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The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, by the numbers

October 14, 2014

It’s easy to say things like, “The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was great!” or, “Holy shit! The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was the best damn f*#@ing film festival ever! Shit.” But for all those easy and obsce...

10 standout moments from the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 10, 2014

And that’s a wrap: After 15 days of movies, more movies, and even more movies, the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival has come to a close. Bookended by an opening-night screening of 1971 and last night’s sendoff from...

The Disclaimer: Film fest highs, Bay View “Art Stop” lows

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 9, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

MFF2014: Club Sandwich carefully handles striking transformation

Tyler Maas

October 7, 2014

It’s hard to explore new territory in the well-represented “coming-of-age” film genre, short of, you know, actually filming a boy’s journey to manhood over the course of 12 years. (Oh wait, Richard Linklater’s ...

One Week Vacation pulls a fun short from prolonged monotony

Tyler Maas

October 3, 2014

Last Monday’s all-around excellent The Milwaukee Show I found local filmmakers offering evocative and innovative pieces with subject matter that included: marooned space cadets wandering a new planet; an outrag...

James Randi tells the truth about ‘An Honest Liar’

Matt Wild

October 2, 2014

James Randi originally chose “The Amazing Randi” as a stage name back when he was plying his trade as a magician and escape artist; little did he know it would nicely sum up his entire seven-decade-and-counting...

Stop Making Sense, Take Me To The River, and the long, strange career of Jerry Harrison

Cal Roach

October 2, 2014

Anyone who attended last year’s Milwaukee Film Festival screening of the brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense will tell you it’s hard to have more fun in a movie theater. Attendees danced spon...

MFF2014: Alloy Orchestra breathes sonic life into Man With A Movie Camera

Cal Roach

October 1, 2014

Last year’s Milwaukee Film Festival brought us the once-in-a-lifetime event that was Altos: Earth, featuring the local group performing a live, original score to Alexander Dovzhenko’s silent Soviet classic. Cam...

ZAZ 8 2/3: 10 Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker missteps

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 30, 2014

Wednesday night, the Milwaukee Film Festival will pay tribute to the legendary Shorewood-sired filmmaking triad of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams with a 30th anniversary screening of Top Secret! T...

MFF2014: Inside The Milwaukee Show (part one)

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 29, 2014

They don’t call it the Milwaukee Film Festival for nothing. In addition to screening some of the best films in the world, the annual fest gives plenty of love to local films and filmmakers. The highlight of the...

MFF2014 Day 3: State of the cinema and witches, bitches

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 27, 2014

Today is Day 3 of the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, which runs September 25 – October 9. Want to talk movies and/or stalk us? Here’s where we’ll be. “State of Cinema” lecture with Wesley Morris (noon, Prospe...

MFF2014: 1971 taps into political paranoia of the past, present

Steven Franz

September 25, 2014

Within minutes of Johanna Hamilton’s documentary 1971, we are told via intertitle that the film’s subjects—a group of eight anti-war activists who broke into an FBI office and “stole every file”—acted as a kind...

MFF2014: Psychopath explores oversized ambition, haunted theme parks

Matt Wild

September 23, 2014

There’s no better subject for a documentary than a tragic, constantly put-upon hero fighting for his or her dreams in the face of insurmountable odds. If those dreams involve filmmaking, even better: Francis Fo...

Tracklist: 10 reasons to get excited for the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

September 22, 2014

// Beginning Thursday, September 25 and running through Thursday, October 9, the 6th annual Milwaukee Film Festival promises to be a can’t-miss event. A total of 276 films will light up the screens of the L...

Off Base: John Axford’s career, as told through 7 movies

Tyler Maas

September 19, 2014

It’s hard to stop loving John Axford. Even after a messy exodus from his perch as Brewers closer and the fact that he has twice pitched for division rivals (though both came as the result of trades), the Ax-Man...

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