MFF2015 Day 1: ‘Youth,’ Opening Night Party Matt Wild September 24, 2015 // The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival runs Thursday, September 24 through Thursday, October 8. Check out our list of 13 reasons to get excited for the fest here. If you’re looking for daily recommendations and/...
Barry Crimmins adds a comedy show to his Milwaukee Film Festival itinerary Tyler Maas September 23, 2015 On Monday, the Milwaukee Film Festival announced that veteran comedian Barry Crimmins would be coming to town to attend two screenings of Call Me Lucky, the Bobcat Goldthwait documentary about the influential h...
Tracklist: 13 reasons to get excited for the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival Milwaukee Record Staff September 21, 2015 // Beginning Thursday, September 24, the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival will transform Milwaukee from a drab, black-and-white wasteland into a dazzling, Technicolor utopia. (You know, like in The Wizard Of Oz a...
MFF2015: Film fest scheduling strategies for every type of filmgoer Blyth Meier September 8, 2015 // Each year, the Milwaukee Film Festival expands in days/venues/films/world domination, so if you’re going to tackle this 15-day, 5-venue, 300-film beast (or just arm wrestle it for a bit), you better have...
MFF2015 announces full lineup, including teenage Raiders Of The Lost Ark remake Matt Wild September 3, 2015 It’s September, which can mean only one thing: the Milwaukee Film Festival is almost upon us. The 2015 fest—which runs September 24-October 8 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay C...
35mm screenings of Jaws, The Shining highlight MFF2015’s Cinema Hooligante program Matt Wild August 20, 2015 The 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is one month and four days away. That’s one month and four days to prepare for an onslaught of films ranging from the highbrow and challenging to the rowdy and crowd pleasing. A...
Milwaukee Film announces Sound Vision program, return of Stop Making Sense Matt Wild August 11, 2015 If our calculations are correct, the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is approximately one month and 13 days away. What does that mean? Ignoring for a moment the painful reminder that summer is on its way out, it m...
2015 Milwaukee Film Festival now accepting entries Matt Wild March 26, 2015 It may seem blasphemous to wish for autumn with summer still a few months off, but when it comes to the Milwaukee Film Festival, we’re happy to blaspheme away. Today, Milwaukee Film announced that it is accepti...
The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, by the numbers Matt Wild 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...
