If I learned one thing from prior film festivals it’s “check out the South Korean films.” With that in mind, ALONERS was an easy sell for a virtual viewing. ALONERS, according to the program notes, is based on the South Korean phenomenom of “holojok,” a phrase that describes the growing number of people who prefer […]
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The second Friday of the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival was spent catching up virtually with one of the titles that eluded me during its initial screening, 892. 892 came out of Sundance with a lot of buzz, particularly around its cast, and it seemed a good bet. 892 is based on the true story of
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The second week of the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival started with a bang as Christopher Pollard and Justin Barney of the Cinebuds podcast brought a special 35 mm presentation of John Carpenter’s THE THING to a packed house at the Oriental Theatre and then hosted a live podcast with a Q&A after. I can’t imagine
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The Secret Members Only screening is always a highlight of any Milwaukee Film Festival. The 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival brought the family film MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON to the Oriental Theatre for a packed crowd and clearly won the audience over this year. MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON is based off a
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Day six of the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival was another day for documentaries, with the nostalgic and lively THE AUTOMAT on the virtual docket. Horn and Hardart’s restaurants were a fixture of New York and Philadelphia for much of the 20th century. Based on a central commissary model, one could get good food at good
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Day Five was a virtual day at the film festival. It was also take your cat to the film festival day as I shared the couch with a cat and watched the documentary CAT DADDIES. The appeal of CAT DADDIES is easy to understand. It’s a breezy 90 minutes focused on men and their cats.
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