For Day 4 of the Milwaukee Film Festival I found myself drawn to a retrospective screening of David Lynch’s Inland Empire presented by former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman. Hoberman gave a brief introduction to the film, describing it as both “trying” and “rewarding” and gave some general thoughts on what may be the …
One of my favorite Independent film festivals, the Flyway Film Festival, is just around the bend. It has become a yearly event to make the semi-short, windy beautiful trek down to Pepin and Stockholm Wisconsin for food, fun and pie. As an extra added bonus it is a great little film festival as well, where …
For those of you that don’t know, Kaboom, the latest film from director Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin), won the inaugural Queer Palm at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, for its contribution to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues. Which means its a GLBT friendly film which is lovely. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. …
And thus begins my tepid titillation at the upcoming award season. I’m not saying I don’t like award shows, but I just don’t like award shows. As for the actual awards themselves, they are fairly meaningless except in the minds of consumers. So while I may not really care who wins what, I have to …