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2025 Milwaukee Film’s Dialogues Documentary Film Festival “Singing Back the Buffalo”

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The 2025 Dialogues Documentary Film Festival wrapped up for me on its third day, notably Autumnal, on Saturday. A good sized crowd came along for the journey to see SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO. SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO is mostly about indigenous tribes efforts to reestablish buffalo herds into something approaching their historical free-range status after […]

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2025 Milwaukee Film’s Dialogues Documentary Film Festival “Boy George & Culture Club”

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Dialogues Documentary Film Festival kicked off from Milwaukee film the calendar said it was still summer but there are several different seasons for film critics; The spring festival season, the summer movie season, the fall festival season, and awards season. Not too long ago, the fall festival season used to be the stomping ground of

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Day Fifteen – Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

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Milwaukee Film chose JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE to close out this year’s film festival. And it’s easy to see why they chose a relative crowd pleaser like this. But, does its amiability substitute for some story deficiencies? In JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE, Agathe (Camille Rutherford) works at the famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – The Dells

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THE DELLS is a documentary by Nellie Kluz observing the lives and travails of numerous foreign born temporary workers filling service jobs during tourist season at the Wisconsin Dells. They work long hours, are woefully underpaid, aren’t supported very well in respect to having a place off work, and to a person seem really happy

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival: Day Thirteen – Can I Get a Witness?

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When you have science fiction movies podcast, it’s hard to resist their siren call at a film festival. Especially when you know that the film is more likely to focus on ideas instead of spectacle. Which is the long way of saying, I was intrigued by CAN I GET A WITNESS? playing at the 2025

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Woolly

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Sometimes you don’t have to reach too deep to figure out the pleasures of a film. WOOLLY is one such film which combines beautiful landscapes, meaningful but not easy work, personal relationships, and cute animals to create a portrait of a way of life. A way of life that may be on its way out.

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