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historical event as a backdrop to a 20,000 Days on Earth more intimate, personal story. The SUN, APR 6 • 8:15 PM emotional unpredictability of her two Union South / The Marquee protagonists (fully embodied by the MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • terrific Dosch and Macaigne) yields • 95 MIN UK, 2014, Color, HD Projection considerable amounts of both humor Director: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard; Producer: James Wilson, Dan Bowen; Editor: Jonathan and suspense. (JH) Amos; Cinematographer: Erik Wilson; Music by: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis; Cast: Nick Cave SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL All About the Feathers DOCUMENTARIES Por las Plumas Nick Cave is one of our last great rock SAT, APR 5 • 12:00 PM stars. For nearly 40 years, his thun- UW Cinematheque derous baritone has roared across SUN, APR 6 • 4:15 PM bone-rattling postpunk and mournful Sundance Cinema 5 murder ballads, delivering literary MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • lyrics with a distinctly Old Testament Costa Rica, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 85 MIN LM Age of Panic sense of drama. Brandishing a dark Director: Neto Villalobos; Screenwriter: Neto wit, roguish swagger, and an abso- Winner of the Best Documentary nancy until her character’s arc was La Bataille de Solférino Villalobos; Producer: Neto Villalobos; Editor: Directing and Best Documentary complete, then quit acting to raise FRI, APR 4 • 7:00 PM Neto Villalobos; Cinematographer: Nicolas lutely commanding stage presence, Wong; Music by: Florian Droids; Cast: Allan Cave is a born entertainer, a breed Editing Awards at the 2014 Sundance her kids in Beacon, New York. After Sundance Cinema 5 Cascante, Sylvia Sossa, Marvin Acosta, Erlan • 877.963.FI fast becoming extinct amid the timid, Film Festival. As best we can tell, years spent playing mom and wife, MON, APR 7 • 4:15 PM Vasquez RG fingerpicking politesse of contem- Cave has never performed in Madi- she’s ready for other roles—but as Sundance Cinema 5 IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
T.O SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA porary indie rock. With 20,000 Days son, so to call this essential viewing she reignites her career, her meticu- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • on Earth, this singer/songwriter/au- for fans is an understatement. (MK) lously constructed domesticity begins France, 2013, Color, DCP • 94 MIN Chalo loves his rooster. A lanky,
MFES thor/actor/screenwriter gets a genre- to unravel. This intensely intimate Director: Justine Triet; Screenwriter: Justine lonely security guard with dreams Triet; Producer: Emmanuel Chaumet; Editor: defying documentary that matches AB- documentary explores some of life’s of breaking into cockfighting, Chalo IFI L Damien Maestraggi; Cinematographer: Tom most universal and unsolvable di- buys Rocky from the grocer in his W his restless ambitions and relentless SEE: Coherence Harari; Cast: Laetitia Dosch, Vincent Macaigne, creativity. On one level, co-directors lemmas: How best to balance one’s Arthur Harari, Virgil Vernier sleepy Costa Rican town. But he can’t Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard capture career and family? For which roles IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES bring himself to make Rocky fight, Cave’s creative process, as he writes, Actress we we are best suited? To what ex- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA so instead of putting his rooster in re-writes, records, and performs with THU, APR 3 • 6:30 PM tent are we playing ourselves? Burre On May 6, 2012, France holds their the ring, Chalo pampers him. He 3–11, 2014 • 2014 3–11, the Bad Seeds. This is complimented UW Elvehjem is a captivating screen presence, and Presidential elections and crowds sleeps with Rocky, has his portrait by a staged (but not scripted) depic- FRI, APR 4 • 2:15 PM her emotional frankness through an throng Rue Solférino, location of the taken, generally dotes on him like, APRIL tion of Cave’s 20,000th day, a psycho- incredibly turbulent time makes for headquarters of the Socialist Party well, most of us do with our dogs.
• Sundance Cinema 1 dramatic whirlwind that ranges from DIRECTOR ROBERT GREENE AND ACTRESS a singularly powerful portrait of a and their candidate, François Hol- Before long, Chalo and Rocky find snippets of his home life to a session BRANDY BURRE SCHEDULED TO APPEAR woman attempting to take charge of lande. Among the journalists there is themselves in the center of one odd
DISO N with his shrink to road-trip conversa- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • her life. Director Robert Greene uses Laetitia (Laetitia Dosch), who, in or- little crew: there’s Chalo’s weird A USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 91 MIN a revolutionary combination of film- der to cover the event live on televi- coworker, who wants to rename tions with collaborators including Director: Robert Greene; Producer: Douglas • M sion, has entrusted her two daughters Bad Seed Warren Ellis (also of the Tirola, Susan Bedusa; Editor: Robert Greene; making methods to arrive at an origi- the rooster “Apocalypse;” the kid Dirty Three) and fellow Australian Cinematographer: Robert Greene nal work of pure cinema. A brilliant to a babysitter and warned him not to from the bus who composes a theme IVAL SECTION: OPENING NIGHT SELECTION, NEW let in the girls’ father, Vincent (Vin- T megastar Kylie Minogue. The result inquiry into how our personas are song for Rocky on the trumpet; and is both a compelling portrait of the AMERICAN CINEMA constructed, and how much we can cent Macaigne), if he shows up. Natu- the Avon saleslady who provides a An actress gives the performance of author the stories of our lives, Actress rally, nothing goes as planned and the refuge for Rocky when the rooster
M FES act of creation and a print-the-legend celebration of an icon well on his her life in this visionary documen- is as unpredictable and dramatic as scene is set for a showdown between becomes homeless. By the end of All way to living legend status. This daz- tary about the roles we take on, and life itself. (MK) the two estranged parents amidst the About the Feathers, you will wish you zling and multifaceted portrait of the the ones we construct for ourselves. happenings of this important day in had friends like these. Deadpan to artist at 54, as Time Out critic David When she got pregnant, Brandy Afronauts history. Talented writer/director Jus- the bone, this screwy yarn is greatly Burre’s career was just taking off Calhoun wrote from the Berlin Film SEE: tine Triet has made a memorable fea- enriched by a perfectly cast batch of N FI L ISCONSI Shorts from Mars with a plum role in the seminal HBO ture debut, evoking Haskell Wexler’s W Festival, “puts most music films to non-actors. “Cultivates a dry comic 8 shame. Inventive and inspiring.” series The Wire. She hid her preg- Medium Cool in her use of an actual style reminiscent of early Jim Jar- Age of Panic Actress
The Auction Approaching the Elephant American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs musch: cockeyed, minimalist and master Agnes Godard (Sister, WFF in the ability of individuals to com- trigger daylong summits in which neglectful brothers by their father. affectionately attentive to behavioral 2013) winds along with the cast’s pletely change and transform their the kids debate and renegotiate the One of Gaby’s two daughters, Marie quirks—both human and avian. Think crisscrossing movements throughout own minds, Grace Lee Boggs remains school’s still-in-progress structure. As (Lucie Laurier), visits and announces of it as a bromance between a man the apartment. Sainte-Luce’s promis- as feisty as ever as she approaches freedom gives way to anarchy, even her plans to get a divorce. When and his rooster.” (Diana Sanchez, ing debut has already won top prizes her centennial. This fast-paced and the school’s idealist young founder Marie asks for a loan so she can keep Toronto International Film Festival) at the 2013 Locarno, Toronto, Gijon, sometimes critical portrait, loaded begins to question whether they will her city home, Gaby agrees to help. (MK) Mar del Plata, and Baja Film Festi- with lots of great historical footage of see a second year. This frankness is He begins selling off his farmland, vals. (MK) the Boggses, is irresistibly inspiring. part of what makes Wilder’s film so equipment, and livestock, putting an The Amazing Catfish Audience Award, 2013 Los Angeles refreshing—this is not a whitewashed end to the only way of life he has ever American Film Festival (JH) inspirational story about educa- known. Though one of Pilote’s refer- Los insólitos peces gato tion reform. This is reality: messy, ence points is Shakespeare’s King FRI, APR 4 • 2:30 PM Revolutionary: Another Song difficult, and riveting, a candid dis- Lear (Gaby’s other, more loyal daugh- UW Elvehjem The Evolution of patch from the frontlines of radical ter is an actress rehearsing the part SAT, APR 5 • 4:45 PM About the Sea childrearing that captures both the of Cordelia), there is not much that Sundance Cinema 5 Grace Lee Boggs SEE: Of Vodka, Water & Mannequins incredibly hard work of teaching, and is stormy or thunderous in his story- Feature • Narrative • Mexico, 2013, Color, DCP SAT, APR 5 • 6:30 PM the incredibly hard work of being a telling style. Instead, he directs in a WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • 89 MIN UW Chazen Museum of Art Approaching the kid. In line with the school’s egali- gentle, quietly heartbreaking fashion. Director: Claudia Sainte-Luce; Screenwriter: tarian ideology, Approaching the El- The beautiful, widescreen images of Claudia Sainte-Luce; Producer: Geminiano SUN, APR 6 • 1:15 PM Elephant Pineda; Editor: Santiago Ricci; Cinematogra- UW Chazen Museum of Art ephant is a rare film about education Gaby’s farm serve as melancholic re- pher: Agnès Godard; Music by: Madame Re- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary SAT, APR 5 • 4:30 PM in which we listen to the students as minders that when it’s gone, it’s gone. camier; Cast: Ximena Ayala, Lisa Owen, Sonia much as the teachers. This is what Nothing will come of nothing. (JH) Franco, Wendy Guillén • USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 82 MIN Sundance Cinema 1 IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Director: Grace Lee; Producer: Grace Lee, democracy looks like. (MK) Caroline Libresco, Austin Wilkin; Editor: Kim SUN, APR 6 • 1:30 PM SECTION: NEW MEXICAN CINEMA Roberts; Cinematographer: Quyen Tran, Jerry UW Elvehjem Before You A warm and uncommonly moving Henry; Music by: Vivek Maddala DIRECTOR AMANDA ROSE WILDER SCHEDULED Atomic Dream SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own film about finding one’s home in the SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA, NEW TO APPEAR SEE: Shorts from Mars unlikeliest of places, The Amazing INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • USA, 2014, B&W, HD Projection • 89 MIN Best of the Catfish has picked up awards at fes- In 2005, filmmaker Grace Lee re- Director: Amanda Rose Wilder; Producer: Jay The Auction tivals across the globe. Claudia and leased The Grace Lee Project (WFF Craven, Robert Greene; Editor: Robert Greene; British Arrows 2006), an essay-documentary where Le Démantèlement Martha meet in adjacent hospital Cinematographer: Amanda Rose Wilder SUN, APR 6 • 11:30 AM Lee interviewed several subjects SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL beds—twentyish Claudia is in for ap- SUN, APR 6 • 11:30 AM UW Chazen Museum of Art pendicitis and alone, Martha is there with her same name. For this more DOCUMENTARIES UW Cinematheque At a radical elementary school in THU, APR 10 • 1:45 PM for HIV treatments and is ringed focused new project, the director re- WED, APR 9 • 1:45 PM Little Falls, New Jersey, all classes Sundance Cinema 6 by her four adoring children. When visits one of her namesakes: Detroit- Sundance Cinema 1 based author and social activist Grace are optional and rules are deter- Feature, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 73 MIN they spot Claudia walking home, they WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • SECTION: SPECIAL EVENT invite her to pile into their bright Lee Boggs. Known for her landmark mined by democratic vote. Welcome Canada, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 111 MIN work on behalf of black communities to year one of the Teddy McArdle Director: Sébastien Pilote; Screenwriter: Sébas- Formerly known as the British Tele- yellow Beetle and, well, she never vision Advertising Awards, this fun really leaves. Their Guadalajara during the civil-rights era and black Free School, one of over 200 schools tien Pilote; Producer: Bernadette Payeur, Marc power movements, the Chinese- worldwide to have adopted this Daigle; Editor: Stéphane Lafleur; Cinema- and exciting program has become an apartment is a bustling den of sibling tographer: Michel La Veaux; Music by: Serge annual WFF favorite. This all new se- camaraderie and rivalry, and the shy American Boggs is no stranger to progressive philosophy from Brit- Nakauchi-Pelletier; Cast: Gilles Renaud, Gabriel radical stances, some of which led ain’s famed Summerhill School. Arcand, Lucie Laurier, Sophie Desmarais lection, compiled from the 2013 win- Claudia finds herself coming out of ners of the British Arrows awards, her shell just to keep up. As Martha’s to her being closely followed by Chronicling the school’s intense first IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA puts the spotlight on the latest and health declines, the family (now plus the FBI. Boggs, who will turn 99 in year, documentarian Amanda Rose 2014, was a committed Marxist who, Wilder is on the ground as the doors Sebastien Pilote, the Quebecoise di- best commercials from the world of one) packs up the Beetle for one last television, online and outdoor ad- shambling trip to the beach. Direc- along with her husband of 40 years, open, fully immersed in the chaotic rector who brought us the 2012 WFF James Boggs, split with Marxist lead- energy of this ambitious experiment. favorite, The Salesman, returns with vertising. Since cutting edge visual tor Claudia Sainte-Luce draws her techniques are frequently introduced characters with the attentiveness of a ers in order to speak more directly Diving in headlong with her roving, another tale about fathers and daugh- to the question of black liberation, attentive camera, Wilder captures ters and changing times. Though his through these little “mini-movies”, novelist, crafting a generous and em- this entertaining and stylish show of- pathetic gem that poignantly reflects an issue far more complex than the the school’s unique process, which, sheep farm is called Gagnon et fils, mere notion of equality with whites. for all its dedication to exploratory Gaby Gagnon (the wonderful Gabriel ten provides a glimpse into the future the fluidity of the modern day family. look and feel of movies and television The vivid cinematography of French Someone who stubbornly believes freedom, can be surprisingly bureau- Arcand) now runs the whole opera- cratic in practice. Minor scuffles can tion that was left to him and his more shows. (JH) 9 Breathe In
Blackmail Burt’s Buzz The Champagne Murders
1979 Cannes Film Festival, Black Jack rarities will begin with the only creates an intoxicating aura for his Big Men Bike Trip was never given an official release in remaining footage from the 1924 characters to inhabit—the script was FRI, APR 4 • 2:15 PM SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own the U.S. This newly restored version British feature, The White Shadow. written without dialogue, which was Union South / The Marquee has added subtitles for the sometimes Recently re-discovered in New Zea- shaped by the cast through extensive SUN, APR 6 • 11:00 AM Bingo Night! difficult to understand regional dia- land, this fragment represents the rehearsals. The resulting perfor- Sundance Cinema 6 SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own lects. (JH) earliest existing film work of Hitch- mances are disarmingly intimate MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • cock, who, then 25-years-old, served and across-the-board great, right USA, 2013, Color, DCP • 99 MIN Blackmail as The White Shadow’s screenwriter, through to the supporting cast, which Director: Rachel Boynton; Producer: Rachel Black Jack co-producer, editor, and production includes the reliably excellent Amy Boynton; Editor: Seth Bomse; Cinematogra- SUN, APR 6 • 11:00 AM SUN, APR 6 • 2:00 PM designer! The entire program will Ryan (Win Win, WFF 2011), promis- pher: Jonathan Furmanski Overture Center / Capitol Theater IN ENGLISH, IJAW, TWI WITH ENGLISH UW Cinematheque feature live accompaniment on the ing newcomer Mackenzie Davis, and SUBTITLES SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, THU, APR 10 • 4:00 PM CAPITOL CINEMA, HITCHCOCK RARITIES Capitol Theater’s Grand Barton Or- the always welcome Kyle MacLach- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL (JH) DOCUMENTARIES Sundance Cinema 5 gan by the talented David Drazin. lan (Blue Velvet, Portlandia). Star Fe- SPECIAL PRESENTATION • • The White Shadow licity Jones is poised to break out in a One hundred years after Daniel Feature • Narrative • United Kingdom, 1979, Color, DCP • 110 MIN (Fragment) big way: look for her in The Amazing Plainview, Jim Musselman is an oil Breathe In Director: Ken Loach; Screenwriter: Ken Loach; Short • Narrative • United Kingdom, 1924, Spider-Man 2 this summer. “Intimate, man of the 21st century. CEO of a Producer: Tony Garnett; Editor: Bill Shapter; B&W, 35mm • 43 MIN FRI, APR 4 • 7:15 PM expressive, agonizing and beautifully tiny Texas exploration firm called Cinematographer: Chris Menges; Music by: Bob Director: Graham Cutts; Screenwriter: Alfred Union South / The Marquee rendered… without a doubt one of the Kosmos Energy, Jim uncovers Jubilee Pegg; Cast: Jean Franval, Stephen Hirst, Louise Hitchcock; Producer: Michael Balcon, Victor Cooper, Andrew Bennett Saville; Editor: Alfred Hitchcock; Cinematogra- THU, APR 10 • 6:30 PM most emotionally poignant and heart- Field, a vast, untapped oil reserve SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES pher: Claude L. McDonnell; Cast: Betty Comp- Sundance Cinema 1 breaking movies of the [Sundance off the coast of Ghana, spurring son, Clive Brook, Henry Victor One of the best and least-seen WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Film] Festival.” (Indiewire) (MK) a complex and fractious series of features of the celebrated British • Blackmail USA, 2013, Color, DCP • 97 MIN negotiations between the first and Director: Drake Doremus; Screenwriter: Drake director Ken Loach, Black Jack is a SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative Doremus, Ben York Jones; Producer: Steven Bucket of Blood third world over the profits. Boasting rousing and lovely little film. Based • United Kingdom, 1929, B&W, 35mm • 75 MIN Rales, Mark Roybal, Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea unprecedented insider access to all Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Screenwriter: Al- Sperling; Editor: Jonathan Alberts; Cinema- SEE: That Guy Dick Miller + A Bucket of on a 1968 novel by Leon Garfield, Blood sides of the equation, director Rachel Loach’s swashbuckler concerns the fred Hitchcock, Garnett Weston, Charles Ben- tographer: John Guleserian; Music by: Dustin Boynton (Our Brand is Crisis, WFF nett, Benn W. Levy; Producer: John Maxwell; O’Halloran; Cast: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, adventures of an honest young boy, Editor: Emile Deruelle; Cinematographer: John Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis 2006) follows the Texans and Ghana- Tolly, a draper’s apprentice in 1750s J. Cox; Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA Burt’s Buzz ians through the entire process—her Paton, Donald Calthrop Yorkshire. Tolly is swept up into a Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confiden- SAT, APR 5 • 11:15 PM camera has a way of travelling behind disreputable life on the road when The fiancée of a Scotland Yard in- tial) stars as a music teacher who falls UW Elvehjem doors that are usually firmly shut, he crosses paths with the French, spector is invited up to an admiring under the spell of a student in this granting us a rare window into this TUE, APR 8 • 2:45 PM Magwitch-like ruffian, Black Jack, artist’s studio and asked to pose nude enthralling take on infidelity from secretive world. A second thread in Sundance Cinema 6 and Belle, a girl Tolly’s age on the for a portrait. When his insistent be- Like Crazy director Drake Doremus. post-oil boom Nigeria doubles as a Feature • Documentary • Canada, 2013, Color, run from a horrible lunatic asylum. havior edges closer to rape, she stabs Pearce plays Keith, a restless former DCP • 88 MIN cautionary tale, as Boynton follows a This unlikely trio touchingly come the man to death. After her husband- rock musician now feeling stifled as a Director: Jody Shapiro; Producer: Jody Shapiro; group of masked militants who bomb Editor: Stacey Foster; Cinematographer: Brian to depend on each other while their to-be plants evidence to protect her family man in the New York suburbs. the pipelines that funnel their natural Jackson; Music by: Howie Beck picaresque journey brings them from prosecution, the woman is faced He’s roused from the doldrums with resources and national wealth away. SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL into a world of quack doctors, body with a blackmail attempt from a petty the arrival of Sophie, a British foreign DOCUMENTARIES Seven years in the making, Big Men is snatchers, and traveling medicine criminal. While Blackmail is usually exchange student and musical prod- an incredibly lucid and utterly essen- That bearded face peering out from shows. In Black Jack, Loach finds celebrated for Alfred Hitchcock’s igy played by the bewitching Felicity tial examination of the greed and cor- all those lip balms, body creams, and a rare opportunity to combine his first experiments with synchronous Jones. The two connect instantly, ruption behind this multilayered in- hand salves belongs to a real guy. knack for sensitive stories about sound, this expert thriller was also and, to the actors’ great credit, their ternational crisis. “No single resource The founder and face of the Burt’s youth (Kes, Family Life) with the pre- released in a version for those cin- chemistry feels genuine and intense. is more essential to modern life than Bees empire, Burt Shavitz is a lov- cise and realistic sense of detail that emas that had not converted for talk- Far from yet another lascivious Lolita oil, and no film offers a more incisive able curmudgeon holed up in a 400 he brings to his period, costume films ies yet. This rarely screened silent imitation, Breathe In vividly captures look at how the enormous wealth oil sq. ft. converted turkey coop in the (Land and Freedom, The Wind That version contains different takes that the inexorable attraction between creates subverts the mortality of indi- backwoods of Maine. He may be the Shakes the Barley). Loach’s vision is Hitchcock specifically composed for two fellow outsiders who should viduals, corporations, and even entire living logo of a multi-billion dollar aided immeasurably by the exquisite projection without a soundtrack and (and do) know better, but can’t help countries. Unforgettable.” (Kenneth corporation, but Burt is so committed cinematography of Chris Menges is often cited by critics as superior themselves. With rapturous imagery to living off the land that he uses a Turan, Los Angeles Times) (MK) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN (The Killing Fields, The Mission). to the more frequently shown sound and heavy improvisation, Doremus wood stove for heat and has no run- 10 Winner of the Critic’s Prize at the version. Our program of Hitchcock Cannibal
Cairo Drive Cheatin’ ning water. Given to wry pronounce- dominate the conversation through Carlos’ cabin in Spain’s Sierra Nevada • Tim and Susan ments like “a good day is when no an incredible bit of serendipity, when mountain range. Will Carlos be able Have Matching Handguns one shows up and you don’t have to the Egyptian revolution breaks out, to keep his darkest secret from the Short • Documentary • USA, 2014, Color, Digi- go anywhere,” Burt makes a convinc- crescendos, and subsides, all as Elk- woman who has captured his heart? tal Projection • 2 MIN ing case for solitude and simplicity. atsha was shooting. Filmed right on Perhaps the classiest movie ever Director: Joe Callander; Producer: Dave Mun- Yet this eccentric, anti-capitalist the streets, here is the Arab Spring as made about a serial killer who eats son, Suzette Munson hermit leads a double life as a cor- you’ve never seen it, and, better yet, his victims (even the Oscar-pedigreed It’s all right there in the title. 2014 porate and cultural icon—Burt is the here is what the taxi drivers have to The Silence of the Lambs has a lot Sundance Film Festival. personal care equivalent of Colonel say about it. Most people seem cau- more shock effects), Cannibal plays • Cheatin’ Sanders—just ask the squealing mob tiously optimistic, though nobody is out much more like a tragic romantic MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Animation • of Taiwanese fans who greet him like convinced that any amount of revolu- thriller than a blood-soaked horror- USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 76 MIN a Beatle throughout a promotional tion will fix the traffic. After this film, show. Director Manuel Martin Cuen- Director: Bill Plympton; Screenwriter: Bill tour of Taipei. Director Jody Shapiro you will never complain about rush ca manages to unsettle the audience Plympton; Producer: Desirée Stavracos; Edi- tor: Kevin Palmer; Cinematographer: ; Music (How to Start Your Own Country, hour on the Beltline again. “An en- through an approach to the material by: Nicole Renaud WFF 2011) explores the rich ironies thralling, insightful, and often rather that almost entirely eschews gore (no The latest hand-drawn stunner from of this idiosyncratic character, and funny look at the vibrant, complex killings occur on-screen). Instead, Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plym- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM tells the surprising story of just how and dramatic city of Cairo.” (Screen the director favors a classical, fixed- only co-production with a Hollywood Studio (Universal Pictures). It was pton (Idiots and Angels, WFF 2009) is Burt wound up where he is. (MK) Daily) Best Documentary, 2013 Abu camera visual style that is as elegant a funny, surreal love story like no oth- Dhabi Film Festival (MK) as one of Carlos’ hand-tailored suits. also Chabrol’s only film in anamor- phic widescreen and Technicolor. His er. Jake and Ella meet cute in a fateful Cairo Drive 2013 Toronto & Torino Film Festivals. bumper car collision, and they are (JH) sardonic look at the lethal goings-on TUE, APR 8 • 6:30 PM Cannibal of a group of shady bourgeois in the instantly inseparable—in Plympton’s Sundance Cinema 1 Caníbal The Champagne booze business deliciously displays own words, “the most loving couple WED, APR 9 • 3:45 PM FRI, APR 4 • 4:30 PM many of the themes that dominate in the long history of Romance.” But a misunderstanding causes Jake to Sundance Cinema 5 UW Chazen Museum of Art Murders the director’s best work. Never re- believe his beloved Ella is cheating DIRECTOR SHERIEF ELKATSHA SCHEDULED SAT, APR 5 • 9:00 PM Le Scandale leased in any home video format in TO APPEAR on him, and he lashes out by bedding Sundance Cinema 1 THU, APR 3 • 6:30 PM the U.S., this screening will showcase Feature • Documentary • Egypt, 2013, Color, an excellent 35mm print of the rarely as many women as he can, which HD Projection • 77 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • UW Cinematheque turns out to be quite a lot. Distraught Spain, Romania, 2013, Color, DCP • 116 MIN shown English version of Chabrol’s Director: Sherief Elkatsha; Producer: Sherief INTRODUCTION BY TIM HUNTER over his affairs, Ella hires a hit man, Elkatsha; Editor: Sherief Elkatsha, Pierre Ha- Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca; Screenwriter: fun and twisty gem, which was re- Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández; SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • launching an increasingly outlandish berer; Cinematographer: Sherief Elkatsha France, USA, 1967, Color, 35mm • 105 MIN leased in France as Le Scandale and in IN ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Producer: Fernando Bovaira, Simon de Santia- game of one-upsmanship between go, Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernán- Director: Claude Chabrol; Screenwriter: Claude Mexico as Burbujas de Terror(Bubbles SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL dez; Editor: Angel Hernández Zoido; Cinema- Brule, Derek Prouse; Producer: Raymond Eger; of Terror). A genuine treat, The the former sweethearts. Things get DOCUMENTARIES Editor: Jacques Gaillard; Cinematographer: tographer: Pau Esteve Birba; Cast: Antonio de Champagne Murders has been per- even stranger once Ella starts using There are 20 million people in Cairo, la Torre, Olimpia Melinte Jean Rabier; Music by: Pierre Jansen; Cast: a magician’s “Trans-Soul Machine” Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Fur- sonally selected for our Festival by and they all want onto the 23,600 IN SPANISH, ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH to inhabit the bodies of Jake’s lovers. SUBTITLES neaux, Stephane Audran, Henry Jones Tim Hunter, veteran director of film miles of road that wend through this An independent artist in the age of SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES (Tex, River’s Edge) and television teeming metropolis. Fourteen mil- massive computer animation studios, In the southern Spanish city of In this classy Franco-American psy- (Mad Men, Hannibal), who will intro- lion vehicles, ranging from cars and Plympton hand drew the over 40,000 Granada, Carlos (Antonio de la Torre) chological thriller, a series of murders duce the screening. (JH) microbuses to bicycles and donkey frames that comprise Cheatin’, al- is the sole employee of a respectable threatens the sale of a family-owned carts—not to mention regular old lowing him to follow his imagination tailor shop. He lives a quiet life alone French champagne business to an pedestrians—compete for a spot in Cheatin’ down some gloriously odd paths. For in a clean, beautiful apartment above American conglomerate. All of the this fluid, pulsating obstacle course. SUN, APR 6 • 8:30 PM coloring, he used digital technology his business. No one would suspect clues seem to implicate the drunken, Sherief Elkatsha’s lively documentary Overture Center / Capitol Theater to emulate the look of watercolor that he remorselessly stalks and kills bad boy of the family (Maurice sits shotgun with a wide variety of paints, resulting in his most rap- young women, filling his refrigerator Ronet), but maybe his gigolo pal WED, APR 9 • 8:45 PM Cairo drivers, who provide an enter- turous film yet. The freewheeling, with their flesh. Carlos’ diabolical (Anthony Perkins) or his pal’s wife Sundance Cinema 6 tainingly pithy commentary on life in SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA, CAPITOL handmade verve of Plympton’s art is routine is interrupted when he finds (Yvonne Furneaux) have their own the city, while simultaneously thread- CINEMA a pleasure to behold in this age of ho- himself falling in love with Nina motives? Perkins’ casting is only one ing hair-raising merges or weaving mogeneous, crystalline CGI. (MK) (Olimpia Melinte), whose twin sister of many Hitchcockian homages from around entire families perched on a the acclaimed French New Wave single motorcycle. Politics come to has already fallen prey to Carlos. Be- coming closer, the couple retreat to master, Claude Chabrol, in this, his 11 Coherence
Club Sandwich
almost entirely around a dining Club Sandwich room table, Coherence proves that SAT, APR 5 • 7:00 PM shoestring-budget sci-fi can be as Sundance Cinema 1 gripping, cerebral, and flat-out enter- MON, APR 7 • 4:45 PM taining as any blockbuster—and often Sundance Cinema 1 far more. Four couples get together The Dark Matter of Love WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • for a dinner party on the night a Mexico, 2013, Color, DCP • 82 MIN comet is passing close to Earth. Sud- Shah; Producer: Vipul Amrutial Shah; Editor: Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Screenwriter: denly, the power goes out, leaving the Amitabh Shukla; Cinematographer: Sejal Shah; The Congress Fernando Eimbcke; Producer: Christian Valde- Music by: Mannan Shah, Prasad Sashle; Cast: lievre; Editor: Mariana Rodriguez; Cinematog- whole neighborhood dark except for Vidyut Jamwal, Pooja Chopra, Jaideep Ahlawat, SUN, APR 6 • 6:00 PM rapher: Maria Secco; Music by: Camino Lara; one brightly lit house up the street. Darshan Jariwala Overture Center / Capitol Theater Cast: Maria Renee Prudencio, Lucio Gimenez Two of the friends go to investigate, SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA MON, APR 7 • 6:00 PM Cacho, Danae Reynaud, Leonel Tinajero and things start getting really, really IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES A pure blast for Bollywood and action Sundance Cinema 6 SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA, NEW strange, really, really quickly. From a movie lovers, Commando is a great WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • MEXICAN CINEMA premise rooted in theoretical phys- star vehicle for the amazing Vidyut France, Israel, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Lux- This sly and very funny comedy adds ics, writer/director James Byrkit embourg, 2013, Color, DCP • 100 MIN porter) 2013 Toronto and New York Jammwal who, like his contempo- Director: Ari Folman; Screenwriter: Ari Folman; a twist to the teen coming-of-age Film Festivals. Winner, Best Film, weaves a tense mystery that’ll keep raries Tony Jaa and Jackie Chan, per- you guessing right until the final Producer: Ari Folman, Reinhard Brundig, Robin movie by being mostly about a teen- 2013 Torino Film Festival. (JH) forms all of his own stunts! Jammwal Wright; Editor: Nili Feller; Cinematographer: age boy’s mother! Fifteen-year-old shot. Incredibly, the dialogue driving plays Karanvir Dogra, a special-ops Michael Englert; Music by: Max Richter; Cast: Hector has come with his thirty- this head-spinning plot was largely Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Kodi Coherence secret agent for the Indian Armed Smit-McPhee, Danny Huston five-year-old single mom Paloma to improvised by the game cast (which Services. During a top secret mis- SAT, APR 5 • 9:30 PM SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA, a beachside resort hotel. The two are includes Nicholas Brendon, Xander sion, the commando’s chopper is shot CAPITOL CINEMA Sundance Cinema 6 as close as a son and a mother could from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), keep- down & he finds himself captured by The Matrix, Who Framed Roger be: talking with their own private SUN, APR 6 • 1:00 PM ing both the science and the thrills the Chinese. Betrayed by his govern- Rabbit?, Being John Malkovich, and banter and sharing private thoughts Sundance Cinema 6 on an immediate, human level. “Taut, ment, Dogra makes his way back to Waking Life are all evoked by this with each other. Soon, though, sun- • AB- plausible, and metaphysically terrify- India, only to find himself taking on groundbreaking meta science-fiction bathing, watching television, and ing… does for quantum physics what the role of protector to the beautiful hybrid of live action and animation. MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Narrative • USA, Primer did for time travel” – Austin ordering club sandwiches from room 2013, Color, HD Projection • 9 MIN Simrit (Pooja Chopra), who is flee- Robin Wright stars as a version of service starts to take its toll on Hec- Director: Daniel Klein; Screenwriter: Daniel Chronicle. Winner, Best Screenplay, ing the vicious gangster known as herself, an actress tired of Hollywood tor. When the boy’s attentions shift Klein; Producer: Daniel Klein; Editor: Matt Ir- 2013 Fantastic Fest. For an equally AK74 (the hilarious scenery chewing executives who only want her to vine; Cinematographer: Pete Biagi; Music by: to another guest, a girl his age named compelling look at some of the theo- Jaideep Ahlawat). Fleeing into the repeat the successes of The Princess Seth Boggess; Cast: Oren Skoog, Ann Sonnev- ries Coherence riffs on, check out Jazmin, Paloma slowly realizes she’s ille, Larry Neumann, Jr., Darrell Cox, Elizabeth jungle with Simrit, Dogra uses his Bride and Forrest Gump. She is also a being left out…literally. As in his 2004 Ledo, Jenna Mills the documentary Particle Fever, also well-honed survival & combat skills single mother concerned about hav- movie, Duck Season, writer/direc- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN screening in this year’s fest. (MK) against the well-armed AK74 and his ing enough income to take care of her tor Eimbcke finds his biggest laughs A grisly car accident along a dark army of goons. Did we mention that children. So when a creepy studio in his characters’ reactions to their wooded road slowly mutates into Come Back Commando is a full-on Bollywood head (Danny Huston) proposes us- changing situation. In Club Sand- something much more ominous in Scorpio Rising musical too? First-time director Dilip ing an emerging technology that will wich, Paloma’s disbelief about her Daniel Klein’s jolting short. (MC) Ghosh sets just the right over-the-top allow a perpetually youthful digital SEE: Shooter and Whitley son’s sexual awakening makes her • Coherence tone so that all of the bone break- replica of Wright to take over her ca- the comic center of the story. Maria WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • ing and explosions blend seamlessly reer, the actress ultimately embraces Renee Prudencio plays the part sym- USA, 2013, Color, DCP • 89 MIN Commando: with the sudden bursts of singing and the idea. Decades later, an aging pathetically and believably: evidence Director: James Ward Byrkit; Screenwriter: dancing. Through it all, the perfect Wright finds herself consumed by her of this movie’s big heart. “There’s James Ward Byrkit; Producer: Lene Bausager, A One Man Army Alyssa Byrkit; Editor: Lance Pereira; Cinema- specimen that is Jammwal jumps, alternate persona as she visits The not a false note in the performances, tographer: Nic Sadler; Music by: Kristin Øhrn FRI, APR 4 • 7:15 PM kicks, spins, and grapples without any Congress, a “restricted animation from the internalized work of the two Dyrud; Cast: Emily Foxler, Nicholas Brendon, Sundance Cinema 1 assist from CGI effects! He is truly a zone” constructed by the studio that young leads to the more expressive Lorene Scafaria, Maury Sterling, Elizabeth SUN, APR 6 • 4:00 PM new cinematic wonder! (JH) serves as a virtual playground for the countenance of Prudencio’s Paloma, Gracen, Lauren Maher, Hugo Armstrong, Alex Manugian Sundance Cinema 1 wealthy. Here, Wright learns that her herself not so far removed from ado- SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • very personality has been thoroughly lescence in her tender vulnerability.” India, 2013, Color, DCP • 120 MIN
WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN co-opted by a diabolical plot to turn A cosmic mindbender that unfolds Director: Dilip Ghosh; Screenwriter: Ritesh 12 (David Rooney, The Hollywood Re- everything we know into a profitable Crimes Against Humanity The Dance of Reality
The Congress Dangerous Acts... Elements of Belarus Commando: A One Man Army simulation. Director Ari Folman, dots when a string of freak accidents wonderfully surreal and autobio- hailed in the New York Times, and In nearby Oregon, WI, the Diaz whose innovative 2008 animated strike his aimless girlfriend Brownie graphical new work. Like a Greek their subversive works have won clan – Claudio, Cheryl, and teenaged feature Waltz With Bashir earned him (and anyone else he sleeps with). chorus, Jodorowsky appears as him- an Obie Award and a prize from daughter Cami – decide to double an Academy Award Nomination, has Have the ethnomusicologists placed self to guide us through his partly the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe the size of their family. Traveling to loosely based his screenplay on The a hex on Lewis? And who’s this guy imagined childhood. Born into a Festival. But back at home, they Russia, Claudio and Cheryl adopt Futurological Congress a sci-fi novel Brownie’s sharing her hospital bed family of Russian Jewish immigrants are an underground phenomenon; 12-year old Masha and twin five-year by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). This with? Just how deep does this con- living in a small town in the midst of Belarus is Europe’s last remaining old boys, Marcel and Vadim. Bring- witty, sometimes awe-inspiring epic spiracy go? Ably spoofing the tweedy, Chile’s desert, young Alejandro (Jer- Communist dictatorship, and the ing the kids back home, the Diaz’s is “a wholly original and thoroughly insular world of academia, director emias Herskowitz) must cope with Theatre’s provocations could easily discover the difficult reality of raising surprising fusion of sensory overload Jerzy Rose strikes an irreverent tone the strict education by his Marxist lead to imprisonment. For fear of yet children who have only known life and liberal philosophy bound to con- that combines arch absurdity with father, Jaime (the director’s son, another KGB raid, their shows are in an orphanage and Cami begins to fuse and provoke in equal measures.” shaggy dog weirdness. The cast of Brontis Jodorowsky), and an over- advertised strictly by word-of-mouth, resent sharing her parents with three (Eric Kohn, Indiewire) (JH) non-actors gives first-rate perfor- flow of sympathy and love from his and audience members must meet new siblings. Enter renowned neuro- mances, including an oddball cameo mother, Sara (opera soprano Pamela at a separate location in order to be psychologist Dr. Robert Marvin, who Crimes Against by Chris Sullivan (director of Con- Flores, who sings all of her lines!). led to the troupe’s tiny, secret perfor- begins a series of therapy sessions
suming Spirits, WFF 2013). “Recalls Alejandro deals with the hostility mance space. The group steps out of with the family. Dr. Marvin begins to WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Humanity the fiction of Thomas Pynchon in its of other schoolchildren and discov- the shadows during Belarus’s 2010 assess each of the adopted children SAT, APR 5 • 9:00 PM conspiracy plots, academic referenc- ers that his only allies are literature, national election, actively figuring in to determine what kind of attach- UW Elvehjem es, and loopy humor.” (Chicago Read- movies, and philosophy. Meanwhile, the mass protests against Alexander ment issues they inherited from their DIRECTOR JERZY ROSESCHEDULED TO APPEAR er) “The film has a bright, cartoonish Jaime schemes to kill Chilean presi- Lukashenko (Belarus’s “president” time in the orphanage. Since Masha • Verbatim surface wrapped around deliciously dent Carlos Ibañez del Campo as part since 1994) and campaigning for has had to depend on herself her dark satire; it finds the sweet spot be- of a communist plot. Like Fellini’s the opposition candidate. For their whole life, Dr. Marvin’s main task is Short • Narrative • USA, 2013, Color, DCP • 7 MIN tween naturalism and bedroom farce. Amarcord, Jodorowsky attempts to trouble, they wind up as exiles in to help the Diaz’s create an environ- Director: Brett Weiner; Producer: Dana Wick- Rose and co-writer Halle Butler are re-invent himself by re-recreating his New York, where their art is admired ment where Masha can turn to her ens; Cinematographer: Bérénice Eveno; Music masters of wry humor, delighting childhood for the cameras, but reality but the urgent social issues driving it parents or her sister when she needs by: Jordan Kolasinski; Cast: John Ennis, Mike in their characters’ self-pity, casual is only a starting point. (JH) are often overlooked. Far from their help. This presents a challenge to McCafferty, Nathan Graham Smith, Emily Maya Mills dishonesty and cruelty.” (Hammer families, members struggle with the the seemingly fixed parenting styles A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon to Nail) “Star Lyra Hill’s wide-eyed, Dangerous Acts best method for their activism—can of Claudio and Cheryl. Meanwhile, trying to figure out if a dim-witted increasingly mangled deadpan gaze Starring the Unstable they accomplish more for Belarus Cami is finding it hard to see Masha government employee has ever used is worthy of a silent comedy all its outside the country, where they are as anything but competition for her a photocopier. All the dialogue in this own.” (Chicago Tribune) (MK) Elements of Belarus free, or would they be better off back parents’ attention. Can a harmoni- short comes from an actual deposi- home? This vital and energizing ous balance be reached? Can love FRI, APR 4 • 12:15 PM communiqué from a people who rise be learned? Alternating between a tion filed with the Supreme Court The Dance of Reality UW Cinematheque of Ohio. 2014 Sundance, SXSW Film against oppression shows the neces- clinical approach and a sensitive look La Danza de la Realidad TUE, APR 8 • 9:00 PM Festivals. sity of protest, and the many forms it at a modern family, British director WED, APR 9 • 6:00 PM Sundance Cinema 1 can take. (MK) Sarah McCarthy intriguingly explores • Crimes Against Humanity Sundance Cinema 6 MIDWEST PREMIERE Feature • Documentary • these questions and others. The Dark WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • USA, 2013, Color, DCP • 76 MIN Matter of Love is moving, fascinating USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 77 MIN Chile, 2013, Color, DCP • 130 MIN Director: Madeleine Sackler; Producer: Mad- The Dark Matter Director: Jerzy Rose; Screenwriter: Halle But- Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky; Screenwriter: eleine Sackler; Editor: Anne Barliant, Leigh stuff. 2013 Toronto Film Festival. (JH) ler, Jerzy Rose; Producer: Salome Chasnoff; Alejandro Jodorowsky; Producer: Alejandro Johnson; Cinematographer: Daniel Carter, of Love Editor: Jerzy Rose; Cinematographer: Robert Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, Moises Cosio; Larissa Kabernik; Music by: Wendy Blackstone SUN, APR 6 • 3:30 PM Das Rote Licht Cauble; Music by: Joshua Dumas; Cast: Mike Editor: Maryline Monthieux; Cinematogra- IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Union South / The Marquee Lopez, Lyra Hill, Ted Tremper, Adam Paul, Buki pher: Jean-Marie Dreujou; Music by: Adan SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL SEE: Shooter and Whitley Bodunrin, Tommy Heffron Jodorowsky; Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pa- DOCUMENTARIES THE DIAZ FAMILY SCHEDULED TO APPEAR WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA mela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Alejandro A riveting account of both the strug- Jodorowsky • United Kingdom, 2013, Color, HD Projection Do As Told A dysfunctional dean’s assistant un- gle and value of creating art under • 93 MIN IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SEE: Sabbatical covers a satanic cabal in his college’s SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA difficult circumstances, this essential Director: Sarah McCarthy; Producer: Grace ethnomusicology department in this documentary follows a radical the- Hughes-Hallett; Editor: John Mister; Cinema- In his first feature since 1989’s Santa tographer: Liam Iandoli cracked campus comedy. The smug Sangre visionary director Alejan- ater group through a critical patch Lewis is so enraptured with his inves- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW dro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy in their nation’s history. The Belarus INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES tigation that he fails to connect the Mountain) has returned with this Free Theatre has been repeatedly 13 The German Doctor
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decades after Withnail and I (WFF The Dog 2010), here cast deliciously against FRI, APR 4 • 4:15 PM type as the straight man (relatively Sundance Cinema 6 speaking). The supporting cast in- Domestic SUN, APR 6 • 8:15 PM cludes Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Tar- UW Elvehjem garyen on Game of Thrones) as Dom’s absurd, circular chatter. A marvel of • Dostoevsky Behind Bars MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • estranged daughter. “Laugh out-loud cinematic form, Domestic unfolds WORLD PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • USA, 2013, Color, DCP • 100 MIN funny and impressively, wittily writ- in masterful single-take vignettes, USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 56 MIN Director: Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren; Pro- ten, with a finely tuned ear for the busy with overlapping dialogue and Director: Marc Kornblatt; Producer: Marc Ko- ducer: Allison Berg, Frank Keraudren; Editor: perfect bit of foul language. A big bustling movement. Despite taking rnblatt Frank Keraudren; Cinematographer: Amanda WINNER: 2014 GOLDEN BADGER AWARD. Micheli, Nim-Rod Bachar, Wolfgang Held, Pete piece of raunchy entertainment that place almost entirely indoors, the film Ginsburg, Axel Baumann goes down like a night of whiskey and boasts some of the most inventive The same mixture of astute social SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL commentary and clear-eyed empathy DOCUMENTARIES beer, but without the hangover, cou- widescreen cinematography you’ll pled with a desire to watch Dom do it see this year, demonstrating that the that distinguished Marc Kornblatt’s When Al Pacino plays you in a movie, all over again.” (Indiewire) (MK) CinemaScope frame is as suited to Street Pulse (WFF 2013) animates the you’ve got a story to tell. The real-life the crowded corridors of a Roma- documentarian’s latest film, which inspiration for Sidney Lumet’s New 1970s, The Dog proves that some lives nian apartment building as it is to shifts his focus from the streets of Hollywood masterpiece, Dog Day Domestic are big enough to fill two movies. wide-open vistas. “Immediately and Madison to the confines of Oakhill Afternoon, John Wojtowicz famously FRI, APR 4 • 4:30 PM 2014 SXSW Film Festival (MK) continuously charming… Domestic Correctional, a Wisconsin minimum- robbed a Brooklyn bank in 1972 to fi- UW Elvehjem is a small film with a big heart and a security prison. There, inmates and nance his boyfriend’s sex-change op- Dom Hemingway SAT, APR 5 • 4:30 PM quick, existential wit.” (Twitch) (MK) UW-Madison graduate students meet eration, resulting in a daylong, widely to discuss works of classic literature SAT, APR 5 • 7:30 PM UW Chazen Museum of Art televised standoff with the New York Feature • Narrative • Romania, 2013, Color, HD on a weekly basis, working through police department. A decade in the Union South / The Marquee Projection • 85 MIN Dostoevsky the intricacies of canonical texts and making, this in-depth documentary WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Director: Adrian Sitaru; Screenwriter: Adrian United Kingdom, 2013, Color, 35mm • 93 MIN Behind Bars considering how century-old works captures a countercultural icon, Sitaru; Producer: Monica Lazurean-Gorgan; Director: Richard Shepard; Screenwriter: Editor: Andrei Gorgan, Adrian Sitaru; Cinema- SAT, APR 5 • 3:45 PM can illuminate present-day experi- warts and all. Boisterous, brash, and Richard Shepard; Producer: Jeremy Thomas; tographer: Adrian Silisteanu; Cast: Adrian Titi- ence. Eschewing easy assumptions hugely charismatic, Wojtowicz deliv- Editor: Dana Congdon; Cinematographer: Giles eni, Clara Voda, Ioana Flora, Gheorghe Ifrim, UW Elvehjem DIRECTOR MARC KORNBLATT SCHEDULED TO about its subjects and pat narratives ers, in heavy Brooklynese, a firsthand, Nuttgens; Music by: Rolfe Kent; Cast: Jude Law, Danut Hurduc, Ariadna Titieni Richard E. Grant, Demian Bechir, Emilia Clarke APPEAR of self-redemption through learning, disarmingly frank account of the IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN Kornblatt considers how reading, art, gay rights movement in 1970s New and the pursuit of self-knowledge Jude Law stars as wisecracking Humans, dogs, hens, rabbits, pigeons, • Water Ice Snow York. His credo: “Live every day as interact with the rhythms of prison safecracker Dom Hemingway in this and cats attempt to coexist in this MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Documentary • if it’s your last and whoever doesn’t life. Moments of literary-inspired rip-roaring cinematic bender. Freshly droll, very Romanian comedy of USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 16 MIN like it can go fuck themselves and revelation brush up against the re- sprung onto the London streets after cohabitation. Administrator of his Director: Jeffrey Kurz; Producer: Jeffrey Kurz, a rubber duck.” He may have been Jack Turner; Editor: Greg Olliver, Karim Raoul; alities of personal regrets and social 12 years in the clink, Dom immedi- apartment complex, Lazar must con- Cinematographer: Karim Raoul vain and profane, but he was also a ately reunites with his old sidekick limitations as the inmates reflect on stantly negotiate the residents’ petty American artist and educator Sasha trailblazer—this is a man who had for a hedonistic just-got-out-of-jail their past crimes and hoped-for fu- complaints about each others’ pets; Sicurella travels the world in pursuit a public gay wedding in 1971, wear- binge. The hungover duo then drag tures. Filmed with an eye for unfussy meanwhile, he’s just trying to figure of a singular professional project: ing his army uniform. While he’s in themselves to France to collect Dom’s compositional elegance and human out what to do about the live chicken exposing children to the possibilities prison, Dog Day Afternoon wins the hefty payment for taking the fall for detail, Dostoevsky Behind Bars cel- his wife brought home. Affection- of photography by allowing them to Academy Award for Best Screenplay, his boss all those years ago. But when ebrates how literature, poetry, and ately lampooning people’s attach- take a series of self-portraits. Karim effectively validating his crime on a his money goes missing in a druggy art can become a way to rebuild one’s ment to—and appetite for—various Raoul’s chronicle of her trip to a national stage, and catapulting him haze, our brash antihero is forced to life, a single page or brushstroke at a members of the animal kingdom, this grade school in rural Mongolia offers to a notoriety that he shamelessly ex- prove that he’s not all talk. Law dives time. (MC) is a film where any given critter is an evocative glimpse of Sicurella at ploits. Upon his release, The Dog (as into the role with swaggering gusto, equally likely to end up as a beloved work, highlighting the spontane- he is now known) can be seen parad- letting fly with reckless brio while Dusty Stacks of Mom ing in front of his former crime scene pet or in the stewpot, and sometimes ous moments of humor and cross- retaining a certain tart precision even SEE: both. Hopping between brightly cultural connection that become Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine wearing a shirt declaring “I ROBBED in his most vulgar moments. His part- colored apartments, writer/director immortalized through both artists’ THIS BANK” in iron-on letters. A ner in crime is played by the inimita- wild and funny companion piece to Adrian Sitaru delights in eavesdrop- cameras. (MC) eduCAUTION WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN ble Richard E. Grant, still the patron ping on his characters’ boisterous, 14 one of the most iconic films of the saint of bacchanalia two and a half SEE: Wisconsin Rising Food Patriots
Happy Christmas
mous heroine is brought to radiant daughter, Lilith, who is small for her The morning after a party, a record life by Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, age. With the promise that he can store clerk wakes up to find a woman a first-time actress with Williams help her grow, he begins to conduct in his apartment. She won’t leave. Dom Hemingway syndrome. Marion-Rivard more than experiments on the girl. Meanwhile, This funny and original short won a holds her own with the professional a Mossad agent hunting down Dr. prize at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, discoveries he’s made since first actors surrounding her, investing Josef Mengele, one of the most no- and was featured in the 2014 Sun- Fall Trip Home dipping his toe into this important Gabrielle with a vibrancy and pluck torious Nazis now known to be hid- dance and SXSW Film Festivals. SEE: Nathaniel Dorsky: Then and Now subject. Entertaining, humorous, that ranks among the great screen ing in South America, has tracked • Happy Christmas and informative, this is a film to see debuts of the year. Like Stand Clear him down to the area. Based on true WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Food Patriots before you take your next trip to the of the Closing Doors (also playing this events, The German Doctor is a haunt- USA, 2014, Color, DCP • 78 MIN grocery store. (BR) year’s fest), Gabrielle is a rare film ing real-life chiller that brings the Director: Joe Swanberg; Screenwriter: Joe THU, APR 3 • 6:30 PM Swanberg; Producer: Joe Swanberg, Peter Gil- Union South / The Marquee that places disabled characters and past to vivid life. Adapting her own performers front-and-center among novel, director Lucía Puenzo elicits bert; Editor: Joe Swanberg; Cinematographer: FRI, APR 4 • 2:00 PM Foxy and the Weight Ben Richardson; Cast: Anna Kendrick, Mela- the leads, rather than have them as a remarkable performance from nie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, Joe Sundance Cinema 6 of the World peripheral figures for other people magnetic young newcomer Flor- Swanberg DIRECTOR JEFF SPITZ SCHEDULED TO APPEAR SEE: Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Selects
to negotiate. Produced by the Oscar- encia Bado as Lilith. “Magnificent. The accomplished and prolific inde- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 74 MIN nominated team behind Monsieur Executed with outstanding attention pendent filmmaker Joe Swanberg, Director: Jeff Spitz; Producer: Jeff Spitz, Jen- Gabrielle Lazhar (Opening Night, WFF 2012), to detail, a prodigious ensemble cast, who presented All the Light in the Sky nifer Amdur Spitz; Editor: John Farbrother this tender, buoyant film of first love and splendid cinematography, the in last year’s WFF, has returned with SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW SAT, APR 5 • 7:15 PM and the universal desire for personal film is a window into a time lost in one of his most distinguished and INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES Sundance Cinema 6 freedom both embraces and embod- history. An enthralling masterwork.” entertaining efforts yet. Anna Kend- Jeff Spitz’s journey through the SUN, APR 6 • 1:15 PM ies the healing power of music. (MK) (Indiewire) Puenzo’s film dominated rick, star of Pitch Perfect and Swan- world of organic local foods and Union South / The Marquee Argentina’s Academy Awards, win- berg’s Drinking Buddies plays Carson, “grow-your-own” backyard farm- Feature • Narrative • Canada, 2013, Color, DCP ning Best Film, Director, Actor, New who decides to join her brother Jeff • 104 MIN The German Doctor ing documents the story of his own Actress, and many more. (MK) (Swanberg) and his family for the Director: Louise Archambault; Screenwriter: family and how, after his son’s bout Wakolda holidays in Chicago. The unemployed with a serious food-derived illness, Louise Archambault; Producer: Kim McCraw, Luc Déry; Editor: Richard Comeau; Cinematog- SAT, APR 5 • 5:00 PM Glistening Thrills Carson is not exactly a responsible they became involved in a grassroots rapher: Mathieu Laverdière; Music by: François Sundance Cinema 6 person. She’s still young, but old movement to rid our food of antibiot- Lafontaine; Cast: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Al- SEE: Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine exandre Landry, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin TUE, APR 8 • 4:45 PM enough to know better than to get ics and genetic modifications. The Sundance Cinema 6 wasted and pass out on a stranger’s film itself is as appealingly home- IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • The Green Serpent — bed when her best friend (Girls’s made and organic as the local foods Argentina, France, Norway, Spain, 2013, Color, Lena Dunham) brings her to a party. Gabrielle is a joyous, passionate DCP • 94 MIN Of Vodka, Men it celebrates. Chock full of vivid This episode increases the already encounters with informed and relat- young woman, with a heck of a voice. Director: Lucía Puenzo; Screenwriter: Lucía Puenzo; Producer: Lucía Puenzo; Editor: Hugo and Distilled Dreams existing tension between Carson and able interviewees such as Stonyfield She’s fervently devoted to her choir, even more so now that she is feeling Primero; Cinematographer: Nicolás Puenzo; SEE: Of Vodka, Water & Mannequins Jeff’s wife, Jenny (Melanie Lynskey), Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Growing Music by: Daniel Tarrab, Andrés Goldstein; who is trying to find time to continue out the inklings of a romance with Cast: Florencia Bado, Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Power’s Robert Pierce, Food Patriots her writing while raising a toddler takes place on the front lines of local Martin, a fellow singer in the group. Oreiro, Diego Peretti Happy Christmas Their blossoming courtship is com- IN SPANISH, GERMAN, HEBREW WITH ENG- (the director’s son, Jude Swanberg, organic movements from the UW- LISH SUBTITLES FRI, APR 4 • 6:45 PM plicated by the fact that both Gabri- a scene-stealer if there ever was Madison Athletics Department to SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA elle and Martin are developmentally Sundance Cinema 6 one). In a series of sometimes funny, the south side of Madison and the This engrossing portrayal of a young SAT, APR 5 • 2:45 PM sometimes quietly moving scenes, south side of Chicago, and from the disabled. She lives in a group home that forbids sexual contact, he with family unknowingly sharing their Sundance Cinema 6 Swanberg charts Carson’s tentative Capitol Farmers Market to the House lives with one of history’s worst war SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA first steps towards becoming an adult, of Representatives in Washington, his overprotective mother, leaving them little opportunity for indepen- criminals takes place in Argentina, • P erson to Person as well as her family’s growing accep- D.C.. Both an inspirational missive 1960. Eva and Enzo pack up their tance of her often-difficult behavior. about the fight to change the way we dence, much less intimacy. Suddenly MIDWEST PREMIERE • Short • Narrative • USA, kids and set out to open an inn in the 2014, Color, HD Projection • 18 MIN Using his own home as the principal think about the food we eat and a able to envision a new, freer life for herself, Gabrielle starts taking steps breathtaking Patagonian countryside; Director: Dustin Guy Defa; Screenwriter: location and shooting on gorgeously charmingly ragged first-person docu- on the way there, they meet a wealthy Dustin Guy Defa; Producer: Dustin Guy Defa, grainy 16mm film, Swanberg and mentary essay, Food Patriots captures to prove she is ready to live on her Keha McIlwaine; Editor: Dustin Guy Defa; own, to the surprise of her supportive German doctor who becomes their his terrific cast have crafted a mini many small, genuine moments as first guest. The erudite doctor takes Cinematographer: Adam Ginsberg; Cast: Bene but concerned family. The epony- Coopersmith, Deragh Campbell marvel of personal cinema. 2014 Sun- Spitz guides us gently through the a keen interest in their 12 year-old dance Film Festival. (JH) 15 In Bloom Heli
The Immortalists Ida
Heli Ida trol the increasingly unruly Jiale, the characters, rejecting pat attempts to two begin to form an unlikely bond. locate psychological motives for their SUN, APR 6 • 2:00 PM SUN, APR 6 • 6:30 PM The characters may be having a dif- mission and eloquently debating the Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 ficult time, but the film is full of life, effects immortality would have on a WED, APR 9 • 8:30 PM TUE, APR 8 • 4:30 PM brimming with keenly observed de- world already pressed for resources. Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 tails. Director Anthony Chen invests Co-directors David Alvarado and WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Mex- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative his characters with such individuality Jason Sussberg use elegant anima- ico, 2013, Color, DCP • 105 MIN • Poland, 2013, B&W, DCP • 80 MIN Director: Amat Escalante; Screenwriter: Amat Es- Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Screenwriter: that they could almost pass for the tion to keep their theories legible calante, Gabriel Reyes; Producer: Jaime Romandia, Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz; subjects of a uniquely textured and to laypeople without sparing the Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante; Editor: Natalia Producer: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, compassionate documentary. Win- intricacies of their work. The Im- López; Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman; Cast: Ewa Puszczynska; Editor: Jarek Kaminski; ner of the Best First Film prize at the mortalists is both a glimpse of the far Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Cinematographer: Jarek Kaminski; Music Juan Eduardo Palacios, Kenny Johnston by: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen; Cast: 2013 Cannes and London Film Festi- reaches of scientific research and a IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska vals. (MK) poignant consideration of how one SECTION: NEW MEXICAN CINEMA IN POLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES should spend the time they have left Winner of the Best Director prize at the SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA The Immortalists on Earth. After all, their project is A spellbinding image of 1960s also a grand race against the clock, 2013 Cannes Film Festival, this unflinch- Film Festivals. 2014 Sundance Film FRI, APR 4 • 9:00 PM ing vision of the Mexican drug war is Poland, this enveloping drama as Bill and Aubrey aren’t getting any Festival. (MK) UW Elvehjem deeply troubling and absolutely vital. centers on a teenaged nun who, younger… yet. 2014 SXSW Film Fes- Heli is a 17 year-old factory worker living just before taking her vows, meets SAT, APR 5 • 12:00 PM tival. (MK) in rural Mexico with his father, wife, in- her last living relative for the Ilo Ilo Sundance Cinema 5 first time. Raised in the convent, SAT, APR 5 • 9:00 PM DIRECTORS DAVID ALVARADO AND JASON fant son, and Estela, his adolescent sister. SUSSBERG SCHEDULED TO APPEAR In Bloom Anna is prim and naïve when UW Chazen Museum of Art When Estela’s boyfriend steals two large MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • Grzeli nateli dgeebi bags of cocaine from a corrupt general, it she arrives on the doorstep of SUN, APR 6 • 1:45 PM USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 78 MIN sets off a disastrous chain reaction, drag- her aunt Wanda, a hard-drinking Sundance Cinema 1 Director: David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg; Pro- FRI, APR 4 • 9:15 PM ging a family of innocents into an inferno magistrate with ties to the Com- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • ducer: David Alvarado, Kate McLean, Jason UW Chazen Museum of Art munist Party. In short order, Singapore, 2013, Color, DCP • 99 MIN Sussberg; Editor: Annukka Lilja; Cinematogra- of brutality that is made all the worse pher: David Alvarado; Music by: Eric Andrew THU, APR 10 • 2:15 PM Director: Anthony Chen; Screenwriter: Antho- for being perpetrated by the so-called Wanda reveals that Anna’s real Kuhn Sundance Cinema 1 ny Chen; Producer: Anthony Chen, Hwee Sim name is Ida, that she is a Jew, and WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • law enforcement. Necessarily provoca- Ang, Wahyuni A. Hadi; Editor: Hoping Chen, SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Georgia, Germany, France, 2013, Color, DCP • that her parents were murdered Joanne Cheong; Cinematographer: Benoit Sol- DOCUMENTARIES tive and masterfully orchestrated, Heli 102 MIN achieves its raw resonance through the during the Nazi occupation. The er; Cast: Koh Jia Ler, Angeli Bayani, Tian Wen Bill and Aubrey want to live forever. Chen, Yann Yann Yeo Director: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross; bravura filmmaking of writer/director two set off on a journey to the Nobody wants to grow old, but these Screenwriter: Nana Ekvtimishvili; Producer: Si- IN MANDARIN, TAGALOG WITH ENGLISH Amat Escalante, pitched right between Polish countryside to uncover the SUBTITLES two scientists are actually doing mon Gross, Mark Wachter; Editor: Stefan Stabe- now; Cinematographer: Oleg Mutu; Cast: Lika repressed familial mysteries that SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA something about it—Bill Andrews and wide-eyed reality and a waking dream— Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Zurab Gogaladze, or nightmare. A protégé of Mexican mas- bond them. This moving inquiry Hailed as “the very beating heart and Aubrey de Grey have devoted them- Data Zakareishvili ter Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light, WFF into a national trauma achieves soul of cinematic storytelling” by selves to finding the cure for aging, IN GEORGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2009), Escalante conducts his scenes in its exceptional power through Film Comment, Ilo Ilo is a poignant which they see as the epidemic that SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA impeccable wide shots, creating an atmo- its intimacy; Ida and Wanda are depiction of one family weathering is killing off mankind, “absolutely In early 1990s Tbilisi, the capital of sphere of stark observation and slowly two fully realized souls, and a financial crisis. It’s 1997 Singapore, the world’s biggest problem.” This the newly independent Georgia af- encroaching terror. Like many great films their heartache is suffused with and the Lims are going through a bit fascinating documentary watches as ter the collapse of the Soviet Union, set in vicious environments, portions of glimmers of beauty, humor, and of a rough patch. Teck has just been middle-aged men attempt to build the country faces a growing civil Heli can be difficult to watch; however, music. Filmed in luminous black- laid off, but he can’t bear to tell any- the fountain of youth in their labs. war, food shortages, and vigilante Escalante’s confrontational style rightly and-white in the classic Academy one—least of all his pregnant wife, Apart from their shared quest, they justice. Coming-of-age in this sort of suggests we spend far too much time aspect ratio, Ida combines some who grinds away at her own dreary could hardly be less alike: molecular environment can be a challenge, to looking away from problems that are of the year’s best cinematography office job in order to maintain their biologist Bill is an determined ul- say the least. Two fourteen-year-old here addressed at point-blank range. This and art direction to create a truly middle class income. To top it off, tramarathoner, whereas biomedical girls, Eka and Natia, have formed a film contains graphic violence—viewer immersive viewing experience. their 10 year-old son Jiale is a serious gerontologist Aubrey, his face over- bond in this male-dominated culture discretion advised. (MK) Exquisitely directed by Pawel troublemaker. They could use some whelmed by an epic beard, is never but their years-old friendship will be Pawlikowski (My Summer of help, and so they hire Terry, a Filipino seen without a beer in hand—even put to the test when one of them is Love), Ida was awarded Best Film immigrant to work as a live-in maid while being interviewed for this doc- pushed into an early marriage. This
WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN Hill Stories at the 2013 London and Warsaw umentary. Both are truly memorable 16 SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own and nanny. As Terry struggles to con- authentic and gripping first feature Intruders Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Ilo Ilo Joe is the work of the Georgian-German is the last place one finds tranquility. • New Fancy Foils Joe Kumiko, writing-directing team of Nana The snowbound lodge is closed for WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Experi- Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross. “The the season, but Sang-jin is never- mental • USA, 2013, Color, 16mm • 12 MIN THU, APR 3 • 9:00 PM The Treasure Hunter Director: Jodie Mack Union South / The Marquee childhood innocence in the eyes of theless besieged by guests, starting SUN, APR 6 • 5:30 PM [Eka and Natia] melts away as they’re with a pack of obnoxious teenagers, DIRECTOR DAVID GORDON GREEN SCHEDULED • Undertone Overture TO APPEAR Sundance Cinema 6 forced to make terrible choices, the and quickly expanding to far more Short • Experimental • USA, 2013, MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • USA, bubble of girlhood punctured by suspicious characters. When he MON, APR 7 • 8:30 PM Color, 16mm • 11 MIN 2013, Color, 35mm • 117 MIN Sundance Cinema 6 huge social forces. The movie never, discovers a dead body on the prem- Director: Jodie Mack Director: David Gordon Green; Screenwriter: CO-SCREENWRITER AND CO-PRODUCER NATHAN ever makes a wrong move, and many ises, what had seemed an annoying Cinema, rock opera, and plan- Gary Hawkins; Producer: David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat, Christopher Woodrow, Derrick ZELLNER AND CO-PRODUCER CHRIS OHLSEN sequences are as good as anything inconvenience abruptly becomes a SCHEDULED TO APPEAR etarium light show collide in ex- Tseng; Editor: Colin Patton; Cinematographer: in recent cinema.” (Robert Kohler, sinister whodunit. Writer/director perimental animator Jodie Mack’s Tim Orr; Music by: David Wingo, Jeff McIlwain; MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • USA, Artforum. “Astute, observant…tough Noh Young-seok (Daytime Drinking, “Let Your Light Shine,” a dazzling Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan 2014, Color, DCP • 105 MIN Director: David Zellner; Screenwriter: David Zell- and unsentimental…“In Bloom,” WFF 2009) takes the home-invasion program of films that has been SECTION: OPENING NIGHT SELECTION, NEW AMERICAN CINEMA ner, Nathan Zellner; Producer: Chris Ohlson, Jim [balances] a strong, implicit feminist genre and turns it on its ear, shifting described as “the ultimate photo- Burke, Cameron Lamb, Andrew Banks, Nathan Nicolas Cage gives one of his best-ever sensibility with a sympathetic sense from droll character study to tense kinetic stroboscopic spectacle.” At Zellner; Editor: Melba Jodorwsky; Cinematogra- performances in this tense Southern pher: Sean Porter; Music by: The Octopus Project; of the power of tradition.” (A.O. Scott, showdowns with the confident ease its center is Dusty Stacks of Mom, WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM gothic from American indie icon Da- Cast: Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley NY Times). 2013 Berlin, Vancouver, of a great filmmaker. “After winning a handmade personal essay about vid Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals. (JH) a great deal of love with his debut Mack’s mother’s nearly defunct IN ENGLISH, JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUB- Prince Avalanche). Cage plays a Texan feature Daytime Drinking, Noh proves poster business that manages TITLES ex-con trying to put his violent past SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA here that his early success was not a to be a eulogy for obsolete tech- Ingreen behind him and make an honest living fluke nor a flash in the pan. He draws nologies as well as a psychedelic “It’s only a movie” is a phrase that Ku- SEE: Nathaniel Dorsky: Then and Now clearing forests for a lumber company. exceptional performances out of his reworking of the college dorm miko either does not want to hear or He hires on and becomes a father fig- key cast, shoots beautifully compel- room -- Pink Floyd and Scarface cannot understand. Alienated from her ure to a 15 year-old kid played by Tye Inside & Out ling film, is gifted with a dry wit, and as reanimated capital, resurrected family and depressed and frustrated Sheridan (The Tree of Life, Mud), but SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own is a writer willing to make bold and from the headshop floor. On the with her job as a Tokyo office lady, when the boy’s derelict father comes challenging choices.” (Twitch) 2014 soundtrack, Mack performs a hi- Kumiko has become obsessed with the around looking for work, Joe’s violent Rotterdam Film Festival. (MK) larious and moving alternate-lyric 1996 Joel and Ethan Coen movie, Fargo. Intruders old self begins to reemerge. Cage has cover of one of classic rock’s most She watches the film endlessly on her Jo Nan-ja-deul taken some heat for his flamboyant role well-known albums. Also on the tiny television, drawing maps and dia- Jodie Mack: choices (nevermind that some of his FRI, APR 4 • 2:15 PM program: Undertone Overture, a grams in the process. Perhaps spurred wildest readings have been for auteurs UW Chazen Museum of Art Let Your Light Shine view of the cosmos in swatches on by the Coen’s tongue-in-cheek asser- like Werner Herzog and Martin Scors- WED, APR 9 • 9:00 PM SUN, APR 6 • 7:00 PM of tie-dye; New Fancy Foils, in tion that Fargo is a “true story,” Kumiko ese), but his spectacular, tightly wound Sundance Cinema 1 UW Cinematheque which Mack animates discarded desperately uses a company credit card performance in Joe belongs alongside WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA, SHORT paper sample books, the craft to fly from Japan to Minneapolis in South Korea, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 99 FILMS PROGRAMS the work this Oscar-winning iconoclast store come to life; and Glistening search of the ransom money buried by MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Experimental has done in masterpieces by directors Thrills, a beautiful and melanchol- Steve Buscemi at the end of the movie. Director: Noh Young-seok; Screenwriter: Noh • USA, 2013, Color, 16mm• 74 MIN ranging from the Coen Brothers to Young-seok; Producer: Choi Sun-hee; Editor: ic holographic dream of dollar Once she lands, the young woman faces Director: Jodie Mack Spike Jonze to David Lynch. For his Park Soo-dan; Cinematographer: Park Jae-in; store gift bags. The program cul- a typically fierce Minnesota winter Music by: Noh Young-seok; Cast: Jun Suk-ho, part, Sheridan deservedly won the Best • Dusty Stacks of Mom minates in Let Your Light Shine, a and a serious language barrier on the Oh Tae-kyung WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • Young Actor award at the 2013 Venice handmade, snap-crackle-and-pop road to North Dakota. Offbeat, funny, IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES USA, 2013, Color, 16mm • 41 MIN Film Festival. “A brilliant film… not to improvisation for rainbows that and lyrically beautiful, this is the third SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Director: Jodie Mack be missed.” (Twitch) WFF veterans makes use of prismatic glasses to feature by two other cinematic siblings, This slyly-plotted South Korean gem may recall when a 26 year-old David • Glistening Thrills create, in the words of one critic, David and Nathan Zellner (Kid-Thing, begins as a comedy of errors and Gordon Green presented his striking, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • “the most immersive film I’ve Goliath). Their sometimes haunting ends as a thriller. Looking to finish USA, 2013, Color, 16mm • 8 MIN Criterion Collection-inducted debut, ever experienced.” Everyday ob- depiction of a determined lone dreamer up his script, a young screenwriter Director: Jodie Mack George Washington, back in 2001. For jects like posters, junk mail, and in the wintry Midwest recalls Werner heads off to his producer’s remote an ultra-rare glimpse into Green’s early • Let Your Light Shine sewing patterns will come alive in Herzog’s Stroszek (WFF 2009) and is bed and breakfast for some peace days, check out his 1995 short Will You WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • this rare performance, the avant- anchored by the amazing performance and quiet—though, as a screenwriter, USA, 2013, Color, 16mm • 3 MIN Lather Up My Roughouse?, screening in garde cinema as rock show. (JP) by Rinko Kikuchi as the title character. he probably should have realized Director: Jodie Mack the Rat Pack Rat shorts program. 2014 2014 Sundance, Berlin, and SXSW Film that a secluded cabin in the woods SXSW Film Festival. (MK) Festivals. (JH) 17 Macaroni & Cheese
Lola Manakamana
it means to be a parent. No filmmak- investments in technology, coupled consin Center for Film & Theater Lair of the Damned er in the world is better at working with a communal society, have Research, with funding from the SEE: Shooter and Whitley with children than Kore-eda, and made South Korea a world leader National Film Preservation Founda- the impeccably realized characters in the information economy. At the tion. (JH) Let Your Light Shine he and his actors create here are no same time, these advances may have • The Lumberjack wreaked havoc on the behavior of SEE: Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine exception. Jury Prize, 2013 Cannes Short • Narrative • USA, 1914, Color, 35mm • Film Festival. (MK) many of the country’s citizens. Over- 16 MIN all, the film offers a look into the Director: O.W. Lamb Like Father, Like Son Lola debate over Internet addiction, and Filmed in Wausau in 1914, The Lum- FRI, APR 4 • 4:45 PM the ways in which South Korea is berjack is the oldest film shot in Wis- Sundance Cinema 1 FRI, APR 4 • 12:15 PM currently seeking to prevent further consin that still exists in its original, Sundance Cinema 5 tragedies. Intertwining the entranc- MON, APR 7 • 6:45 PM complete form. Produced by an itin- ing visuals from the video games Sundance Cinema 1 TUE, APR 8 • 5:00 PM erant film company out of Omaha, with interviews from those involved WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Sundance Cinema 5 Nebraska and cast with Wausau Japan, 2013, Color, DCP • 120 MIN SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • with the case and those deeply em- locals, the short silent two-reeler Director: Hirokazu Kore-Eda; Screenwriter: Hi- France, 1961, B&W, DCP • 90 MIN bedded in this form of cyber culture, tells a romantic story set against the rokazu Kore-Eda; Producer: Kaoru Matsuzaki, Director: Jacques Demy; Screenwriter: Jacques great looking restoration of Lola has director Valerie Veatch presents a backdrop of the city’s lumber mills. Hijiri Taguchi; Editor: Hirokazu Kore-Eda; Demy; Producer: Georges de Beauregard, Carlo been supervised by the director’s Ponti; Editor: A.M. Cotret; Cinematographer: clear view of how this sort of tragedy A new 35mm print, restored by the Cinematographer: Mikiya Takimoto; Music by: widow, Agnes Varda. (JH) Yasui Shin; Cast: Masharu Fukuyama, Machiko Raoul Coutard; Music by: Michel Legrand; Cast: could have happened, as well as the Wisconsin Center for Film & The- Ono, Yoko Maki, Lily Franky Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, push to prevent it from ever happen- ater Research with funding from the Allen Scott, Elina Labourdette IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Love Child ing again. Love Child’s co-producer, National Film Preservation Founda- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, SAT, APR 5 • 1:15 PM Danny Kim, is a 2008 graduate of tion, will be screened. Live piano by Two families are turned inside out LE MONDE ENCHANTÉ DE JACQUES DEMY Union South / The Marquee UW Madison’s Communication Arts David Drazin. (JH) by the revelation that their six year- Jacques Demy cemented his critical DIRECTOR VALERIE VEATCH AND PRODUCER program. 2014 Sundance Film Festi- old sons were switched at birth in • When You Wore a Tulip and reputation with Lola, his first feature DANNY KIM SCHEDULED TO APPEAR val. (JPos) I Wore a Big Red Rose this poignant drama from Japanese film and a major title in the canon of WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody • South Korea, USA, 2014, Color, HD Projec- Feature • Documentary • USA, 1983, Color, HD the French New Wave. Fate, chance, 74 MIN The Lumberjack Projection • 63 MIN Knows, After Life). Ensconced in a tion • love, and loss are the themes of this Director: Valerie Veatch; Producer: David Foox, Director: Stephen Schaller; Producer: Robert K. glassy Tokyo high-rise, Ryota is a story set in Demy’s hometown, the Danny Kim, Minji Kim, Daniel Levin, Andrew at 100 Geisel, Sr.; Editor: Stephen Schaller; Cinema- stern workaholic whose career am- Teng; Editor: Valerie Veatch, Christopher Don- SAT, APR 5 • 4:30 PM tographer: Michael Juers seaside city of Nantes. Lola (Anouk lon; Cinematographer: Daniel Levin bitions leave little time for his wife Aimée in one of her signature roles) UW Cinematheque In the early 1980s, documentary and only son Keita. They come in for IN ENGLISH, KOREAN WITH ENGLISH is a cabaret dancer and devoted SUBTITLES SUN, APR 6 • 4:30 PM filmmaker Stephen Schaller was a shock when they learn that due to mother who is juggling the affec- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW UW Cinematheque instrumental in the re-discovery INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES a hospital mix-up, their biological tions of several men. One is Roland 35mm • 88 MIN and restoration of The Lumberjack. son is living with another, equally Cassard, who knew Lola as a teenag- In March of 2010, a couple was ar- FILMMAKER STEPHEN SCHALLER SCHEDULED His lovely and sometimes deeply stunned family in the Japanese er and finds she now gives purpose rested in Korea, charged with letting TO APPEAR emotional feature length journal/ countryside. Amiably laid-back and their three-month-old daughter SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, RESTORATIONS essay film offers a look at the mak- to his once aimless life. Another AND REDISCOVERIES living in contented modesty above suitor is an American sailor and yet starve to death while the two played ing of the Wausau classic, including a hardware store, the Saikis are the another is a mysterious man who online videogames. The child’s name • Our Own Gang in The Chase interviews with the one surviving antithesis of Ryota’s striving ethos, drives a Cadillac. But Lola is finding was Sarang, the Korean word for Short • Narrative • USA, 1933, B&W, 35mm • cast member and the relatives of and he can hardly recognize himself it hard to forget the father of her love. The incident was clearly a case 9 MIN others who appeared in the movie. in their six year-old Ryusei, his son child, even though he abandoned her of neglect, in which the parents took In 1933, the Wisconsin State Journal Schaller’s investigation includes by blood. The two families begin an during her pregnancy. Against the full responsibility for their actions sponsored the production of this moving remembrances of the people uneasy negotiation on how to handle dreamy dancehall backdrop, Demy leading up to this calamity. In inves- filmed-in-Madison comedy, a knock- and town of Wausau, as it was, and the matter—do they switch the kids finds a just right melancholic tone. tigating this shocking case, however, off of Hal Roach’s Our Gang series even reveals the on-set accidental back, or pretend it never happened? The widescreen black and white the filmmakers of Love Child take a that starred the youth of our fair city. death of one of The Lumberjack’s top An exceptionally thoughtful contem- cinematography by nouvelle vague much broader approach by examin- Filled with outrageous (and some- production executives! More than plation of nature vs. nurture and the mainstay Raoul Coutard adds im- ing the cultural conditions leading times dangerous) gags and filmed on just a piece of local history, When impact of social class on childrear- measurably to Demy’s dreamy and up to the incident. This compelling vintage State Street and Williamson You Wore a Tulip is also of interest WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN ing, Like Father, Like Son is poetic melancholic Mise-en-scène. This and visually arresting new documen- Street locations, Our Own Gang has to anyone who cares about film his- 18 and profound consideration of what tary illustrates the ways in which been lovingly restored by the Wis- tory and preservation. Discovering Like Father, Like Son
Memphis When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose
tween chic parties, hoping to bump Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez Cinematographer: Jack Cox; Cast: Alfred Abel, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW AMERICAN into her wildly-out-of-reach target. placed their 16mm camera on one Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz, Lotte Stein, CINEMA Miles Mander Meanwhile, her friends embark on side of the cable car, and recorded Returning home to Memphis after IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES recording a successful debut album a series of hookups and mishaps a series of passengers taking the SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, of their own. The whole story is ride. It’s a stunning composition, as HITCHCOCK RARITIES and making a star turn in a feature pieced together by the trio in a hun- the lush valley blurs behind poised Perhaps the hardest-to-see of all of film, a strange singer with “god given gover haze the morning after; their figures that range from tourists to Alfred Hitchcock’s extant film work, talents” struggles with what to do recollections and embellishments longhaired teens snapping selfies to Mary is an alternate German version next, drifting through life under the combine to form an inspired three- animals slated for sacrifice. Over the of the Master of Suspense’s 1930 city’s canopy of ancient oak trees, way narration that doesn’t always course of 11 trips, the film can turn release, Murder!, filmed on the same shattered windows, and burning gel with what actually happened. surprisingly funny and even sus- sets, but with an entirely different spirituality. Through encounters The film is all the more dazzling for penseful—a pair of women lapping (save for one performer), all Ger- with lovers, legendary musicians, being conceived on a lark—it really up melting ice cream sandwiches man-speaking cast. In the story, an hustlers, preachers, and a wolfpack was shot at the Locarno premiere becomes a race against the clock. aspiring actress is discovered next of kids, he grapples with the ex- of Letourneur’s The Shady Sailor Produced by the team behind Le- to the body of her dead friend. After pectations, both his own and from Mary others, that come with newfound
(WFF 2013), imbuing the film with viathan (WFF 2013) and Sweetgrass she is convicted and awaiting execu- WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM a delightfully spontaneous, off-the- (WFF 2010), Manakamana is as dis- tion, one of the jurors, Sir John Me- fame. UW-Madison alum Tim Sut- Schaller’s gentle, artful movie is just cuff energy. Brimming with sassy similar from these films as can be, nier (Alfred Abel in the part played ton’s second feature (his debut Pa- as exciting as finding a lost family dialogue, Macaroni and Cheese, as except for its comparably visionary by Herbert Marshall in the English vilion won numerous awards on the album. (JH) Manohla Dargis of the New York approach to documentary. Spray and version), becomes convinced she is Festival circuit in 2012) is a bold yet Times observed, “seems to have been Velez’s structuralist ethnography innocent and concealing the identity assured modern-day folktale that Macaroni & Cheese made “in between hits of laughing proves that cinema whittled down of a the real culprit. Sir John begins is at once surreal and abstract, yet Les Coquillettes gas—its giddiness is infectious. Con- to its basic elements can still work his sleuthing to get to the bottom firmly grounded in a sense of place. sistently amusing and often bliss- wonders. “Thrillingly mysterious in of the case, plunging himself into The city of Memphis – perhaps its SUN, APR 6 • 6:15 PM lesser-photographed parts – takes Sundance Cinema 5 fully silly.” (MK) its effects… an airborne version of an a world of music hall performers Andy Warhol screen test. Working and transvestite trapeze artists. The a starring turn alongside real-life THU, APR 10 • 6:15 PM within a 5- by 5-foot box, Spray and feature will be preceded by Robert artist/R&B singer-songwriter Willis Sundance Cinema 5 Manakamana Velez have made an endlessly sug- Fischer’s short documentary, Mul- Earl Beals, who, in addition writing WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • THU, APR 3 • 6:15 PM gestive film, one that both describes tilingual Murder, which uses audio and recording a hauntingly gor- France, 2012, Color, DCP • 75 MIN UW Chazen Museum of Art geous soundtrack full of soul music, Director: Sophie Letourner; Screenwriter: So- and transcends the bounds of time excerpts from Hitchcock’s interview phie Letourner; Producer: Emmanuel Chaumet; FRI, APR 4 • 4:30 PM and space.” (Dennis Lim, Los Angeles with Francois Truffaut to examine stars as the enigmatic singer. His Editor: Jean-Christophe Hym; Cinematogra- Sundance Cinema 5 Times) (MK) the differences between Murder! and journey of self-discovery drags him pher: Antoine Parouty; Cast: Camille Genaud, MIDWEST PREMIERE Feature • Documentary • Mary. (JH) from love and happiness right to the Carole Le Page, Sophie Letourner, Julien Gester, USA, Nepal, 2013, Color, DCP • 118 MIN edge of another dimension. Told in Eugenio Renzi Director: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez; Pro- Margaret Hue Would fragments and featuring luscious IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ducer: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel Maz-zo-man-nee SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA ; Editor: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez; Cinema- Like to Go to Mars. cinematography evocative of early SEE: A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Widely celebrated as the French tographer: Pacho Velez SEE: Shorts from Mars David Gordon Green or late Ter- IN NEPALI, ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUB- rence Malick, Memphis is a poetic counterpart to Lena Dunham’s Girls, TITLES and absorptive mediation on finding this effervescent romp follows three SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Mary Memphis young women chasing love and DOCUMENTARIES FRI, APR 4 • 9:00 PM creative inspiration. 2013 Venice sex over the course of one boozy Deceptively simple in description FRI, APR 4 • 12:15 PM Film Festival, 2014 Sundance Film UW Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 5 weekend. Parisian filmmaker Sophie but transcendent in execution, DIRECTOR TIM SUTTON SCHEDULED TO Festival. (TY) Letourneur is in Switzerland to Manakamana observes visitors to • Multilingual Murders APPEAR present her short at the prestigious the eponymous temple, perched Short • Documentary • Germany, 2006, B&W, MIDWESTPREMIERE Feature • Narrative • USA, Mono No Aware #1 2013, Color, HD Projection • 79 MIN Locarno Film Festival, but the art of high on a Nepalese mountaintop. Digital Projection • 11 MIN SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own Director: Robert Fischer Director: Tim Sutton; Screenwriter: Tim Sut- cinema is the last thing on her mind. What used to be an arduous uphill ton; Producer: John Baker; Editor: Seth Bomse; With hilarious single-mindedness, trek is now accomplished in a breezy • Mary Cinematographer: Chris Dapkins; Music by: Willis Earl Beal; Cast: Willis Earl Beal, Lopaka Mother & Son she is in pursuit of French arthouse 10 minutes via a system of cable Feature • Narrative • Germany, United King- Thomas, Constance Brantley, Devonte Hull, SEE: Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Selects heartthrob Louis Garrel, whom she cars that functions like a ski lift to dom, 1931, B&W, 35mm • 82 MIN John Gary Williams, Larry Dodson has heard is at the festival. With whisk worshipers directly to the Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Screenwriter: two friends in tow, Sophie hops be- top. For Manakamana, co-directors Alma Reville, Herbert Juttke, Georg C. Klaren; Continued on page 22 19 APRIL 3 Friday APRIL 4 Thursday P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. 6 7 8 9 10 11 A.M. 12 NOON 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. UW The Champagne Murders Of Vodka, Water & UW Dangerous Acts... Rich Hill When Evening Falls on Shooter and Whitley Over the Edge Cinematheque 6:30–8:45pm Mannequins Cinematheque Belarus 2:15–3:50pm Bucharest 6:45–8:30pm 9–11:05pm 9:15–10:40pm 12:15–1:35pm 4:45–6:15pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A UW Chazen Manakamana Salvo UW Chazen Mary Intruders Cannibal Sabbatical In Bloom Museum 6:15–8:15pm 8:45–10:30pm Museum 12:15–1:50pm 2:15–3:55pm 4:30–6:30pm 7–8:50pm 9:15–11pm with Filmmaker Q&A
Actress Rent a Family Inc. Sepideh The Amazing Catfish Domestic The Rugby Player The Immortalists UW Elvehjem 6:30–8:30pm 9–10:20pm UW Elvehjem Noon–1:35pm 2:30–4pm 4:30–5:55pm 6:30–8:20pm 9–10:50pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A
Union South / Food Patriots Joe Union South / Big Men To Be Takei Breathe In Why Don’t You Play in Hell? The Marquee 6:30–8:15pm 9–11:30pm The Marquee 2:15–3:55pm 4:30–6pm 7:15–8:55pm 9:30–11:40pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A
Sundance Stray Dogs Actress Like Father, Like Son Commando: A One Man Army The Sacrament Cinema 1 11:30am–1:50pm 2:15–4:15pm 4:45–6:45pm 7:15–9:15pm 9:45–11:20pm with Filmmaker Q&A
Sundance Lola A Spell to Ward Off Manakamana Age of Panic Memphis Cinema 5 12:15–1:45pm the Darkness 4:30–6:30pm 7–8:35pm 9–10:50pm 2:15–4:05pm with Filmmaker Q&A Sundance Stand Clear Food Patriots The Dog Happy Christmas R100 Cinema 6 of the Closing Doors 2–3:45pm 4:15–5:55pm 6:45–8:25pm 9:15–10:55pm 11:45–1:30pm with Filmmaker Q&A Sunday APRIL 6 11 A.M. 12 P.M. 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. APRIL 5 UW The Auction Black Jack The Lumberjack at 100 Jodie Mack: Rich Hill Cinematheque 11:30am–1:25pm 2–3:50pm 4:30–6:30pm Let Your Light Shine 8:45–10:20pm Saturday11 A.M. 12 P.M. 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. 11 P.M. with Filmmaker Q&A 7–8:20pm UW All About the Feathers Mother, I Love You The Lumberjack at 100 When Evening Falls on Nathaniel Dorsky: UW Chazen Best of the American Revolutionary: Shooter and Whitley Stray Dogs Tanta Agua Cinematheque Noon–1:25pm 2–3:25pm 4:30–6:30pm Bucharest Then and Now Museum British Arrows Grace Lee Boggs 3:15–5pm 5:30–7:50pm 8:30–10:15pm with Filmmaker Q&A 7–8:30pm 9–10:25pm 11:30am–12:45pm 1:15–2:40pm with Filmmaker Q&A
UW Chazen Mystery Road Vertigo Domestic American Revolutionary: Ilo Ilo To Be Takei Approaching the Elephant Sepideh - The Overnighters The Dog UW Elvehjem Museum 11:15–1:15pm 1:45–4:15pm 4:30–5:55pm Grace Lee Boggs 9–10:40pm 11:30am–1pm 1:30–3:30pm Reaching for the Stars 6–7:45pm 8:15–9:55pm 6:30–7:55pm with Filmmaker Q&A 4–5:35pm Burt’s Buzz Wisconsin Rising Dostoevsky Behind Bars Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own Crimes Against Humanity Union South / Stand Clear Gabrielle The Dark Matter of Love Visitors 20,000 Days on Earth UW Elvehjem 11:15–12:45pm 1:15–3:15pm 3:45–5:45pm 6:15–8:30pm 9–11pm The Marquee of the Closing Doors 1:15–3pm 3:30–5:30pm 6:15–7:45pm 8:15–9:45pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A 11am–12:45pm with Filmmaker Q&A Union South / Particle Fever Love Child The Rocket Tricked Dom Hemingway That Guy Dick Miller + A Bucket of Blood Overture / Blackmail Village at the End Le Week-End The Congress Cheatin’ The Marquee 11–12:40pm 1:15–3:00pm 3:30–5:05pm 5:30–7pm 7:30–9:05pm 9:30pm–12:30am Capitol 11am–1pm of the World 3:45–5:20pm 6–7:40pm 8:30–9:55pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A 1:45–3:05pm
Sundance The Rugby Player Tanta Agua Approaching the Elephant Club Sandwich Cannibal Sundance Rent A Family Inc. Ilo Ilo Commando: A One Man Army Ida Young & Beautiful Cinema 1 11:45am–1:40pm 2:15–4pm 4:30–6:30pm 7–8:25pm 9–11pm Cinema 1 Noon–1:20pm 1:45–3:25pm 4–6pm 6:30–7:50pm 8:30–10:05pm with Filmmaker Q&A
Sundance The Immortalists Shorts From Mars The Amazing Catfish Something, Anything Nobody’s Daughter Sundance Something, Anything Heli All About the Feathers Macaroni & Cheese A Spell to Ward Off Cinema 5 Noon–1:50pm 2:30–4:15pm 4:45–6:15pm 6:45–8:45pm Haewon Cinema 5 11:30am–1:30pm 2–3:45pm 4:15–5:40pm 6:15–7:30pm the Darkness WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A 9:15–10:45pm with Filmmaker Q&A 8–9:50pm Sundance The Umbrellas of Happy Christmas The German Doctor Gabrielle Coherence Sundance Big Men Coherence Particle Fever Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter R100 Cinema 6 Cherbourg 2:45–4:25pm 5–6:35pm 7:15–9pm 9:30–11:20pm Cinema 6 11am–12:40pm 1–2:50pm 3:15–4:55pm 5:30–7:45pm 8:15–9:55pm 12:45–2:20pm with Filmmaker Q&A Monday APRIL 7 Tuesday APRIL 8 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. Sundance Mystery Road Club Sandwich Like Father, Like Son The Sacrament Sundance Obvious Child Ida Cairo Drive Dangerous Acts... Cinema 1 2:15–4:15pm 4:45-6:10pm 6:45–8:45pm 9:15–11:25pm Cinema 1 2:30–3:55pm 4:30–5:50pm 6:30–8:20pm Belarus with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A 9–10:20pm Sundance Sabbatical Age of Panic Rat Pack Rat: Todd You and the Night Sundance Nobody’s Daughter Lola A Room in Town You and the Night Cinema 5 2–3:55pm 4:15–5:50pm Rohal Selects 6:15–8pm 8:45–10:20pm Cinema 5 Haewon 5–6:30pm 7–8:30pm 9:15–10:50pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A 3–4:30pm Sundance Le Week-end The Umbrellas of The Congress Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Sundance Burt’s Buzz The German Doctor Visitors The Overnighters Cinema 6 1:45–3:20pm Cherbourg 6–7:40pm 8:30–10:45pm Cinema 6 2:45–4:15pm 4:45–6:20pm 6:45–8:45pm 9:30–11:15pm 4–5:35pm with Filmmaker Q&A with Filmmaker Q&A Wednesday APRIL 9 Thursday APRIL 10 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. 1 P.M. 2 P.M. 3 P.M. 4 P.M. 5 P.M. 6 P.M. 7 P.M. 8 P.M. 9 P.M. 10 P.M. Sundance The Auction Young & Beautiful Northwest Intruders Sundance In Bloom Northwest Breathe In Obvious Child Cinema 1 1:45–3:40pm 4:15–5:50pm 6:30–8:05pm 9–10:40pm Cinema 1 2:15–4pm 4:30–6:05pm 6:30–8:10pm 8:45–10:10pm
Sundance A Room In Town Cairo Drive Three Seats for the 26th Heli Sundance Three Seats for the 26th Black Jack Macaroni & Cheese Why Don’t You Play In Hell? Cinema 5 1:30–3pm 3:45–5:35pm 6:15–8:05pm 8:30–10:15pm Cinema 5 1:30–3:20pm 4–5:50pm 6:15–7:30pm 8–10:10pm with Filmmaker Q&A
Sundance The Rocket Mother, I Love You The Dance of Reality Cheatin’ Sundance Best of the Salvo Village at the End Il Sorpasso 2–3:35pm 4–5:25pm 6–8:10pm 8:45–10:10pm British Arrows 3:45–5:30pm of the World 8:15–10:30pm WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN Cinema 6 Cinema 6 1:45–3pm 6–7:20pm with Filmmaker Q&A 20 21 Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Obvious Child
racial inequality. Ultimately, Jay’s in- Mother, I Love You vestigation leads him right to his own Mammu, es tevi milu police colleagues. Sen adopts a slow- SAT, APR 5 • 2:00 PM burn pace, taking his time building characters and setting up a fantastic, UW Cinematheque Mystery Road WED, APR 9 • 4:00 PM pulse-pounding final act showdown Sundance Cinema 6 set in the hills and rocks in the outer Director: Hong Sang-soo; Screenwriter: WISCONSIN PREMIERE Feature • Narrative • Lat- reaches of Queensland. Sen’s sup- ence “to experience what is hidden and accept with our hearts our given situa- Hong Sang-soo; Producer: Kim Kyeong- via, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 83 MIN porting cast includes a number of hee; Editor: Hahm Seong-won, Son Yeon-ji; Director: Janis Nords; Screenwriter: Janis great Australian character actors, tion.” Through a series of ravishing im- Cinematographer: Kim Hyeong-goo, Park Nords; Producer: Alise Gelze, Gatis Smits; Edi- including Jack Thompson (Breaker ages of the natural world, Dorsky, a phe- Hong-yeol; Music by: Jeong Yong-jin; Cast: tor: Tamara Meem; Cinematographer: Tobias Morant, The Man From Snowy River), nomenologist and a Buddhist, attempts Jung Eun-chae, Lee Sun-kyun Datum; Music by: Zoe Keating; Cast: Kristofers IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Konovalovs, Vita Varpina, Matiss Livcans, In- to forge a cinema of transcendence Hugo Weaving (the Matrix and Lord SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA dra Brike of the Rings trilogies) and Bruce rooted in the “nowness” of an image; in Despondent after her mother IN LATVIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Spence (the gyro captain from The a Dorsky film, the images impress them- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA moves to another continent, never Road Warrior!). 2013 Sydney, Toron- selves upon one’s consciousness, hover to return, self-effacing college Raimonds has a way of getting into Dramatic Feature, 2013 Los Angeles to, and London Film Festivals. (JH) there for a moment, and float away, mischief. A latchkey kid often spot- Film Festival. (MK) invoking a kind of meditative state. Dor- student Haewon seeks refuge in ted whizzing around Riga on his Nathaniel Dorsky: sky’s most recent films, Song and Spring, romance and rice wine. Looking scooter, he kills time with his friend Multilingual Murders continue his fascination with the idea for some sympathy, she calls up Peteris, who has access to a swanky Then and Now of a floating world: moving reflections Seong-joon, her professor and SEE: Mary on-again, off-again boyfriend who apartment the two like to sneak into SAT, APR 5 • 9:00 PM captured in shop windows, the delicacy when the owner’s away. After an of textures and fabrics, and plants that has never really gotten over her. UW Cinematheque In fact, he’d eagerly leave his fam- argument with his mom, Raimonds Mystery Road SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Experimental • 16mm unfold in the dawning Spring light. Also attempts to spend the night there, SAT, APR 5 • 11:15 AM SECTION: SHORT FILMS PROGRAMS on the program: Dorsky’s rarely screened ily for her, if only she’d stop enter- setting off a spiral of lies and cover- taining other offers, like the one UW Chazen Museum of Art • Fall Trip Home early trilogy, Ingreen (1964), A Fall Trip ups that threaten to overwhelm him. Home (1964), and Summerwind (1965), to move abroad with a man she MON, APR 7 • 2:15 PM SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Short • Experimental A clear-eyed and nuanced depiction Kodachrome dreams of adolescence shot just met. This beguiling character Sundance Cinema 1 • USA, 1964, Color, 16mm • 11 MIN sketch unfolds as a collection of of the specifically adolescent sensa- Feature • Narrative • Australia, 2013, Color, HD Director: Nathaniel Dorsky when Dorsky was a teenager. Ingreen re- tion of getting in way over your head, Projection • 118 MIN ceived high praise from none other than coincidences, dreams, and diary Mother, I Love You strikes the perfect Director: Ivan Sen; Screenwriter: Ivan Sen; Pro- • Ingreen Stan Brakhage, who claimed that “the entries, not unlike life. Prolific chord of being sympathetic without ducer: David Jowsey; Editor: Ivan Sen; Cinema- SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Short • Experimental film haunts, has tugged at my mind now South Korean master Hong Sang- resorting to sentimentality. Like a tographer: Ivan Sen; Music by: Ivan Sen; Cast: • USA, 1964, Color, 16mm • 12 MIN soo (Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Aaron Pedersen, Ryan Kwanten, Hugo Weaving, Director: Nathaniel Dorsky and again all these years.” This program lot of troublemakers, Raimonds is Jack Thompson, Bruce Spence promises to be the kind of quiet, reflec- Bachelors, WFF 2001, The Day He essentially a good kid, and writer/ SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA • Song tive experience that seems increasingly Arrives, WFF 2012) is an expert director Janis Nords captures his This suspenseful contemporary-set SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Short • Experimental rare in contemporary cinema. (JP) at portraying the similarly adrift moral dilemma and burgeoning con- Australian Western and police proce- • USA, 2013, Color, 16mm • 19 MIN feelings of young people with big Director: Nathaniel Dorsky science with keen sensitivity. Nords dural is a singular showcase for the New Fancy Foils choices ahead of them, and adults auditioned over 800 kids before find- multi-talented Ivan Sen, who serves • Spring who wish they could remake a SEE: Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine ing his leading man in 13 year-old as writer, director, editor, director SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Short • Experimental few decisions. Star Jung Eun-chae Kristofers Konovalovs, a first-time of photography and composer of the • USA, 2013, Color, 16mm • 23 MIN is an enchanting presence, and actor who gives an impeccably natu- music score. In the desert outback Director: Nathaniel Dorsky Nobody’s Daughter her performance has won Best ral and complex performance. Rai- of Queensland, an Aboriginal Cop • Summerwind Haewon New Actress Awards from film monds’s youthful energy is matched named Jay Swan (the commanding, SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Short • Experimental critic associations across Asia. behind the camera by a fleet, hand- brooding Aaron Pedersen) investi- • USA, 1965, Color, 16mm • 14 MIN Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon There is also an unexpectedly held immediacy that recalls the films gates the murder of an Aboriginal Director: Nathaniel Dorsky SAT, APR 5 • 9:15 PM funny cameo from Jane Birkin of the Dardennes (Rosetta, The Kid teenage girl, whose body is found In this program of devotional cin- Sundance Cinema 5 as a discombobulated tourist. with a Bike). Winner, Grand Prix of under a highway overpass. In trying ema, Nathaniel Dorsky, declared the TUE, APR 8 • 3:00 PM “A wonderful, melancholic, and the Generation Kplus International to solve the case, Jay shakes up his world’s greatest living avant-garde Sundance Cinema 5 subtly affecting work.” (Little Jury, 2013 Berlin Film Festival. Best filmmaker in the pages of Film Com- White Lies) 2013 New York Film WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN under-populated town, stirring up WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • South 22 the residual dust of economic and ment magazine, encourages his audi- Korea, 2013, Color, DCP • 90 MIN Festival. (MK) The Realist Over the Edge
Mother, I Love You Northwest Northwest Giese, both first-time actors who Of Vodka, Water • The Realist Conquest of the Planet of the give incredibly assured perfor- MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • Teenagers. Carl (Michael Kramer) Nordvest mances. (MK) & Mannequins USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 36 MIN and Richie (Matt Dillon, in an WED, APR 9 • 6:30 PM Director: Scott Stark; Cinematographer: ; Music electrifyingly charismatic and THU, APR 3 • 9:15 PM by: Daniel Goode Sundance Cinema 1 Obvious Child UW Cinematheque mumblemouthed debut) are two SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW AMERICAN hard luck kids who always seem THU, APR 10 • 4:30 PM TUE, APR 8 • 2:30 PM Experimental • HD Projection CINEMA to be in the wrong place at the Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 1 SECTION: SHORT FILMS PROGRAMS Scott Stark follows up his propulsive MADISON PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • wrong time, leading to tragic, in- THU, APR 10 • 8:45 PM In the mood for something completely dif- BLOOM (WFF 2013) with a highly- Denmark, 2013, Color, DCP • 91 MIN ferent? These three new short works are ambitious and entrancing vision of evitable results. Occupying a spe- Director: Michael Noer; Screenwriter: Rasmus Sundance Cinema 1 united in their dazzling visuals and techni- romance in an age of consumerist cial place in the pantheon of teen Heisterberg, Michael Noer; Producer: René Feature • Narrative • USA, 2014, Color, rebellion flicks, Over the Edge Ezra, Tomas Radoor; Editor: Adam Nielsen; DCP • 83 MIN cal virtuosity. Breaking with traditional overload. The film charts the would- Cinematographer: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck; Director: Gillian Robespierre; Screenwrit- storytelling methods, the artists represented be connection between two store- was banned from some theaters Cast: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær er: Gillian Robespierre; Producer: Elisabeth in this program are truly working on the cut- window mannequins who attempt at the time of release. Poised on a Giese, Roland Møller, Lene Maria Christensen Holm; Editor: Casey Brooks; Cinematogra- ting edge of cinema. (JH) to escape their predestined poses timeline between Nicholas Ray’s IN DANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES pher: Chris Teague; Cast: Jenny Slate, Jake Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, David Cross, Gabe • The Green Serpent — Of Vodka, and end up plunged into a miasma
Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003), WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM A gritty and absorbing tour of the Co- Liedman, Richard Kind Men And Distilled Dreams of department stores, parking lots, SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA, and lonely late-night boulevards. Edge captures the discordant penhagen underworld, Northwest is CLOSING NIGHT SELECTION Short • Documentary • Switzerland, Russia, 2013, Color, mood at the end of the seventies, 21 MIN Created entirely with flickering an especially authentic slice of Scan- An audience favorite at this year’s Digital Projection • as cookie cutter prefabricated Director: Benny Jaberg; Producer: Tanya Petrik, Guil- still photographs that give the film dinavian crime fiction. 18 year-old Sundance Film Festival Obvious enclaves sprang up in the middle Caspar supports his family with the laume Protsenko, Benny Jaberg; Editor: Benny Jaberg; a hypnotic strobe-light texture, The Child is a romantic comedy that Cinematographer: Joona Pettersson Realist offers a sharp-edged take of nowhere and real estate devel- revenue from petty burglaries com- IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES provides a star-is-born showcase on contemporary materialism that opment deals took precedence mitted for his neighborhood gang. A trip to the outer limits of intoxication, star- for the enormously likeable actress- remarkably doubles as an invitation over genuine community building His skills catch the eye of Bjorn, a ring an actor, a poet, and a physicist. This comedian Jenny Slate. 27-year old to re-engage a corrupted world with and a generation of suburban kids rival gangster who runs drug and Donna (Slate) is a NYC bookstore short cosmic essay film was cited by multiple found themselves with lots of prostitution rings. With promises of revivified eyes and a searching heart. clerk who spends most of her eve- critics as one of the best films of any length at (MC) time on their hands and precious more money and a higher place on nings honing her craft as a stand-up the 2013 Locarno Film Festival. (MK) little supervision or nurturing. (It the totem pole, Bjorn recruits Cas- comic. Striving to be straightfor- is troubling to consider that the par and his younger brother Andy, • Another Song About the Sea Oh My God! ward, she regularly brings up her WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Animation • USA, 2013, movie was shot on Colorado loca- though whether these teenagers SEE: Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Selects romantic relationships during her Color, HD Projection • 25 MIN tions just a few miles from Col- are ready to become professional act, which does not always make Director: Jeremy Bessoff umbine High School.) The film criminals remains very much in ques- her boyfriends happy. When one SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW AMERICAN CINEMA Our Own Gang boasts an authentic soundtrack tion. When Caspar defects from his of them “dumps up” with her, Few works of contemporary avant-garde featuring Cheap Trick and Aero- old crew, his family gets caught in Donna has what she intends to be animation will leave you misty-eyed, but in The Chase smith, lots of lyrical moments, a middle of a vicious gang war, and a one-night stand with a handsome Jeremy Bessoff’s melancholic meditation SEE: The Lumberjack at 100 and some lived-in, authentic per- the brothers quickly graduate from business type, Max (Jake Lacy). on a middle-aged couple’s emotional es- formances that served as inspira- misdemeanors to felonies. Director When she discovers later that she’s trangement might leave you wiping away Over the Edge tions for everyone from Richard Michael Noer keeps the action taut pregnant, Donna avoids telling a tear or two. As the unnamed man and Linklater to Kurt Cobain. Over the FRI, APR 4 • 9:00 PM and energetic without indulging in Max, even though she finds herself woman sit awkwardly across from one Edge is equal parts Afterschool UW Cinematheque the mindless glorification of violence spending more and more time with another at the breakfast table, we travel to Playhouse and exploitation flick, SCREENWRITER TIM HUNTER SCHEDULED TO typical of lesser gangster films. With him. Will she be able to resist bring- the past (or is it their collective fantasies?) earnest and overwrought in all great compassion for his characters, APPEAR ing up her delicate condition at the as their mutual sojourns into the depths of SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • the best ways, with a final act that Noer shows how even someone like stand-up mic? In looking at topics the ocean become metaphorical indicators USA, 1979, Color, 35mm • 95 MIN is truly chilling. Co-screenwriter Caspar, with a functional moral com- like contemporary relationships of how their relationship slowly ground to Director: Jonathan Kaplan; Screenwriter: Tim Tim Hunter, who would return pass, strong work ethic, and sense of and how an artist creates, Obvious a halt. Bessoff’s striking stop-motion tech- Hunter, Charlie Haas; Producer: George Litto; to similar cinematic territory as loyalty, can be sucked into a life of Editor: Robert Barrere; Cinematographer: An- Child finds a way to be as honest niques give his story an air of delicate tac- drew Davis; Music by: Sol Kaplan; Cast: Michael a director years later with River’s crime as the only means of escaping and observant as its main character tility—an evocative physical manifestation Kramer, Matt Dillon, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Edge (1986), will be on hand after their environment. Northwest’s full- while maintaining a refreshingly of the central couple’s gentle journey from Spano, Andy Romano the screening to discuss his par- bore veracity extends to the cast: Cas- SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, loose, light-hearted and very funny walled-off detachment to tentative recon- SPECIAL EVENT ticipation in this landmark classic. par and Andy are played by real-life tone. (JH) nection. (MC) (BR) brothers Gustav and Oscar Dyekjaer 23 Rat Pack Rat
The Overnighters Rent A Family Inc. The Overnighters Particle Fever Person to Person • Smashin’ it Up Short • Narrative • USA, 2001, Color, Digital SEE: SUN, APR 6 • 6:00 PM SAT, APR 5 • 11:00 AM Happy Christmas Projection • 7 MIN UW Elvehjem Union South / The Marquee Director: Mikey Goodwin TUE, APR 8 • 9:30 PM SUN, APR 6 • 3:15 PM Rat Pack Rat: “Skizz Cyzyk ran a film festival of Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 oddities called MicroCineFest in Balti- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary Todd Rohal Selects more, Maryland, for years and he dug • USA, 2014, Color, DCP • 100 MIN • USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 99 MIN MON, APR 7 • 6:15 PM up this gem of a movie from Georgia. I Director: Jesse Moss; Producer: Jesse Moss, Director: Mark Levinson; Producer: David Sundance Cinema 5 think the less we know about the film Amanda McBaine; Editor: Jeff Gilbert; Cin- Kaplan; Editor: Walter Murch, Mona Davis; ematographer: Jesse Moss; Music by: T. Griffin Cinematographer: Claudia Raschke-Robinson; DIRECTOR TODD ROHAL SCHEDULED TOAPPEAR or the people that made it, the better. SECTION: SHORT FILMS PROGRAMS SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Music by: Robert Miller This is like the Jandek of short films. DOCUMENTARIES IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN The director of feature film comedies If I were to put one item in a time Winning a Special Jury Award for WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES like The Guatemalan Handshake and capsule in the hopes of shattering the SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Intuitive Filmmaking at the Sundance DOCUMENTARIES The Catechism Cataclysm, Todd Rohal brains of our future generations, it Film Festival doesn’t happen often. “Imagine being able to watch as Edi- has emerged in the last decade as one would be this film.” (Todd Rohal) In fact, such an award had never been son turned on the first light bulb, or of the most idiosyncratic and visionary • Will You Lather Up granted until this year, when the jury of American independent directors. Andy in my first feature film, The Gua- as Franklin received his first jolt of temalan Handshake, after seeing this My Roughouse? bestowed it on Jesse Moss’s riveting electricity.” This is the fervent dream The centerpiece of this fun program is Rohal’s brilliant new short film Rat film. The same two thoughts come to Short • Narrative • USA, 1995, Color, HD Pro- study of the lower rungs of the Ameri- of the international cadre of physicists jection • 8 MIN can oil and gas industry. Moss ostensi- Pack Rat, which was a prizewinner at me after a viewing of Matthew’s movie: Director: David Gordon Green searching for the Higgs boson, the so- 1.) I want to take a shower and 2.) I am bly set out to document the phenom- this year’s Sundance Film Festival. We “I had been told about this short film called “God particle” that they hope so thankful that I wasn’t born in New enon of the so called “man camps” in will unlock nothing less than the ori- have asked Todd Rohal to select some before David Gordon Green had fin- York City.” (Todd Rohal) northwest North Dakota, which serve gin of the universe. 10,000 scientists of his favorite short films to round out ished making George Washington. If as semi-permanent housing for the from over 100 countries converge in this program and he’s provided us with • Oh My God! anyone is to ever write a book about tens-of-thousands who’ve been lured Switzerland to build the Large Had- this hilariously deranged assortment. Short • Narrative • USA, 2004, Color, Digital David and his films, this is the Rosetta to towns like Williston by the promise ron Collider, the most ambitious and The program will also include a few Projection • 10 MIN Stone that should help decode and other oddities and secret surprises. (JH) Director: John Bryant of jobs and riches generated by the re- large-scale scientific experiment in connect all of the pieces.” (Todd Rohal) “If there was a mountain formed by cent discovery of oil and natural gas in the history of the planet. Physicist- • Foxy and the Weight surprise and the unexpected, John the Bakken shale. As an entre into this turned-filmmaker Mark Levinson of the World The Realist Bryant’s Oh My God! would be at fascinating and unsustainable world, guides us through the nail-biting Short • Narrative • USA, 2005, Color, Digital SEE: Of Vodka, Water & Mannequins the peak. No one dislikes this movie, Moss (Full Battle Rattle, WFF 2009) launch of the LHC, a massive under- Projection • 9 MIN which is why, in a strange turn of begins to follow Pastor Jay Reinke and taking plagued by false starts, tension, Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner events, John Bryant was recently vot- Rent A Family Inc. his jury-rigged operation at the Con- and malfunctions. Nobody seems “Please go and see the Zellner Broth- ed in as mayor of Cedar Park, Texas cordia Lutheran Church, which he’s quite sure if it will actually work, or ers’ new movie Kumiko and compare THU, APR 3 • 9:00 PM last fall.” (Todd Rohal) turned into a makeshift living space what its findings will reveal. As the and contrast that film with this one. UW Elvehjem for dozens of aspiring workers who launch date approaches, an entire Same people, same two brains…and • Rat Pack Rat SUN, APR 6 • 12:00 PM are so new to town that they’ve yet to field’s future hangs in the balance—in I know for a fact that’s just the tip of WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Narrative • Sundance Cinema 1 find jobs and housing. The Overnight- the words of one subject, “the entire the iceberg with those two. If you have USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 19 MIN Feature • Documentary • Denmark, 2012, Color, HD Projection • 77 MIN ers program, which Reinke sees as control room is like a group of six year money, send it to them.” (Todd Rohal) Director: Todd Rohal; Screenwriter: Todd Ro- both a commonsensical and Christian hal; Producer: Zack Carlson, Megan Griffiths, Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder; Producer: olds whose birthday is next week.” • Mother & Son Clay Liford, Asland Viscosi; Editor: Todd Rohal; Mette Heide; Editor: Adam Nielsen; Cinematog- gesture of hospitality to those in need, Masterfully assembled by legendary Short • Narrative • USA, 1997, Color, Digital Cinematographer: Benjamin Kasulke; Music by: rapher: Kajita Akihiro, Kaspar Astrup Schröder; soon meets staunch opposition from editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Projection • 16 MIN Joseph Stephens; Cast: Eddie Rouse, Steve Little, Music by: Jonas Colstrup Margie Beegle both the Church’s congregation and Now), this front-row seat to the most Director: Matthew Silver IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES town officials, who are worried about A professional Sammy Davis, Jr. imper- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL important experiment of our time is “If you have been to New York City DOCUMENTARIES neighborhood safety. A more detailed recently, chances are you’ve seen Mat- sonator pays a visit to a not-so-healthy fascinating viewing for scientists and Ryuchi Ichinokawa is a professional explanation would entail revealing thew Silver performing in a subway Rat Pack devotee. Todd Rohal’s hilari- laypeople alike. “Electrifying… among family member. His Tokyo-based too many spoilers. But suffice it to station or around Union Square Park. ous and mind-blowingly weird short the very best portrayals of passion and company, I Want To Cheer You Up say, his directorial intuitions reveal a He is a truly inspired madman and film won the Short Film Special Jury excitement ever put on screen.” (Non- Ltd, rents out stand-ins: actors who devastating and utterly unforgettable his brain is wired unlike any person Prize for Unique Vision at this year’s fics) Audience Award, 2013 Sheffield pose as his clients’ family, friends, WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN Sundance Film Festival. (JH) story. (TY) Doc/Fest. (MK) or device yet invented. I cast his uncle 24 and coworkers for an hourly rate. The Rocket Rich Hill
Particle Fever R100 A Room in Town
For the right price, Ryuchi will be of small-town America. Jobs are scarce comparisons to The Kite Runner and tic creation sprung from the id your boss at your wedding (he’ll in Rich Hill, Missouri, and the families Beasts of the Southern Wild. Ahlo is a of Japanese comedian Hitoshi A Room in Town even give a teary-eyed toast), your of the three adolescent boys at the heart scrappy 10 year-old who is convinced Matusmoto (Big Man Japan, Une Chambre en Ville new husband at child support of this film are struggling to get by, much that he is bad luck. When his entire WFF 2008). Family man, com- TUE, APR 8 • 7:00 PM negotiations, your father when less ahead. Andrew, Harley, and Appachey village is forced to pack up and re- pany man, Takafumi is just a Sundance Cinema 5 your boyfriend wants permission are bright personalities facing tough cir- locate to make way for a giant dam, regular, mild-mannered guy WED, APR 9 • 1:30 PM to move in together. For wed- cumstances, bravely dealing with absent this only seems to reinforce his curse. with a domination fetish. To Sundance Cinema 5 dings and other big gigs, he’ll hire parents and past traumas. But rather than The relocation spurs a series of ad- let off a little steam, he joins an SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • France, a troupe of actors to play your reduce these kids to their problems, co- ventures for Ahlo’s family, especially elite S&M club with a rather 1982, Color, DCP • 90 MIN extended family. His service is directing cousins Andrew Droz Palermo after he falls in with an adorable girl extreme set of rules: at any Director: Jacques Demy; Screenwriter: Jacques Demy; primarily used by people with and Tracy Droz Tragos vibrantly capture his age named Kia, and her caretaker, time, at any place, he may be Producer: Christine Gouzé-Renal; Editor: Sabine Ma- mou; Cinematographer: Jean Penzer; Music by: Michel secrets to hide, but Ryuchi is the full spectrum of their lives, which a rabble-rousing drunk obsessed with abruptly ambushed, beaten, Colombier; Cast: Dominique Sanda, Michel Piccoli, Rich- keeping a whopper of his own: his are suffused with as much beauty as James Brown. A rocket-building fes- and humiliated by intensely ard Berry, Danielle Darrieux, Fabienne Guyon family has no idea what he does heartbreak. Over the course of 450 hours tival with a huge cash prize provides devoted dominatrices—and he IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES for a living. Elegantly shot and of shooting, the filmmakers developed a the preternaturally crafty Ahlo a can’t opt out. What starts off as SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, LE MONDE ENCHANTÉ DE JACQUES DEMY
scored, Rent A Family Inc. is far near-symbiotic rapport with their young chance to redeem all the trouble his fun and floggings gets a little WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM more than just another documen- subjects, who seem to view them as con- curse has caused. Tucked within The too personal when the leather- Nantes, 1955: Dock workers are on strike, tary about a quirky character—as fidants or co-conspirators, depending on Rocket’s gripping story are countless clad ladies start turning up at marching through the streets for an immi- Ryuchi’s finances and family life the situation. Rich Hill is a staggeringly reminders of Lao’s war-ravaged his- his workplace and home. At nent clash with the anti-riot police. At their become increasingly strained, the beautiful ode to youth and resilience. “A tory—unexploded bombs are a fre- the end of his rope, Takafumi head is François Guilbaud (Richard Berry), a film becomes a thought-provoking truly moving and edifying film, Rich Hill quent sight, even memorably propping strikes back, unwittingly in- steelworker. One day he meets the wild and consideration of the roles we play, is the type of media object that could up some shanties. Since winning three citing a surreal war against a passionate Edith Leroyer (Dominique Sanda) the price of keeping up appear- and should be put in a time capsule for top prizes upon its world premiere in massive S&M army. If this is wandering the streets of the city wearing noth- ances, and what it means to be future generations…. encompasses both Berlin (including Best Debut Feature), starting to sound like a lot to ing under her decadent fur coat. She poses “normal.” Strange as his business the nostalgic dream of retro Americana and three more at its US premiere at take in, you’re not alone—some as a prostitute to infuriate her jealous and model may be, I Want To Cheer (green lawns, youthful mischief, 4th of Tribeca (including Best Narrative Fea- of the movie’s biggest laughs cruel husband Edmond (Michel Piccoli), who You Up Ltd, is bound to sound July sparklers) and the devastating blight ture and Best Actor), The Rocket has come from a hilarious framing owns a television store in the passage Pom- at least a bit appealing to anyone that has crept into the American dream. amassed a raft of festival accolades, device, in which a thoroughly meraye (a beloved and recurring location for who’s ever cringed at the thought And that’s why Rich Hill is an important including the Audience Awards at the bewildered MPAA-like rat- chance meetings in Jacques Demy’s cinematic of introducing someone to their film, for capturing these stories in such Tribeca, Sydney, Melbourne, Calgary, ings committee periodically universe). Guilbaud learns that Edith is the relatives. And you thought the an authentic and artful manner and with and AFI film festivals. (MK) pause the film to try to sort daughter of his landlady Margot Langlois Snuggle House was weird. (MK) a great deal of sensitivity and respect” – out the plot, leading to choice (Danielle Darrieux), a colonel’s widow-turned- alcoholic who disapproves of her tenant’s Indiewire. (MK) R100 non-sequiturs like “why does an S&M club have a CEO?” political tendencies. Through his intricate web Rich Hill FRI, APR 4 • 9:15 PM The title itself is a joke on the of characters, Demy creates a turbulent and FRI, APR 4 • 2:15 PM The Rocket Sundance Cinema 6 Japanese movie ratings system, fervent love story set against the backdrop of SAT, APR 5 • 3:30 PM UW Cinematheque SUN, APR 6 • 8:15 PM which tops out at R18, imply- class violence and turmoil. As in Demy’s The SUN, APR 6 • 8:45 PM Union South / The Marquee Sundance Cinema 6 ing that the gleeful insanity of Umbrellas of Cherbourg, all of the dialogue is UW Cinematheque WED, APR 9 • 2:00 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • R100 is only appropriate for sung, adhering to Demy’s conception of a cin- Japan, 2013, Color, DCP • 100 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Docu- Sundance Cinema 6 centenarians. “Matsumoto’s ematic universe en-chanté (a pun on “in song” mentary • USA, 2014, Color, HD Projec- MADISON PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Austra- Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto; Screenwriter: Hi- and “enchanted”). However, Une Chambre en toshi Matsumoto; Producer: Akihiko Okamoto; comedy genius is massive… tion • 91 MIN lia, Laos, 2013, Color, DCP • 92 MIN Ville paints a harsher and more violent picture Director: Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Editor: Yoshitaka Honda; Cinematographer: there are jokes here that won’t Director: Kim Mordaunt; Screenwriter: Kim Kazushige Tanaka; Music by: Hidekazu Saka- than Demy’s earlier film, despite its lush color Palermo; Producer: Tracy Droz Tragos, An- Mordaunt; Producer: Sylvia Wilczynski; Editor: just make you laugh so hard it drew Droz Palermo; Editor: Jim Hession; moto; Cast: Nao Ohmori, Mao Daichi, Shinobu design. Demy specialists Olivier Père and Ma- Nick Meyers; Cinematographer: Andrew Commis; Terajima, Matsuo Suzuki , Atsuro Watabe hurts. They’re good enough, Cinematographer: Andrew Droz Palermo; Music by: Caitlin Yeo; Cast: Sitthiphon Disamoe, rie Colmant suggest the film “returns to the IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES both in design and execution, Music by: Nathan Halpern Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam, Bunsri roots of Jacques Demy’s biography and film- SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA to actually earn your awe while Yindi, Sumrit Warin, Alice Keohavong ography: the town of Nantes, human passion, IN LAO WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES “Fight Club as directed by Luis Bu- you’re trying to breathe. R100 Winner of the Grand Jury Prize the filmmaker’s tenderness for the working SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA ñuel” was one critic’s shellshocked bid will kick your ass and you will for Best Documentary at the 2014 class, his fascination with the aristocracy, his This sweeping and spirited tale from the to encapsulate this mind (and loin)- thank it.” (Badass Digest) 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Rich Hill contempt for the bourgeoisie. . . An absolute is a lyrical and openhearted reverie lush Laotian outback has earned critical boggling S&M comedy, the latest luna- Sundance Film Festival. (MK) masterpiece.” (J O-K) 25 Smoky Places
Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars
The Round Barns • Sabbatical Sabbatical WORLD PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • USA, 2014, Color, DCP • 72 MIN of Vernon County ducer: Eli Roth, Jacob Jaffke, Peter Phok, SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own Director: Brandon Colvin; Screenwriter: Bran- don Colvin; Producer: Brandon Colvin, Tony Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners; Salvo Oswald, Michael Sellers; Editor: Tony Oswald; Editor: Ti West; Cinematographer: Eric Robbins; Music by: Tyler Bates; Cast: Joe THU, APR 3 • 8:45 PM Cinematographer: Aaron Granat; Cast: Robert UW Chazen Museum of Art The Rugby Player Longstreet, Rhoda Griffis, Kentucker Audley, Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Kentucker Audley, Rebecca Koon, Thomas Jay Ryan, Frank Mosley, Amy Seimetz, Gene Jones THU, APR 10 • 3:45 PM FRI, APR 4 • 6:30 PM SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA UW Elvehjem Charlotte Sweet Sundance Cinema 6 SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW AMERICAN The Vice Guide to Jonestown, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Italy, SAT, APR 5 • 11:45 AM CINEMA this harrowing thriller follows 2013, Color, DCP • 104 MIN Sundance Cinema 1 Returning home to care for his a trio of gonzo journalists into Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; Screen- DIRECTOR SCOTT GRACHEFF SCHEDULED TO mother as she recovers from a stroke, the heart of a secretive cult. Pat- writer: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; Producer: APPEAR middle-aged academic Ben Hardin Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio Mosca; Editor: Desideria WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary rick is a NY photographer, who Rayner; Cinematographer: Daniele Ciprì; Cast: Saleh • USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 80 MIN (Robert Longstreet) initially attempts receives an unsettling letter Bakri, Sara Serraiocco, Luigi Lo Cascio, Mario Pupella Director: Scott Gracheff; Producer: Scott to work on a new book and haltingly from his estranged sister, who is IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Gracheff, Holly Million, Chris Million; Editor: SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA in his memory, one catches a glimpse reconnects with his ex, Sarah (Rhoda living far off the grid in a mys- Manuel Tsingaris; Cinematographer: Chris Griffis). He becomes increasingly un- In Palermo, Sicily, a city teeming with Million of the gem-like bond that Hoagland terious commune. He convinces Mafiosi, the lean, handsome Salvo is one SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES and Bingham shared—a multi-faceted moored, however, as he slowly con- Vice correspondents Sam and As one of the forty passengers who thing of beauty, emitting love in the fronts the tensions and fractures in Jake to take him there, pitching of the most efficient of hitmen. Assigned his relationships with Sarah, mother to kill the head of a rival clan, Salvo breaks wrested United Flight 93 away from face of heartbreak. (MC) it as fodder for a documentary its hijackers and crash-landed the Elizabeth (Rebecca Koon), and broth- expose—and possible rescue into his home and discovers his target plane in Shanksville, PA on Septem- Sabbatical er Dylan (Kentucker Audley). Writer/ mission. Arriving by helicopter, has a blind sister, Rita. After murdering ber 11th, Mark Bingham became director Brandon Colvin (whose de- they find an apparently utopian his victim, he rashly takes Rita with him, FRI, APR 4 • 7:00 PM known to the world through tragedy. but feature, Frames, premiered at the congregation, by all appearances hiding her in a warehouse outside the city UW Chazen Museum of Art The triumph of Scott Gracheff’s mov- 2012 Wisconsin Film Festival) imbues living off the land in perfect limits. During a sultry Palermo heat wave, ing documentary lies in its ability to MON, APR 7 • 2:00 PM his deceptively simple story with a harmony. But sinister undercur- Salvo begins floating between two worlds: honor Bingham’s sacrifice while si- Sundance Cinema 5 remarkable sense of formal control. rents begin to emerge through Rita’s hiding place and his own squalid multaneously revealing the complex DIRECTOR BRANDON COLVIN AND ACTOR An unapologetically rigorous work, cracks in the flock’s fanaticism, room in a boarding house. As he tries to ROBERT LONGSTREET SCHEDULED TO APPEAR weave of experiences, emotions, and Sabbatical invites the viewer to scan and it becomes clear they are keep his secret from his brutal and ruth- relationships that made Bingham the • Do As Told its elegantly-composed long takes living in fear and awe of a char- less boss, Salvo begins to realize he is more a prisoner of his world than Rita is in hers. person he was. A gay man who felt Short • Experimental • USA, 2013, B&W, HD for subterranean emotional flickers ismatic messiah known only as most at home in the testosterone-in- Projection • 6 MIN and subtle interpersonal shifts. These Father. Having proven himself In their stunning first feature film, direc- Directors: Nina S. Ham, Aaron Granat; Editors: small moments form a portrait of dis- a master of throwback horror tors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza fused world of competitive rugby and Nina S. Ham, Aaron Granat; Cinematographers: college fraternity life, Bingham used location and ennui whose full impact with 1970s-inflected knockouts masterfully manipulate sound and image Nina S. Ham, Aaron Granat becomes revealed only in its devastat- in a way that makes their off-screen spaces his athleticism, self-effacing humor, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN like The House of the Devil and ing final moments—a familial reckon- just as intriguing as the ones we actually and fierce loyalty to navigate these Snippets of presidential speeches, The Innkeepers, writer/director ing that does not mend old wounds so see. This is an exciting method that allows seeming contradictions in frequently flashes of collegiate revelry and re- Ti West here delivers a fresh much as acknowledge how deep the us to better understand Rita’s situation raucous—and sometimes poignant— pose, and some unnerving footage take on the found footage genre, scars run. (MC) and reminds us that, like in life, stories are ways. Bingham’s relationship with his of two figures in wrinkly old-man turning Vice’s “immersionism” constantly unfolding all around us, even in mother, Alice Hoagland, formed the masks become the raw material for tropes on their ear to generate the most remote, hidden of places. “Salvo core of that journey, and Hoagland’s a reflection on higher education’s The Sacrament straight-up, white-knuckle ter- embraces crime genre tropes and then tenderness and candor in discussing promises and perils. Aaron Granat ror. The game cast is crowded FRI, APR 4 • 9:45 PM stretches them into a new shape, so that the occasionally rocky but profoundly (cinematographer of Sabbatical) and with indie cinema favorites, Sundance Cinema 1 old devices look and feel new. It reminds close connection she had with her UW-student Nina Ham have crafted including Amy Seimetz (Up- MON, APR 7 • 9:15 PM us that the confinement of genre, not un- son forms the beating heart of The a sharp-elbowed yet artfully-diffuse stream Color) and Joe Swanberg Sundance Cinema 1 like Rita’s own constrained circumstances, Rugby Player. To watch her face light work that critiques the conformity of (Drinking Buddies), but it is DIRECTOR TI WEST SCHEDULED TO APPEAR can have unexpectedly fresh results.” up with laughter as she recounts one contemporary learning institutions (MONDAY ONLY) Gene Jones (No Country for Old (Robert Kohler, Film Comment). Winner, of Bingham’s adolescent pranks or fill while (appropriately enough) leaving Feature • Narrative • USA, 2013, Color, DCP Men) who steals the show with • 95 MIN an absolutely commanding per- Critic’s Week Grand Prize, 2013 Cannes
WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN with hard-fought joy as she watches the viewer with more questions than Director: Ti West; Screenwriter: Ti West; Pro- formance as Father. (MK) Film Festival. (JH) 26 her son’s former teammates play on answers. (MC) The Round Barns of Vernon County The Sacrament
Salvo Before You Sepideh: Reaching Shooter and Whitley that becomes more thorny, knowing, and emotionally-tangled as the film The Rugby Player for the Stars FRI, APR 4 • 6:45 PM progresses. The brilliance of Shooter UW Cinematheque and Whitley comes from Stewart’s FRI, APR 4 • 12:00 PM cal car-wash employee who brings SUN, APR 6 • 3:15 PM miraculous balance of distanced ob- • Before You UW Elvehjem customers in with his truly epic air- UW Chazen Museum of Art servation and hard-won empathy for MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • USA, 2013, B&W, HD Projection • 4 MIN guitar moves. SUN, APR 6 • 4:00 PM FILMMAKER LAURA STEWART SCHEDULED TO her subjects, particularly the ambiva- Director: Michael T. Vollmann UW Elvehjem APPEAR lent and often-eloquent Whitley. Shot • Mono No Aware #1 MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary WINNER: 2014 GOLDEN BADGER AWARD SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW AMERICAN WORLD PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • • Denmark, Iran, Germany, Norway, 2013, on gorgeously grainy 16mm, the film’s CINEMA A spirit of Malickian wonder perme- USA, 2013, Color, Digital Projection • 8 MIN Color, HD Projection • 91 MIN almost-obsessive cycling between the • Come Back Scorpio Rising ates this poignant and lyrical tribute Director: Julie Wolterstorff Director: Berit Madsen; Producer: Henri Un- bare-bones Sky Lit Motel and dingy to the stories that parents pass onto derbjerg, Stegan Frost; Editor: Peter Winther; Short • Experimental • USA, 2010, Color, HD Bourbon Street bar both underscore A series of distorted video images their children. (MC) Cinematographer: Mohammad Reza, Jahan Projection • 4 MIN the deadening nature of the gang’s become slowly imbued with free- Panah; Music by: Niklas Schak, Tin Soheili Director: Laura A. Stewart • Bike Trip floating menace in this hypnotic IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES routines and find a broken-down po- (MC) SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL • Das Rote Licht etry within the sites themselves. And MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Experimental avant-garde fever dream. • USA, 2013, Color, Digital Projection • 5 MIN DOCUMENTARIES Short • Experimental • USA, 2010, Color, HD when Shooter and especially Whitley • Smoky Places WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM Director: Sam Kirchoff Sepideh wants to be an astronomer, Projection • 4 MIN reflect in voiceover upon their hard MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Animation • USA, The calm of the cyclist in nature but that is not such an easy thing Director: Laura A. Stewart living habits and dark pasts, Shooter 2013, Color, Digital Projection • 4 MIN meets the pixilated tactility of Hi8 to achieve when you are a teenage • Lair of the Damned and Whitley allows them the space to Director: Michael DiMilo; Music by: The Tri- videotape in this poetically-fragment- tonics girl in Iran. A passionate student of Short • Experimental • USA, 2010, Color, HD voice thoughts and feelings by turns ed travelogue. (MC) the stars since she was little, Sepi- Projection • 6 MIN shocking, forlorn, and strikingly self- The jaunty sounds of the Tritonics deh has been particularly moved Director: Laura A. Stewart aware. Stewart reveals the depths of • Bingo Night! score this loose-limbed and affection- ately surreal tour through a series of by the achievements of Anousheh • Tales from the Crypt her artistry in the way she forthright- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Narrative • USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 13 MIN clubs and taverns and the singular Ansari, the first Iranian in space. Short • Experimental • USA, 2009, Color, HD ly chronicles these realities while Director: Jordan Liebowitz; Producer: Ryan (MC) 4 MIN personalities that inhabit them. Accompanied by a ubiquitous tele- Projection • candidly illuminating the dreams of Heraly; Editor: Tony Wise; Cinematographer: scope, Sepideh obsessively scans Director: Laura A. Stewart her protagonists—dreams as vivid Megan Richardson; Music by: Erik Desiderio; • Strings of Colors the night skies in pursuit of her • Shooter and Whitley and flickering as a neon sign beckon- Cast: Lynne Stewart, Mindy Sterling, Brenda MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Documentary • dreams, even though her widowed ing from across another lonesome Pickleman USA, 2013, Color, Digital Projection • 11 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Experimental • Director: Sharan Mohanadoss; Producer: Sid- mother cannot afford to pay for a USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 52 MIN highway. Shooter and Whitley will be A financially-strapped senior citizen finds a creative (and legally dubious) dartha Mohanadoss; Music by: Erik Johnson university education. As enormous Director: Laura A. Stewart; Editor: Laura Stew- preceded by a quartet of Laura Stew- IN TAMIL WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES pressure increases for her to get art; Cinematographer: Kevin Peil, Laura Stewart; art’s equally evocative avant-garde means of getting some quick cash Music by: Joshua Dumas; Cast: Jeffrey Aronson, in this sly and high-spirited comic This look at the creation of the tradi- married, Sepideh must gather as Whitley Fuss, Lisa Vicenzi short films. (MC) tional Indian saris becomes as much caper. (MC) much courage as she can to fight Laura Stewart’s quietly stunning a visually sumptuous love letter to for her dreams. An enriching and fiction-documentary hybrid guides Short Films from • Hill Stories Indian urban life as it is a fascinating moving experience, Sepideh speaks the viewer into the world of an outlaw WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Documentary examination of everyday artisans at Wisconsin’s Own • USA, 2012, Color, Digital Projection • 25 MIN to anyone who faces challenges to work. (MC) motorcycle club that has set up shop Director: Tewosret Vaughn do what they love. Documentary in greater Green Bay. A milieu at once SAT, APR 5 • 6:15 PM Low-fi visuals and quotidian • The Round Barns director Berit Madsen has complete debauched and curiously regimented, UW Elvehjem routines—a trip to a frozen lake, a of Vernon County access to the title heroine and her the all-male biker gang travels within FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR • 91 MIN midnight round of computer games— WORLD PREMIERE • Short • Documentary • not-always-supportive family, an a closed-circuit of motel-room hook- advantage that provides an inti- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, SHORT FILMS form a rich, vivid portrait of a family USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 21 MIN ups, saloon loitering, and freeway Director: David Weber Macasaet, Shahin Izadi; mately detailed look at a society PROGRAMS in quiet mourning. (MC) sojourns past the hollowed-out shells From the farm lands of Vernon Editor: David Macasaet; Cinematographer: Sha- where doors are routinely closed to of dying industrial complexes, while • Inside & Out hin Izadi young women pursuing their ambi- County to the bustling streets of An investigation of the titular struc- the women in their lives alternate urban India to the hazy confines of WORLD PREMIERE • Short • Documentary • tions. Sepideh wants nothing less between the roles of prostitute, part- USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 4 MIN tures elegantly expands into an ex- a (literally) animated nightclub, this Director: Eric J. Nelson than the keys to unlock the universe ner, and barroom confidante. At the amination of their African American and that makes her a fascinating year’s collection of shorts promise Employing a witty mock-anthropo- architect and, by extension, the in- center of this singular universe, we to make faraway places seem a little and inspiring subject. 2014 Sun- find aging club-leader Shooter and his logical style, Eric J. Nelson (Siszilla, terweaving of racial discord and har- dance Film Festival. (JH) more within reach—and reveal some WFF 2013) pens a cock-eyed cin- mony inextricably tied to the barns’ twenty-something girlfriend, Whitley, surprising new sides of seemingly fa- ematic ode to Kyle Seekings, a lo- construction and legacy. (MC) a seemingly incongruous relationship miliar Wisconsin milieus. (MC) 27 Tanta Agua
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Stray Dogs Maz-zo-man-nee That Guy Dick Miller
Shorts from Mars • Margaret Hue Would Like to Then, an unexpected piece of mail sets from Milwaukee filmmaker Jon Sa- Go to Mars. Peggy off on a spiritual quest to find limes. (JH) SAT, APR 5 • 2:30 PM MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Narrative • USA, something, anything more meaningful • A Spell to Ward Off Sundance Cinema 5 2013, Color, Digital Projection • 4 MIN than the life she’s been leading. Will- the Darkness FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Director: Anna Sampers; Cast: Anna Sampers ing to walk away from everything she’s WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Experimental • 70 MIN SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN SECTION: SHORT FILMS PROGRAMS known, yet not afraid to face the conse- • France, Estonia, 2013, Color, DCP • 95 MIN Margaret Hue applies for a position on quences, Peggy is a genuine contempo- Director: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell; Screenwriter: A mix of narrative and documenta- a spacecraft to the Red Planet. (JH) Ben Rivers, Ben Russell; Producer: Nadia Tur- ry, all four of the short films in this rary hero. Writer-Director Paul Harrill, nicev, Julie Gayet; Editor: Ben Rivers, Ben Rus- weird and wonderful program deal • Syndromeda whose 2001 prize-winning short film sell; Cinematographer: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell; Music by: Veldo Tormis, Lichens, Queenqueg; with space travel of some kind. (JH) Short • Narrative • Sweden, 2013, B&W, DCP • Gina, An Actress, Age 29 was selected 25 MIN by Film Festivals around the world, Cast: Robert A.A. Lowe, Hunter Hunt Hendrix • Afronauts Director: Patrik Eklund; Screenwriter: Patrik makes an assured and gripping feature SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Eklund; Producer: Mathias Fjellström; Editor: Short • Narrative • USA, 2014, B&W, Digital debut here. Harrill’s meditative and Two of avant-garde cinema’s most Projection • 14 MIN Patrik Eklund; Cinematographer: David Grehn; Music by: Elk Skull & Örnbjörn; Cast: Jacob Nor- classical storytelling style, in addition exciting artists, Ben Rivers (Two Years Director: Frances Bodomo; Screenwriter: at Sea, WFF 2012) and Ben Russell Frances Bodomo; Producer: Isabella Wing- denson, Svante Grundberg, Anki Larsson to his compassionate approach to char- Davey; Editor: Sara Shaw; Cinematographer: IN SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES (Black and White Trypps Number acter, rightfully earns him comparisons men learn a lot about each other and Joshua James Richards; Music by: Brian The only thing worse than being ab- with last year’s WFF selection This is Three, WFF 2009) team up for this McOmber; Cast: Diandra Forrest, Yolonda ducted by aliens is when no one believes themselves. Wonderfully unpredictable trancelike experimental feature, one Ross, Hoji Fortuna Martin Bonner. A low-key jewel of a and seamlessly blending broad laughs SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA you. A surreal and comic slice of Swed- movie, Something, Anything is some- of the year’s most acclaimed films. with poignant drama, Il Sorpasso is a Taking the form of a triptych, the On 16 July 1969, America prepares ish sci-fi from the director and star of thing indeed. (JH) classic from a period in Italian film his- film depicts a nameless journeyman to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of 2013 WFF fave Flicker. 2014 Sundance tory that is rich in masterpieces. It is seeking transcendence in three seem- miles away, the Zambia Space Acad- Film Festival. (MK) Song certainly one of the high points in the ingly disparate stages of life. First, he emy hopes to beat America to the SEE: Nathaniel Dorsky: Then and Now career of the neglected director Dino appears as a member of a 15-person moon. Inspired by true events. 2014 Smashin’ it Up Risi, whose other works include great commune on an Estonian island; Sundance, Berlin Film Festivals. SEE: Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Selects Il Sorpasso Gassman vehicles like Il Mattatore second, camped out in the luxuri- • Atomic Dream (1959) and the original version of Scent THU, APR 10 • 8:15 PM ant wilderness of northern Finland; WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Short • Documentary Smoky Places of a Woman (1974). Il Sorpasso is also a Sundance Cinema 6 and finally in Norway, performing a • USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 26 MIN SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own personal favorite of the Oscar-winning blistering concert as the singer and Director: Melanie Ruiz, Derek Lartaud; Pro- INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER PAYNE screenwriter and director Alexander ducer: Melanie Ruiz, Derek Lartaud; Editor: SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • guitarist of a black metal band (which Melanie Ruiz, Derek Lartaud; Cinematogra- Something Anything Italy, 1962, B&W, DCP • 105 MIN Payne (Election, Nebraska) who has includes Liturgy mastermind Hunter pher: Melanie Ruiz, Derek Lartaud SAT, APR 5 • 6:45 PM Director: Dino Risi; Screenwriter: Ettorie Scola, cited Risi’s film as an influence on Hunt-Hendrix among its members). SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN Sundance Cinema 5 Dino Risi, Ruggero Maccari; Producer: Mario his 2004 classic Sideways. Payne will Melding documentary and narrative WINNER: 2014 GOLDEN BADGER AWARD. Cecchi Gori; Editor: Maurizio Lucidi; Cinema- introduce Il Sorpasso and discuss his SUN, APR 6 • 11:30 AM tographer: Alfio Contini; Music by: Riz Ortolani; techniques, Rivers and Russell ap- This stimulating documentary cinephilia after the screening. (JH) Sundance Cinema 5 Cast: Vittorio Gassmann, Jean-Louis Trintig- proach cinema as explorers might, in chronicles the public achievements DIRECTOR PAUL HARRILL SCHEDULED TO nant, Catherine Spaak search of new wavelengths for movies and private obsessions of physicist APPEAR IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES A Spell to Ward Off to exist on. Enigmatic, mystic, and Freeman Dyson, who took on a lead WORLD PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • USA, SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, CLOSING NIGHT SELECTION mesmerizing, A Spell to Ward Off the role in constructing a nuclear-bomb 2014, Color, HD Projection • 88 MIN the Darkness Darkness is cinema as transformative powered space ship in 1958 but soon Director: Paul Harrill; Screenwriter: Paul Harrill; Two acting giants of European cinema, FRI, APR 4 • 2:15 PM Producer: Ashley Maynor; Editor: Jennifer Lilly; Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis experience. Appearing in his first ma- found his scientific aspirations in Cinematographer: Kunitaro Ohi; Music by: Eric V. Sundance Cinema 5 jor film role, captivating star Robert conflict with growing concern over Hachikian; Cast: Ashley Shelton, Bryce Johnson, Trintignant, star in this unforgettable road comedy that has been adored by SUN, APR 6 • 8:00 PM AA Lowe is a chameleonic force in atomic fallout. Derek Lartaud and Linds Edwards, Amy Hubbard indie and experimental music, having SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA Italian audiences for decades and rare- Sundance Cinema 5 Melanie Ruiz treat Dyson’s quixotic performed in TV on the Radio, 90 Day Just married to a successful business ly available in the U.S., until now. Bruno • Maz-zo-man-nee goals with just the right balance of Men, Om, and solo as Lichens. Best type, and with a lucrative career of (Gassman) is a 40-ish swinging wom- MADISON PREMIERE • Short • Experimental • inquisitiveness and compassion, International Documentary, 2013 To- her own in real estate, Peggy (Ashley anizer type and Roberto (Trintignant) USA, 2013, Color, Digital Projection • 12 MIN crafting a captivating portrait of one rino Film Festival. New Vision Award, Shelton) seems to be a typical Southern is a much younger, more straight-laced Director: Jon Salimes; Cast: Pat Cannon man’s principled struggle between SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN 2013 CPH: DOX Festival. (MK) preserving the wonders of the earth young newlywed. But when a tragedy law student. These two opposites meet happens, Peggy spins away from her hus- by chance and set out on a cruise along A man takes his canoe out on the river WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN and daring to imagine what lay be- in this lyrical and haunting travelogue 28 yond the stars. (MC) band, her career, and her circle of friends. Rome’s Via Aurelia. Over two days, the Afronauts A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
A Bucket of Blood Margaret Hue Would Like to Go to Mars. Il Sorpasso
Spring true from beginning to end without the evocative sound design, adding up them. As Lucia breaks away to hang the blaxploitation classic TNT Jackson? SEE: Nathaniel Dorsky: Then and Now a trace of sentimentality.” (Amy Tau- to a fairly unforgettable experience.” out with the resort’s other bored Through numerous entertaining film bin, Film Comment) “As intense and (Indiewire). Winner Grand Jury Prize, teens, Alberto begins to fret about her clips and interviews with family and indelible an immersion in the real 2013 Venice Film Festival. (JH) rebellious streak, particularly when collaborators, documentary director Stand Clear of New York as I have seen in a long boys enter the picture. Suffice it to Elijah Drenner has crafted a touching the Closing Doors time… it is completely, exhilaratingly Strings of Colors say, this vacation is not going as he and funny tribute to this consummately alive” (Stephen Holden, New York planned. Lovingly scripted and shot, professional thespian, who, at age 85, FRI, APR 4 • 11:45 AM SEE: Short Films from Wisconsin’s Own Times) (MK) Tanta Agua is a thoughtful and amus- owes a great deal of his success to his Sundance Cinema 6 Summerwind ing depiction of how family members devoted wife, Lainie. That Guy also SUN, APR 6 • 11:00 AM Stray Dogs SEE: Nathaniel Dorsky: Then and Now relate to one another. As their film doesn’t shy away from examining the Union South / The Marquee ambles along, co-directors Ana Gue- sometimes hard realities of sustaining MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Jiao You vara and Leticia Jorge quietly achieve a career as an actor in Hollywood with- USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 103 MIN Syndromeda FRI, APR 4 • 11:30 AM a remarkable feat, precisely capturing out ever making it onto the studio’s Director: Sam Fleischner; Screenwriter: Rose Sundance Cinema 1 SEE: Shorts from Mars Lichter-Marck, Micah Bloomberg; Producer: three distinct individuals in different A-list. But Dick Miller is A-list in the Veronica Nickel, Andrew Neel, Dave Saltzman, SUN, APR 6 • 5:30 PM stages of their lives. Best First Fea- hearts of countless movie fans and this
Craig Shilowich; Editor: Talia Barrett; Cinema- UW Chazen Museum of Art Tales from the Crypt ture, 2013 Guadalajara Film Festival. movie reminds us why. (JH) WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM tographer: Adam Jandrup, Ethan Palmer; Cast: MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Experimental SEE: Shooter and Whitley Andrea Suarez, Jesus Valez, Azul Rodriguez, Grand Jury Prize, 2013 Miami Inter- • Taiwan, France, 2013, Color, DCP • 138 MIN • A Bucket of Blood Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Marsha Stephanie Blake national Film Festival. (MK) Director: Tsai Ming Liang; Screenwriter: Tsai SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • SECTION: NEW AMERICAN CINEMA Ming Liang, Tung Chen Yu, Song Peng Fei; Tanta Agua USA, 1959, B&W, 35mm • 66 MIN A vivid and lyrical vision of New Producer: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumou- SAT, APR 5 • 2:15 PM That Guy Dick Miller + Director: Roger Corman; Screenwriter: Charles York City seen through the eyes of lin; Editor: Lei Chen Ching; Cinematographer: Sundance Cinema 1 B. Griffith; Producer: Roger Corman; Editor: Liao Pen Jung, Sung Wen Zhong; Cast: Lee A Bucket of Blood Anthony Carras; Cinematographer: Jack Mar- an autistic adolescent (played by Kang Sheng, Lee Yi Cheng, Lee Yi Chieh, Lu Yi SUN, APR 6 • 8:30 PM quette; Music by: Fred Katz; Cast: Dick Miller, a non-professional with Asperger Ching, Chen Shiang Chyi UW Chazen Museum of Art SAT, APR 5 • 9:30 PM Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, Bert Convy syndrome), Stand Clear of the Closing IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Union South / The Marquee SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, Doors is one of the most acclaimed SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, 2013, DIRECTOR ELIJAH DRENNER SCHEDULED TO SPECIAL EVENT independent films of the year. A One of the most critically celebrated of Color, DCP • 102 MIN APPEAR In one of his rare leading roles, Dick 13 year-old with high functioning contemporary filmmakers, Taiwanese Director: Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge; Screen- • That Guy Dick Miller Miller is the simple, nebbishy Walter writer: Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge; Producer: Paisley, a busboy at a coffee house autism, Ricky lives with his undocu- master Tsai Ming-Liang returns with Agustina Chiarino, Fernando Epstein; Editor: MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary • mented mother in Rockaway Beach. Stray Dogs. Tsai’s exciting new feature, Ana Guevara, Leticia Jorge, Yibrán Asuad; USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 86 MIN that’s a hangout for artist types. Want- On his way home from school one like his other acclaimed films (What Cinematographer: María José Secco; Music Director: Elijah Drenner; Producer: Elijah ing to impress his pretentious beatnik by: Maximiliano Angelieri; Cast: Malú Chou- Drenner, Lainie Miller; Editor: Elijah Drenner; pals, Walter begins a lucrative side day, he gets lost on the subway, and Time is it There?, Goodbye Dragon Inn), za, Néstor Guzzini, Joaquín Castiglioni, Sofía Cinematographer: Elle Schneider; Music by: doesn’t make it home. For days. With delivers a deep emotional resonance Azambuya, Pedro Duarte Jason Brandt career as a sculptor. The fact that the no way to reach him, his increasingly from a simple story told in a spare IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL sculptures are just dead animals and panicked mother embarks on a des- and elliptical style. The title partially SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA DOCUMENTARIES, SPECIAL EVENT people encased in clay is unknown to perate search for him, using the few refers to the central characters, a pair This humorous and humanist dram- He’s Mr. Futterman in Joe Dante’s the hipsters who start shelling out big means available to an undocumented of homeless children and their father edy about a Uruguayan family on Gremlins movies and the guy who bucks for Walter’s “art”. Roger Cor- immigrant. Meanwhile, Ricky’s un- (played by Tsai’s regular leading man a very rainy vacation heralds the sells Schwarzenegger his Uzi 9mm man’s hilarious low-budget wonder, derground odyssey stretches on and Lee Kang-Sheng). In a series of el- arrival of two new voices in South in The Terminator. He appeared in shot over just a few days, is a spot-on on, through Halloween, with Hur- egantly composed, often dialogue-less American cinema. Alberto is an af- dozens of Roger Corman’s low-budget satire of the art world and beatnik cul- ricane Sandy fast approaching (as long takes (the final shot lasts a spell- fable, rumpled divorcee looking to re- quickies from the 50s through the 80s ture. Miller is a delight in a part that it did during the production of this binding 14 minutes), Tsai’s contempla- connect with his two kids, 14 year-old and countless individual television was a genuine departure from all of film—rather than scrap their shoot, tive gaze observes these vagabonds as Lucia and her goofy younger brother episodes. Believe us, you’ve seen him. the tough guys and cops he has played. the filmmakers wrote the disaster they eat, sleep, play, and work. Without Federico. He picks them up in the Dick Miller is “That Guy”, a ubiquitous The actor and his fans so adored his into the film). Writer/director Sam sentimentality (and with an occasional dead of night and ferries them to a character actor and bit player who performance in this cult classic that Fleischner conveys life on the New burst of absurdity), these images move hot springs resort, where it promptly has racked up over 150 movie and TV he used the name Walter Paisley for York subway with the eye of both a us to a compassionate crescendo of starts raining, and never lets up. credits in a career that has spanned several other characters in later mov- poet and an ethnographer, capturing feeling as we spend real time with this Stuck indoors in a cramped hotel over six decades. But did you know ies. A recently struck 35mm print of A scores of fleeting moments that add family and learn something of their room, the trio is forced into awk- Dick is a passionate artist and had a Bucket of Blood will be screened, and up to a wholly unique portrait of the past. “The filmmaking here is almost wardly close quarters, much to the second career as a screenwriter who your ticket for That Guy Dick Miller contributed to a Jerry Lewis movie and includes admission to both films! (JH) city. “Surprising and inventive… rings impossibly well-realized, right down to chagrin of the teenaged girl among 29 Three Seats for the 26th
To Be Takei
the original Twilight Zone series to Three Seats John Wayne’s The Green Berets, but for the 26th remained in the closet even several Trois places pour le 26 years after his last Star Trek movie. Tricked With the support of his longtime WED, APR 9 • 6:15 PM partner (now husband) Brad Altman, Sundance Cinema 5 this truly groundbreaking ex- Takei officially came out in 2005 and periment gone wonderfully right, The Umbrellas THU, APR 10 • 1:30 PM has been a tireless advocate for LGBT iconic auteur Paul Verhoeven Sundance Cinema 5 of Cherbourg rights ever since. Takei also serves filmed the first five minutes of a SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Feature • Narrative • as a living reminder of the injustices Les Parapluies de Cherbourg 106 MIN movie, posted it on the web, and France, 1988, Color, DCP • suffered by American citizens of SAT, APR 5 • 12:45 PM Director: Jacques Demy; Screenwriter: Jacques invited anyone to script the next Demy; Producer: Claude Berri; Editor: Sabine Japanese descent during World War five minutes. An avalanche of 700 Sundance Cinema 6 Mamou; Cinematographer: Jean Penzer; Mu- II, frequently lecturing on the topic submissions totaling 3,500 pages MON, APR 7 • 4:00 PM sic by: Michel Legrand; Cast: Yves Montand, and even producing and starring in a Mathilda May, Patrick Fierry, Françoise Fabian followed, which Verhoeven mas- Sundance Cinema 6 stage musical based on his childhood SPECIAL PRESENTATION • IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES saged into a second five minutes. Feature • Narrative • France, 1964, , DCP • 91 MIN SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, and neglected” films, one in which the experiences. This energizing and en- After filming those scenes, he re- LE MONDE ENCHANTÉ DE JACQUES DEMY tertaining new documentary shows Director: Jacques Demy; Screenwriter: Jacques “play between actuality and artifice peated the process in five-minute Demy; Producer: Mag Bodard; Editor: A.M. Cotret, Three Seats for the 26th is the culmi- is the most complex and unconven- the seemingly inexhaustible George installments, until he had assem- M. Teisseire; Cinematographer: Jean Rabier; Mu- Takei, now 76 years old, as he shuttles nation of French director Jacques tional.” (JO-K) bled an hour’s worth of material. sic by: Michel Legrand; Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Demy’s fascination with the American around the country with Brad, speak- Anne Vernon, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Ellen As one might imagine for a film Farner, Mireille Perrey musical, but Demy’s film—like much ing about one of his causes or signing Tim and Susan Have with 397 credited screenwriters, IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES of his other work—is moodier than autographs at a Star Trek convention. the completed film’s breathless SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, LE its meticulously glossy surface would Matching Handguns The film provides many opportunities 50-odd minutes, centered around MONDE ENCHANTÉ DE JACQUES DEMY lead you to believe. The great actor/ SEE: Cheatin’ for Takei to demonstrate his wicked a philandering businessman’s Fifty years after it was first released, singer Yves Montand—playing him- sense of humor, a skill he’s been able 50th birthday party, clock enough this colorful, romantic, and bittersweet self—is the star of a theatrical produc- To Be Takei to hone partly through his appear- twists, trysts, and triple-crosses story of love and chance remains one tion set to debut in his hometown of ances on The Howard Stern Show and to fill an entire season of HBO of the most beloved and cherished of Marseille. The largely autobiographi- FRI, APR 4 • 4:30 PM his enormously popular Facebook programming. Yet this screenplay- all movie musicals. In the seaside town cal stage show traces Montand’s rise Union South / The Marquee postings. His relentless skewering of by-collage is not only seamless, of Cherbourg, Garage mechanic Guy to fame, but the fictional plot that sur- SUN, APR 6 • 11:30 AM William Shatner provides many of To it’s downright breezy—sexy, witty, (Nino Castelnuovo) romances Geneviève rounds it comes straight from Demy’s UW Elvehjem Be Takei’s comic highlights. (JH) and delightfully pulpy. A cinematic (Catherine Deneuve), daughter of um- idiosyncratic universe. In the frame WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary provocateur par excellence, Verho- brella shop proprietress Madame Emery story, Marie-Helene—once Montand’s • USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 90 MIN Tricked even has made a career of scandal- (Anne Vernon). The lovesick couple lover, now the wife of a corrupt aris- Director: Jennifer M. Kroot, Bill Weber; Pro- ducer: Gerry Kim, Mayuran Tiruchelvam; Edi- Steekspel ous satires often far ahead of their are torn apart when Guy must leave tocrat—disapproves of her daughter tor: Bill Weber; Cinematogapher: Chris Million; SAT, APR 5 • 5:30 PM time, occasionally misunderstood, for military service in Algeria. Their Marion’s artistic aspirations and her Music by: Michael Hearst separation provides an opportunity for Union South / The Marquee and always wildly entertaining; idolatry of Montand. Unfazed by her SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Tricked sits comfortably along- Madame Emery to introduce Geneviève DOCUMENTARIES Feature • Narrative • Netherlands, 2012, Color, mother’s objections, Marion is deter- HD Projection • 89 MIN side Basic Instinct, Total Recall, to wealthy diamond merchant Roland mined to learn from her role model, Boldly going where no Star Trek cast Director: Paul Verhoeven; Screenwriter: Kim Robocop, Starship Troopers, and Cassard (Marc Michel, repeating his role whom she takes after more than either member has gone before, George Van Kooten, Robert Alberdingk Thijm, Paul Showgirls in his one-of-a-kind from Demy’s Lola). The scene is set for initially realizes. Demy’s last feature Takei has definitively proven in the Verhoeven and 397 participants; Producer: filmography. The completed film devastating heartbreak. Demy’s magi- last decade that he is more than just Rene Mioch, Justus Verkerk; Editor: Job ter revisits his favorite thematic concerns: Burg; Cinematographer: Lennert Hillege; Music is preceded by a making-of fea- cal, inspired touch is to have all of his mother-daughter pairings, coinciden- the original Mister Sulu. Born on the by: Fons Merkies; Cast: Peter Blok, Ricky Koole, turette following Verhoeven’s team dialogue sung to the marvelous melodies tal encounters, incest, sophisticated West Coast, Takei spent a significant Robert de Hoogh Carolien Spoor, Gaite Jansen, through the hectic production pro- of composer Michel Legrand, one of the Sallie Harmsen and eye-catching color designs, and part of his childhood with his family cess—and as anyone who’s listened director’s most important collaborators. in more than one internment camp for IN DUTCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the creation of a cinematic universe SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA to his commentary tracks knows, Meticulously designed, Demy’s universe that is both magical and unsettling. Japanese-Americans. Recognizing at a Many films in this year’s fest crowd- the director is as charismatic as has been vividly brought back to life in Jonathan Rosenbaum characterizes young age that he was gay, Takei rose sourced production funds, but Tricked any of his characters. This playful this gorgeous new restoration of The Three Seats for the 26th as one of to prominence as a film and television Umbrellas of Cherbourg, supervised by
WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN web/cinema hybrid sounds the actor, appearing in everything from is the first to crowdsource itself. For 30 Demy’s “most critically underrated startup tone for Cinema 2.0. (MK) the director’s widow, Agnes Varda. (JH) Visitors Vertigo
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Village at the End of the World
original Technicolor and mono sound work is scarce, and the already min- Undertone Overture print struck for the original release! iscule population is rapidly dropping. SEE: Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine Noted film and television director In a last-ditch effort to save their Le Week-End Tim Hunter, an avid cinephile, will homes, the townsfolk band together Verbatim introduce the screening and discuss to form a cooperative, with the aim digitally removed, leaving only the SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA, CAPITOL CINEMA SEE: Crimes Against Humanity the provenance of this rare print. (JH) of buying the fish factory back from hands; robbed of context, the spastic the corporation who shuttered it. movements of our own bodies appear An exquisite treat of a film, Le Week- Village at the End Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson’s totally alien. Another contemplates End is as witty and perceptive a Vertigo unforgettable documentary is both a the reveries of people playing video romance as one could hope for. Su- SAT, APR 5 • 1:45 PM of the World precious glimpse into an almost sur- games, their faces betraying an amaz- perbly portrayed by Jim Broadbent UW Chazen Museum of Art SUN, APR 6 • 1:45 PM real place that few have ever seen, ing range of emotion. As ever, Reggio (Topsy Turvy, Another Year) and WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM INTRODUCTION BY TIM HUNTER Overture Center / Capitol Theater and a remarkably timely and univer- uses stunning photography—here Lindsay Duncan, Nick and Meg are Feature • Narrative • USA, 1958, Color, 35mm sal dispatch from the economic col- lustrous black-and-white 4K video— British academics celebrating their • 128 MIN THU, APR 10 • 6:00 PM lapse. (MK) 30th wedding anniversary in Paris, Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Screenwriter: Alec Sundance Cinema 6 to allow us to see ourselves, and our Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor; Editor: George To- Feature • Documentary • UK, Denmark, Green- neighbors on this planet, anew. As in a somewhat desperate attempt masini; Cinematographer: Robert Burks; Music land, 2012, , HD Projection • 78 MIN Visitors Steven Soderbergh put it, “if, 500 to recreate the aura of their honey- by: Bernard Herrmann; Cast: James Stewart, Director: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson; Pro- years ago monks could sit on a beach moon. They give it a good go, dining Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, SUN, APR 6 • 6:15 PM ducer: Al Morrow; Editor: ugh Williams, Rus- and make a movie, this is what it and dashing at fancy restaurants and Henry Jones sell Crockett, Jerry Rothwell; Cinematographer: Union South / The Marquee SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES David Katznelson; Music by: Jonas Colstrup, would look like.” This is cinema as splurging on even fancier hotels. But TUE, APR 8 • 6:45 PM the spell doesn’t last, and the couple James Stewart is Scottie, the trauma- Max de Wardener meditation: majestic and transcen- Sundance Cinema 6 soon returns to their default mode tized former cop hired to shadow the IN GREENLANDIC WITH ENGLISH SUB- dent. “It is incredibly profound, TITLES DIRECTOR GODFREY REGGIO SCHEDULED TO of comic bickering, tossing off a mysterious and troubled Madeleine unexpected, and brave. Each mo- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL APPEAR (TUESDAY ONLY) seemingly endless supply of cutting (Kim Novak), a job that leads to a DOCUMENTARIES, CAPITOL CINEMA WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • ment was pure pleasure, a cathartic, bon mots, as only long-term couples passionate romance and tragedy. Welcome to Niaqornat, Greenland: Documentary • USA, 2013, B&W, DCP • 87 cleansing experience. I wanted to be MIN can. Rather than rekindle their Hitchcock’s tale of obsessive, doomed population 59. A collection of brightly swallowed up in the pure white light Director: Godfrey Reggio; Producer: Godfrey long-lost puppy love, they use the love was voted the greatest film of all colored homes tucked between emanating from the screen at the end, Reggio, Jon Kane, Lawrence Taub, Phoebe weekend to take stock of their lives, time in the most recent Sight & Sound breathtaking glacier and mountain Greenberg, Penny Mancuso, Mara Campione; to meet my maker.” (Alison Murray, and, moreover, their regrets. These magazine poll. Stewart and Novak ranges, this tiny village is among the Editor: Chris Besecker, Jon Kane; Cinematogra- Filmmaker Magazine) (MK) are brought to the fore by a chance offer two of the most heartbreaking most isolated communities in the pher: Trish Govoni, Graham Berry, Tom Lowe; Music by: Philip Glass encounter with a wildly successful and complex performances in Hol- world. Accessible only by helicopter Water, Ice, Snow SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL and boorish old classmate played by lywood history. Their tremendous or a rare supply ship, Niaqornat is DOCUMENTARIES SEE: Dostoevsky Behind Bars a singularly hilarious Jeff Goldblum, acting and Hitchcock’s brilliant, vital an amazing mix of traditional and Koyaanisqatsi director Godfrey Reg- clearly relishing the part of the self- storytelling never fail to astound with modern living; witness kids checking gio reteams with composer Philip absorbed expat. Emotionally honest their glamorous sophistication, deep Facebook in a place that only just got Le Week-End Glass for another hypnotic symphony while remaining caustically funny, Le poignancy, and multiple layers of electricity in 1988. This incredible SUN, APR 6 • 3:45 PM of humankind. Where Koyaanisqatsi Week-End is a tender and bittersweet meaning. And Bernard Herrmann’s documentary explores the day-to-day Overture Center / Capitol Theater was hectic and allegro, Visitors is portrait of marriage, graceful and spellbinding score sets a just-right lives of the Inuits who call Niaqornat MON, APR 7 • 1:45 PM wondrous and legato. Gazing with satisfying. “Perfectly cast and utterly operatic tone for this masterpiece of home, from the hunter who embarks Sundance Cinema 6 the reverent curiosity of an other- charming… full of hilarious exchang- Hollywood filmmaking. Almost 20 on the ice in search of polar bears, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • worldly being, Reggio ponders hu- es and unexpected treats.” (Sight & years ago, Vertigo was restored for re- to the community’s lone teenager UK, 2013, Color, DCP • 93 MIN manity’s place in the world and 21st Sound) Best Actress, 2013 British In- release and given a controversial new who, like teenagers the world over, Director: Roger Michell; Screenwriter: Hanif century. In a particularly entranc- Kureishi; Producer: Kevin Loader; Editor: dependent Film Awards. (MK) remixed-for-stereo soundtrack. This just wants to get the heck out of his ing sequence, fingers dance across Kristina Hetherington; Cinematographer: Na- special Festival screening will allow hometown. Picturesque as it is, this keyboards, touchscreens, and other thalie Durand; Music by: Jeremy Sams; Cast: you to experience Hitchcock’s classic is a community in crisis—since the pieces of technology that Reggio has Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum as audiences did in 1958, though an closure of the town’s fish factory, 31 When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Wisconsin Rising
connect-the-dots, but When Evening takes the gig, staging an epic battle effort to recall Walker in June 2012. When Evening Falls Falls is also an enjoyably unforced and scene that doubles as a real, all-out Through interviews with state politi- on Bucharest absurd slice of life.” (Nick McCarthy, melee between two heavily armed cians, pundits, and local activists, Slate Magazine). 2013 Toronto, New gangs of yakuza, loosing a torrent Wisconsin Rising offers thoughtful or Metabolism York, and Locarno Film Festivals. (JH) of bullets, decapitations, and very analysis of how the insurgent energy Cand se lasa seara peste awkward second takes. Hysterically of the initial protests became chan- Bucuresti sau Metabolism When You Wore bloody, bloody hysterical, and never neled into recall efforts, why those FRI, APR 4 • 4:45 PM less than ferociously entertaining, efforts failed, and how the promise of UW Cinematheque a Tulip and I Wore Sono’s gonzo rampage doubles as those early days can be maintained. a heartfelt valentine to 35mm film. Far from a progressive nostalgia trip, SAT, APR 5 • 7:00 PM a Big Red Rose Hiarata is a stickler for celluloid, and Wisconsin Rising reflects upon the UW Cinematheque SEE: The Lumberjack at 100 Sono lingers on shots of film cameras future as much as it chronicles the WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Romania, 2013, Color, HD Projection• 89 MIN and projectors with fetishistic ardor— past. (MC) Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Screenwriter: The White Shadow although it is characteristic of the di- Corneliu Porumboiu; Producer: Marcela Ursu, (Fragment) rector’s smirking perversity that Why You and the Night Sylvie Pialat; Editor: Dana Bunescu; Cinematog- Don’t You Play in Hell? was actually rapher: Tudor Mircea; Music by: Maria Raduca- SEE: Blackmail students’ ever-growing financial Les Rencontres d’après minuit LM nu; Cast: Diana Avramut, Bogdan Dumitrache, shot digitally (!). After so many tepid burden and the crippling effects that MON, APR 7 • 8:45 PM Mihaela Sirbu, Alexandru Papadopol thinkpieces mourning the death of it could have on the country’s future. IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Why Don’t You Play film, Sono’s self-described “action film Sundance Cinema 5 SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Highlighting compelling arguments about the love of 35mm” finally gives without advocating simplistic solu- TUE, APR 8 • 9:15 PM Utilizing the same deadpan, long-take in Hell? • 877.963.FI the format the absurd, decadent, and tions, eduCAUTION nevertheless Sundance Cinema 5 approach that he brought to his previ- Jigoku de Naze Warui glorious Viking funeral it deserves. Off Feature • Narrative • France, 2013, Color, DCP proves galvanizing in its intelligence • 91 MIN .ORG ous comedies of social and political the wall and over the top, Why Don’t FRI, APR 4 • 9:30 PM and urgency. (MC) dysfunction (12:08 East of Bucharest, You Play in Hell? is as much fun as can Director: Yann Gonzalez; Screenwriter: Yann Union South / The Marquee • Wisconsin Rising Gonzalez; Producer: Cécile Vacheret; Editor: Police, Adjective, WFF 2010), ac- THU, APR 10 • 8:00 PM be had in a movie theater. (MK) Raphaël Lefèvre; Cinematographer: Simon claimed Romanian director Corneliu WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Documentary Beaufils; Music by: M83; Cast: Kate Moran, Sundance Cinema 5 • USA, 2013, Color, HD Projection • 56 MIN Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Eric Cantona, IFILMFE ST Porumboiu has returned with a rumi- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • Ja- Will You Lather Up Director: Sam Mayfield; Producer: Sam May- Fabienne Babe, Alain Delon Jr., Julie Brémond, W nation on romance and cinema. With pan, 2013, Color, DCP • 126 MIN field; Editor: Sam Mayfield; Cinematographer: Béatrice Dalle two weeks left to shoot, Paul, a direc- Director: Sion Sono; Screenwriter: Sion Sono; My Roughouse? Sam Mayfield, Brian Alberth IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES tor, delays his production by faking an Producer: Takeshi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, SEE: Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Selects SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Takuyuki Matsuno; Editor: Sion Sono; Cinema- Three years after the massive pro- ulcer. Paul’s true intention is to spend tographer: Hideo Yamamoto; Cast: Jun Kun- tests that greeted Governor Scott One of the most daring and original 3–11, 2014 • 2014 3–11, more time with his leading lady, Alina. imura, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Wisconsin Rising Walker’s push to strip public-sector film debuts in recent memory, this With the filming stalled, Paul and Gen Hoshino, Fumi Nikaido unions of collective bargaining rights, transporting, pansexual fantasy has Alina spend time in restaurants and IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SAT, APR 5 • 1:15 PM APRI L documentarian Sam Mayfield plugs many speculating that director Yann SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA • driving around, ultimately winding up UW Elvehjem viewers back into the uncertainty, Gonzalez may be the next Almodovar. in Paul’s apartment, where the two ex- A hurtling samurai sword of cinema, FILMMAKER SAM MAYFIELD SCHEDULED TO APPEAR anger, and passion of one of the Ensconced in a futuristic mansion in haustively rehearse their film’s climac- the 31st and best film yet from Japa- defining political moments of 21st the French countryside, a mysterious nese maestro Sion Sono (Suicide Club, SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, NEW tic scene in an attempt to make the INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES century American politics. Drawing couple and their transvestite maid MADISON drama seem as real as possible. Soon, Love Exposure) revels in movie-mad • • eduCAUTION upon a vast trove of archival footage invite four strange figures over for an the fictional scene begins to blur with mayhem. Sono surrogate Hirata is an (much of it shot inside the Capitol orgy. The foreplay progresses as a se- ebullient teenager with pipe dreams WORLD PREMIERE • Short • Documentary • IVAL the reality of Paul and Alina’s relation- at the height of the demonstra- ries of spellbinding monologues, each of becoming an action auteur. But USA, 2014, Color, HD Projection • 20 MIN ship. In the wonderfully talky tradi- Director: David Esfeh, Ben Bhatti; Producer: tions), Wisconsin Rising maintains achingly romantic yet laced with
FE ST after 10 years, all he and his ragtag tion of Eric Rohmer, Hong-Sang Soo, David Esfeh, Ben Bhatti; Editor: Andrew Aid- a you-are-there immediacy while campy wit. As the guests reveal them- and Richard Linklater, When Evening crew have to show for themselves is a man; Cinematographer: Ryan Griswold expertly recounting the multitude of selves psychologically and anatomi- Falls has a deceptively simple style crummy trailer for an unmade kung-fu Students in the United States cur- legal twists, tactical maneuvers, and cally, You and the Night begins to re- that seeks nothing less than to explore movie. Through plot machinations too rently owe the federal government emotional flashpoints that gave those semble an Almodovarian take on The the relationship between truth and delirious to detail, Hirata’s big break over $1 trillion in student debt. This fateful weeks both their electricity Breakfast Club. Sublimely flouting art. “In a lesser director’s hands, this arrives when a yakuza boss needs sobering fact hovers over David and their indeterminacy. Perhaps every convention of naturalism, Gon- meta-commentary would reduce the someone to direct a star-making ve- Esfeh’s astute and stylish examina- more provocatively, however, May- zalez operates at a heightened plane INWISCONS FILM film to a mere puckish exercise of hicle for his daughter. Hirata eagerly tion of the causes behind American 32 field goes on to explore the failed of artifice, conjuring a deadpan hal- Fil Series OPENING NIGHT SELECTIONS NEW AMERICAN CINEMA HITCHCOCK RARITIES Actress Actress Blackmail Joe Afronauts Mary American Revolutionary: Multilingual Murders GOLDEN BADGER AWARD The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs The White Shadow (Fragment) WINNERS Another Song About the Sea Atomic Dream Breathe In LE MONDE ENCHANTÉ DE Before You Cheatin’ JACQUES DEMY Dostoevsky Behind Bars Coherence ARoom in Town Come Back Scorpio Rising Lola NEW INTERNATIONAL Crimes Against Humanity Three Seats for the 26th DOCUMENTARIES Das Rote Licht The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 20,000 Days on Earth Dusty Stacks of Mom American Revolutionary: SHORT FILMS PROGRAMS Glistening Thrills The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine Happy Christmas Approaching the Elephant Nathaniel Dorsky: Then and Now Jodie Mack: Let Your Light Shine Big Men Of Vodka, Water & Mannequins Joe Burt’s Buzz Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Selects Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Cairo Drive Short Films From Wisconsin’s Own Lair of the Damned Dangerous Acts Starring the Shorts from Mars Unstable Elements of Belarus Let Your Light Shine The Dark Matter of Love Memphis SPECIAL EVENT The Dog New Fancy Foils A Bucket of Blood Food Patriots Obvious Child Best of the British Arrows The Immortalists Person to Person Over the Edge Love Child The Realist That Guy Dick Miller Young & Beautiful Manakamana Rich Hill The Overnighters Sabbatical WISCONSIN’S OWN Particle Fever The Sacrament AB- Rent A Family Inc. Shooter and Whitley Another Song About the Sea The Rugby Player Something, Anything Atomic Dream Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars Stand Clear of the Closing Doors Before You That Guy Dick Miller Tales from the Crypt Bike Trip To Be Takei Undertone Overture Bingo Night! Village at the End of the World Come Back Scorpio Rising Visitors NEW MEXICAN CINEMA The Dark Matter of Love Wisconsin Rising The Amazing Catfish Das Rote Licht Club Sandwich Do As Told NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Heli Dostoevsky Behind Bars A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness Dusty Stacks of Mom RESTORATIONS AND Age of Panic eduCAUTION REDISCOVERIES All About the Feathers Food Patriots You and the Night ARoom in Town The Auction Hill Stories Black Jack Cannibal Inside & Out lucination where ironic comedy and SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Blackmail WISC O Club Sandwich Lair of the Damned sensuous emotions coexist in a single This sensual and provocative story The Champagne Murders line reading, where a simple question from François Ozon (Potiche, WFF Commando: A One Man Army Love Child Lola NS of how two lovers met can instigate a 2011, In the House, WFF 2013) traces The Congress The Lumberjack The Lumberjack FI L IN flashback to medieval times. A lush, a 17 year-old girl’s sexual awakening The Dance of Reality The Lumberjack at 100 The Lumberjack at 100 pulsing score by electro giants M83 over four seasons. On summer vaca- Dom Hemingway Margaret Hue Would Like to Go adds to the otherworldly, magical re- tion with her family, Isabelle hooks Domestic Mary to Mars. M F alist effect. The eclectic cast includes up with a German tourist strictly as a Gabrielle Multilingual Murders Maz-zo-man-nee EST Alain Fabien Delon (son of the iconic means of dispatching with her virgin- Our Own Gang in The Chase The German Doctor Memphis IVA actor), Beatrice Dalle (Night on Earth, ity, quickly dismissing him after their Over the Edge Ida Mono No Aware #1 L
Trouble Every Day), and Eric Canto- night on the beach. Months later, she • MADISON Il Sorpasso na, star player for Manchester United has transformed herself into a high- Ilo Ilo Our Own Gang in The Chase throughout the 1990s. “You and the priced prostitute in Paris, marketing In Bloom Three Seats for the 26th The Realist Night is kind of movie that restores herself online and arranging hookups Intruders The Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Round Barns of Vernon County your faith in auteur filmmaking. Yann via text. With the cool head of a pro- Vertigo Sabbatical Like Father, Like Son • AP Gonzalez’s first feature is in a class fessional, Isabelle keeps her friends Macaroni & Cheese When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore Shooter and Whitley by itself, declaring a supremely gifted and family in the dark about her liai- a Big Red Rose Mother, I Love You Short Films From Wisconsin’s Own RIL young artist in total control of his sons, until a horrible accident leaves The White Shadow (Fragment) Mystery Road Smoky Places 3–11, 2014 • abilities.” (Robert Koehler, Film Com- her in over her head. Isabelle is no A Bucket of Blood ment) (MK) innocent, but in many ways, she’s still Nobody’s Daughter Haewon Strings of Colors a kid, and Young & Beautiful nonjudg- Northwest CAPITOL CINEMA Tales from the Crypt Young & Beautiful mentally captures the mix of naive The Rocket Blackmail Water, Ice, Snow fantasy and eager curiosity that mark W Jeune & jolie R100 Cheatin’ When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore IFI L one’s first experiences with sex. Test- a Big Red Rose SUN, APR 6 • 8:30 PM Salvo The Congress ing out the power of her exceptional Wisconsin Rising MF EST Sundance Cinema 1 beauty, Isabelle inserts a sexual dy- Stray Dogs Tim and Susan Have Matching WED, APR 9 • 4:15 PM namic into every interaction, just to Tanta Agua Handguns
CLOSING NIGHT SELECTIONS .O Sundance Cinema 1 behold its effects on men of all ages. Village at the End of the World Tricked Obvious Child RG WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Feature • Narrative • In her first lead role, alluring star Le Week-End The White Shadow (Fragment) • 877.963.FI France, 2013, Color, DCP • 94 MIN Marine Vatch is a major discovery, Il Sorpasso Director: François Ozon; Screenwriter: Fran- When Evening Falls on Bucharest Le Week-End çois Ozon; Producer: Erit Altmayer, Nicolas one we will certainly be seeing much or Metabolism more of in years to come. Vactch’s Altmayer; Editor: Laure Gardette; Cinematog- Why Don’t You Play in Hell? rapher: Pacal Marti; Music by: Philippe Rombi; youthful ingénue is counterbalanced Cast: Marine Vacth, Charlotte Rampling, Ger- by a knowing appearance by Char- You and the Night LM aldine Pailhas, Lucas Prisor lotte Rampling as a john’s wife. (MK) Young & Beautiful IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 33 Fil Checklis by Dat & Tim Use this helpful list to order tickets over the phone, or bring it with you to the box office. K 6:30 PM The Rugby Player K 4:30 PM Domestic K 1:45 PM Ilo Ilo K 4:45 PM Club Sandwich APRIL 3 UW Elvehjem UW Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 1 Thursday K 6:00 PM The Congress K 6:45 PM Shooter and Whitley K 4:30 PM Approaching the Elephant K 1:45 PM Village at End of World K K 5:00 PM Opening Night Benefit UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 Overture Center / Capitol Theater 6:15 PM Rat Pack Rat: Todd Rohal Prairie Fire in Union South K K 6:45 PM Happy Christmas K 4:45 PM The Amazing Catfish K 2:00 PM Black Jack 6:45 PM Like Father, Like Son K 6:15 PM Manakamana Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 5 UW Cinematheque K 8:30 PM Kumiko, Treasure Hunter UW Chazen Museum of Art K 7:00 PM Sabbatical K 5:00 PM The German Doctor K 2:00 PM Heli K 8:45 PM You and the Night K 6:30 PM Food Patriots UW Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 5 Union South / The Marquee K 9:15 PM The Sacrament K 7:00 PM Age of Panic K 5:30 PM Tricked K 3:15 PM Particle Fever K 6:30 PM The Champagne Murders Sundance Cinema 5 Union South / The Marquee Sundance Cinema 6 UW Cinematheque K 7:15 PM Breathe In K 6:15 PM Shorts: Wisconsin’s Own K 3:15 PM Shooter and Whitley K 6:30 PM Actress Union South / The Marquee UW Elvehjem UW Chazen Museum of Art APRIL 8 UW Elvehjem Tuesday K 7:15 PM Commando: One Man Army K 6:30 PM American Revolutionary K 3:30 PM The Dark Matter of Love All screenings are at Sundance Cinemas K 8:45 PM Salvo Sundance Cinema 1 UW Chazen Museum of Art Union South / The Marquee UW Chazen Museum of Art K 2:30 PM Obvious Child K 9:00 PM Over the Edge K 6:45 PM Something, Anything K 3:45 PM Le Week-end K K 9:00 PM Joe UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 5 Overture Center / Capitol Theater 2:45 PM Burt’s Buzz Union South / The Marquee K K 9:00 PM Memphis K 7:00 PM Club Sandwich K 4:00 PM Sepideh: Reaching Stars 3:00 PM Nobody’s Daughter Haewon K 9:00 PM Rent A Family Inc. Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 UW Elvehjem K 4:30 PM Ida UW Elvehjem K 9:00 PM The Immortalists K 7:00 PM When Evening Falls K 4:00 PM Commando: One Man Army K 4:45 PM The German Doctor K 9:15 PM Vodka, Water, Mannequins UW Elvehjem UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 UW Cinematheque K 5:00 PM Lola K 9:15 PM In Bloom K 7:15 PM Gabrielle K 4:15 PM All About the Feathers UW Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 5 K 6:30 PM Cairo Drive K 9:15 PM R100 K 7:30 PM Dom Hemingway K 4:30 PM The Lumberjack at 100 K 6:45 PM Visitors APRIL 4 Sundance Cinema 6 Union South / The Marquee UW Cinematheque Friday K 7:00 PM ARoom in Town K 9:30 PM Why Don’t You Play in Hell? K 9:00 PM Nathaniel Dorsky K 5:30 PM Stray Dogs K 9:00 PM Dangerous Acts...Belarus K 11:30 AM Stray Dogs Union South / The Marquee UW Cinematheque UW Chazen Museum of Art K 9:15 PM You and the Night Sundance Cinema 1 K 9:45 PM The Sacrament K 9:00 PM Ilo Ilo K 5:30 PM Kumiko, Treasure Hunter K 11:45 AM Stand Clear of Closing Doors Sundance Cinema 1 UW Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 6 K 9:30 PM The Overnighters Sundance Cinema 6 K 9:00 PM Crimes Against Humanity K 6:00 PM The Overnighters K NOON Sepideh: Reaching Stars UW Elvehjem UW Elvehjem UW Elvehjem APRIL 5 K 9:00 PM Cannibal K 6:00 PM The Congress APRIL 9 K 12:15 PM Lola Saturday Sundance Cinema 1 Overture Center / Capitol Theater Wednesday All screenings are at Sundance Cinemas Sundance Cinema 5 K K 9:15 PM Nobody’s Daughter Haewon K 6:15 PM Visitors 11:00 AM Particle Fever K 1:30 PM ARoom In Town K 12:15 PM Mary Union South / The Marquee Sundance Cinema 5 Union South / The Marquee UW Chazen Museum of Art K 1:45 PM The Auction K 11:15 AM Mystery Road K 9:30 PM That Guy Dick Miller K 6:15 PM Macaroni & Cheese K 12:15 PM Dangerous Acts... Belarus UW Chazen Museum of Art Union South / The Marquee Sundance Cinema 5 K 2:00 PM The Rocket UW Cinematheque K 11:15 PM Burt’s Buzz K 9:30 PM Coherence K 6:30 PM Ida K 3:45 PM Cairo Drive K 2:00 PM Food Patriots UW Elvehjem Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 1 K 4:00 PM Mother, I Love You Sundance Cinema 6 K 7:00 PM Jodie Mack Short Films K 11:45 AM The Rugby Player K K 2:15 PM Big Men Sundance Cinema 1 UW Cinematheque 4:15 PM Young & Beautiful Union South / The Marquee K K NOON All About the Feathers APRIL 6 K 8:00 PM Spell to Ward Off Darkness 6:00 PM The Dance of Reality K 2:15 PM Rich Hill UW Cinematheque Sunday Sundance Cinema 5 K 6:15 PM Three Seats for the 26th UW Cinematheque K K NOON The Immortalists K 11:00 AM Stand Clear of Closing Doors 8:15 PM The Dog K 6:30 PM Northwest K 2:15 PM Actress Sundance Cinema 5 Union South / The Marquee UW Elvehjem Sundance Cinema 1 K 8:30 PM Heli K 12:45 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg K 11:00 AM Big Men K 8:15 PM R100 K 2:15 PM Spell to Ward Off Darkness Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 K 8:45 PM Cheatin’ Sundance Cinema 5 K 1:15 PM Love Child K 11:00 AM Blackmail K 8:15 PM 20,000 Days on Earth K 9:00 PM Intruders K 2:15 PM Intruders Union South / The Marquee Overture Center / Capitol Theater Union South / The Marquee UW Chazen Museum of Art K 1:15 PM Wisconsin Rising K 11:30 AM The Auction K 8:30 PM Tanta Agua K 2:30 PM The Amazing Catfish UW Elvehjem UW Cinematheque UW Chazen Museum of Art APRIL 10 UW Elvehjem K 1:45 PM Vertigo K 11:30 AM Best of the British Arrows K 8:30 PM Young & Beautiful Thursday K 4:15 PM The Dog UW Chazen Museum of Art UW Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 1 All screenings are at Sundance Cinemas Sundance Cinema 6 K K 2:00 PM Mother, I Love You K 11:30 AM Something, Anything K 8:30 PM Cheatin’ 1:30 PM Three Seats for the 26th K 4:30 PM Cannibal UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 5 Overture Center / Capitol Theater K 1:45 PM Best of the British Arrows UW Chazen Museum of Art K K 2:15 PM Tanta Agua K 11:30 AM To Be Takei 8:45 PM Rich Hill K 2:15 PM In Bloom K 4:30 PM Domestic Sundance Cinema 1 UW Elvehjem UW Cinematheque UW Elvehjem K 3:45 PM Salvo K 2:30 PM Shorts From Mars K NOON Rent A Family Inc. K 4:30 PM Manakamana Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 K 4:00 PM Black Jack Sundance Cinema 5 K 2:45 PM Happy Christmas K 1:00 PM Coherence APRIL 7 K 4:30 PM Northwest K 4:30 PM To Be Takei Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 Monday K 6:00 PM Village at End of World Union South / The Marquee All screenings are at Sundance Cinemas K 3:30 PM The Rocket K 1:15 PM Gabrielle K K 6:15 PM Macaroni & Cheese K 4:45 PM When Evening Falls Union South / The Marquee Union South / The Marquee 1:45 PM Le Week-end UW Cinematheque K K 6:30 PM Breathe In K 3:45 PM Dostoevsky Behind Bars K 1:15 PM American Revolutionary 2:00 PM Sabbatical K 4:45 PM Like Father, Like Son UW Elvehjem UW Chazen Museum of Art K 2:15 PM Mystery Road K 8:00 PM Why Don’t You Play In Hell? Sundance Cinema 1 K 4:30 PM The Lumberjack at 100 K 1:30 PM Approaching the Elephant K 4:00 PM The Umbrellas of Cherbourg K 8:15 PM Il Sorpasso K 5:30 PM Wisconsin’s Own Celebration UW Cinematheque UW Elvehjem K 8:45 PM Obvious Child The Livingston Inn K 4:15 PM Age of Panic
From Point to Eastgate, You gotta live it Cinema Cafe to Cinematheque, plus every day what’s playing at Market Square. You gotta read about it, too! All the movies ALL IN ONE PLACE, OR IN YOUR INBOX EVERY FRIDAY! isthmus.com/madland All the times isthmus.com/movies WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 2014 3–11, APRIL • MADISON • FESTIVAL FILM WISCONSIN 34 Ticke Informatio 2014.wifilmfest.org | 608-265-2933 | [email protected] | first floor, Union South Advance movie tickets (bought by April 2) are $9 each or $5 with a valid student ID. During the Festival (April 3 to 10), tickets are $10 each or $5 with a valid student ID. All tickets are general admission, including those at Sundance Cinemas. All tickets sales are final. No refunds or replacements for lost tickets. No refunds for vouchers. Arrive early. To guarantee admittance, ticket-holders must arrive 15 minutes before the show. Latecomers with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. ORDER ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE AT ORDER ADVANCE TICKETS BY PHONE AT 2014.wifilmfest.org 608-265-2933 beginning at noon on March 8 and continuing through 7:00am the beginning at noon on March 8 and continuing through day of the show. No online orders after 7:00am April 10. April 6, during Union South Ticket Booth hours only. Browse through the online Film Guide and add films (See hours below.) to your “wish list.” Phone orders are possible the day before a show. When you finish picking your shows, you can move to the shopping For day-of-show tickets, see “Getting Tickets During cart to choose the quantity of tickets for each of the films. Or, if you the Festival” below. Visa, MasterCard, AmEx, and Discover know which films you want to see; you can go directly to the shop- are welcome for phone orders. ping cart to order your tickets. There is a $4 per-order fee for all phone orders. Tickets ordered online will be mailed with two exceptions: WILL-CALL LOCATIONS 1. All student tickets, which can be picked up at any Will-Call lo- Will-Call on the day of a show is at the venue. cation (Will-Call location information at right). Students order- Will-Call in advance of day of the show is at the Union South ing at the discounted price need to show their student ID. Ticket Booth or Sundance Satellite Ticket Booth. 2 . Online orders placed on March 27th or later, which might not (See hours below.) get delivered through the mail in time. These orders can also be picked up at any Will-Call location. ORDER ADVANCE TICKETS IN-PERSON Visa, MasterCard, AmEx, and Discover cards are all welcome. The main location for all things ticket-related is the Union There is a $4 per-order fee for all online orders. South Ticket Booth, on the ground floor of the UW Union Regular tickets and Student tickets cannot be combined in the South building, at 1308 W. Dayton St. same online order.
UNION SOUTH TICKET BOOTH HOURS Saturday, March 8: NOON to 8:00pm. Monday, March 10 through Saturday, April 5: 1:00pm to 7:00pm (Monday through Saturday only. No Sunday hours.) Limited parking is available in the lot immediately under Union South (UW Lot 80; enter on Dayton Street). Nearby options include Lot 17 (Engineering Drive) and Lot 20 (University Avenue). Cash, Check, or Credit: Visa, MasterCard, AmEx, and Discover cards are welcome at the Union South Ticket Booth. arts WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL • MADISON • APRIL 3–11, 2014 • WIFILMFEST.ORG • 877.963.FILM SATELLITE TICKET BOOTH AT SUNDANCE CINEMA & Open from Friday, April 4 through Thursday, April 10, including Sunday, April 6, for In-Person purchases and Will-Call (not for phone orders). Booth is open from a half hour before the first show at Sundance Cinema starts, until 15 minutes after the last show there starts. minds MADISON’S ISTHMUS: GETTING TICKETS DURING THE FESTIVAL will be held for pick-up at the Ticket Booth or any Will- Each theater has a rush-ticket line. If no tickets are Smart, original content covering All regular tickets are $10 during the Festival (April 3-10), Call location. Please bring your student ID. All student available at that theater’s box office, join the rush-ticket except student tickets which are always $5. orders may be subject to verification. line. It’s wise to come 30 minutes before the show, but it news, politics, entertainment, food, depends on how popular the film is. When ticket-holders Tickets can be purchased online, up to 7:00 am on the day VOUCHERS shopping, sports and more, all have been seated, we’ll sell open seats to people in the of the show or by phone through April 6. Phone orders A voucher is a coupon you can exchange for a tick- rush-ticket line. integral to life in the capital region. are possible through the day before a show. See “Ticket et. You can order vouchers just like regular tickets Cash, check, or vouchers may be used to buy rush tickets. Booth Hours” above. Online and phone orders during the (look under “V” in the online Film Guide), and exchange Isthmus emphasizes journalistic First in line, first seated. Festival still have the standard $4 per-order fee. them later. excellence, award-winning writing Day-of-show tickets are also sold at each of the theaters, Vouchers need to be exchanged for a “real” ticket printed EXCHANGES but only for the films playing at that theater on that day. and high-quality design, along with a for a specific film program. You can make an exchange at All ticket sales are final. Film tickets for upcoming shows Each theater’s box office opens one hour before the first the Ticket Booth prior to the day of the screening or at sharply honed, curatorial instinct for film playing there that day. Cash, check, or vouchers are (not past shows) can be exchanged for other upcoming the theater on the day of the show (subject to availabil- shows only in person at the Union South Ticket Booth local happenings, and the best event accepted for sales at the theaters (no credit cards). ity). Vouchers on their own are not good for entry into a until close of business the day before the screening. No guides in town. All yours, all free. HOLIDAY 10-PACK TICKETS theater, nor do they guarantee you a seat — you must first exchanges are possible the day of the show at the the- When ordering tickets over the phone or in person, sim- exchange them for a “real” ticket. aters. ply share your code with the box office staff member No refunds are given for vouchers, but you may give them No refunds or replacements for lost tickets. No refunds PROUD SPONSOR OF assisting you. If you’d like to secure your tickets online, to family and friends. for vouchers. browse through the online Film Guide, and follow direc- RUSH TICKETS THE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL tions for adding films to your shopping cart. When you’re A FEW MORE IMPORTANT NOTES If tickets are no longer available in advance for a par- ready to check out, choose customer type COMP, as in Arrive early. To guarantee admittance, ticket-holders ticular screening, your options are not yet exhausted! complimentary tickets. When prompted, type in your must arrive 15 minutes before the show. Latecomers As tickets go on sale, we set aside a handful of tickets for certificate code to purchase your tickets. with tickets are not guaranteed admittance. filmmakers to share with their crew, to anticipate any STUDENT TICKETS changes in theater capacity, and to resolve any errors. Many films are not rated. Viewer and parental discre- PRINT N WEB N MOBILE N EVENTS tion is advised. The $5 student price is available to any student (any uni- Also, some people buy tickets to a film but are not able to 101 King Street N Madison WI 53703 N 608.251.5627 versity, college, high school, etc.) with a valid, current make it to the show. Open seats can be filled right before Festival Schedule is subject to change. WEB TheDailyPage.com N MOBILE m.Isthmus.com student ID. Bring your ID to the Ticket Booth when you the start of the film. Ticket-holders must arrive at least 15 FACEBOOK Isthmus N TWITTER @IsthmusTDP place your order. 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