Continuing my coverage of the Milwaukee Film Festival, Day 3 found me in a documentary frame of mind and headed out to the Fox Bay Cinema to see a screening of the much talked about The Imposter.
For those of you who don’t know, Jay Cheel is the director of the Genie nominated documentary Beauty Day, a film that focuses on the life and antics of one Ralph Zavadil, perhaps better known as Cap’n Video. But Jay, no longer shackled with an ego that thinks he can only cover subjects who think …
Federico Fellini’s The Clowns (I Clowns) is a 1970 Italian telefilm that chronicles the acclaimed director’s love affair with the circus. In particular, it is his love and fascination with clowns that the film focuses on — a love and fascination that has endured for Fellini since childhood. The film is made in a sort …
Now I may be one of the few people who has seen a rough cut of Jay Cheel’s feature length documentary Beauty Day, but that doesn’t mean I’m biased. It has just been my pleasure to have known Jay for a long enough period of time that he knows it is perfectly fine to ignore …