tati or such as , and “The trio have a clownlike knack from their widowed father. Benoit still mator Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Bil- and Inner Space Keaton” (Screen), this delightful . for fi nding humor in the everyday. lives with the old man, though in such ly’s Balloon, The Meaning of Life) will In the recently restored Face, War- comedy is brimming with droll vi- Ketchup bottles, bicycle chains, and join us to present a selection of his sual gags and freewheeling chase a state of arrested development that he hol fi lmed a close-up of Edie Sedg- folding chairs become instruments could hardly be considered a caretaker. now classic animated shorts, culmi- wick’s face for the entire 66 minutes, sequences. Dom is a clerk at a run- of uproarious inspiration. A deliri- nating in the exclusive area premiere down hotel in Le Havre whose hum- Maryse isn’t faring much better, stuck in demonstrating that his most famous ously droll confection.” — Variety. a dead-end job at a box factory and cul- of his newest fi lm, It’s such a beauti- superstar had the ability to command drum overnight shift is interrupted Opening Night Film of the Direc- ful day, the third and fi nal chapter by Fiona, a self-described fairy who tivating a growing disdain for her dorky an audience’s attention while merely tor’s Fortnight section of the 2011 husband. Enter a rental car salesman WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN in a trilogy about a mysterious man playing music, applying makeup and grants him three wishes. His initial . (MK) 12 named Bill. skepticism subsides when his re- from the future (“Not too distant...just Familiar Grounds (En Terrains Connus) The Entertainers

with Morrell’s compelling source ma- terial, to which Oberzan respectfully adheres, but his dedication goes far beyond being faithful to the book. In the spirit of Rambo’s one-man army, Oberzan adapted, directed, designed, and edited his own version on a bud- get of $96, using his 220-square-foot Manhattan studio apartment as his only location. Oberzan also plays all 24 characters in the story, including Rambo, Colonel Trautman, and Ram- bo’s nemesis, Sherriff Will Teasle, who emerges, like in the novel, as the story’s central character. Flooding with Love for the Kid is a monument to personal fi lmmaking and artistic ingenuity. Oberzan uncov- ers levels of poetry, irony, and compas- sion heretofore unexplored in any of Stallone’s Rambo fi lms. Through the power of one camera, a few ingenious, Face Flooding with Love for the Kid and cheap, special effects, and sheer force of will, Oberzan transports you to a small Kentucky town and its sur- of which was ever recorded or per- rounding caves and hills, even though Filthy Theater: A formed outside of the small former his refrigerator and bookshelves are Film About Joel garage in Madison where it originated. usually in the background. Gersmann A touching portrait of a legendary “An outsider-cinema masterpiece... WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Madisonian, Filthy Theater will appeal Oberzan’s mania knows no bounds.” SAT, APR 21 • 3:30 PM to fans of underground theater and — Time Out New York . “An absolutely Union South Marquee scratch a nostalgic itch for those who amazing concept. Wildly creative and WORLD PREMIERE • documentary • USA, remember the countercultural milieu energetic.” — David Morrell, author 2012, color, HD projection • 94 MIN + 30 MIN of Madison in decades gone by. (JP) of First Blood . (JH) POST-FILM Q&A DIRECTOR: DAN LEVIN cinematographer: Dan Levin; editor: Dan The Five Bad The Fourth Portrait Levin; music: Klezmocracy; cast: Gary Elements (Di Si Zhang Hua) Aylesworth, Rod Clark, Wanda Coleman, SUN, APR 22 • 11:15 AM Callen Harty, Charlie Hill, Jill Holden, Gip SEE: Phil Solomon Selects Hoppe, Brian Wild, Rob Matsushida, Chris Chazen Museum of Art Morris, Martin Mulhern, Fred Murray, Marcy Flooding with Love MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • Taiwan, Weiland, and many others. 2010, color, 35mm • 105 MIN + 20 MIN POST- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN for the Kid FILM Q&A DIRECTOR: CHUNG MONG-HONG FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND FRI, APR 20 • 6:30 PM Filthy Theater Monona Terrace cinematography: Nagao Nakashima; editor explores the life and Lo Shih-Ching; producer: Tseng Shao-Chien; work of Madison playwright and di- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, cast: Bi Xiao-Hai, Leon Dai, Lei Hao, Terri rector, Joel Gersmann, founder of the 2010, color, digital projection • 107 MIN Kwan, Na Dow infamous Broom Street Theater, “the DIRECTOR: ZACHARY OBERZAN In Mandarin with English subtitles The Fourth Portrait (Di Si Zhang Hua) world’s oldest thriving experimental SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT Presented with the UW Waisman Center; and community theater.” Like Raiders of the Lost Ark: The the UW Center for East Asian Studies 2012 • The fi lm opens in the summer of Adaptation (also playing in this year’s “The Fourth Portrait casts a sober- September.”), who warns Benoit of a Familiar Grounds is as recognizable 1993 as Joel works on the play Sexy Festival), Flooding with Love for the ing look at the troubling issues of WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM terrible accident about to befall his as it is far-fetched. Priests, a satire on the sexual molesta- Kid is a landmark in the history of domestic violence and the diffi cult sister, spurring him to tag along on a LaFleur was editor of another tion scandal in the Catholic church. do-it-yourself fi lmmaking. Flooding family dynamics that are born of mar- road trip to the family cabin. snowy Quebecois fi lm screening at In observational style, we watch Joel is a meticulous, faithful adaptation riages of convenience. Defying all Despite its title, Familiar Grounds this year’s fest, the Oscar-nominated working with actors, describing his of David Morrell’s 1972 novel First genre defi nitions, the fi lm blends is full of singular imagery, and writer/ Monsieur Lazhar, as well as the Ar- directing style, and going about his Blood, which introduced the charac- comedic elements with deeply touch- director Stéphane LaFleur has an cade Fire documentary Miroir Noir. daily business. Gradually, present-day ter of John Rambo, a Vietnam vet and ing moments. The result is a fascinat- uncanny ability to wring laughter out Winner, Ecumenical Prize, 2011 Ber- interviews begin to reveal the impact one-man army made iconic through a ing tale of innocence and maturity of the idlest props: a shattered jar of lin Film Festival. Narrative Award, of Joel’s work and his personality on series of big-budget action epics star- that bears the signature of one of pasta sauce, an enormous plant, a tree 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. (MK) the people surrounding him. Through ring Sylvester Stallone. Taiwan’s most exciting new talents. branch crammed into a tiny stove. this lens we are invited to ponder the You will probably fi nd yourself “Listening to the laborious breath- Balancing magical realism with bone- Family Nightmare importance and impact of a unique completely caught up in Flooding and ing of his father in a hospital room, body of original theatrical work, little that certainly has something to do ten-year-old Xiang (Bi Xiao-Hai) qui- dry humor, the curious family saga of SEE: Marvin Seth & Stanley 13 Girl Model Goodbye First Love (Un Amour de Jeunesse)

etly waits for his uncertain destiny to project is Vera, the daughter of a with a reality that is anything but unfold. He is the only family member prominent local businessman, who glamorous. Meanwhile, Ashley makes at his father’s deathbed and will be attempts to become the star of his a healthy living in an industry which the only relative at the funeral. cinematic and romantic universes. has always made her feel ambivalent “Xiang is trying to adjust to his However, when Vera vanishes unex- and is, in her own words, “based on new life as an orphan, when his es- pectedly, Peter’s creative detachment nothing.” tranged mother suddenly reappears. quickly gives way to deepening ob- Winner of the Marc’Aurelio Award She wants to absorb him into her new session, intensifi ed by his fascination for Best Documentary at the Rome family, and while Xiang knows he with a bit of suggestive footage. Film Festival, Girl Model is a fre- should be pleased, he is apprehensive As Peter struggles to separate quently disturbing glimpse into the about the transition. His mother’s fi lmic fi ction from reality, he uncov- murky and exploitive world of the in- home is cold and unwelcoming, with ers a troubling explanation for Vera’s ternational modeling industry. Direc- in Tehran, is subjected to routine retreats to an idyllic lakehouse with a rancorous stepfather and the mys- disappearance, one that puts him on tors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin indignities by a variety of offi cials on her two adoring sons. Actually, the terious presence of a boy who haunts dangerous ground. Driven by loneli- previously made Mardi Gras: Made a daily basis. But Iran’s convoluted eldest, teenaged Illmari, might be a his dreams. ness and desire, Peter ignores warn- in China, which screened at the 2006 bureaucracy is designed to keep her little too adoring: unable to tolerate “Even within this hostile environ- ings and threats, both well meaning Wisconsin Film Festival. (TY) in her place, forcing Noora to engage any affront to his mother’s epic van- ment, Xiang manages to fi nd solace in and sinister, on a mission to solve his the black market. Complicating mat- ity, he is both a devoted lapdog and painting and in a new friendship he own narrative. Whether daring or de- Glue Man ters is a pregnancy she’s not sure she vicious guard dog. wants to keep — but could it be her Bored after spending a few min- forms with an older chubby boy, who lusional, Peter’s investigative impulse SEE: Klown supplements a meager income with traps him in a mystery he unfortu- ticket out? utes with her kids, Leila invites a Shooting in a color palette saturat- coterie of industry hacks and players odd jobs and petty thefts. Numerous nately can’t edit his way out of. Good Bye (Bé Omid É Didar) secrets weave a web of uncertainty This compelling fi lm represents ed nearly to the point of black-and- for a weekend of drunken revelry around Xiang’s life. His mother mar- the directorial debut of Brandon Col- FRI, APR 20 • 7:00 PM white, writer/director Mohammad and infi ghting, casting Illmari aside ried his father in order to obtain vin, a graduate student in UW Madi- UW Cinematheque Rasoulof (The White Meadows, WFF in the process. When she enters a citizenship and then abandoned him son’s Department of Communication SAT, APR 21 • 1:45 PM 2011; Iron Island, WFF 2006) pres- fl ing with one of her more grounded to follow the man she now lives with. Arts, and features a cast and crew of Sundance Cinema 1 ents Tehran as a stark jail that defi es guests, Illmari fl ies into an uncon- all of Noora’s rationality. Rasoulof’s trollable rage, proving that he’s more But a much scarier secret hides in Wisconsin natives. (JP) WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Iran, the dark past of his family, one he is 2011, color, HD projection• 100 MIN bitter sympathy with his protagonist than inherited his mother’s ability to determined to unveil. Girl Model DIRECTOR: MOHAMMAD RASOULOF could be due to the unfortunate fact drum up theater. that he is all too familiar with the Writer/director Zaida Bergroth’s “As Xiang, Bi delivers a powerful FRI, APR 20 • 5:30 PM writer: Mohammad Rasoulof; direc- performance fl ush with candor and tor of photography: Arastoo Givi; editor: perils of questioning Iran’s regime: observant and intense family drama- Sundance Cinema 2 nuance. Independent fi lmmaking at its Mohammadreza Muini; sound: Hossein fi lmed before Rasoulof was placed cum-thriller won a Jussi award (the Mahdavi; production designer: Saeid Asadi; best, The Fourth Portrait has a poetic SAT, APR 21 • 3:30 PM under house arrest for collusion with Finnish Oscar equivalent) for Best executive producer: Rozita Hendijanian, the Green revolution in 2010, Good Actress, and was nominated for six beauty that is refl ected in the visual Bartell Theatre Dariuosh Ebadi; producer: Mohammad elegance of its gorgeous photography. MIDWEST PREMIERE • documentary • USA, Rasoulof; cast: Leyla Zareh, Fereshteh Bye had to be smuggled out of the more, including Best Film, Director, Getting right to the story’s emotional 2011, color, HD projection • 77 MIN Sadreorafai, Shahab Hoseini, Roya Teymorian, country to screen at the 2011 Cannes Actor, and Script. core, the fi lm shines with lyrical bril- DIRECTOR: DAVID REDMON, ASHLEY SABIN Hassan Pourshirazi, Behname Tashakor, Sima Film Festival. (MK) “Not unlike an episode of Cougar cinematographer/editor/producer: David Tirandaz, Fariba Jedikar, Omid Roohani, Town scripted by Jean-Paul Sartre…

WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG liance.” — Giovanna Fulvi, 2010 To- Bahar Katouzi, Asha Mehrabi, Javad Yahyavi ronto International Film Festival. Redmon; sound editors: Darius Marder, Alan The Good Son moral and emotional ambiguity is not Canant; score: Matthew Dougherty, Eric Taxier In Farsi with English subtitles often this sharply striking.” — Spout. In Russian, Japanese, English with English SECTION: NEW IRANIAN CINEMA (Hyvä Poika) 2012 • Winner, Gold Hugo, New Directors Frames subtitles A deceptively calm indictment FRI, APR 20 • 4:00 PM Presented with the UW Center for Russia, Competition, 2011 Chicago Interna- SUN, APR 22 • 6:30 PM Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; and the UW of Iran’s repression of women, SUN, APR 22 • 5:45 PM tional Film Festival. (MK) Union South Marquee Russian Flagship Center Good Bye follows a beautiful young Madison Museum of Contemporary Art woman’s labyrinthine efforts to leave WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, A compelling and unsettling exposé narrative • Finland, 2011, color, 35mm • Goodbye First Love 2012, color, HD projection • 91 MIN + 30 MIN the country. But make no mistake: into a little-known segment of the 87 MIN (Un Amour de Jeunesse) POST-FILM Q&A modeling industry, Girl Model follows Noora is neither weak-willed pawn DIRECTOR: ZAIDA BERGROTH DIRECTOR: BRANDON COLVIN the complex supply chain between nor righteous martyr. She’s a calcu- writer: Jan Forsström, Zaida Bergroth; THU, APR 19 • 9:45 PM cinematographer: Aaron Granat; editor: Tony Siberia, , and the lating woman of action, and, despite director of photography: Anu Keränen; Orpheum Theatre Oswald; cast: Holland Noël, Maria Travis, Tim having all the cards stacked against editor: Jan Forström; sound editor: Micke Towne, Michelle Parker, Alan Struthers through the eyes of Nadya, a 13-year- SUN, APR 22 • 11:30 AM her (“You need your husband’s Nyström; producer: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN old Siberian girl, and Ashley Arbaugh, Elli Toivoniemi; cast: Samuli Niittymäki, Sundance Cinema 1 the American scout (and former teen permission” is a constant refrain, FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Elina Knihtila, Eetu Julin, Eero Aho, Anna WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • France, model) who discovers her. applying to everything from medical Paavilainen Peter, a young fi lmmaker, uses his 2011, color, 35mm • 110 MIN For Nadya, modeling promises procedures to hotel reservations), is In Finnish with English subtitles DIRECTOR: MIA HANSEN-LØVE camera to transform the banality of economic stability for her family and quietly determined to navigate her A jet-black satire of movie star his Wisconsin hometown into art. writer: Mia Hansen-Løve; director of pho- her ticket out of Siberia. So when way to freedom. megalomania, this caustic psycho- tography: Stéphane Fontaine; editor: Marion Distant from his family and environ- she’s plucked from obscurity and sent After all, she has little reason to drama suggests Norman Bates by Monnier; production designer: Mathieu ment, Peter isolates himself in an to Japan to begin work, she and her stay: her activist husband was exiled way of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Menut, Charlotte de Cadeville; producer: aesthetic realm, one in which fi lm- Philippe Martin, David Thion; cast: Lola family are over the moon. But within for writing for a leftist newspaper, Woolf? Wounded and bitter when making grants him control, a control Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Magne- minutes of arriving alone in Tokyo, she was disbarred from her job as faced with scathing reviews for her Håvard Brekke, Valérie Bonneton, Serge that reduces, simplifi es, and purifi es. a lawyer for advocating for a hu- Renko, Özay Fecht WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN her dreams of prosperity and success latest fi lm, middle-aged actress Leila Joining him on a documentary 14 begin to unravel, and she is faced man rights group, and, as a woman In French with English subtitles Granito: How to Nail a Dictator Good Bye (Bé Omid É Didar)

Few fi lms have evoked the exhila- the images you see in a theater are with psychological horror as rural stinging shot.” — Richard Brody, The ration and devastation of young love constantly disappearing before your Green quiet is mined both for its pastoral New Yorker. Best Actor (Ramadhan as truly as this heartfelt French remi- eyes. I was in tears throughout the THU, APR 19 • 7:30 PM beauty and creeping sense of men- Shami Bizimana), Tribeca Film Festi- niscence. Fifteen-year-old Camille fi lm; I missed it well before it was Bartell Theatre acing unease.” — LA Times (MK) val 2011. Grey Matter is co-presented is madly in love with Sullivan, who over.” 2011 Locarno, Telluride, and MADISON PREMIERE • narrative • USA, by the Global Film Initiative and is loves her back but not quite enough New York Film Festivals. (MK) 2011, color, HD projection • 75 MIN + 30 MIN Grey Matter part of the Global Lens 2012 fi lm to forgo his desire to experience the POST-FILM Q&A series. For more information, visit DIRECTOR: SOPHIA TAKAL (Matière Grise) world. When he leaves her in favor Granito: How to Nail www.globalfi lm.org (JH) of a trip to South America, Camille’s writer: Sophia Takal; director of photography: THU, APR 19 • 7:15 PM a Dictator Nandan Rao; editor: Sophia Takal; original Chazen Museum of Art anguish is so palpable it feels as if music: Ernesto Carcamo; producer: Lawrence Her Glacial Speed MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • Rwanda, the fi lm itself can’t take it, and skips FRI, APR 20 • 5:00 PM Michael Levine; cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, SEE: Phil Solomon Selects forward throughout her life until Lawrence Michael Levine, Sophia Takal 2011, color, digital projection • 100 MIN SUN, APR 22 • 3:45 PM DIRECTOR: KIVU RUHORAHOZA their reunion in their mid-twenties. FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Bartell Theatre screenplay: Kivu Ruhorahoza; direc- Hit So Hard: The Life By that point, Camille is involved WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • A young Brooklyn couple retreat tor of photography: Ari Wegner; editing: with her architecture professor, and USA, 2011, color, HD projection • 103 MIN to a secluded Virginia farmhouse Antonio Rui Ribeiro; executive producers: & Near Death Story unsure what effect Sullivan will have DIRECTOR: PAMELA YATES and enter a web of jealousy in this David Budge, Joel Betts; producers: Kivu of Patty Schemel on her. Ruhorahoza, Dominic Allen; cast: Ruth editor: Peter Kinoy; producer: edited eerie indie. Sebastian is supposed to FRI, APR 20 • 9:15 PM Actress Lola Créton gives a truly In Spanish, English with English subtitles be researching a blog on sustainable Shanel Nirere, Ramadhan Shami Bizimana, Hervé Kimenyi, Jean Pierre Kalonda, Natasha Bartell Theatre

Presented with the UW Latin American, WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, astonishing performance as Camille, farming; Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil, Muziramakenga, Kennedy Mazimpaka absolutely convincing as she ages Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • USA, also appearing in the WFF 2012 In Kinyarwanda, French with English subtitles 2011, color, HD projection • from adolescent to young woman, In 1982, Pamela Yates, then a 103 MIN selections The Zone and Somebody The fi rst fi ction feature fi lmed in DIRECTOR: P. DAVID EBERSOLE a feat that is all the more incredible naïve young fi lmmaker with a com- Up There Likes Me) is along for the Rwanda by a Rwandan director, this writers: P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes; cine- given that she was 17 when the fi lm mitment to social justice, traveled to ride. Their already fragile relation- mesmerizing and highly unusual matographers: Larra Anderson, Mark Putnam, was shot. Guatemala to document and bring ship is upended by Robin (writer/ meta movie describes the diffi culties John Tanzer; editor: P. David Ebersole; A protégé of Olivier Assayas (Car- to light the hidden story of the gov- composer: Roddy Bottum; producer: Todd director/editor Sophia Takal), a faced by a young fi lmmaker named los, WFF 2011), writer/director Mia ernment’s massacre of the Mayan talkative local who inserts herself Hughes, Christina Soletti people. The resulting fi lm, When the Balthazar as he attempts to launch Hit So Hard is a pull-no-punches Hansen-Løve shares his eagerness to between them, creating a triangle The Cycle of the Mountains Tremble, premiered at the his fi rst production, portrait of the hell-and-back life of toy with story structures, but fi lters it of lust and envy. Caught between Cockroach. through the experience of memory: fi rst Sundance Film Festival, won a Patty Schemel, who played drums in Sebastian’s pretentiousness and The movie-within-a-movie, a seri- the fi lm’s narrative follows the train- number of international awards, and Courtney Love’s seminal rock band Robin’s bumpkin naïveté, Genevieve ous, sometimes shocking, and often of-thought logic of recollections, helped launch the career of another Hole during its peak years. With re- lashes out at both with pointed pas- surreal drama about a brother and mysteriously eliding entire years young activist, Rigoberta Menchú, markable access to Schemel, her band sive aggression. sister dealing with the aftermath of while dwelling on specifi c moments who narrates the fi lm (and went mates, and her personal, diary-like Like Mark Jackson’s Without genocide, fi nds no support from agen- with tactile obsessiveness. on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in home videos that she shot on tour (also playing this year’s Festival), cies only interested in funding upbeat Hansen-Løve vividly conveys the 1992). It did not, however, stop the (including remarkable never-before- Green is a devastating portrait of policy-friendly fi lms. Determined to all-or-nothing nature of teenaged genocide. seen footage of Kurt Cobain), David a young woman’s psychological get his vision on screen at any cost, love with genuine sympathy, refus- Nearly thirty years later, Yates Ebersole chronicles one of grunge’s unraveling, accomplished on a tiny Balthazar goes into the criminal un- ing to deny Camille her heartache picks up the story again beginning most important bands though the budget with a cast of friends. Takal derworld of Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, just because she’s young. Most folks with Ms. Menchú’s criminal pursuit perspective of one of its most fasci- seizes on the implicit red state/ and eventually fi nds backing from a 2012 • would tell Camille that she’ll love of the generals in Spain’s National nating fi gures. blue state divide for some subtly loan shark. again, that there are other fi sh in the Court, which has previously invoked caustic sociological commentary, Intimate, poignant, and by no

Meanwhile, The Cycle unfolds WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM sea. Hansen-Løve isn’t so convinced, the concept of universal jurisdic- means your typical rockumentary, both needling the urban vogue for before our eyes, refl ecting on the and it’s this clarity of purpose that tion to prosecute suspected war Hit So Hard traces Schemel’s journey sustainable agriculture — Sebastian horror and madness of Rwanda’s re- makes Goodbye First Love an over- criminals. Lawyers called on Yates to from closeted-lesbian teenager to is comically clueless about farming cent history, while offering bracing whelming experience. provide her original footage — per- international rock star to homeless — and making salient points about insight into the nature of political The cumulative emotional wal- haps the only extant footage of the heroin addict to recovery. A must-see class in America. violence. lop was well described by Chicago Mayan genocide — to use as forensic for Hole fans or anyone who lived Winner, Chicken & Egg Emergent “Ruhorahoza reveals the quietly Reader critic Ben Sachs, who named evidence to help prosecute former through the grunge era. (TY) Narrative Woman Director Award, terrifying depiction of violence- this the fourth best fi lm of 2011: “Bit- military dictators. Part political 2011 SXSW Film Festival, 2011 induced madness to be the obverse tersweetly, but with eyes wide open thriller, part memoir, Granito is an AFI Fest. “One of the most notable of the policy of calculated, forward- Horlick’s Malted Milk and mind unclouded, Hansen-Løve absorbing and ultimately satisfying debut films on this year’s festival looking oblivion; his brilliant ending SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial conveys the impermanence of youth story of justice, and a testament to Visions of the Badger State circuit…a micro-budgeted back-to- distills the paradoxes of normalcy by playing up another basic fact fi lm’s power to bear witness. (TY) the-country Black Swan, flirting atop a volcano of blood into a single, that movies take for granted: that 15 Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel

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Hospitalité (Kantai) How Much Does How to Start a FRI, APR 20 • 3:00 PM Your Building Revolution Sundance Cinema 1 Weigh, Mr. Foster? THU, APR 19 • 4:30 PM SUN, APR 22 • 6:00 PM FRI, APR 20 • 2:00 PM Union South Marquee Bartell Theatre Orpheum Theatre SAT, APR 21 • 2:30 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Chazen Museum of Art Japan, 2010, color, HD projection • 96 MIN SUN, APR 22 • 1:00 PM DIRECTOR: KOJI FUKADA Sundance Cinema 2 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • United Kingdom, 2011, color, HD projection • 87 MIN writer: Koji Fukada; director of photogra- MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • DIRECTOR: RUARIDH ARROW phy: Kenichi Negishi; editor: Koji Fukada; United Kingdom, 2010, color, HD projection director of photography: Philip Bloom; editors: artistic director: Oriza Hirata; production • 80 MIN Mike Crozier, Lorrin Braddick; producers: James designer: Kensuke Suzuki; producer: Kiki DIRECTOR: NORBERTO LÓPEZ AMADO, Sugino, Koji Fukada; cast: Kenji Yamuchi, CARLOS CARCAS Otis, Jeremy Mills, Richard Shaw, Cailean Watt Kanji Furutachi, Kiki Sugino, Kumi writer: Deyan Sudjic; director of photogra- 2011 was the year of the protest: from Hyodo, Erika Ono, Bryerly Long phy: Valentin Álvarez; editor: Paco Cozar; to Egypt to Madison, nonvio- In Japanese with English subtitles narrator: Deyan Sudjic; music: Joan Valent; lent protests toppled governments and A comedy of manners in the producers: Antonio Sanz, Elena Ochoa empowered citizens. At the center of most literal sense, this Japanese Stunningly photographed fea- many of those uprisings was Gene Sharp, satire examines just how far po- turing breathtaking aerial shots an 84-year-old former political science litesse can be stretched. Mikio — and perhaps ushering in a new professor and one of the most infl uential Kobayashi and his family lead a genre we could call architecture strategists of non-violent revolution. cozy life above their tidy printing porn — How Much Does Your Sharp’s book From Dictatorship to press, until the disappearance Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? docu- Democracy is a 93-page, 198-step guide to The Hunter (Shekarchi) of their pet parakeet sets off a ments the life and influence of peaceably toppling oppressive regimes, disastrous chain reaction. Enter prolific British architect Norman and is considered the standard textbook Kawaga, a cagey charmer who Foster. for revolutionary leaders. It’s been used During a violent fl are-up between tent backdrop, Pitts makes trenchant claims to have spotted the bird, Nicknamed the “Mozart of Mod- by activists in uprisings across the globe demonstrators and authorities in social observation and poses diffi cult and ends up sweet-talking his way ernism,” Foster is responsible for (from Serbia to Egypt, to the Ukraine, the midst of Iran’s 2009 elections, moral questions with impeccable cin- into a job. Next thing you know, some of the world’s most striking to America’s own Occupy movement), a night watchman’s wife is killed in ematic style. (MK) he’s moved in with the Kobayas- structures, including Wembley and is so feared by some that it’s banned the crossfi re and his seven-year-old his, his Bosnian (or is she Brazil- Stadium and 30 St Mary Axe (“the in a number countries. But what makes daughter is nowhere to be found. I Have Always Been ian?) wife in tow. The bewildered “Gherkin”) in London, Hearst Sharp’s ideas so powerful, and why The bureaucratic police force can- a Dreamer Mikio’s deferential manners keep Tower in New York, and Millau haven’t we all heard of his book? not say whether the bullet that killed him from objecting, and before Bridge in France, the world’s tall- Veteran journalist Ruaridh Arrow his wife was fi red by rebels or one of SAT, APR 21 • 1:15 PM WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG long, Kawaga is all but running est bridge. The film combines the explores the answers to those questions their own, and offer little help fi nding Union South Marquee the printing press, and has fi lled aforementioned beautiful images through interviews with Sharp, his col- his daughter. Armed with a hunting 97 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A 2012 • their cramped upstairs living of Foster’s creations along with leagues, and revolutionary leaders across rifl e and incongruously badass car, he SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN quarters with more and more and interviews of experts, including a the world who credit Sharp’s ideas with takes up the search himself. FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND more houseguests. candid Foster himself. The archi- achieving political reform. Arrow’s timely Writer/director/star Rafi Pitts’s Please Remember Me Although it unfolds almost tect fills in important details of his fi lm is a vivid portrait, a necessary history perfectly calibrated thriller is a entirely in one location, writer/ biography, including his working- lesson, and an inspiring call to action. (TY) welcome counterpoint to Iran’s fre- (Que Se Acuerdes de Mí) director/editor Koji Fukada takes class Manchester upbringing, quently neorealist art cinema, using MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • USA, this initially low-key comedy into graduate school at Yale and the The Hunter (Shekarchi) utterly spectacular cinematography 2011, color, digital projection • 19 MIN consistently surprising directions, founding of his first firm, a small to present Tehran as a haunting maze DIRECTOR: LISA DANKER FRI, APR 20 • 12:30 PM building to an uproarious cre- outfit that designed innovative fac- of skyscrapers. Like the more sinister cast: Lisa Danker, Tina Danker, Armantina Chazen Museum of Art Navarrete, Javier Navarrete, Lupe Freedman scendo that could (literally) bring tories and office buildings. Kill List (also screening at this year’s Juan Navarrete the house down. The courtesy- Insightful and entertaining, SUN, APR 22 • 4:45 PM Festival), The Hunter embodies and In Spanish, English with English subtitles at-all-costs ideology Hospitalité the film charts Foster’s journey to Sundance Cinema 2 sheds several genres over the course Presented with the UW Latin American, affectionately skewers is quintes- international renown, providing narrative • Iran, 2010, color, HD projection • 92 MIN of its 90 minutes, seamlessly mutat- Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program sentially Japanese, but we detect a a peek into his unending quest to DIRECTOR: RAFI PITTS ing from shell-shocked drama to Please Remember Me is a personal certain Midwestern sensibility in improve the quality of life through writer: Rafi Pitts; director of photography: steely noir and beyond. Underlying documentary about Javier Navarrete, Mikio’s self-effacing graciousness. design. (TY) Mohammad Davudi; editor: Hassan Hassandoost; it all is a brooding electric guitar that arrested in Cuba as a political pris- Best Independent Debut, To- art director: Malak Khazai; producer: Thanassis recalls Neil Young’s reverb-drenched Karathanos, Mohammad Reza Takhtkeshian; cast: oner in 1962, told by his granddaugh- kyo Film Festival. 2011 Rotterdam, How to Conduct a Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Hassan riffage for Dead Man, even more so ter, the fi lmmaker. Javier’s letters New Directors/New Films, and Love Affair Ghalenoi, Manoochehr Rahimi as Pitts’s characters wind up lost in from prison to his exiled family in Film Festivals. (MK) In Farsi with English subtitles the wilderness after a beautifully ex- Miami are read over contemplative SEE: Phil Solomon Selects WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN SECTION: NEW IRANIAN CINEMA ecuted car chase. images of present-day Miami. Inter- 16 With the Iranian elections as a po- views with family members explore It Always Rains on Sunday Into the Wake

It Always Rains on Sunday SUN, APR 22 • 1:15 PM UW Cinematheque narrative • United Kingdom, 1947, b/w, 35mm • 92 MIN DIRECTOR: ROBERT HAMER screenplay: Angus MacPhail, Robert Hamer, Henry Cornelius, based on the novel by Arthur La Bern; cinematography: ; music: Georges Auric; editing: Michael Truman; producer: ; cast: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, David Lines, Hermione Baddeley, Alfi e Bass SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES One of two great rediscoveries of 1940s British thrillers from Rialto Pictures in this year’s festival (the other is Went the Day Well?), It Always Rains on Sunday is an excellent multi- character mosaic fi lm noir set in the

The Intouchables Please Remember Me (Que Se Acuerdes de Mí) working-class East End of London. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, The central drama centers on an escaped convict (John McCallum) the hardships of exile; re-creations atone for the sins of his past. The second-highest grossing who seeks refuge in the home of his of old photographs raise questions Innovation Rules For this psychological action French movie ever is an unusual now (unhappily) married old girl- about the impact of permanent at Performance thriller shot in Sauk County, direc- buddy comedy-drama based on a friend (veteran British actress Googie uprooting and of Javier’s extended tor John Mossman enlisted the aid true story that is the fourth feature Withers, who died last year at the age Micro Tool of 94). Meanwhile, a dogged police absence. (JP) of fi lm students from UW–Baraboo, by the writing and directing team of SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial inspector (Jack Warner) on the trail I Have Always Been a Visions of the Badger State making this a truly collaborative Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. Wisconsin effort. In addition to The aristocratic Philippe (Fran- of the criminal, plays a cat-and-mouse Dreamer pulse-pounding suspense, the fi lm çois Cluzet), rendered a quadriple- game with the nervous woman… WORLD PREMIERE • documentary • USA, Into the Wake holds additional appeal for Wiscon- gic after a paragliding accident, While there is plenty of Hitch- 2012, color, HD projection • 78 MIN SAT, APR 21 • 11:15 AM cock-style suspense and the atmo- DIRECTOR: SABINE GRUFFAT sinites, as it captures the majesty of places an ad for a live-in caretaker. Bartell Theatre the southern Wisconsin landscape as Taken by the no-nonsense attitude sphere sometimes recalls the 1930s additional camera and sound recording: Bill French fi lms of Jean Renoir and WORLD PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2012, few fi lms have, making the most of its of Driss (Omar Sy), a Senegalese- Brown, Ben Russell; audio mastering: Paul Marcel Carné, the real treat in watch- Geluso; music: Nathan Halverson, Stephen color, video • 78 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Wisconsin River location. Exploring born ex-convict living in a housing ing this neglected gem is taking in the Vitiello; producer: Sabine Gruffat Q&A themes of abandonment, revenge, project, Philippe hires the younger I Have Always Been a Dreamer is DIRECTOR: JOHN MOSSMAN and the cyclical nature of violence, man and a strong bond quickly many layers of post-war British urban former UW professor Sabine Gruf- director of photography: David Clawson; pro- Into the Wake is a compelling — and develops between these two men life. The fi lm was originally released ducers: Tim Miller, John Mossman; cast: Tim by , which usually put fat’s travelogue and fi lm portrait of homegrown — feature debut. (JP) from opposite sides of the economic Miller, Kristin Anderson out much lighter fare (Passport to two cities in contrasting states of de- spectrum. Both physical and social 2012 • SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN Pimlico ) velopment: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, outcasts, Philippe and Driss find , , but FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND The Intouchables relied on the usually darker sensibili-

USA. Within the context of a boom strength and identity as a team. WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Kyle is leading a seemingly normal SAT, APR 21 • 6:00 PM Kind and bust economy, the fi lm questions This genuine feel-good movie de- ties of director Robert Hamer ( existence in Chicago, complete with a Union South Marquee Hearts and Coronets the collective ideologies that shape livers big emotions through a realis- ) to give this fi lm steady job and supportive girlfriend. the physical landscape and impact narrative • France, 2011, color, HD projection tic attention to detail and two mar- its many rough edges. But after he receives a cryptic phone • 112 MIN local communities. Dreamer serves as velous lead performances. As Driss, Hamer’s style is enhanced by the call from a stranger, he is drawn back DIRECTOR: OLIVIER NAKACHE, ERIC decidedly moody cinematography by a visual documentation of these two TOLEDANO Sy won a Best Actor César Award — to the hills and riverbanks of Wis- Douglas Slocombe, who later lensed cities as indexes of political, cultural screenplay: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano; the French equivalent of the Oscars consin to resolve a decades-old blood and economic change while tracing cinematography: Mathieu Vadepied; edit- — beating out Jean Dujardin for The the fi rst three adven- feud between his family and another the ways each city’s development is ing: Dorian Rigal-Ansous; music: Ludovico Artist. Opening Night Film, 2012 tures. Co-stars McCallum and With- clan. Soon, Kyle (forcefully played by Einaudi; producers: Nicolas Duval- tied to technologies of communica- Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, ers were married one year after the co-writer and actor Tim Miller) fi nds Adassovsky, Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenoun; release of this movie, and they stayed tion, production, labor, and consump- Film Society at Lincoln Center. (JH) himself a prisoner in a rural shack, cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, married for 52 years, frequently per- tion. Winner, Golden Badger for Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet thoroughly enmeshed in a cycle of forming together on stage, until Mc- Wisconsin Filmmaking (JP) In French with English subtitles vengeance that may force him to (JH) Presented with the UW Waisman Center Callum’s death in 2010. 17 Keyhole

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vid Gelb’s Jiro Dreams of Sushi, In the fi rst section, set in 1970s iThemba which may be the 2012 Festival’s Taipei, when the city was under mar- FRI, APR 20 • 1:00 PM most mouthwatering fi lm. A rich tial law, a lonely printing shop worker Bartell Theatre profi le of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, on crutches fi nds some excitement SAT, APR 21 • 1:15 PM considered by many to be world’s when a handsome young revolution- Sundance Cinema 2 greatest sushi chef, this documen- ary brings her banned articles he tary takes us into his restaurant, wants to publish. WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary, USA, Zimbabwe, 2010, color , HD projection • 72 MIN which earned three stars in the Set in the 1980s, the second story is DIRECTOR: ELINOR BURKETT Tokyo Michelin restaurant guide, a cautionary fable and a multilayered director of photography: Errol Webber but which only seats ten! narrative where the parallel stories of Presented with the UW Waisman Center The fi lm lets us follow his daily a young girl, Julie, and a middle-aged Set amid Zimbabwe’s recent economic routine, and examines his rela- man interweave to retell the tale of crisis, in which infl ation rose so high tionships with his two sons, both two young lovers torn apart by their and fast that the country was forced to sushi chefs working under him. An families. abandon its currency, iThemba (literally elegant mediation on work, family, In the darkly comic last chapter, “hope” in Ndebele) tells the remark- and the art of perfection, the fi lm’s Juliet is actually a gay, middle-aged able and uplifting story of Liyana, an most transfi xing moments may be man with a rather bleak romantic eight-piece musical group comprised of the small ones: the extreme close- history, who decides to take his own current and former students at the King ups of freshly cut fatty tuna as it life. But destiny has other intentions George VI school for the disabled. slowly settles atop a glistening ball when he is cast as an extra alongside At the heart of Elinor Burkett’s cele- of rice, for example. his Romeo, a bus driver-cum-actor. bratory and often-hilarious documentary “A thrilling and beautiful 2010 Pusan, Dubai, and Tokyo Inter- are Liyana’s two lead singers: Prudence, portrait of a family and the most national Film Festivals. (JH) an incredible vocalist who is legless and thorough, concise, and madden- palsied, and Marvelous, the 90-pound ingly delicious looking explana- Just Breathe Kinyarwanda self-styled ladies’ man and . tion of the all too frequently SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and Reveling in their collective energy and misunderstood world of sushi.” Other Experimental Shorts from never succumbing to cheap sentimental- —Anthony Bourdain. (TY) Wisconsin’s Own Room by room, he journeys through ism or exploitation, the fi lm follows the the house, unearthing mysteries that Khodorkovsky band as they strive to leave their daily Juliets (Zhu Li Ye) Keyhole only get more cryptic the deeper he SAT, APR 21 • 8:15 PM struggles in Bulawayo and venture out on SAT, APR 21 • 11:45 AM WED, APR 18 • 9:00 PM follows them. SUN, APR 22 • 3:30 PM WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG an international tour. Chazen Museum of Art Chazen Museum of Art The mutant spawn of 1930s horror Madison Museum of Contemporary Art In a culture in which the disabled are and gangster fi lms, Keyhole conjures MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • FRI, APR 20 • 10:00 PM MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • 2012 • often seen as cursed, Liyana’s success is an uncanny atmosphere “as creepy Germany, 2011, color, 35mm • 111 MIN Taiwan, 2010, color, 35mm • 106 MIN + Sundance Cinema 1 not only a testament to the band’s hard 20 MIN POST-FILM Q&A as The Shining” (Film Comment), yet DIRECTOR: CYRIL TUSCHI work, dedication, and talent, but also to DIRECTOR: YU-HSUN CHEN, CHI-JAN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Canada, retains Maddin’s gleefully irreverent cinematographer: Cyril Tuschi; editors: the power of music to inspire and give HOU, KO-SHANG SHEN 2011, b/w, HD projection • 93 MIN humor (a sample nonsequitur: “this Claudia Simonesci, Salome Machaidze, Cyril DIRECTOR: GUY MADDIN hope. Winner of an audience award at cinematography: Hsin-Hua Feng; art penis is dusty”). Maddin has always Tuschi; narrators: Jean-Marc Barr, Harvey direction: Pei-Ling Tsai; producer: Khan writer: George Toles, Guy Maddin; director Friedman; music: Arvo Part; producers: the 2010 International Documentary Lee; cast: Vivien Hsu, Bo-Chieh Wang, He of photography: Ben Kasulke; editor: John been a master image-maker, and Claudia Gatzke, Cyril Tuschi, Simone Bauman, Film Festival Amsterdam. (TY) Huang, Gina Li, Chin-Jung Kang Gurdebeke; production designer: Richardo Keyhole’s stunning black-and-white Yelena Durden-Smith, Thomas Schmidt In Mandarin with English subtitles Alms; executive producer: Phyllis Laing; pro- cinematography brims with indelible In German, Russian, English with English Jiro Dreams of Sushi Presented with the UW Center for East ducer: Jody Shapiro, Jean du Toit; cast: Jason visions. subtitles Asian Studies Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Brooke In addition to the two leads, the Presented with the UW Center for Russia, SAT, APR 21 • 11:30 AM Palsson, David Wontner, Louis Negin, Kevin This omnibus fi lm by three of director has nabbed something of Eastern Europe, and Central Asia; and the UW Orpheum Theatre McDonald Russian Flagship Center Taiwan’s most promising young a dream cast, including one of cin- A fi lm noir fever dream, Canadian A one-time fi xture of the Soviet WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • USA, directors offers a triptych of ema’s premiere oddballs, Udo Kier Japan, 2011, color, 35mm • 82 MIN national treasure Guy Maddin’s (My Communist establishment, Mikhail stories set against three differ- (Andy Warhol’s Dracula), and fellow DIRECTOR: DAVID GELB Winnipeg, WFF 2008) latest trip Khodorkovsky accumulated his great ent decades. Each tale attempts The Kids cinematographer: David Gelb; editor: Brandon Canuck Kevin McDonald ( wealth through the development of to reinterpret Shakespeare’s down the cinematic rabbit hole is a Driscoll-Luttringer; producers: David Gelb, Kevin in the Hall). “Surreal, sensational and Siberian oil fi elds in the period of tragic heroine in contemporary phantasmagorical riff on the myth Iwashina, Tom Bellegrini weird, Guy Maddin remains the most glasnost and in the 1990s. By 2004, Taiwanese contexts by depict- of Ulysses. Jason Patric stars as a In Japanese with English subtitles innovative, high-risk gambler in Ca- he was the wealthiest person in Rus- ing characters named Juliet who gangster who shoots his way into a Have you ever wondered what an nadian cinema.” — Toronto Sun. 2012 sia. One year later, he was sentenced sometimes fi nd redemption after haunted house in an epic quest to episode of Planet Earth would look like Berlin, SXSW Film Festivals. (MK) to nine years in prison on charges having their hearts broken. reach his wife (Maddin muse Isabella WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN if its focus was sushi? The BBC series Rossellini) in her upstairs bedroom. of fraud. In 2010, more charges of 18 was the inspiration to fi lmmaker Da- Jiro Dreams of Sushi Kill List

new directions, resulting in a singular antly human, even fi nding glimpses from their girlfriends: an epic ca- nightmare. A rare horror fi lm to crack of happiness amid the carnage. In noe trip to Europe’s most exclusive many critics’ 2011 top ten lists, Kill addition to Ebert’s four-star rave, the brothel. But when Frank discovers List is as ferocious and daring a fi lm fi lm picked up the World Cinema Au- (through a friend!) that his girlfriend as you’re likely to see this year. 2011 dience Award at both the 2011 Sun- is pregnant and thinks him an unfi t SXSW and Vancouver Film Festivals. dance and AFI Film Festivals. (MK) father, he panics. Viewer discretion advised. (MK) Determined to prove his worthi- Klown (Klovn: The Movie) ness, Frank kidnaps his 11-year-old Kinyarwanda FRI, APR 20 • 9:30 PM nephew and brings him along for the unsavory ride. What follows are 80 WED, APR 18 • 6:30 PM Sundance Cinema 2 minutes of unrelenting hilarity, all of Bartell Theatre SAT, APR 21 • 11:00 PM it shamelessly ribald and much of it FRI, APR 20 • 5:30 PM Union South Marquee taking place in front of an adolescent Union South Marquee 97 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A boy. But it’s the kid that gives the fi lm WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Glue Man its odd power — possibly the only Rwanda, USA, 2011, color, HD projection thing crazier than all the transgres- narrative • USA, A Labor of Love • 96 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A (1ST MIDWEST PREMIERE • sive behavior on display is that in SCREENING ONLY) 2012, color, digital projection • 7 MIN DIRECTOR: ALRICK BROWN DIRECTOR: JOE PICKETT their own, somewhat sick way, Frank do writer: Alrick Brown, Ishmael Ntihabose; writers: Alex Pickett, Joe Pickett, Nick and his nephew really bond be- embezzlement and money Kill List director of photography: Danny Vecchione; Prueher; producers: Bobby Ciraldo, Alex tween misadventures, and Klown has laundering were leveled at editor: Tovah Leibowitz; composer: John Pickett, Andrew Swant cast: Nick Prueher, a genuine sweet streak underlying all Khodorkovsky and his pris- FRI, APR 20 • 10:30 PM Jennings Boyd; production designer: Bobby Ciraldo, Joe Pickett, Ken Burns, the crude jokes. on sentence was extended to Union South Marquee Sibomana Omar Mukhtar; executive producer: Morgan Spurlock Lending these unrepentantly crass 2017. Ishmael Ntihabose; producer: Darren Dean, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN SUN, APR 22 • 6:30 PM Tommy Oliver, Alrick Brown; cast: Edouard hijinks a dose of credibility are game FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND There is ongoing contro- Sundance Cinema 1 Bamporiki, Cassandra Freeman, Cleophas cameos from respected Danish icons, WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, versy over whether or not Joe Pickett’s Glue Man is an up- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • United Kingdom, Kabasiita, Kennedy Mpazimpaka, Hassan including fi lmmakers Jørgen Leth Khodorkovsky’s sentencing 2011, color, 35mm • 95 MIN Kabera, Abdallah Uwimana, Hadidja Zaninka, roarious mockumentary about Nick (The Five Obstructions, WFF 2004) was politically motivated; he DIRECTOR: Marc Gwamaka, Jean Mutsari, Kena Anae Douglas, a “professional expert” who and Mads Brugger (The Red Chapel, Onyenjekwe openly challenged Vladimir writer: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump; director of photogra- lends his services as a talking head WFF 2011). Klown it was so phenom- In English and Kinyarwanda with English Putin on television in 2003, phy: Laurie Rose; editor: Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley, Amy subtitles to any documentary project imagin- enally popular in that its and around the same time, Jump; original music: Jim Williams; production designer: able, waxing poetic about Winston FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND opening weekend broke all Danish started funding human- David Butterworth; executive producer: Katherine Churchill, Snuffy Smith, and even the box offi ce records. “The biggest laughs Butler, Hugo Heppell, Robin Gutch; producer: Claire Take it from Roger Ebert, who rights groups and opposition color blue. Winner, Golden Badger Jones, Andy Starke; cast: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, named this the sixth best fi lm of 2011: in any movie this year.” — Matt Singer, political parties. for Wisconsin Filmmaking (JP) Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley, Emma Fryer, Struan “I thought I knew something about IFC. Best Film, Best Screenplay, 2011 Cyril Tuschi’s riveting Rodger Rwanda, but I didn’t really know very Klown (Klovn: The Movie) Fantastic Fest. Best Film, 2011 Fantasia investigative documentary One of the most audacious fi lms of this or Film Festival. Viewer discretion ad- much. I was moved by Hotel Rwanda, MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • Denmark, doubles as a taut political any year’s Festival, writer/director Ben Wheat- vised. (MK) but not really shaken this deeply. Not 2010, color, HD projection • 90 MIN thriller, chronicling Khodor- ley’s unhinged whatsit morphs from kitchen- like this. After seeing Kinyarwanda, I DIRECTOR: MIKKEL NØRGAARD kovsky’s amazing transfor- sink drama to ultraviolent buddy thriller to have a different kind of feeling about writer: , Frank Hvam; A Labor of Love mation from Communist Wicker Man freakout with vicious glee. the genocide that took place in Rwan- director of photography: Jacob Banke Olesen; student to capitalist oligarch SUN, APR 22 • 4:15 PM Unemployed for eight months, military da in 1994. Here is a powerful fi lm.” editor: Morten Egholm, Martin Schade; to prisoner. Weaving together production designer: Rasmus Thjellesen; Union South Marquee vet and suburban dad Jay has zero interest Weaving six interlocking stories archival footage, in-depth in fi nding work, putting an intense strain on music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen; producer: documentary • USA, 1976, color, HD projec- into a boldly multifaceted view of the tion • 70 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A interviews (including the only Sille Sterll, Louise Vesth; cast: Frank Hvam, his marriage. After a dinner party meltdown, Rwandan genocide, Kinyarwanda Casper Christensen, Marcuz Jess Petersen, DIRECTOR: ROBERT FLAXMAN, DANIEL on-camera exchange with his ex-coworker Gal convinces him to take on GOLDMAN speaks to both harrowingly specifi c , , Jørgen Leth, Lars 2012 • Khodorkovsky since his ar- a mysterious new client, and return to their experiences (the narrative threads Hjortshøj, Tina Bilsbo, Mads Lisby director of photography: Robert Flaxman; rest), and stylized animated former careers as hit men. As the reunited In Danish with English subtitles editors: Robert Flaxman and Daniel Goldman;

were culled from interviews with WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM reenactments, Tuschi crafts associate producers: Jack Behrend, John partners begin offi ng people, the fi lm descends survivors) and the broad impact of a Hailed as one of the funniest fi lms a sympathetic portrait of the Iltis; producers: Robert Flaxman and Daniel into the psychotic underbelly of Britain’s up- national trauma. The fi lm unfolds as of the year upon its U.S. premiere at Goldman former oil tycoon, who, if ever per class, culminating in one of the fl at-out Austin’s Fantastic Fest (where it won a series of time-jumping vignettes, SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND released from prison, may be scariest fi nal half hours in recent memory. But stripping away the thrust of history to Best Film), this extremely raunchy REDISCOVERIES Russia’s next president. what makes the fi lm all the more unsettling examine each incident more carefully. comedy plays like an edgier ver- FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Digital files of this film is its wicked sense of humor: between grue- Leaving no angle unexplored, sion of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Told in a classic direct cinema were mysteriously stolen some assassinations, the duo keep up a steady writer/director Alrick Brown devotes feature-length spinoff of a popular tradition that recalls the best fi lms on two separate occasions stream of grisly banter. ample screen time to grappling with Danish TV comedy, Klown mines the of the Maysles Brothers and Fred- from Tuschi’s office on Capable of careening from pitch-black both Tutsis and Hutus, killers and same excruciatingly awkward turf as erick Wiseman, A Labor of Love the heels of its premiere comedy to white-knuckle terror within a priests, children and adults, and al- Larry David and Ricky Gervais, but fascinatingly captures the fi lming of in Berlin, only adding to single shot, Wheatley and wife Amy Jump’s lows all the opportunity for forgive- takes it much, much further. Uptight a long-forgotten 1976 would-be art Khodorkovsky’s compel- screenplay takes the genre experimentation ness. Despite the weighty subject Frank and sex-crazed Caspar are two ling story. (TY) of their (WFF2010) into wild matter, Brown’s fi lm remains defi - friends planning an unusual getaway Film list continues on page 22 19 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Thursday, April 19, 2012 Friday, April 20, 2012

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Chazen Two Years at Sea Keyhole Chazen Little Matador Grey Matter El Velador Chazen The Hunter Mourning The Entertainers 7:00 PM * 86 min 9:00 PM * 93 min 5:15 PM * 90 min 7:15 PM * 100 min 9:30 PM * 72 min 12:30 PM * 92 min 2:30 PM * 85 min 9:30 PM * 9 1 min + Museum Museum Museum post-film Q&A

MMoCA Bugsy Malone An African Election MMoCA The Devil, Probably The Deadly Affair Michael MMoCA The Deadly Affair The Good Son Familiar Grounds Oslo, August 31st 6:30 PM * 93 min 8:30 PM * 89 min 4:30 PM * 95 min 6:30 PM * 115 min 9:00 PM * 96 min 1:30 PM * 115 min 4:00 PM * 87 min 6:00 PM * 89 min 8:00 PM * 96 min

Monona Last Day at Lambeau Made in Monona Made in Chekhov for Children Monona Chekhov for Children Flooding with Love for The Amateur Monster 6:30 PM * 81 min + Wisconsin: Wisconsin: 8:15 PM * 72 min 4:15 PM * 72 min + the Kid Movie Terrace post-film Q&A 9 PM * 66 min Terrace 6:30 PM * 66 min + post-film Q&A Terrace post-film Q&A 6:30 PM * 107 min 9:00 PM * 97 min

Orpheum Monsieur Lazhar We’re Not Broke Orpheum Alps The Fairy Goodbye First Love Orpheum How Much Does Your Bad Intentions Margaret Somebody Up There 6:00 PM * 94 min 8:30 PM * 87 min + 5:00 PM * 93 min 7:30 PM * 94 min 9:45 PM * 110 min Building Weigh 4:00 PM * 107 min 6:30 PM * 150 min Likes Me 10 PM * Theatre post-film Q&A Theatre Theatre 2:00 PM * 80 min 80 min + post-film Q&A

Union South Patience (After Taking Off Sundance Margaret We’re Not Broke Sleepless Night Sundance Hospitalité Ecstasy of Order: The Fairy Keyhole Sebald) 9:00 PM * 93 min 3:30 PM * 150 min 7:00 PM * 87 min 9:30 PM * 102 min 3:00 PM * 96 min The Tetris Masters 7:30 PM * 94 min 10:00 PM * 93 min Marquee 6:30 PM * 82 min Cinema 1 + post-film Q&A Cinema 1 5:00 PM * 92 min

Sundance The Salesman Policeman Sundance Tomboy Girl Model Patience (After Klown 6:30 PM * 105 min 9:15 PM * 105 min 3:30 PM * 82 min 5:30 PM * 77 min Sebald) 9:30 PM * 97 min + post-film Cinema 2 Cinema 2 7:30 PM * 82 min Q&A

Union South How to Start a My Wife is a Points of Interest Union South Putin’s Kiss Wish Me Away Kinyarwanda An Evening with Don Kill List Revolution Terrorist: 9:30 PM * 75 min 1:15 PM * 82 min 3:15 PM * 96 min 5:30 PM * 96 min Hertzfeldt 7:30 PM * 10:30 PM * 95 min Marquee 4:30 PM * 87 min 7:00 PM * 90 min Marquee 74 min + post-film Q&A

UW Cinema- The Day He Amateur Night: Home Movies Phil Solomon Selects UW Cinema- Phil Solomon: A Face Good Bye The Alpha Incident Arrives 6:45 PM * 100 + post-film Q&A 9:30 PM * 70 min Retrospective 2:00 PM * 5:00 PM * 66 min + 7:00 PM * 100 min 9:15 PM * 116 min + post-film Q&A theque 5:00 PM * 79 min + post-film Q&A theque 77 min + post-film Q&A post-film Q&A

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Bartell Into the Wake Paul Williams Still Girl Model Marvin Seth & Stanley OK, Enough, Goodbye Abendland Bartell Without Dog Sweat Granito: How to Nail a Hospitalité WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 11:15 AM * 78 min + Alive 3:30 PM * 77 min 5:15 PM * 85 min + post- 7:45 PM * 95 min + post-film 10:15 PM * 90 min 11:15 AM * 87 min 1:15 PM * 90 min + post-film Dictator 6:00 PM * 96 min Theatre post-film Q&A 1:30 PM * 84 min film Q&A Q&A Theatre Q&A 3:45 PM * 103 min

Chazen Juliets How to Start a Went the Day Well? Chazen The Fourth Portrait Mourning The Salesman Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 11:45 AM * 106 min + post-film Revolution 9:15 PM * 92 min 11:15 AM * 105 min + post-film 1:45 PM * 85 min 3:45 PM * 105 min 6:00 PM * 157 min Museum Q&A 2:30 PM * 87 min Museum Q&A

MMoCA Bugsy Malone The Devil, Probably Michael Oslo, August 31st Khodorkovsky MMoCA Familiar Grounds An African Election Khodorkovsky The Good Son 11:00 AM * 93 min 1:15 PM * 95 min 3:30 PM * 96 min 6:00 PM * 96 min 8:15 PM * 11 1 min 11:30 AM * 89 min 1:30 PM * 89 min 3:30 PM * 111 min 5:45 PM * 87 min

WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG Monona Nindy and Other Wid Winner and Other Last Day at Lambeau Amateur Monster Movie Monona Terrace Shorts 2:00 PM * 59 Shorts 4:15 PM * 94 min + 7:00 PM * 81 min + post- 9:30 PM * 97 min + post-film Terrace min + post-film Q&A post-film Q&A film Q&A Q&A 2012 • Orpheum Jiro Dreams of Sushi Raiders: The Adaptation 4:44 Last Day on The Deep Blue Sea Sleepless Night Orpheum Policeman Pink Ribbons, Inc. Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Tomboy Elena 11:30 AM * 82 min 1:30 PM * 100 min + post-film Earth 7:00 PM * 98 min 9:30 PM * 102 min 11:00 AM * 105 min 1:15 PM * 98 min Masters 3:30 PM * 92 min + 6:30 PM * 82 min 9:00 PM * 109 min Theatre Q&A 4:44 PM * 85 min Theatre post-film Q&A

Sundance Alps Good Bye The Day He Pink Ribbons, Inc. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Sundance Goodbye First Love The Deep Blue Sea Life Without Principle Kill List 11:30 AM * 93 min 1:45 PM * 100 min Arrives 5:45 PM * 98 min 8:00 PM * 157 min 11:30 AM * 110 min 2:00 PM * 98 min 4:15 PM * 107 min 6:30 PM * 95 min 2012 • Cinema 1 4:00 PM * 79 min Cinema 1 WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Sundance Bad Intentions iThemba Pelotero Putin’s Kiss Wish Me Away Vito Sundance How Much Does Your Bestiaire The Hunter Abendland 11:00 AM * 107 min 1:15 PM * 72 min 3:00 PM * 74 min 4:45 PM * 82 min 7:00 PM * 96 min 9:00 PM * 93 min + post- Building Weigh 3:00 PM * 72 min 4:45 PM * 92 min 6:45 PM * 90 min Cinema 2 film Q&A Cinema 2 1:00 PM * 80 min

Union South Life Without Principle I Have Always Been a Filthy Theater: Joel The Intouchables Compliance Klown Union South Seven Solos Mr. Cao Goes to A Labor of Love Frames 11:00 AM * 107 min Dreamer 1:15 PM * 97 min + Gersmann 3:30 PM * 94 min 6:00 PM * 112 min 8:30 PM * 90 min + post- 11:00 PM * 97 min + 11:30 AM * 88 min + post- Washington 2:00 PM * 4:15 PM * 70 min + post- 6:30 PM * 91 min Marquee post-film Q&A + post-film Q&A film Q&A post-film Q&A Marquee film Q&A 71 min + post-film Q&A film Q&A + post-film Q&A

UW Cinema- Robert on His Lunch The Entertainers Come Back, Africa Northern Lights Phil Solomon: American Falls UW Cinema- A Tribute to the Nicholas It Always Rains on Luther Price: Biscuits Come Back, Africa So’s Your Old Man Break 11:00 AM * 82 1:30 PM * 91 min + post-film 4:00 PM * 148 min 7:00 PM * 95 min + post-film 9:30 PM * 86 min + post-film Brothers 11:00 AM * 80 Sunday and Biscotts 3:15 PM * 89 5:15 PM * 148 min 8:15 PM * 90 min theque min + post-film Q&A Q&A Q&A Q&A theque min + post-film Q&A 1:15 PM * 92 min min + post-film Q&A WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN 20 21 Last Day at Lambeau Life Without Principle (Dyut Meng Gam)

A Labor of Love A documentary that will be of gambling operations are indistin- continued from page 19 great interest to football fans in gen- guishable as profi t-mad marketplaces eral and Packer fans in particular, in To’s cynical view, and Life Without movie, The Last Affair. Shooting on Last Day at Lambeau chronicles the Principle marks another surprising location during a typically freezing adoration and contempt that millions entry in his oeuvre: a wily economic Chicago winter, Last Affair director of sports fans feel toward pro football thriller that revels in fi nancial ruin. Henri Charr is told that he won’t star Brett Favre. The fi lm depicts the “Relentless and exciting, and expan- receive the fi nancial backing to make divorce of Favre and the Green Bay sive in its critique of the various ways his movie unless he agrees to insert Packers in 2008 and concludes with institutions screw the individual.” hardcore sex scenes. Favre’s last game at Lambeau Field on — Noel Murray, AV Club. 2011 Venice Though at fi rst he’s taken by October 24, 2010. and Vancouver Film Festivals. (MK) surprise, Charr is confi dent he can In an approach that is notable Singing Biscotts tastefully and innovatively make his Luther Price: for its even-handedness, director MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, fi lm according to these demands, Little Matador Michael Neelsen explores in impres- Biscuits and Biscotts 2007, color, 16mm • 6 MIN but he fi nds his cast to be somewhat THU, APR 19 • 5:15 PM sive detail the controversial fate of SUN, APR 22 • 3:15 PM more reluctant. Ultimately, the male Chazen Museum of Art Suffering Biscuits Brett Favre, soliciting opinions and UW Cinematheque actors all fail to “perform” and they MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, responses from historians, journal- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • are each replaced in close-up by a , United Kingdom, 2011, color, digital 89 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A 2007, color, 16mm • 20 MIN ists, and fans. Ultimately, the fi lm is DIRECTOR: LUTHER PRICE low-level production assistant who projection • 90 MIN as much about the fascinating and willingly accepts his special new DIRECTOR: SANDRA , GABRIEL SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT complicated relationships fans have RANGE Made in Wisconsin: “stunt double” duties. FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND with their heroes as it is about the ul- directors of photography: Graham Smith, A completely compelling time The acclaimed experimental fi lm- Industrial Visions of timately divergent paths of Favre and Roger Chapman; editor: Alex Rodríguez; capsule that is at times almost too composer: Simon O’Reilly; producers: Pauline maker Luther Price gained a reputa- the Badger State the Packers. funny to be non-fi ction, A Labor of Burt, Andrew Lowe, Angeli MacFarlane, tion in the 1990s for a series of cel- WED, APR 18 • 9:00 PM Love is “a lost verite masterpiece...a Gabriel Range, Ed Guiney ebrated, if underseen, Super 8 fi lms THU, APR 19 • 6:30 PM movie-about-movies documentary Life Without In Spanish with English subtitles that wrung compelling, disturbing Monona Terrace classic...Flaxman and Goldman have Principle Presented with the UW Latin American, psychodramas from found footage Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program 66 MIN entertainingly captured all the com- (Dyut Meng Gam) materials. That technique is very Michelito is only ten but already much on display in Price’s Biscuit/ SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN promise, the disillusionment, the a star. The adored son of a matador, mundanities and the kooky charac- SAT, APR 21 • 11:00 AM Biscott fi lms, which will be shown Presented with the Wisconsin Center for Film he has killed more than two hundred and Theater Research ters that are part and parcel of the Union South Marquee together on the same program for the bulls. “Picasso was born to paint, Mo- Log-pulling elephants, the world’s fi lmmaking experience.” — Hadrian fi rst time anywhere in the world. SUN, APR 22 • 4:15 PM zart to make music — and Michelito tiniest drills, a Patton parody, and Air- Belove, Los Angeles Cinefamily pro- The Biscuits are stunningly hyp- Sundance Cinema 1 to be a matador,” his father says. The plane! director David Zucker: together grammer. “An absorbing document… notic works, all crafted from multiple WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Hong boy’s dream, shared by hundreds of at last. The diverse body of indus- captures what pornography cannot Kong, 2011, color, 35mm • 107 MIN prints of a 1970s documentary about a other children in Mexico, is to be a trial media swelled in the twentieth permit: the human reality of the DIRECTOR: JOHNNIE TO dilapidated southern nursing home. In professional matador, a feat not easily century to encompass an estimated sexual experience.” — Roger Ebert, writer: Au Kin-yee, Wong King Fai; director of Price’s hands, the footage takes on an achieved. Sandra Jordan and Gabriel 100,000-plus fi lms. Shown to a wide Chicago Sun-Times (JH) photography: Cheng Siu-keung; editor: David entirely new emotional tenor, by turns M. Richardson; production designer: Sukie Range’s fascinating documentary poignant, redemptive, and terrifying. variety of internal and external audi- Yip; producer: Johnnie To; cast: Denise Ho, takes us inside the little-known world ences ranging from industry workers WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG A rare experience, not to be missed. Land’s End Trio (Eye Lau Ching-Wan, Richie Ren, Lo Hoi-Pang, of child matadors. and shareholders to schoolchildren to Eye: Harris Tweed, Philip Keung, Myolie Wu, Ken Lo, Stephanie Their fi lm follows Michelito as The Biscuit Day and potential clients, industrial fi lm

2012 • Che, So Hang Shuen, Patricia Tang, Terence well as Joel and Andrea, two other MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, served an array of corporate needs, Cashmere, Shepherd) Yin 2007, color, 16mm • 12 MIN In with English subtitles aspiring matadors who don’t share including information dissemina- SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial Michelito’s pedigree, as they devote tion, promotion, and training. As Visions of the Badger State Hong Kong action master Johnnie The Biscuit Song To (Sparrow, WFF 2009; Exiled, WFF their young lives to the dangerous MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, such, industrial fi lms run the gamut Last Day at Lambeau 2007, and subject of a retrospective at profession that few in the United 2008, color, 16mm • 5 MIN from agricultural epics shown as free the UW Cinematheque this March) States understand. Little Matador Nice Baskets entertainment for farmer families to WED, APR 18 • 6:30 PM takes on the global fi nancial crisis is an intense portrayal of children’s Affi rmative Action training fi lms made courage that is at once harrowing, MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, for an evolving workplace. SAT, APR 21 • 7:00 PM in this breathless crime fi lm. Three 2006, color, 16mm • 10 MIN Monona Terrace fi scally reckless antiheroes, each beautiful, and utterly compelling. (TY) Unfortunately, given the vagaries Nice Biscotts #1 of time and the protective grasp many WORLD PREMIERE • documentary • USA, emblematic of the meltdown, become 2012, color, digital projection • 81 MIN + 30 interconnected as they circle a bag of Logging in the MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, companies hold over their older 2005, color, 16mm • 10 MIN MIN POST-FILM Q&A stolen cash: a bank teller sells high- Borneo Jungle productions, only a small portion of DIRECTOR: MICHAEL NEELSEN risk securities to meet a sales target, a Nice Biscotts #2 industrials have survived, and what writers: Mike Johnson, Michael Neelsen; edi- SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial does remain is usually diffi cult to low-level thug gambles on the futures MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, tor: Michael Neelsen; director of photography: Visions of the Badger State market, and a cop buys a luxurious 2005, color, 16mm • 10 MIN view. Made in Wisconsin has thus David King; music: Will Lindow; producer: been organized as a tour through the David Neelsen cast: Tom Pelissero, Lori house he can’t afford. Low Pressure Elmer Old September Biscuits Nickel, Bill Johnson, Wayne Larrivee, Paul genre with stops to visit contempo- The narrative changes hands as Made in Wisconsin: Industrial MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, Allen, Tom Silverstein SEE: rary pieces and archival gems. frequently as the money, jumping Visions of the Badger State 2007, color, 16mm • 11 MIN SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN between characters as they swindle, In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND scam, and steal. Stock markets and Same Day Nice Biscotts these fi lms offer a unique vision of WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, the state from the perspective of its 22 2005, color, 16mm • 5 MIN Little Matador Margaret

There Must Be a Better Way rectorial debut, You Can Count on Me and feel of the autumnal Midwestern USA, 1970, color, digital projection • 12 MIN (2000) earned several Oscar nomina- landscape through lovely 16mm color DIRECTOR: BILL REBANE, GEISEL STUDIOS tions. cinematography by Adam Ginsberg. Filmed in 2005, Margaret went The talented fi lmmaker and co-star through nearly six years of edit- Gurewitz is also the co-editor of an- Madison: October ing and re-editing. A fi nal version, other 2012 Festival selection, Bob By- 2010 approved by Lonergan, was fi nally ington’s Somebody Up There Likes Me. SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and given a token release by its distribu- (JH) Other Experimental Shorts from tors in late 2011 and has become a bit Wisconsin’s Own of a cause célèbre among cinephiles Memory by Design and certain critics who recognize SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and The Maltese Cross it as a major work. “The Best Film Other Experimental Shorts from Movement of 2011.” — Karina Longworth, L.A. Wisconsin’s Own Weekly (JH) SEE: Phil Solomon Selects Michael Margaret Marvin Seth & THU, APR 19 • 9:00 PM THU, APR 19 • 3:30 PM Stanley SAT, APR 21 • 3:30 PM Sundance Cinema 1 SAT, APR 21 • 5:15 PM Madison Museum of Contemporary Art FRI, APR 20 • 6:30 PM Bartell Theatre WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Austria, 2011, color, 35mm • 96 MIN 85 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Family Nightmare Orpheum Theatre DIRECTOR: MARKUS SCHLEINZER WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, Family Nightmare writer: Markus Schleinzer; director of pho- 2011, color, 35mm • 150 MIN MIDWEST PREMIERE • experimental • USA, tography: Gerald Kerkletz; editor: Wolfgang DIRECTOR: KENNETH LONERGAN businesses. Providing intimate views 2012, color, HD projection • 10 MIN Widerhofer; co-director and artistic consul- A Behind the Scenes Look screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan; cinematog- tant: Kathrin Resetarits; production designer: of local factories, main streets, and DIRECTOR: DUSTIN GUY DEFA at “Snowball Fight” raphy: ; editing: Anne This shattering chronicle of lives Katrin Huber, Gerhard Dohr, Hanya Barakat; fi shing holes, many of these fi lms McCabe; music: Nico Muhly; executive pro- producer: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, USA, 2012, color, digital projection • 5 MIN lovingly engage with their Midwest ducer: Anthony Minghella; producers: Sydney lived badly from Bad Fever director Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer; WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, DIRECTOR: DAVID ZUCKER, LAUGHLIN locations. Even those fi lms that ex- CONSTABLE, WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT Pollack, Scott Rudin, Gary Gilbert; cast: Anna Dustin Guy Defa (who can be seen cast: Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, pand beyond state boundaries offer OF TOURISM Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, briefl y in The Zone) was derived Christine Kain, Ursula Strauss, Xaver Winkler, Matt Damon, Jeannie Berlin, J. Smith- from his family’s VHS home movies. Thomas Pfalzmann viewers the promise of experiencing Horlick’s Malted Milk Cameron, Jean Reno, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie In German with English subtitles the world through interactions with 2012 Sundance and SXSW Film Fes- USA, 1957, b/w, HD digital projection • 4 MIN DeWitt, Allison Janney, Kieran Culkin “He seemed like such a normal locally situated companies and their tivals. (JH) DIRECTOR: ROBERT M. CARSON PRODUC- A privileged, precocious, and guy.” This eternal refrain, heard on products. By highlighting the pictur- TIONS extremely self-absorbed New York Marvin Seth & Stanley TV whenever a neighbor is arrested esque foreign lands that provide raw Innovation Rules at City teenager, Lisa (Anna Paquin), in WORLD PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2012, for some unspeakable crime, always manufacturing materials or showcas- color, HD projection • 75 MIN Performance Micro Tool pursuit of a trifl e, distracts a city bus seems nearly as inexplicable as the ing exoticized regions that consume DIRECTOR: STEPHEN GUREWITZ USA, 2010, color, digital projection • 3 MIN driver (Mark Ruffalo) and later feels offenses themselves. How could the very same products available to screenplay: Stephen Gurewitz; cinematogra- DIRECTOR: PERFORMANCE MICRO TOOL more than a little responsible for the they not know? Loosely based on a Wisconsinites, these business fi lms phy: Adam Ginsberg; editing: Gerald D. Rossini; fatal accident that follows. Though harrowing true story, this fi lm seeks posit local consumption as an excit- Land’s End Trio (Eye producer: Britni West; cast: Alex Karpovsky, she initially gives false testimony to Marvin Gurewitz, Stephen Gurewitz to fi nd the answer: the eponymous ing adventure abroad. to Eye: Harris Tweed, the police, Lisa’s guilt looms heavily FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Michael is one of those guys. From Globetrotting is not the only travel Cashmere, Shepherd) and she seeks advice from a variety of all outward appearances a solitary, on offer in Made in Wisconsin. Even The usually quarrelling Greenstein USA, 1996, color, digital projection • 4 MIN adults including her mother (J. Smith seemingly normal-enough offi ce those fi lms that remain nestled within brothers Seth (Tiny Furniture’s Alex Cameron) and two ineffectual teach- drone, he harbors a dark secret: a the state’s borders offer viewers the Logging in the Borneo Karpovsky) and Stanley (writer/ ers at her private prep school (Matt 10-year-old boy is locked in a sound- ability to travel through time. These Jungle director Stephen Gurewitz) reluctant- Damon and Matthew Broderick). De- proof room in his basement. fi lms oscillate between promises of a USA, 1940, b/w, digital projection • 10 MIN ly agree to join their father, Marvin termined to live a morally uncompro- (the fi lmmaker’s real-life dad, Marvin Though the premise may seem utopian future enhanced by the busi- DIRECTOR: INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER 2012 • COMPANY mised life, Lisa proceeds to set things like seedy CSI material, director ness effi ciency and mechanized magic Gurewitz) for a fi shing and camping right, turning several people’s lives, trip in rural Minnesota. Estranged Markus Schleinzer treats the subject

of industry to nostalgic visions of Low Pressure Elmer WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM including her own, upside down. from each other, Marvin, Stanley, matter with almost scientifi c scru- sleepy, small-town Wisconsin. USA, 1942, color, digital projection • 9 MIN Filled with brilliant, literate tiny. Rather than delving into cheap Even a fi lm with the more modest DIRECTOR: WEST BEND ALUMINUM COM- and Seth, whose marriage is secretly dialogue and countless graceful vi- scares, the fi lm obsessively explores intention of perfectly capturing its PANY deteriorating, fi nd repressed grudges sual observations on contemporary the day-to-day mechanics of how ex- present — whether by showing the Muskies for the Future against each other rising to the surface Manhattan living, Margaret (the title as the weekend getaway comically de- actly one would go about doing such “typical” teapot-purchasing housewife USA, 1940, b/w, digital projection • 8 MIN comes from Gerald Manley Hopkins’ volves into a series of daytime drink- a thing. As Schleinzer catalogues or by parodying a popular Hollywood DIRECTOR: WISCONSIN CONSERVATION poem Spring and Fall) is primarily the lengths Michael has to undergo fi lm — invites today’s viewers to expe- DEPARTMENT ing episodes and failed activities for driven by a fascinating and fearless to maintain his deplorable situation rience a sort of time travel. Through this trio of inept outdoorsmen. Patton Speech performance by Anna Paquin in a de- while keeping up a healthy façade — these temporal and geographical ex- A comedy for anyone who has USA, 1974, color, digital projection • 11 MIN cidedly unsympathetic role. The fi lm he often acts more like a strict step- cursions, viewers of Made in Wiscon- participated in family squabbles and DIRECTOR: SEDELMAIER PRODUCTION is the second feature of acclaimed father than unholy monster — what sin will have the rare opportunity to COMPANY FOR IHC slept in cornfi elds when they couldn’t playwright and screenwriter Kenneth emerges is an unnerving descent experience our state through the eyes pitch a tent, Marvin Seth & Stanley Lonergan, whose much-admired di- into the criminal psyche. of its industries. (KH) also authentically captures the look 23 Carbon

OK, Enough, Goodbye (Tayeb, Khalas, Yalla)

First-time writer/director hitting the exact right notes of humor A protégé of Iranian master Ab- Schleinzer worked for many years as a and pathos. Beyond Oscar, Lazhar has bas Kiarostami, director Morteza casting director for heavyweight Aus- picked up awards nearly everywhere Farshbaf’s fi rst feature shares his trian directors like Michael Haneke, it has run, winning both the Variety teacher’s winning formal playfulness. Ulrich Seidl, and Michael Glawogger, Piazza Grande Award and the Audi- By occasionally limiting our access developing a skillset that clearly paid ence Award at the 2011 Locarno Film to visual and aural information, off with Michael. Star Michael Fuith Festival, and Best Canadian Feature Farshbaf ingeniously incorporates brings startling humanity to a charac- at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival. It his characters’ disabilities into his ter that all too easily could have been also landed a whopping nine Genie fi lmmaking, drawing attention to the a Hannibal Lecter-style villain, a feat nominations (the Canadian Oscar senses through their absence. that makes the fi lm all the more trou- equivalent), scoring one in every “A consistently surprising and blackly bling. New York Times Critic’s Pick major category: Best Film, Director, comic road trip that may herald the (Stephen Holden); 2011 Cannes Film Screenplay, Actor, and Actress. 2012 arrival of a major new Iranian talent.” Festival. (MK) Sundance Film Festival. (MK) — BFI. Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, 2011 Busan International Film Festival. Monsieur Lazhar Mourning (Soog) Co-presented by the Global Film Ini- WED, APR 18 • 6:00 PM FRI, APR 20 • 2:30 PM tiative and is part of the Global Lens 2012 fi lm series. For more informa- Orpheum Theatre SUN, APR 22 • 1:45 PM tion, visit www.globalfi lm.org. (MK) WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • Canada, Chazen Museum of Art 2011, color, 35mm • 94 MIN MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • Iran, 2011, DIRECTOR: Mr. Cao Goes to color, HD projection • 85 MIN writer: Philippe Falardeau; director of pho- DIRECTOR: MORTEZA FARSHBAF Washington tography: Ronald Plante; editor: Stéphane writer: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, Morteza LaFleur; composer: Martin Léon; production SUN, APR 22 • 2:00 PM Farshbaf; director of photography: Hamid designer: Emmanuel Fréchette; producer: Luc Reza Ahmadi Ara; editor: Hesam Eslami; Union South Marquee Déry, Kim McCraw; cast: Mohamed Fellag, sound: Vahid Moghadasi, Alireza Alavian; MIDWEST PREMIERE • documentary • USA, Sophie Nélisse, Emilien Néron, Danielle executive producer: Behnaz Beski; producer: 2012, color, HD projection • 71 MIN + 30 MIN Proulx, Brigitte Poupart, Louis Champagne, Javad Noruzbeigi; cast: Sharareh Pasha, POST-FILM Q&A Jules Philip, Francine Ruel, Sophie Kiomars Giti, Amir Hossein Maleki, Sahar DIRECTOR: S. LEO CHIANG Sanscartier, Seddik Benslimane, Marie-Eve Dolatshahi, Peyman Moaadi, Adel Yaraghi Beauregard cinematography: S. Leo Chiang, Bao Nguyen; In Persian with English subtitles In French with English subtitles editing: Matthew Martin; Music: T. Griffi n; SECTION: NEW IRANIAN CINEMA executive producer: Stephen Gong; producer: SECTION: NEW QUEBECOIS CINEMA Presented with the UW Waisman Center S. Leo Chiang Presented with the Québec Government Offi ce FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND in Chicago Arshia wakes up at his aunt Shara- Mourning (Soog) Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign reh and uncle Kamran’s home to fi nd A companion piece of sorts to A WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG Language Film, this moving class- that his parents have abruptly left in Village Called Versailles (WFF 2010), room drama begins in the wake of an the . Piling into an SUV, director S. Leo Chiang’s latest docu-

2012 • Exploring the reali- Kamran, Sharareh, and Arshia drive mentary follows lawyer and New elementary school teacher’s suicide. ties of racial politics in the My Wife is a Terrorist: off in pursuit of the runaway parents Orleans civic leader Joseph Cao as The sixth graders are stunned, and American South and partisan in this one-of-a-kind , he becomes the fi rst Vietnamese- Lessons in Storytelling the grieving faculty hastily hires an power struggles in our na- made all the more unique because American elected to U.S. Congress. from the Department amiable Algerian without making tion’s capital, Mr. Cao Goes both Kamran and Sharareh are deaf. Representing Louisiana’s 2nd con- time for a proper vetting. A natural to Washington is a frequently of Homeland Security Buckled in for the majority of the fi lm, gressional district, Cao is the fi rst teacher haunted by a violent past of moving character study of an the couple debate and speculate about Republican to fi ll the seat since 1891 THU, APR 19 • 7:00 PM his own, Bachir Lazhar struggles to all-too rare fi gure: a thought- where their in-laws could have gone and also the only member of his Union South Marquee bend his style to institutional guide- ful politician who sincerely in heated sign language, their young party in either the House or the Sen- 90 MIN lines, all the while helping the kids lives and votes by his own passenger idling obliviously in the ate who voted for the initial draft of SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT cope with tragedy. conscience. (JH) Anchored by an excellent cast back seat. Their conversation is lively, President Obama’s Health Care Act. SPECIAL GUEST SCHEDULED TO ATTEND (including many stellar child actors) hilarious, and utterly engrossing, and However, Cao, a devout Catholic In 2008, James Schamus learned that his and propelled by an ace script that it is a testament to the performers that with concerns about public funding Muskies for wife, the peace activist and novelist Nancy Kri- keeps its cards close to the vest, Mon- they can hold our extended attention for elective abortion provisions, ulti- the Future corian, had been under surveillance by the Divi- mately joined the rest of the GOP in sieur Lazhar is the best portrait of an from behind a windshield. If the cou- SEE: Made in Wisconsin: sion of Homeland Security for over a year. A educator since To Be and To Have. ple’s amicable bickering seems almost opposing the fi nal version of the Act. Industrial Visions of the few pages of her fi le were “reluctantly coughed Writer/director Philippe Falardeau too authentic, it is likely because fi rst- His constituents, mostly African- Badger State up” by the authorities, and Schamus was struck (a guest of the Wisconsin Film Festi- time stars Kiomars Giti and Sharareh Americans, felt betrayed, and in by the word “Narrative” at the top of a hugely val in 2002 with his debut, The Left Pasha are married in real life — here’s 2010 Cao faced a diffi cult re-election redacted document that was as ominous for Side of the Fridge) and star Mohamed hoping more directors make use of campaign. what it left out as for what it revealed. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN Fellag create an indelible character, their gifts. The experience got him thinking: how 24 Mr. Cao Goes to Washington Nindy

had driven living beings, now in screenplay: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson; cin- eroding stone runs black.” (JP) ematography: Judy Irola; music: David Ozzie OK, Enough, Goodbye Ahlers; associate producer: Sandra Schulberg; (Tayeb, Khalas, Yalla) Nindy producers: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson; cast: WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative Robert Behling, , Joe Spano, Ray SAT, APR 21 • 7:45 PM • USA, 2011, color, digital projection Ness Bartell Theatre • 17 MIN SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • United Arab DIRECTOR: COREY KUPFER REDISCOVERIES, WISCONSIN’S OWN Emirates, Lebanon, 2010, color, HD projection • director of photography: Mitch Arens; FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND 95 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A cast: Wawan Timor, Allya Arrahim Winner of the 1978 Cannes : DANIEL GARCIA, RAINIA ATTIEH Nindy is a 13-year-old girl sold Festival’s coveted Camera d’Or writer: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia; director of to an Indonesian brothel by her prize, this moving, visually rich photography: Daniel Garcia; editor: Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia; composer: Daniel Garcia; producer: mother. Alone and exploited, she American independent feature Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia; cast: Daniel Arzrouni, fi nds a glimmer of hope in Win- dramatizes the early days of the Nadimé Attieh, Walid Ayoubi, Nawal Mekdad, ston, a lonely whiskey bootlegger Nonpartisan League, an early 20th- Sablawork Tesfay, Theodor Hakim, Nazem Attié, with whom she forms a genuine century Socialist movement among William Samaha friendship. Winner, Golden North Dakotan farmers, most of In Arabic with English subtitles Badger for Wisconsin Student whom were Scandinavian immi- FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND. Filmmaking. (JP) grants. A wry coming of age tale starring a Walt The story, set in 1915, centers middle-aged man, this Tripoli-set come- dy shows that arrested development isn’t narrative • USA, around Swedish-born farmer Ray WORLD PREMIERE • strictly an American phenomenon. Forty Monsieur Lazhar 2011, b/w, digital projection • 11 MIN Sorenson (Robert Behling), who or- DIRECTOR: THOM ANTHONY ganizes the League as a response to years old and still living in his elderly screenplay: Thom Anthony; editor: the bank foreclosures that threaten mother’s house, our amiably cranky hero much could we learn from the “huge, Nicklaus Reichel ; production assistant: the way he and his neighbors make shuffl es between his childhood bedroom Jennifer Claire Ruetten; music: Brian Nindy and Other their living. and the bakery where he works. His pas- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, story-producing industry” that is Grimm; producer Nicklaus Reichel; cast: Homeland Security? His provocative Shorts from Co-directors John Hanson sive lifestyle is upended when one day Arthur Noble, Dominique Chestand, his fed-up mother abruptly moves out lecture draws from his own academic Wisconsin’s Own Alan Struthers, Morgan Boland, Thom and Rob Nilsson both originated study of narrative forms and narra- Anthony from Midwestern Scandinavian on him, forcing him to engage with the backgrounds and secured partial world beyond his walls. tive theory, as well as from directors SAT, APR 21 • 2:00 PM In the days prior to Halloween, He doesn’t get too far, mostly squab- like Alfred Hitchcock and fi lms like Monona Terrace Walt tinkers in his basement, funding for this deeply personal bling with a six-year-old neighbor The Bourne Identity. 59 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A plays chess in a laundromat with project through the and attempting to compensate for his James Schamus is a widely pub- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN his friend Rhonda, and becomes Committee on the Humanities and mother’s absence with a hilarious string lished fi lm historian and is professor FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND lost in classical music. Art, friend- Public Issues. The stark and gor- of discount prostitutes and foreign of Professional Practice at the Co- These very different short fi lms ship, and the ability to see things geously evocative black and white maids, but it’s a start. This guy may be lumbia University School of the Arts. display the wide range of talent that differently all intertwine in this cinematography is a perfect choice mildly unpleasant, but he is rendered In addition, he is an award-winning exists right here in the state of Wis- touching fi lm shot right here in to tell the story of these tenacious, human and even mildly lovable through screenwriter and producer (The Ice consin. Madison. (JP) courageous workers, who fight for the beauty of the world they have a remarkable performance by Daniel Ar- Storm, Brokeback Mountain), and is Bring on the Magic CEO of the fi lm company Focus Fea- Yiting Eating helped to create. zouni, who, like the rest of the cast, is a tures (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless WORLD PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2011, WORLD PREMIERE • documentary • Speaking in a Mother Jones inter- nonprofessional. color, digital projection • 15 MIN Mind, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Milk, USA, 2011, color, digital projection • 6 view, Hanson highlights the abun- In true indie style, collaborators Rania DIRECTOR: MARC KORNBLATT MIN dant empathy at the film’s core, Attieh and Daniel Garcia handcrafted Lost in Translation). (MM) screenplay: Marc Kornblatt; cinematography: DIRECTOR: KALI WOODS A Humanities Without Boundaries stating that, “The problems for seemingly every aspect of OK, Enough, Marc Kornblatt; editor: Nathan Clarke; music: Yiting Eating is a documentary Goodbye, serving as co-directors, writers, lecture presented with the UW Center Marc Kornblatt; producer: Marc Kornblatt; farmers in 1916… and the problems portrait of Yiting Liang, a UW cinematographers, and editors. Looking for the Humanities. This event is free; cast: Patrick Sims, Jayla Jordan, Javen Moreno for people like us, trying to make 2012 • student from China, whose love independent films, are really very past their lead’s amusing myopia, they seating is on a fi rst-come basis. A touching story about living in of food speaks to the concept of the moment (and shot in the Vilas similar.” Co-director and Wisconsin periodically digress into documentary “home.” (JP) WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Nice Baskets Zoo), Bring on the Magic tells the sto- resident Hanson, who served as a and essayistic interludes, presenting a juror for this year’s WFF Golden bird’s-eye view of daily life in Lebanon. SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts ry of a recently divorced father doing his best to keep his children happy in Nocturne Badger awards, will answer ques- “Warmhearted though not rose-tinted... Phil Solomon: A Retrospective the most trying of times. (JP) SEE: tions in a post-screening discussion. at once humorous, melancholy, sardonic Nice Biscotts #1 A newly restored 35mm print, cour- and wistful.” — Variety. 2011 Karlovy SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts Carbon Northern Lights tesy of the Academy Film Archive, Vary, Vancouver, Thessaloniki, and To- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, will be screened. (JH) rino Film Festivals. (MK) Nice Biscotts #2 2011, b/w, digital projection • 10 MIN SAT, APR 21 • 7:00 PM DIRECTOR: CRAIG WEBSTER UW Cinematheque SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts Carbon narrative • USA, 1978, b/w, 35mm • 95 Of a Feather Old September Biscuits In , “the stain of iron in the clay does not remember the blood it MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts had moved within. The carbon that DIRECTOR: JOHN HANSON, Other Experimental Shorts from ROB NILSSON Wisconsin’s Own 25 Northern Lights

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da)

Tiryaki’s nocturnal images set a new Lars von Trier) is at once sharp-eyed Once Upon a Time benchmark for HD cinematography: and world-weary, combining prickly in Anatolia many scenes are lit only by automo- social observations with under- (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da) bile headlights, chiseling temporary stated sympathy. This lucidity car- fi elds of vision out of the inky noth- ries through to the look of the fi lm: SAT, APR 21 • 8:00 PM ingness. where typical addiction dramas are Sundance Cinema 1 “A few days into 2012, and we sensationalistic and chiaroscuro, Oslo SUN, APR 22 • 6:00 PM already have a favorite for the New is thoughtful and bathed in natural Chazen Museum of Art Year’s best movie… Once Upon a Time light. MADISON PREMIERE • narrative • Turkey, in Anatolia demonstrates the tru- Beyond its compelling portrait of 2011, color, HD projection • 157 MIN ism that the more we know, the less recovery, this eloquently encapsu- DIRECTOR: NURI BILGE CEYLAN we understand. Or is it vice versa? lates the feeling of watching the lives writer: Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Perhaps the greater understanding of one’s peers advance at a different Ceylan; director of photography: Gokhan is admitting how little we can know.” rate than your own. “A staggering Tiryaki; editor: Bora Goksingol, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; sound editor: Thomas Robert; art – J. Hoberman, Village Voice. 2011 work of genius... Trier is quite simply director: Dilek Yapkuoz Ayaztuna; producer: Cannes, New York, Vancouver, and one of the most talented voices of his Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan; cast: Muhammet London Film Festivals. (MK) generation. — Twitch. Best Film, Best Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Cinematography, 2011 Mumtaz Taylan, Firat Tanis, Ercan Kesal Film Festival. 2011 Cannes, 2012 Sun- In Turkish with English subtitles Oslo, August 31st (Oslo, 31. August) dance, Rotterdam, and New Direc- Winner of the Grand Jury Prize tors/New Films Film Festivals. (MK) at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, FRI, APR 20 • 8:00 PM Oslo, August 31st (Oslo, 31. August) this enveloping procedural elevates SAT, APR 21 • 6:00 PM Ottawa Signal Films: director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Three Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 5 Short Animations Monkeys, WFF 2009; Climates, MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • , you’ll see this year. Ostensibly the WFF 2007) into the rarifi ed sphere 2011, color, 35mm • 96 MIN by J.J. Sedelmaier fi lm is an exploration into the work Paul Williams Still of cinematic maestros like Abbas DIRECTOR: JOACHIM TRIER SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and and infl uence of German-born writer Alive Kiarostami and Béla Tarr. A caravan writer: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier; director Other Experimental Shorts from W.G. Sebald and his most famous WED, APR 18 • 9:00 PM of three overstuffed vehicles tours of photography: Jakob Ihre; editor: Olivier Wisconsin’s Own book, The Rings of Saturn , which Bugge Coutté; composer: Ola Fløttum, the Turkish countryside in the still weaves together history, travelogue, SAT, APR 21 • 1:30 PM of night, as two detained killers scan Torgny Amdam; production designer: Jørgen Bartell Theatre Stangebye Larsen; producer: Hans-Jørgen Pass the Gravy memoir, and images along the nar- the horizon for the spot where they Osnes, Yngve Sæther, Sigve Endresen; cast: documentary • USA, 2011, color, HD projec- WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG SEE: So’s Your Old Man rator’s walking tour of Suffolk, Eng- hastily dumped their victim. Packed Anders Danielsen Lie, Malin Crépin, Aksel land. tion • 84 MIN + 30 MIN (1ST SHOW ONLY) into the puttering cars are a motley M. Thanke, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, POST-FILM Q&A But the fi lm also is a love letter to DIRECTOR: STEPHEN KESSLER 2012 • Øystein Røger, Tone B. Mostraum Pass the Salt, Please group of sleep-deprived offi cials, all the book, translating Sebald’s writ- In Norwegian with English subtitles SEE: Wid Winner and Other Shorts from cinematography: Vern Nobles; editor: David duty-bound to endure the seemingly ing onto fi lm, celebrating the book’s A single day unfolds into an ex- Wisconsin’s Own Zieff; producers: Jim Czarnecki, Stephen endless ride and secretly eager to call infl uence (Adam Philips, Robert Mac- Kessler, Mike Wilkins, David Zieff; executive it a night: a doctor, a prosecutor, dig- istential odyssey for a recovering farlane, Rick Moody, and Tacita Dean producers: Lesa Lakin, Robert Cohen heroin addict in this steely Norwe- Patience (After gers, drivers, and a hilariously testy all feature prominently), and paying FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND gian drama. Newly sober but gaunt as head detective. As the hunt devolves Sebald) homage to its style and spirit. One One of the most successful song- ever, 34-year-old Anders is granted a into a bleak game worthy of Samuel need not be familiar with Sebald’s writers of the 1970s, Paul Williams day’s leave from his drug rehab pro- WED, APR 18 • 6:30 PM Beckett, it simultaneously takes on a work to appreciate the fi lm. Director crafted hits for a number of acts, from gram to interview for a job in Oslo. Union South Marquee cosmic, mystical scope, and the miss- Gee, who is best known for his music (“Rainy Days and But once he’s in the city, he spends FRI, APR 20 • 7:30 PM ing body begins to resemble an exis- documentaries on Radiohead and Joy Mondays”), to Three Dog Night (“Just most of the day looking up old friends Sundance Cinema 2 tential totem. Division, crafts a sumptuously photo- an Old-Fashioned Love Song”) to and family. Once a group of wild men, A murder mystery without a WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • graphed and wonderful introduction Barbra Streisand (the Oscar-winning many are settled down now and view United Kingdom, 2011, color, b/w, digital pro- corpse, Ceylan’s digressive odyssey to Sebald that is at once accessible “Evergreen”). He also composed Anders with either trepidation or jection • 82 MIN joins Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, and inspirational. (TY) complete song scores for three cult pity, forcing him to reckon with how DIRECTOR: GRANT GEE Adjective (WFF10), Bong Joon-ho’s movie musicals of the 70s: Bugsy his life has turned out. cinematographer/editor: Grant Gee; music: Memories of Murder (WFF10), and The Caretaker Malone (screening in this year’s As day gives way to night, An- Patton Speech David Fincher’s Zodiac as a profound Festival), Brian DePalma’s Phantom ders fi nds himself adrift in a sea of Patience (After Sebald) is a multi- SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial consideration of obsessive nature of Visions of the Badger State of the Paradise, and The Muppet all-night parties, further testing his layered fi lm essay on landscape, art, policework, and the limits of what Movie. Small in stature, but witty resolve. Like his lead, writer/direc- history, life, and loss. It may also be can be proven. It’s also stunning to one of the most subtle, beautiful, and and personable, Williams became an

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN tor Joachim Trier (distant cousin of look at. Cinematographer Gökhan strikingly original documentaries instantly recognizable celebrity, more 26 Paul Williams Still Alive Pelotero

Patience (After Sebald) The Exquisite Hour Twilight Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour for his ubiquitous talk show “A screaming comes across the were smelted and boiled rather than appearances and guest spots Pelotero Phil Solomon: A sky.” — Gravity’s Rainbow. Finding merely taken, when they poured on episodic television (Police FRI, APR 20 • 2:45 PM Retrospective similarities in the pulses and shapes down like silver, not be to fi xed and Woman, Fantasy Island) than Bartell Theatre FRI, APR 20 • 2:00 PM between my own experiments in washed, mind you, but free to reform for his infectious songs, which SAT, APR 21 • 3:00 PM UW Cinematheque night photography, lightning storms, and coagulate into unstable, tempo-

often dwelt on loneliness and and night bombing in World War II, rary molds, mere holding patterns WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Sundance Cinema 2 77 MIN+ 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A other melancholic subjects. I constructed the war at home. — Phil of faces, places, and things, shape- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • USA, 2011, SECTION: PHIL SOLOMON PRESENTS Fueled by drugs and alcohol, color, HD projection • 74 MIN FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Solomon shifting according to whim, need, the Williams’ ride to fame was uncanny or the inevitable... Walking DIRECTOR: ROSS FINKEL, TREVOR MARTIN, JON For the fi rst time in Wisconsin, Remains to Be Seen short-lived, and he largely PALEY Distance is a simple Golden Book tale Phil Solomon, recently voted one of MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, vanished from the public eye editor: Mary Manhardt; narrator: John Leguizamo of horizontals and verticals, a cinema the fi ve most important avant-garde 1989-1994, color, 16mm • 17 MIN during the 80s and 90s. In Spanish with English subtitles of ether and ore... — Phil Solomon fi lmmakers of the last decade in Film Using chemical and optical treat- Stephen Kessler, the direc- Presented with the UW Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program Comment magazine, will present his ments to coat the fi lm with a limpid Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes tor of this compelling and exquisitely crafted works in person. membrane of swimming crystals, MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, often very funny documen- Imagine if your entire life — your future, Solomon is known for his beautifully coagulating into silver recall, then 1999, color, 16mm • 3 MIN tary, grew up on Williams’s your fortune, your family’s happiness — layered, expressive, poetic, and tex- dissolving somewhere between the A wedding present for someone music. When he learns that came down to one day. For thousands of Do- tured fi lms, which he produces by ap- Operating Theatre, The Waterfall, now long gone… — Phil Solomon his idol was not only alive, minican 16-year-olds being scouted by Major plying homemade chemical formulas and the Great Plains. — Phil Solomon but still actively performing, League Baseball, every July 2, or interna- to found footage and home movies. he seeks out Williams and tional signing day, is the day they can sign Twilight Psalm I: Phil Solomon: In the second of three programs with ultimately gets him to agree to a professional contract. On an island where The Lateness of the Hour American Falls baseball means everything (the only MLB Solomon, he will introduce some of participate in a fi lm about his MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, offi ce outside New York City is in Santo Do- his greatest fi lms, including Remains SAT, APR 21 • 9:30 PM life. However, tensions soon 1999-2001, color, 16mm • 10 MIN mingo) the stakes couldn’t be higher. to Be Seen, chosen by the legendary UW Cinematheque arise between the nervous “A little Nachtmusik, a deep blue fi lmmaker Stan Brakhage as one of 86 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A fi lmmaker and subject when For the players, make it and you’ve suppos- overture to the series. Breathing in the ten best fi lms of all time, and SECTION: PHIL SOLOMON PRESENTS an increasingly reluctant Wil- edly hit a grand slam — a million-dollar con- the cool night airs, breathing out a several entries from his acclaimed 2012 • liams begins to think of the tract and the potential to be the next Sammy children’s song; then whispering a FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Twilight Psalm series. (JP) cameras as a nuisance. The Sosa or Pedro Martinez. Fail and it’s three prayer for a night of easeful sleep. My The third of three programs per- strained relationship comes to strikes, you’re out at age 17. For the dozens of The Exquisite Hour blue attempt at a sequel to Rose Ho- sonally introduced by extraordinary WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM baseball training camps around the island, the a boil during a grueling jour- MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, bart.” — Phil Solomon fi lmmaker Phil Solomon will feature ney in the Philippines where same is true. Trainers like Vasilio “Morena” 1989-1994, color, 16mm • 14 MIN his latest work, American Falls. Ini- Tejada and Astin Jacobo, Jr., invest years of Twilight Psalm II: tially designed as an installation for Williams is scheduled to per- Partly a lullaby for the dying, partly Walking Distance form at a stadium show. training, food, and housing in young boys, a lament at the dusk of cinema. Dedi- the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, An examination of what only to be paid if their protégés get an MLB cated to the memory of my grandpar- MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, D.C., Falls is an epic meditation on Pelotero 1999, color, 16mm • 23 MIN it means to be a celebrity in contract. With everything on the line, ents, Albert Solomon, who was a pro- 20th century American history that Imagining one of those rusted this country, as well as a fun, follows two top prospects, Miguel Angel and jectionist for Fox, and Rose Solomon, foregrounds Solomon’s patented medieval fi lm cans having survived clip-fi lled fl ashback to the Juan Carlos, through the turmoil of the most who took tickets at Lowe’s Paradise in chemical treatment of the image. centuries, a long lost Biograph/Star, Nixon-Ford-Carter years, Paul important year of their lives and discovers, as the Bronx. — Phil Solomon Shown in a single-channel version Variety a Griffi th/Méliès co-production, a Williams Still Alive is certainly notes, “a nexus of corruption, exploita- that features three screens interact- Nocturne two-reeler left to us from, say, the one of the most entertaining tion and betrayal” that benefi ts everyone but ing, American Falls is an immersive the teenagers in this “engrossing exposé.” (PB) MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, Bronze Age, a time when images experience that will stand as one of fi lms in this year’s Festival. (JH) 1980, b/w, 16mm • 10 MIN 27 Rehearsals for Retirement

Pink Ribbons, Inc.

the most impressive achievements of ton and Klahr there is the shadow of Kren is here reconfi guring fi lm as the contemporary avant-garde. a story here, one which deals with the a medium in which time and space In a rare presentation, Solomon passage from innocence and experi- cease to be linear in any sense. The will also screen excerpts from a ence and invokes equally terror and fi lm is instead about totalities; it work-in-progress, Twilight Psalm ecstasy.” — Tom Gunning invites the viewer to think about the V: Valley of the Shadow, which was Twilight Psalm V: progress of time and the way it gener- made entirely from footage derived ally works in cinematic images, and from the video game Red Dead Re- Valley of the Shadow by contrast to process the multiple demption. Also on the program: The experimental • USA, 2012, color, HD projec- layered times implicit in each frame tion • 10 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Secret Garden, Solomon’s reworking DIRECTOR: PHIL SOLOMON of Asyl. This short is Kren’s fi nest of The Wizard of Oz. Phil Solomon work, with a conceptual purity and Excerpts from a work-in-progress inventiveness that are unmatched will introduce the program and an- with images derived from the video- swer questions in a post-screening even in his consistently intriguing game Red Dead Redemption. (JP) discussion. (JP) oeuvre.” — Ed Howard American Falls Phil Solomon Selects The Five Bad Elements Her Glacial Speed experimental • USA, 2010, color, HD projec- THU, APR 19 • 9:30 PM experimental • USA, 1997, b/w, 16mm • 32 MIN tion • 56 MIN UW Cinematheque “[LaPore’s fi lms] should be seen by DIRECTOR: PHIL SOLOMON anyone who cares about the cinema ture. At once a Valentine for a friend 70 MIN+ 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Pink Ribbons, Inc. American Falls, Phil Solomon’s and who cares about the way this im- and a section from the next install- epic cross-examination of 20th Cen- SECTION: PHIL SOLOMON PRESENTS age machine can display the world ment of the Byrd project, this fi lm SAT, APR 21 • 5:45 PM tury American history, begins with FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND we have made and, especially, the is composed of words from a 1924 Sundance Cinema 1 an image of Annie Edson Taylor, who In our fi rst program to feature special aspects we prefer to ignore or forget. instructional text, close-ups of dried SUN, APR 22 • 1:15 PM became the fi rst person to survive a guest Phil Solomon, the acclaimed Their courage matches their beauty tea bags sewn together into a quilt Orpheum Theatre plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel fi lmmaker introduces classic fi lms and found objects that refl ect light and their growing despair.” — Tom WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • in 1901. The idea of “falling,” both that have infl uenced him, some of Gunning from the past and cast shadows on Canada, 2011, color, HD projection • 98 MIN which were made as special gifts literal and metaphorical, becomes the Her Glacial Speed the future.” —David Gatten DIRECTOR: LÉA POOL guiding concept of this three-channel to Solomon himself. Perhaps most writers: Patricia Kearns, Nancy Guerin, Léa experimental • USA, 2001, b/w, 16mm • 4 MIN The Maltese Cross WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG installation, as Solomon applies his notably, this program will feature Pool; directors of photography: Daniel Jobin, trademark “image alchemy” (a pro- the Wisconsin premiere of Mark DIRECTOR: EVE HELLER Movement Sylvaine Dufaux, Nathalie Moliavko-Visotsky; cess that involves applying chemical LaPore’s dark, compelling The Five “The world as seen in a teardrop experimental • USA, 1967, color, 16mm • 7 MIN sound designer: Claude Beaugrand; producer: 2012 • solutions to fi lm emulsion) to images Bad Elements in a brand new print re- of milk. I set out to make a fi lm DIRECTOR: KEEWATIN DEWDNEY Ravida Din that somehow seem conjured from stored by the Academy Film Archive. about how unwitting constella- “The fi lm is organized around the Léa Pool’s provocative and eye-open- the collective unconscious. Begun at Solomon will follow Elements with tions of meaning rise to a surface of principle that it can only complete ing documentary on the politics of the dawn of the Bush era and com- his own fi lm for LaPore, Rehearsals understanding at a pace outside of itself when enough separate and dis- breast cancer philanthropy couldn’t pleted as Obama took offi ce, Ameri- for Retirement, a searing vision of worldly time. This premise became continuous sounds have been stored be more timely. This past January, can Falls is a magisterial, meticulous hell rendered entirely through the a self-fulfi lling prophecy. An un- up to provide the male voice on the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, one survey of the promise and failure of a videogame Grand Theft Auto. Also on expected interior began to unfold, soundtrack with the sounds needed of the world’s largest breast-cancer cracked American dream. (JP) the program are rarely screened fi lms made palpable by a trauma that re- to repeat a little girl’s poem: The fundraising organizations, ignited cross revolves at sunset / The moon a fi restorm of controversy when The Secret Garden by Kurt Kren (31/75: Asyl), Keewatin mains abstract.” — Eve Heller Dewdney (The Maltese Cross Move- returns at dawn / If you die tonight / it pulled its funding from Planned experimental • USA, 1988, color, 16mm • How to Conduct a Love 20 ment), Eve Heller (Her Glacial Speed), Tomorrow you are gone.” — William Parenthood, and shortly thereafter MIN Affair and David Gatten (How to Conduct a Wees announced a partnership with a gun DIRECTOR: PHIL SOLOMON experimental • USA, 2007, color, 16mm • 8 MIN Love Affair). (JP) Rehearsals for Retirement manufacturer to sell pink hand guns “As with Brakhage, one must DIRECTOR: DAVID GATTEN to promote breast cancer research. abandon oneself to the trance-like 31/75: Asyl “An unexpected letter leads to experimental • USA, 2007, color, digital pro- jection • 10 MIN Each year, organizations like Komen authority of a Solomon fi lm, and experimental • Austria, 1975, color, 16mm • an unanticipated encounter. Some DIRECTOR: PHIL SOLOMON raise millions of dollars in the name be sure-footed enough to follow a 9 MIN windows open easily; other shad- of breast cancer, but where does that DIRECTOR: KURT KREN “Had I known the end would end structure that relies on overtones as ows remain locked rooms. Advice money go and what does it actually “Asyl is one of Kren’s most formal- in laughter / I tell my daughter it well as melody, on sudden fl ashes of is sometimes easy to give, but often achieve? metaphor as much as narrative line. ly ambitious works, an experiment hard to follow. Have a cup of tea doesn’t matter...” — Phil Ochs, “Re- hearsals for Retirement” — Phil Solo- Featuring interviews with a wide

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN in time lapse photography, multiple The Secret Garden is one of Solomon’s dear: I’ll trade you a stitch from the array of voices from author Barbara 28 most exquisite fi lms. As with Thorn- exposures, and segmented images... past in return for a leaf from the fu- mon Putin’s Kiss Policeman (Ha-shoter)

Policeman (Ha-shoter) Putin’s Kiss Raiders of the Lost Ark: THU, APR 19 • 9:15 PM FRI, APR 20 • 1:15 PM The Adaptation Sundance Cinema 2 Union South Marquee SAT, APR 21 • 1:30 PM SUN, APR 22 • 11:00 AM SAT, APR 21 • 4:45 PM Orpheum Theatre Orpheum Theatre Sundance Cinema 2 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 1989, color, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documen- digital projection • 100 MIN + 60 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Israel, 2011, color, HD projection • 105 MIN tary • Denmark, 2011, color, HD pro- DIRECTOR: ERIC ZALA DIRECTOR: NADAV LAPID jection • 82 MIN SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT writer: Nadav Lapid; director of photog- DIRECTOR: LISE BERK PEDERSEN FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND raphy: Shai Goldman; sound design: Aviv cinematographer: Lars Skree; edi- In 1982, 12-year-old friends Chris Strompo- Aldema; casting: Amit Berlowitz; producer: tors: Janus Billeskov Jansen, Steen Itai Tamir; cast: Yiftach Klein, Yaara Pelzig, Johannsen; producers: Martin los and Eric Zala commenced production on a Michael Mushonov, Menashe Noi, Michael Dalgaard, Helle Faber nearly shot-for-shot remake of George Lucas Aloni, Gal Hoyberger, Meital Berdah, Shaul In Russian with English subtitles and ’s Raiders of the Lost Ark Mizrahi, Rona-Lee Shimon, Ben Adam Presented with the UW Center for in their own Mississippi backyards. Using In Hebrew with English subtitles Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central friends, family and pets for the cast, the two Presented with the UW Mosse/Weinstein Asia; and the UW Russian Flagship Center for Jewish Studies Center young men devoted their adolescence to this amazing labor of love. Today, the funny and As fragmented as the culture it A dramatic and very public inspiring story of their long and intrepid jour- depicts, this riveting dispatch from coming-of-age tale, Putin’s Kiss ney into fi lmmaking is itself being turned into the frontlines of Israeli politics takes is the story of Masha, a bright- a major movie and book project. the form of a diptych. The fi rst half eyed and ambitious 16-year-old Shot over a tumultuous period of seven studies an elite police squad, the who, when we fi rst meet her, years (which included moments that nearly second an anarchic Jewish terror- is a rising political star. She’s a prominent member of Nashi, ended the boys’ friendship), Raiders of the

ist cell. The two violently clash in WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Lost Ark: The Adaptation is a little miracle a tense fi nale at a billionaire’s wed- nominally an anti-fascist Rus- of fi lmmaking. Each replicated sequence is a ding. Although the premise is hotly sian youth group, whose mem- marvel of ingenuity from the rolling boulder topical, writer/director Nadav Lapid bers are expected to pledge to the blazing barfi ght to the depiction of the uses it as a jumping-off point for a their unswerving support to Washington bureaucrats. The project was profound exploration of cultural Vladimir Putin and his policies. shot entirely with early and primitive video identity and individual vanity. When anti-Putin groups hold Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation equipment (anyone remember Betamax?), The fi rst half’s domineering, public demonstrations for ex- and the occasional video drop-out and some- tightly knit group of SWAT-like ample, it’s Nashi who, through times bleached-out color is all part of the offi cers are dedicated to nothing calculated astroturfi ng, ensures Ehrenreich, whose Welcome to Can- based indie-rock band Juniper Tar entertainment or even, if you will, part of the so much as their own machismos. that there’s an even larger pro- cerland served as an inspiration to and Pennsylvania’s Strand of Oaks misè-en-scene. Their eventual foes are a group of Putin demonstration to drown the fi lmmakers, to Nancy Brinker, on a 10-day tour of the American Like Spielberg and Lucas’ version was for naïve rich kids-cum-rebels straight out the opposition. Komen’s CEO, Pink Ribbons, Inc. East Coast. The resulting fi lm is a these young kids, The Adaptation is positively out of late-1960s Godard. This is Pedersen’s compelling fi lm looks for answers and shows how document of the tour, but it sidesteps inspiring for anyone who ever dreamed of political cinema at its most cin- follows Masha over the course the devastating reality of breast can- many of the conventions associated making a feature fi lm and setting fi re to your ematically gripping and philosophi- of several years, documenting cer, which marketing experts have with the “rock doc,” providing little parents’ basement. It is more than a home cally potent. her rise in Nashi’s leadership labeled a “dream cause,” has become in the way of backstage drama or movie…it’s a burn-down-your-home movie! “It’s been a long time since a fi rst and her subsequent disillusion obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of interpersonal relationships. Instead, Adding to the fun, Chris Strompolos and feature has displayed such masterly with the party, which comes success. (TY) the fi lm pairs intimately rendered Eric Zala will be on hand to answer ques- direction as Nadav Lapid’s Police- soon after one of her good performance footage with observa- tions and tell the story of the making of their tional snatches of “down time,” high- man, such a sense of connection to friends, who happens to be an Please Remember Me 2012 • outspoken critic of Putin, is teenage action epic. (JH) (Que Se Acuerdes de Mí) lighting the sights and sounds the the fi lms of Godard, Bresson, Fass- bands encounter in their travels. binder, Kubrick, and Haneke, and violently beaten by “unknown

SEE: I Have Always Been a Dreamer WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Confi dently allowing their fi lm’s giving those more perceptive view- parties.” Along with Khodor- Rehearsals for ostensible subjects to fade in and out ers such a conviction of witness- kovsky , another selection of Retirement Points of Interest this year’s Festival, Putin’s Kiss of their surroundings, the fi lmmakers ing the arrival of an outstanding SEE: Phil Solomon Selects THU, APR 19 • 9:30 PM capture the feel of being on tour, from fi lmmaker while also discovering serves as an amazing portrait Union South Marquee the offhand anecdotes of coffeeshop a major fi lm as brilliant in formal of contemporary Russia. Win- Remains to Be Seen terms as in its ideas.” – Cinema ner of the World Cinematog- MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • USA, baristas to tadpoles in a stream to SEE: Phil Solomon: A Retrospective 2011, color, HD projection • 75 MIN campfi re sing-a-longs. This refresh- Scope . Winner of several prizes at raphy Award at the 2012 Sun- DIRECTOR: JON SALIMES, ANTHONY ingly unconventional rock documen- the Film Festival, and a dance Film Festival. (TY) LOPEZ Robert on His Lunch tary from the makers of The Death of Special Jury Prize at the Locarno sound/cinematography: Erik Ljung Triforce (WFF 2011) is as much about Film Festival. 2011 Cannes, New Radula Break SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN the joy of making music as the view York, London Film Festivals. (MK) SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and Other In the summer of 2010, a group of of the interstate from a van parked at and Other Experimental Shorts Experimental Shorts from Wisconsin’s Own fi lmmakers accompanied Milwaukee- from Wisconsin’s Own an adjacent gas station. (JP) 29 Memory by Design

The Salesman (Le Vendeur)

DIRECTOR: BILL BASQUIN Seis de Seis Robert on His Lunch The beauty of Madison in fall is nicely conveyed in Madison: October MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, Break and Other 2011, color, 16mm • 3 MIN 2010, shot within Troy Gardens on Experimental Shorts DIRECTOR: ANTONIO VARGAS Super 8 fi lm. (JP) wardrobe/art: Dawn Borchardt; cast: Erica from Wisconsin’s Own Memory by Design Thompson SAT, APR 21 • 11:00 AM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • experimental Fall into a color mirror world UW Cinematheque • USA, 2011, color, HD projection • 5 MIN where nothing is mundane in Seis de DIRECTOR: NATHAN PUNWAR 82 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Seis . (JP) cinematography: David Feeney-Mosier, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN Nathan Punwar; editor: Nathan Punwar; Sequence FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND music: Sam Pluta; cast: Kathleen Kyllo, Helen WORLD PREMIERE • experimental • USA, This program features cutting-edge Lueders, Alexia Rasmussen 2012, color, digital projection • 4 MIN experimental and animated fi lms SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN DIRECTOR: WM BEDFORD from Wisconsin fi lmmakers. Memory by Design is a dazzling Sequence locates a pastoral beauty 106 River Road love letter to all things analog as they in rural Dodge County. (JP) MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, recede into the horizon of the digital 2011, color, 16mm • 6 MIN age. (JP) The Salesman DIRECTOR: JOSH WEISSBACH Of a Feather (Le Vendeur) 106 River Road documents an ad- MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, THU, APR 19 • 6:30 PM dress, moving from literal to abstract 2011, color, digital projection • 10 MIN Sundance Cinema 2 in a metaphor for familial displace- DIRECTOR: ROB YEO SUN, APR 22 • 3:45 PM ment. (JP) Of a Feather is a lyrical portrait of Chazen Museum of Art After the Day After the vibrant force of life, fi lmed during American Homes the course of a year in a major North MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • Canada, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • experimental • 2011, color, 35mm • 105 MIN USA, 2011, color, HD projection • 6 MIN American wetland. (JP) DIRECTOR: SÉBASTIEN PILOTE DIRECTOR: NATHAN MELTZ off point for a cynical satire of the Ottawa Signal Films: writer: Sébastien Pilote; director of photogra- fi nancial crisis, but writer/director Seis de Seis After the Day After remakes a sec- phy: Michel La Veaux; sound: Gilles Corbeil, 5 Short Animations Sébastian Pilote’s debut feature is SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and tion of the 1983 post-nuclear made- Stéphane Bergeron, Olivier Calvert; producer: Other Experimental Shorts from far too sensitive for such reductive for-TV movie The Day After, retelling by J.J. Sedelmaier Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan; cast: Gilbert Sicotte, Wisconsin’s Own Jérémy Tessier, Jean-François Boudreau, theatrics. Instead, this perceptive the story of atomic devastation in a WISCONSIN PREMIERE • experimental • USA, 2010, color, digital projection • 6 MIN Pierre Leblanc, Nathalie Cavezzali fi lm recognizes the codependence Dada collage-meets-stop-animation DIRECTOR: J.J. SEDELMAIER In French with English subtitles of local economies, and serves as a Sequence style. (JP) In fi ve short animations, a fella SECTION: NEW QUEBECOIS CINEMA potent reminder of a not-so-distant SEE: Robert on His Lunch Break and Other Experimental Shorts from The End uses a machine-gun to create a work FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG past when workers were treated as Wisconsin’s Own MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, of art and confronts an interesting Presented with the Québec Government Offi ce individuals. The Salesman wisely in Chicago 2011, color, HD projection • 5 MIN dilemma. (JP) observes that, in this age of mass 2012 • DIRECTOR: JULIE WOLTERSTORFF Named Best Film about the Work- Seven Solos Radula layoffs, simply taking pride in one’s cast: Catron Booker, Julie Wolterstorff ing World at the 2011 Torino Film SUN, APR 22 • 11:30 AM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • experimental • work is becoming an antiquated no- “...And I try to fi nd meanings and Festival, this drama gives poignant tion. Union South Marquee USA, 2012, color, HD projection • 1 MIN commentary on the current reces- maybe there was none to be found or DIRECTOR: ERIC NELSON Nominated for fi ve Jutra Awards 88 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A sion. He may be an aging car sales- maybe I just never found it” in The music: ViBRATiONLAND (the Quebecois Oscar equivalent), SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN End. (JP) man in rural Quebec, but Marcel including Best Film and a much- Lovable snails cavort and frolic in a Levesque maintains a distinguished FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND Just Breathe ceramic-tiled wonderland in the ani- deserved Best Actor nod for star This program showcases three docu- air, sporting tidy suits and knowing Gilbert Sicotte. FIPRESCI Award, WORLD PREMIERE • experimental • USA, mated Radula. (JP) all his customers by name. He’s far mentary portraits from Wisconsin 2012, color, HD projection • 8 MIN 2011 and Torino Film Robert on His Lunch and away the dealership’s reigning fi lmmakers, although subject matters DIRECTOR: BOBBY GRYZYNGER Festivals. 2011 Sundance and Los and treatments vary dramatically. screenwriter: Bobby Gryzynger; director of Break sales champ, but Marcel is not one to Angeles Film Festivals. (MK) photography: Dylan Wilbur; sound design: MADISON PREMIERE • experimental • USA, rest on his laurels, and still rehearses American Homes Nick Good; music: Pat Reinholz; producers: his pitch into a dictaphone with 2010, color, digital projection • 24 MIN Same Day Nice WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • Bobby Gryzynger, Dylan Wilbur; cast: Bobby DIRECTOR: DAVE ANDRAE monklike dedication. USA, 2011, b/w, HD projection • 12 MIN Gryzynger, Ben Fox, Livy Baldwin writer: Dave Andrae; cast: Richard Goulis, His records are threatened when Biscotts DIRECTOR: BERNARD FRIEDMAN Just Breathe is a fragmented, ex- Dave Andrae, Mack Bates, Meg Turner the employees of the local paper mill SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts American Homes is an animated perimental narrative recalling a mo- The protagonist of Robert on His (the community’s main employer) go history of residential architecture in ment of confusion and alienation. (JP) Lunch Break is just trying to get a to- on strike, and Marcel fi nds himself The Secret Garden America, which unfolds while no- Madison: October 2010 go order of food, but he’s accosted by in the awkward position of trying to SEE: Phil Solomon: American Falls table fi gures in the world of design MIDWEST PREMIERE • experimental • USA, an interlocutor who proceeds to be- sell automobiles to the unemployed. and architecture weigh in on what a

WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN 2011, color, digital projection • 3 MIN rate him — perhaps telepathically. (JP) This may sound like the jumping- house is and can be. (JP) 30 Ottawa Signal Films: 5 Short Animations by J.J. Sedelmaier Documenting Westphal

Seis de Seis

Sleepless Night (Nuit Blanche)

Documenting Westphal Sleep Study packed Parisian nightclub, this pulse- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, documentary • USA, pounding policier charges out of the MADISON PREMIERE • SEE: Somebody Up There Likes Me 2011, color, HD projection• 20 MIN gate with a drug deal gone wrong, DIRECTOR: KURT RAETHER and then Does. Not. Let. Up. It’s 90 cinematography: Quinn Hester; editor: Kurt Sleepless Night minutes of sheer action-movie magic, Raether; producer: Kurt Raether (Nuit Blanche) replete with crooked cops, double- The 2010 Wisconsin gubernato- THU, APR 19 • 9:30 PM crossings, kidnappings, and expertly Somebody Up There Likes Me rial election was a tight race between Sundance Cinema 1 choreographed fi ghts. Working with Scott Walker and Tom Barrett, but cinematographer Tom Stern (who SAT, APR 21 • 9:30 PM Documenting Westphal shifts the at- has shot every Clint Eastwood fi lm Bohart, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos; pro- tention to a lesser known candidate: Orpheum Theatre since Blood Work ), director Frédéric Somebody Up There ducers: Nick Offerman, Hans Graffunder; cast: Frederick Westphal, an unforgettable WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • France, Jardin keeps both action and plot Likes Me Keith Poulson, Nick Offerman, Jess Weixler, character who gradually becomes 2011, color, HD projection • 102 MIN clearly intelligible and utterly en- Stephanie Hunt, Kevin Corrigan, Kate Lyn Sheil, Marshall Bell, Jonathan Togo, Megan more and more enmeshed with the DIRECTOR: FRÉDÉRIC JARDIN grossing — no small feat in this era of FRI, APR 20 • 10:00 PM writer: Frédéric Jardin, Nicolas Saada, Olivier Mullally, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Alex Ross (JP) Bourne -style hypercutting. Orpheum Theatre documentary crew profi ling him. Douyère; director of photography: Tom Stern; Perry, Andrew Bujalski, Bob Schneider Remake rights for Sleepless Night 80 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Seven Solos original music: Nicolas Errera, E DJ Yenn, Ionic Bob Byington, the fi lmmaker who Benton, Artaban; producer: Marco Cherqui, were snapped up by Warner Broth- FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • last brought us the 2010 WFF smash Lauranne Bourrachot; cast: Tomer Sisley, Serge ers and inevitably handed to serial USA, 2011, color, HD projection • 56 MIN Sleep Study Harmony and Me , returns with an- Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Joey Starr, Laurent DIRECTOR: DOUGLAS ROSENBERG remaker Roy Lee (producer of many narrative • USA, 2011, color, HD projection other cheerfully sardonic deadpan Stocker, Birol Unel, Lizzie Brochere, Samy Seghir, silly Americanized takes on J-hor- director of photography: Michael Eckblad; Dominique Bettenfeld, Adel Bencherif • 5 MIN comedy. Somebody Up There Likes Me ror), so here’s your chance to savor choreographers: Cynthia Adams, Heidi Latsky, In French with English subtitles DIRECTOR: KERRI LENDO, tells the everyman saga of Max (Bish- 2012 • Bebe Miller, June Watanabe, Elizabeth Streb, the original, pungent fromage before JOHN MERRIMAN op Allen musician and Harmony cast Molissa Fenley, Victoria Marks A thriller with all the boring parts it becomes Hollywood Velveeta. cast: Kerri Lendo, John Merriman veteran Keith Poulson), who agelessly cut out, Sleepless Night is the Ideal WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Seven Solos is a must-see for dance “ Sleepless Night doesn’t re-invent Sleep Study is a hilarious short Action Movie: a rocking, edge-of- glides through 35 years of adult life, afi cionados, following acclaimed the wheel, but, damn, it demonstrates fi lm from Austin-based writers and your-seat chase scene extended to dealing in his own nonplussed way dancer Li Chiao-Ping as she prepares perfectly how fast the wheel can go John Merriman and Kerri feature length. The perfect antidote with marriage, divorce, , to perform a concert of solos by seven when someone who knows what Lendo that shows what really hap- to so many yawn-inducing shoot-em- career successes, and failures, and his renowned postmodern choreogra- they’re doing is putting the pedal to pens when the lights go out. (JH) ups, this whirlwind of escapist may- ultimate fate. Along for most of the phers. This sensitive portrayal of the the metal while they turn the stereo hem is unencumbered by lame love Somebody Up There ride are his second wife, Lyla (Jess creative process also features exqui- up loud.” — James Rocchi, The Hitlist . interests, thudding comic relief, and Likes Me Weixler) and his short-term-memory- sitely rendered dance sequences. (JP) “A midnight screening of Sleepless the rest of the lazy pitfalls that regu- challenged sidekick Sal (Parks and Night woke me up more effectively WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, larly bog down Hollywood blockbust- 2012, color, HD projection • 75 MIN Recreation ’s Nick Offerman, who also than any cup of coffee I’ve ever had Singing Biscotts ers. Of course, it had to come from DIRECTOR: BOB BYINGTON served as the fi lm’s producer). in my life… if the Oscars added a Best SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts the unlikeliest of places: France. screenplay: Bob Byington; music by Chris Baio; Dryly funny, occasionally whimsi- Action Movie category, it would be a Unfolding almost entirely within a cinematography: Sean Price Williams; anima- cal, and sometimes enigmatic, Bying- shoo-in.” — Matt Singer, IFC . (MK) tion: Bob Sabiston; executive producers: Stuart ton’s movie unfolds within a series of 31 Two Years at Sea

So’s Your Old Man

common, banal locations: restaurant — what else? — booze. Fields may have performer Buck Henry) begin a kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms, been best-known for his cynical twang life-renewing journey as they try to cars, and tool sheds. What emerges and gin-soaked wisecracks, but he was understand as much of the counter- is a portrait of a life half-lived (or also an expert pantomime. Before mak- culture as they can experience. maybe a third-lived) made complete- ing it big in pictures, the teenaged Fields Their odyssey takes them to several ly engaging by a cast of charmers, cut his comedic teeth performing word- locales in 1970 Manhattan, then up- particularly the scene-stealing Offer- less routines in vaudeville houses and state to a Catskills resort where they man, Marshall Bell as Lyla’s embit- dime museums. His stage skills made take in a thrilling performance by the tered cop father, and Megan Mullally him a silent-screen natural, and this Ike and Tina Turner revue. Back on as an ineffectual shrink. (JH) delightful farce from director Gregory their own turf, the fi lm climaxes in two La Cava (My Man Godfrey , Stage Door ) unforgettable sequences: a society din- El Velador So’s Your Old Man shows Fields at his pre-sound-era best. ner turned pot party for rich parents of SUN, APR 22 • 8:15 PM It was later remade by Fields himself as runaways, and a strip poker sequence You’re Telling Me! in 1934. (JH) with Lynn and Larry’s new friends, a UW Cinematheque to maintain her secret identity swinging couple played by 70s TV vet- Tomboy 90 MIN through a gauntlet of typical ado- Suffering Biscuits erans Paul Benedict (Mr. Bentley of The FRI, APR 20 • 3:30 PM lescent activities now fraught with SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND Jeffersons ) and Audra Lindley (Mrs. REDISCOVERIES SEE: Luther Price: Biscuits and Biscotts Sundance Cinema 2 gender-revealing pitfalls: swimming, Roper of Three’s Company ). smooching, you name it. When the Pass the Gravy Borrowing from his own Czech SUN, APR 22 • 6:30 PM Taking Off Orpheum Theatre jig is fi nally up, Laure’s humiliation narrative • USA, 1928, b/w, 35mm • 23 MIN documentary, Audition (1964), For- WED, APR 18 • 9:00 PM narrative • France, 2011, color, HD projection is heartbreaking. DIRECTOR: FRED GUIOL, LEO MCCAREY man intercuts Lynn and Larry’s story As in her perceptive debut, Water Presented with the UW Mosse/Weinstein Union South Marquee with snippets of young women trying • 82 MIN Center for Jewish Studies and the UW DIRECTOR: CÉLINE SCIAMMA Lilies (WFF 2008) director Céline

WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG narrative • USA, 1971, color, 35mm • 93 MIN Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture out for an unnamed musical show DIRECTOR: MILOŠ FORMAN writer: Céline Sciamma; director of photogra- Sciamma demonstrates an uncanny or pop act, and among the fresh tal- phy: Crystel Fournier; sound design: Benjamin The program will begin with one screenplay: Miloš Forman, John Klein, John knack for elucidating the inner

2012 • ent are some now familiar faces like Laurent, Sébastien Savine, Daniel Sobrino; of silent comedy’s fi nest two-reelers, Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière; cinematography: thoughts of young girls. “A sensitive Carly Simon and actresses Jessica producer: Bénédicte Couvreur; cast: Zoé Leo McCarey and Fred Guiol’s Pass Miroslav Ondricek; producer: Alfred W. Crown; portrait of childhood just before pu- Heran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie cast: Buck Henry, Lynn Carlin, Linnea Heacock, Harper and Kathy “Bobo” Bates. Many the Gravy, starring the forgotten Cattani, Mathieu Demy, Yohan Véro, Noah bescence — when bodies and identi- Paul Benedict, Audra Lindley, Georgia Engel, of the absurd situations and slightly clown Max Davidson and the unfor- Véro, Cheyenne Lainé, Ryan Boubekri ties are still fl uid — Tomboy astutely Vincent Schiavelli, Allen Garfi eld, Ike Turner, surreal bursts of humor are quite pos- gettable looking Spec O’Donnell in a Tina Turner In French with English subtitles explores the freedom, however brief, tale of young love, family honor, and sibly the contributions of legendary of being untethered to the highly SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, Who hasn’t wanted to be someone stolen chickens. Both fi lms will fea- REDISCOVERIES else? Laure, a pencil-thin 10-year-old rule-bound world of gender codes. ture live piano accompaniment from who also penned several of Buñuel’s Sciamma shows a real gift for captur- Presented with UW Cinematheque Belle de Jour The Discreet with close-cropped hair, gets the the talented David Drazin. (JH) scenarios ( , ing kids at play, an arena that is si- Before his career really took off Charm of the Bourgeoisie ) during the chance when her family moves to a So’s Your Old Man with One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , new suburban development. Androg- multaneously anarchic and regiment- same era. Shockingly, this masterpiece ed. She and her cinematographer, narrative • USA, 1926, b/w, 35mm • Czech émigré director Forman made ynous enough that the suburban kids 67 MIN of 70s cinema has never been released Crystel Fournier, fi lm the August DIRECTOR: GREGORY LACAVA his American debut with this very mistake her for a boy, Laure takes the on home video in the United States, afternoons devoted to truth or dare, screenplay: J Clarkson Miller, Howard funny and observant generation-gap bait and runs with it, adopting the so don’t miss this rare chance to see capture the fl ag, soccer, and water Emmett Rogers, from the story Mr. Bisbee’s comedy. While searching for their a beautiful 35mm print on the big persona of “Mikael” and instantly Princess by Julian Street; cinematography: falling in as one of the guys. For a fi ghts as their own otherworldly time runaway hippie teenaged daughter screen! (JH) George Webber; cast: W.C. Fields, Charles Jeannie (Linnea Heacock), suburban brief summer, she enjoys an idyllic zone — idyllic, adult-free hours when “Buddy” Rogers, Alice Joyce, Kittens Reichert New York middle-class parents Lynn There Must Be a double life — beloved daughter and hierarchies are formed, toppled, and In what is maybe the fi nest of his Tyne (played by Lynn Carlin, who big sister at home, rambunctious boy reconfi gured.” — Melissa Anderson, silent feature fi lms, W.C. Fields plays received an Oscar nomination for her Better Way out with her friends. Village Voice . 2011 Berlin Film Festi- an inventor with an idea for a shatter- (MK) role in ’ Faces ) and SEE: Made in Wisconsin: Industrial Having painted herself into a val. WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN proof windshield and a penchant for Larry Tyne (veteran screenwriter/ Visions of the Badger State corner, Laure/Mikael struggles 32 Tomboy Vito

who roam El Jardin (the title trans- Two Years at Sea lates to the night watchman ), telling WED, APR 18 • 7:00 PM an ultimately gruesome and tragic Chazen Museum of Art story without ever showing a drop of WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • blood. Winner of numerous interna- United Kingdom, 2011, b/w, 35mm • 86 MIN tional festival awards and lauded for DIRECTOR: BEN RIVERS its cinematography, El Velador is “an Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at unsettlingly quiet, even lyrical fi lm the 2011 Venice International Film about a world made and unmade by Festival, Ben Rivers’ debut feature is violence” — A.O. Scott, The New York a mesmerizing portrait of a rural out- Times. (TY) sider that extends many of the con- cerns of his acclaimed avant-garde Vito shorts. The fi lm follows a man named Jake, who was also featured in Rivers’ FRI, APR 20 • 7:15 PM This Is My Land (2006). Jake lives in Bartell Theatre the forest, far from the demands of SAT, APR 21 • 9:00 PM modern urban living. Sundance Cinema 2 Rivers’ camera observes as he WISCONSIN PREMIERE • documentary • takes walks, builds rafts, and takes USA, 2011, color, b/w, video • 93 MIN up little projects, surviving on his + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A (2ND own and living his life as he chooses. SCREENING ONLY) Boasting stunning black-and-white DIRECTOR: JEFFREY SCHWARZ director of photography: David Quantic; cinematography, the fi lm attunes the editor: Philip Harrison; producers: Bryan viewer to Jake’s own sense of time; Singer, Jeffrey Schwarz, Philip Harrison, Lotti WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, hours pass and the seasons change, Pharriss Knowles but Jake stays true to a dream he FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND had as a young man at sea: to live his From his awakening after the 1969 life on his own terms. According to Stonewall riots to his death from Rivers, the fi lm has “at its core the AIDS at 44 in 1990, Vito Russo was relationship between a person and one of New York’s most outspoken the place they have chosen to live out and inspiring gay rights activists. He their life, and the deep connection played a pivotal role in the formative Taking Off there is between them.” (JP) years of several organizations, includ- ing the GAA (Gay Activists Alliance), El Velador which staged subversive works of A Tribute to the balletic moves, elegant tap dancing, of Rialto Releasing (distributor of THU, APR 19 • 9:30 PM protest performance art; GLAAD perfect rhythms, and jaw-dropping 2012 WFF selections It Always Rains Chazen Museum of Art (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against leaps, fl ips, and splits — along with a on Sunday and Went the Day Well?. Nicholas Brothers MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • Defamation), which fought for accu- SUN, APR 22 • 11:00 AM consummate grace and sly sense of Goldstein was a friend of the broth- Mexico, USA, 2011, color, digital projection rate representations of gays and les- UW Cinematheque humor — the Olympian brothers are ers, and writer and co-producer of a • 72 MIN bians in the media; and ACT UP (the in the end impossible to categorize. 1991 documentary on the team. (JH) DIRECTOR: NATALIA ALMADA narrative • USA, b/w, color, digital projection AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), a • 80 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Their fans have included Gene Kelly, cinematographer/producer: Natalia Almada; guerilla activist group. He was also a editors: Natalia Almada, Julien Devaux SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT Bob Fosse, Gregory Hines, George Twilight Psalm I: The prolifi c writer who authored The Cel- Balanchine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, In Spanish with English subtitles SPECIAL GUEST SCHEDULED TO ATTEND luloid Closet , the seminal exploration 2012 • , and Fred Astaire, Lateness of the Hour Presented with the UW Latin American, and critique of gay and lesbian repre- “The fabulous Nicholas Broth- Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program who called their Stormy Weather SEE: Phil Solomon: A Retrospective sentation in fi lm. ers, Fayard (1914–2006) and Harold A peaceful and poignant medita- WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM ‘staircase’ number the greatest musi- Director Jeffrey Schwarz, who (1921–2000), are among the greatest tion on violence, Natalia Almada’s cal sequence of all time.” — Bruce Twilight Psalm II: served as an assistant editor to Rob dancers of the 20th century. Despite haunting documentary chronicles the Goldstein. Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman on their racial hurdles, the self-taught African Walking Distance day-to-day life and transformation of This special tribute features clips fi lm version of The Celluloid Closet , American entertainers became one of SEE: Phil Solomon: A Retrospective the El Jardin Cemetery in the Mexi- of the aforementioned numbers, plus combines remarkable archival foot- the biggest musical acts of their time, can city of Culiacán. Dotting the cem- some of the brothers’ home mov- age with testimonies from those who headlining on Broadway, radio, tele- Twilight Psalm V: etery’s barren landscape are extrava- ies that in 2011 were selected for knew Russo best to craft a heartfelt vision, and in vaudeville and night- gant newly constructed mausoleums the National Film Registry by the Valley of the Shadow and moving portrait of a man and the clubs. Their dazzling, show-stopping that serve as the fi nal resting place Library of Congress. The program movements for which he fought. (TY) numbers in movies like Down Argen- (work-in-progress) will be presented by Bruce Goldstein, for many of Mexico’s fallen drug tine Way, Sun Valley Serenade, and SEE: Phil Solomon: American Falls Repertory Program Director at New lords. Almada elects not to focus on Stormy Weather made them inter- Walt York’s Film Forum and the Founder the dead, instead training her lens on national icons. Known for effortless the mourners and cemetery workers SEE: Nindy and Other Shorts from Wisconsin’s Own 33 Christmas Tree: A Story in Five Parts

Went the Day Well?

Went the Day Well? crisp, vigorous wit. Went the Day Well? questionable claim. contemplates some pretty grim stuff, We’re Not Broke ’s chief goal is to SAT, APR 21 • 9:15 PM but with equipoise, discipline and a expose the fact that U.S.-based multi- Chazen Museum of Art sense of humor that embody exactly national corporations frequently pay narrative • United Kingdom, 1942, b/w, 35mm the virtues it sets out to defend.” — nothing or next-to-nothing in U.S. in- • 92 MIN A.O. Scott, . (JH) come taxes while taking in billions of DIRECTOR: dollars annually from Americans who screenplay: Angus MacPhail, Diana Morgan, We’re Not Broke buy their products and services. By John Dighton, based on a story by Graham Wisconsin Greene; cinematography: Wilkie Cooper; edit- WED, APR 18 • 8:30 PM hiring lobbyists who pressure politi- ing: Sidney Cole; producer: Michael Balcon; Orpheum Theatre cians to create policies that protect cast: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, the 1%, these corporations are able to Marie Lohr, Harry Fowler, Elizabeth Allan, THU, APR 19 • 7:00 PM exploit tax loopholes that allow them Christmas Tree: ties of his age, balancing two confl ict- Frank Lawton, Thord Hird, Mervyn Johns, Sundance Cinema 1 to keep their billions while more and A Story in Five Parts ing identities as linguistics professor Basil Sydney, David Farrar and gay performer in Curtain Call. (JP) 88 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A more average citizens fall under the MADISON PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2011, SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND poverty line. color, digital projection • 12 MIN Pass the Salt, Please REDISCOVERIES The fi lm charts the history of this DIRECTOR: JAY HURST, MARC SLOBODA WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, Like It Always Rains on Sunday Wisconsin growing inequality. Filmed and ed- In the quirky Christmas Tree: A 2011, color, digital projection • 13 MIN also in this year’s Festival, Went the documentary • USA, 2012, color, HD projec- ited largely before last year’s historic Story in Five Parts, internal strife DIRECTOR: TATJANA NAJDANOVIC Day Well? is an unjustly neglected tion • 7 MIN DIRECTOR: PAUL IANNACCHINO, JR. events with the international Occupy threatens to divide a family as they writer: Jeffrey James Ircink; director 1940s British thriller from the usu- of photography: Matthew Boyd; editor: director of photography: Brian Alberth; editor: movement, it nonetheless captures prepare for the holiday season. (JP) ally comedy-driven Ealing Studios, Mark Yoshikawa; executive producers: Pat Carpenter a number of demonstrations (some that has been refurbished and re- Cornerman Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhada Mitchell, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN right here in Madison) that foreshad- released by one of the cinephile’s WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, Arthur Edstrom; associate producer: Gary WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG Wisconsin ow the happenings of late 2011, while Benser; producers:Tatjana Najdanovic, Max best friends, Rialto Pictures. A quaint : This is what democracy 2011, color, digital projection • 8 MIN looks like! (JH) providing an easy-to-understand con- DIRECTOR: DAVID EISENBERG Maksimovic, Diana Jackson,; cast: Fionnula wartime English village populated Flanagan, Seymour Cassel

2012 • text for all of the protests. (JH) by the usual stereotypes (gossipy We’re Not Broke screenplay: Matt Binetti, David Eisenberg; director of photography: Paul Helzer; produc- Legendary actors Fionnula Flana- civil servants, a timid spinster, a nosy MIDWEST PREMIERE • documentary • USA, Wid Winner & the ers: Matt Binetti, David Eisenberg; narrator: gan and Seymour Cassel star in the hi- vicar, a suspicious constable, etc.) is 2012, color, HD projection • 81 MIN Pascal Yen-Pfi ster; cast: Jon Higgins, Eddie larious Pass the Salt, Please, in which suddenly infi ltrated by undercover DIRECTOR: KARIN HAYES, Mata, Dana Covarrubias, Samantha Anderson VICTORIA BRUCE Slipstream a couple’s dinner repartee quickly Nazis. When the Germans begin gun- Ives, Ronin Babbitt, Erika Rupp, Leer Leary. cinematography: Bryan Litt; ditor: Cindy Lee; SEE: Wid Winner and Other Shorts from morphs into a scene ripped straight ning down citizens in cold blood, the executive producer: Charles G. Davidson; as- Wisconsin’s Own Cornerman is a surreal drama from the script of an adult fi lm. (JP) villagers react quickly with vigilance sociate producer: Paul Rachman; producers: about a man who accidentally climbs and sometimes shocking violence. Karin Hayes, Victoria Bruce into the ring with his enraged boxing Wid Winner & the Wid Winner and Slipstream What begins as an observant com- During this time of economic Other Shorts from trainer, spawning a series of troubling edy of manners suddenly becomes a recession, spending cuts and new memories from his past. (JP) WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2010, color, digital projection • gripping World War II thriller, but political policies have led to the di- Wisconsin’s Own Curtain Call 50 MIN it’s all much more than just propa- DIRECTOR: ALEX O. GAYNOR minishing or elimination of, among SAT, APR 21 • 4:15 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, ganda in the hands of the masterful cinematographer: Chris Tonkovich; music: other things, public services and the Monona Terrace 2012, color, digital projection • 12 MIN Alexander Wright; cast: James Sheldon, fi lmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti, a Bra- DIRECTOR: SARAH ELIZABETH MINTZ rights of ordinary workers. We might 94 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A Alexander Wright, Erin Allin O’Reilly zilian émigré working in England. believe the oft-cited cry of politicians writer: Sarah Elizabeth Mintz; director of SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN Wid Winner & the Slipstream is the “The chance to see this rarity is an and pundits that these cuts and poli- photography: Jake Saner; gaffer: David Pejic; FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND quirky, blue-collar story of an auto opportunity to indulge in the sort of cies are necessary because “we’re executive producer: Deborah Reinisch; This program features fi ve narrative producer: Paulina Lerma-Trillo; cast: Alfred parts store worker who teams up with cinematic ecstasy that makes us ob- broke.” This inspiring and revealing short fi lms, all of which were made Gingold, Jesse Miller Gordon, Rhonda Keyser, a traveling inventor on a cross-country sessed with movies in the fi rst place.” new investigatory documentary asks by exciting newcomers with Wiscon- Jimmy Allen roadtrip in search of forgiveness, re- — David Fear, Time Out New York . us to reconsider this seemingly un- Seymour Jeffreys, a 65-year-old demption, and enough used auto parts WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, 18–22, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN “Cavalcanti handles the story with sin ties. 34 drag queen, struggles with the reali- to build a time machine. (JP) We’re Not Broke

and all the more so considering that, for Wisconsin much of the crew, this is their fi rst feature, SEE: We’re Not Broke including writer/director Mark Jackson, Cutline for fi lm picture here cinematographer Jessica Dimmock, and Wish Me Away star Jensen. FRI, APR 20 • 3:15 PM Winner of the Special Jury Prize at its Union South Marquee 2011 Slamdance premiere, Without has gone on to pick up a host of awards at inter- SAT, APR 21 • 7:00 PM national festivals, including Best Director Sundance Cinema 2 at Thessaloniki and Best Actress at Mar de ©Anton Grassl/Esto MADISON PREMIERE • documentary • USA, 2011, Plata. Most recently, Jackson’s fi lm earned color, HD projection • 96 MIN DIRECTOR: BEVERLY KOPF, BOBBIE BIRLEFFI him the Someone to Watch Award at the producers: Rhonda Eiffe, Richard Bever, Beverly 2012 Independent Spirit Awards. 2011 Lo- 750 University Ave. | chazen.wisc.edu Kopf, Bobbie Birleffi carno, Vancouver, BFI London, and Seattle | | In 2010, Chely Wright became the fi rst Film Festivals. (MK) Tues, Wed, Fri: 9–5 Thur 9–9 Sat–Sun: 11–5 country music star to come out as a lesbian, Closed Mon | Free Admission risking her career and adoring fans in the Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes process. Wish Me Away follows Wright for SEE: Phil Solomon: A Retrospective the three years leading up to her announce- ment, as she struggles to come to terms with Yiting Eating her own identity and brace herself for the SEE: Nindy and Other Shorts from Wisconsin’s country music world’s reaction to her com- Own ing out. With incredible access to Wright, The Heart of Madison her intimate video diaries, and her inner cir- The Zone cle of friends and confi dents, the fi lmmakers THU, APR 19 • 10:00 PM weave an empowering story of transforma- A key champion of the arts, The Madison Concourse Hotel is Bartell Theatre tion and liberation. Winner of numerous festival awards, including the Grand Jury MIDWEST PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2011, color, HD projection • 71 MIN + 30 MIN POST-FILM Q&A ALWAYS Award for Best Documentary Feature at the DIRECTOR: JOE SWANBERG

2011 Los Angeles Film Festival. (TY) screenplay: Joe Swanberg; cinematography: Joe WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 18–22, Swanberg, Adam Wingard; produced by Joe in tune with making your stay with us a feast for the senses. Our ideal Without Swanberg; cast: Lawrence Michael Levine, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, Joe location in the heart of downtown Madison puts you in the front SUN, APR 22 • 11:15 AM Swanberg row of this city’s art scene–that is if you can draw yourself away from your Bartell Theatre FILMMAKER SCHEDULED TO ATTEND WISCONSIN PREMIERE • narrative • USA, 2011, With this sexually explicit meta-movie, color, HD projection • 87 MIN the prolifi c and infl uential Midwest-based ROOM DIRECTOR: MARK JACKSON fi lmmaker Joe Swanberg concludes his tril- writer: Mark Jackson; director of photography: Jessica Dimmock, Diego Garcia; art director: ogy of self-refl exive fi lms that began with and its Comfort CollectionTM bedding, or our restaurant and Alisarine Ducolomb; producer: Mark Jackson, Jessica Silver Bullets and continued in Art History . Dimmock, Michael Requa, Jaime Keeling; cast: Joslyn Another look at the inter-personal relation- newly renovated bar, or Jensen, Ron Carrier, Darren Lenz, Bob Sentinella, ships that develop among cast and crew Piper Weiss, Jodi Long, Brooke Bundy, Kristine during the fi lmmaking process, The Zone ’s Haruna Lee fi rst half is an ultra low-budget reworking FOR On the ferry out to the island where she’s of Pasolini’s classic Teorema : an outsider taken a temporary job caring for an elderly, (Kentucker Audley) visits the home of a heightened hospitality–the Governor's Club. But when you do step catatonic man, 19-year-old Joslyn loses young couple and their friend ( Green cast her cell signal. Alone in an isolated house members Lawrence Michael Levine, Sophia outside, there's the Overture Center, galleries, music venues, theatre, the Capitol with the nonresponsive, wheelchair-bound Takal, and Kate Lyn Sheil) and proceeds to and shops on State Street. For the longest running performance in support of Frank and without an connec- seduce all of them. tion to distract her, Joslyn, alone with her The fourth wall recedes in the second 2012 • thoughts (a rare state in this age), begins to half, revealing a fi lmmaker-in-crisis (played ART unravel. Things don’t stay where she left by Swanberg, naturally) as he attempts to , WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM them; Frank seems to appear around every navigate the treacherous terrain of direct- you’ll come to love our leading role. corner. Is Frank really as vegetative as he ing sex scenes featuring actors who are his seems, or is Joslyn’s mind playing tricks personal friends. Swanberg’s disarmingly on her? A haunting variation on Gaslight , loose and improvisational style is the stamp Without is both an enveloping psycho- of an artist who is genuinely curious about drama and an eerie demonstration of our how and why some movies are made. His reliance on technology to keep ourselves work continually invites the audience to placated—and possibly even sane. join in on the artistic process and go be- 1 W. Dayton St. 800 356 8293 Beautifully shot in extremely shallow yond just watching. 2011 AFI Film Festival. Downtown Madison concoursehotel.com depth-of-fi eld and hinging on a mesmer- (JH) izing lead performance by Joslyn Jensen, Without is incredibly assured all around, 35 full prescription pharmacy The Québec Government Office in Chicago salutes vitamins & minerals Québec cinema at the herbal medicine Wisconsin Film Festival homeopathic remedies and is the proud sponsor of Le Vendeur (The Salesman) locally made body care by Sébastien Pilote Monsieur Lazhar safer sex supplies by Philippe Falardeau delicious organic chocolates En terrains connus (Familiar Grounds) by Stéphane Lafleur healthy snacks & beverages Bestiaire friendly, knowledgeable staff by Denis Côté Bon cinéma!

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Franklin St. ADVANCE TICKET SALES BEGIN Lake Mendota N. Carroll St. E. Gorham St. MEMORIAL E. Mifflin St. AT NOON SATURDAY, MARCH 31 UNION Hancock St. Langdon St. E. Johnson St. AND END AT 6 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 17 St. N. Hamilton E. Washington Ave. E. Dayton N. Henry St. Bartell See “At-the-Fest Sales” for Memorial Concourse Theatre Hotel buying tickets during the festival. Union Orpheum STATE Webster St. Langdon St. CAPITOLPinckney St. E. Main St. ORDER ONLINE AT Theatre

STATE STREET. King St. wifilmfest.org Lake St. Park St. Park Carroll St. BOX OFFICE / WILL-CALL LOCATION Chazen MMoCA Main St. MLKing Jr. Blvd. Annex Room, 2nd floor, Memorial Union, Museum Doty St. of Art Gorham St. 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706 W. Gilman St. W. Fairchild St. (608) 265-2933 during box office hours University Ave. Broom St. BOX-OFFICE HOURS FOR ADVANCE TICKET UW Johnson St. W. SALES, MARCH 31 – APRIL 17: Cinematheque Monday through Friday: Noon to 6 pm W. Johnson St. Henry St. W. Dayton St. Saturday: 11 am to 3 pm Sundays: CLOSED Mifflin St.Lake Mendota W.

Marion St. Bassett St. Online orders placed by noon, Thursday, April 12 will W. Dayton St. St. S. Hamilton Monona be mailed except for student ticket orders, which will Terrace W. Washington Ave. be held at the Box Offi ce for pick-up. University Ave. enlarged W. Doty St. N. Frances St. N. Frances Main St. Midvale Blvd. area Lake Monona Online orders placed after noon April 12 through 6 pm W. W. Wilson St. JohnJ Nolen Dr. Sundance Randall Ave. April 17 will be held for will-call pick up at the Festival Union Johnson St. Box Offi ce. Will-call tickets are ONLY available at the Cinemas South Festival Box Offi ce, NOT at individual theaters. Lake Mendota ticket sales WILL-CALL DETAILS: During the festival, the Festival Box Offi ce, in the Memo- rial Union, is open for will-call pick-ups only. No tickets THEATERS PARKING UW-MADISON CAMPUS start saturday are sold from this box offi ce during the Festival. Lecture Hall, Level 4. Enter from West MONONA TERRACE http://transportation.wisc.edu/ Wilson Street, at the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive. BOX OFFICE HOURS FOR WILL-CALL parking/lotinfo.aspx DURING THE FESTIVAL, APRIL 18 – APRIL 22: BARTELL THEATRE 113 E. Miffl in Street MONONA TERRACE Thursday & Friday: Noon to 9 pm Entrances eastbound John Nolen Drive, March 31 MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MMOCA) or Carroll Street (at West Wilson Street) Saturday: 10 am to 9 pm 227 State Street. Enter through the Rotunda between Overture Sunday: 10 am to 6 pm Center and MMoCA. No food or drink in the theater. CITY RAMPS www.cityofmadison.com/parkingutility/maps/Downtown.cfm Ticket-holders must arrive 15 minutes before ORPHEUM THEATRE 216 State Street a show to be guaranteed a seat. CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART 800 University Avenue. Enter FESTIVAL HOTEL ADVANCE TICKET PRICES the new (east) building from the East Campus Mall. No food or MADISON CONCOURSE HOTEL & GOVERNOR’S CLUB 1 TO 4 TOTAL TICKETS, PRICE PER TICKET: drink in the theater. 1 W. Dayton St., Madison • ConcourseHotel.com Madison’s premier downtown destination is just steps away from the festival theaters. $8 general $5 student UW CINEMATHEQUE Room 4070, Vilas Hall, 821 University Soak up the fun in the indoor pool, hot tub, and fi tness center. Enjoy live jazz Avenue. (Corner of University & Park). The Cinematheque en- 5 TO 8 TOTAL TICKETS, PRICE PER TICKET: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night in The Bar. Please call (800)356-8293 trance is on the 4th-fl oor plaza, $7 general $4.75 student or (608)257-6000 and ask for the Wisconsin Film Festival rate! the same level of the pedestrian bridge that crosses University 9 TO 12 TOTAL TICKETS, PRICE PER TICKET: Ave. No food or drink in the theater. $6.50 general $4.50 student VISITING MADISON & WISCONSIN 1308 W. Dayton Street. The 13 OR MORE TOTAL TICKETS, PRICE PER TICKET: UNION SOUTH MARQUEE (800)373-6376, VisitMadison.com Marquee is on the second fl oor. GREATER MADISON CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU $6.25 general $4.25 student UW-MADISON CAMPUS VISITOR CENTER There is a per-order charge of $4 for online, SUNDANCE CINEMAS 430 N. Midvale Boulevard. Inside Red Gym, 716 Langdon St., (608)263-2400, or Visit.Wisc.edu. phone, or mail orders. the Hilldale Mall, cinemas 1 and 2 WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM (800)432-TRIP (8747), or TravelWisconsin.com

STUDENT DISCOUNT: Available to any student (high school, college, etc.) with valid, current student ID. Bring your ID to the box offi ce when you place your order. For 6. CASH, CHECK, MASTERCARD, VISA, DISCOVER, DURING THE FESTIVAL, tickets are ONLY sold at line. Cash or vouchers may be used to buy rush tickets. online and phone orders, we’ll hold your tickets at the AMEX ACCEPTED. All sales are fi nal (although indi- the theaters, NOT at the Festival Box Offi ce, which is Having a voucher is not a guarantee of a seat or prefer- Festival Box Offi ce; you must present student ID at time vidual tickets can be exchanged at the Festival Box open for will-call pick-ups only. Tickets for are avail- ence in line; it’s just used in lieu of cash. Limit two rush of pickup. Subject to verifi cation. Offi ce through April 17). No returns, refunds, or re- WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG able at the theater where the fi lm will be shown. The tickets per patron. First in line, fi rst seated. ORDERING TICKETS placements for lost tickets. No refunds for vouchers. individual theater box offi ces open an hour before the fi rst fi lm of the day at that theater. Cash or ticket vouch- MORE IMPORTANT DETAILS 2012 • 1. PICK YOUR FILMS using this guide, or online at WHAT’S A VOUCHER? ers are accepted for sales during the Festival (no checks wifi lmfest.org. you can exchange for a ticket. ARRIVE EARLY: To guarantee admittance, ticket- A VOUCHER IS A COUPON or credit cards). 2. ADVANCE TICKET SALES begin at noon on Saturday, You can order vouchers just like regular tickets (look holders must arrive 15 minutes before the show. Late- March 31, and end at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 17. Or- under “V” in the fi lm guide), and exchange them later. RUSH TICKETS comers with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. ders may be placed in person at the Box Offi ce, by Sometimes vouchers are issued if the Box Offi ce needs WANT TO SEE A SOLD-OUT SHOW? ALL TICKETS SALES ARE FINAL. telephone, or online. At busy times, the Festival Box to resolve a problem with your order and tickets for your YOU CAN! (ALMOST ALWAYS.) No refunds or replacements for lost tickets. Offi ce may not be able to accept phone orders. You preferred fi lm are no longer available. “SOLD OUT” MEANS tickets allotted for advance No refunds for vouchers. may send an order by mail, but if tickets are no lon- VOUCHERS NEED TO BE EXCHANGED for a “real” ticket purchase have sold. As tickets go on sale, we set aside ger available for your selections, the Box Offi ce will printed for a specifi c fi lm program. You can make an a handful of tickets for fi lmmakers to share with their FILM TICKETS CAN BE EXCHANGED in person substitute vouchers (see “What’s a Voucher?” below). exchange at the Festival Box Offi ce through Tuesday, crew, to anticipate any changes in theater capacity, and only through 6 p.m. April 17 at the Festival Box Offi ce 3. AT THE BOX OFFICE: Check at the box offi ce for the April 17, or at the theaters during the festival. Vouchers to resolve any errors. Also, some people buy tickets to a at the Memorial Union. Absolutely no fi lm-ticket ex- list of fi lms that may be sold-out. on their own are not good for entry into a theater, nor fi lm but are not able to make it to the show. Open seats changes after April 17. do they guarantee you a seat – you must fi rst exchange 4. ONLINE: Follow the instructions for ordering tickets can be fi lled right before the start of the fi lm. Ticket- at wifi lmfest.org. them for a real ticket. No refunds are given for vouchers, holders must arrive at least 15 minutes before a show to MANY FESTIVAL FILMS but you may give them to family and friends. be guaranteed a seat. 5. ONLINE ORDERS PLACED BY NOON ON THURSDAY, ARE NOT RATED. APRIL 12 WILL BE MAILED. Online orders placed after AT-THE-FEST SALES EACH THEATER HAS A RUSH-TICKET LINE, and Viewer and parental discretion advised. noon April 12 through 6 pm April 17 will be held for ALL TICKETS SOLD AT INDIVIDUAL THEATERS a ticket-holders line. If no tickets are available at that will-call pick up at the Festival Box Offi ce. Will-call DURING THE FESTIVAL ARE $8 GENERAL theater’s box offi ce, join the rush-ticket line. It’s wise FESTIVAL SCHEDULE tickets are ONLY available at the Festival Box Offi ce, AND $5 STUDENT, CASH ONLY. STUDENTS to come 30 minutes before the show, but it depends on SHOULD BRING THEIR SCHOOL ID. IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

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