Day five brought back one of the Milwaukee Film Festival’s best traditions, a screening of a silent classic on their biggest screen in a silent film movie palace. This year the film brought in Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL for its 100th anniversary with the Anvil Orchestra providing live accompaniment. Now, 100 years later it’s kind […]
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This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert explore comedy in the Soviet world with 1986’s KIN-DZA-DZA!. KIN-DZA-DZA! is a 1986 science fiction / comedy directed by Georgiy Daneliya. Two Soviet men find themselves transported across the galaxy to a dystopian planet of mind-readers. And it happens to be one of the strangest films that’s ever been
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This spooky month, Nat, Cody, and Robert dust off their singing voices for Frank Oz’s adaptation of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Based on writer Howard Ashman’s and composer Alan Menken’s off-broadway musical (itself adapted from Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith’s 1960 cult flick THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS), LITTLE SHOP tells the story of perennial
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Last year at the Milwaukee Film Festival there were walkouts at the Secret Members Only Screening. I think there was a lot of overreaction to a somewhat difficult movie, but I also didn’t think for a second that Milwaukee Film wouldn’t turn in a more crowd-pleasing direction. And they did exactly that by choosing the
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