“It’s better to burn out than to fade away” – Neil Young “Glory days Well, they’ll pass you by, glory days In the wink of a young girl’s eye, glory days Glory days” – Bruce Springsteen Sometimes the local film festival brings you stories that you would think you would know about. This year’s example […]
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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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SECRET MALL APARTMENT taps into a lot of today’s hot button issues like gentrification, privatization of once public spaces, corporate control, white privilege, public art, and just sticking it to the man. It’s also a larger than life tale that is very funny in turns. Back in the early 2000s, a group of artists found
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Some nights at a film festival are easier than others for a reviewer. Case in point, the Milwaukee Film Festival screened NOSFERATU A SYMPHONY OF HORROR on its largest screen with live accompaniment was instantly a must see for me. What’s anyone going to say about a 100+ year old classic, even if there’s a
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I like to take chances on films at film festivals, but I confess that ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE was pretty much a slam dunk. So no need to beat around the bush, I had a great time. ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE is a PBS documentary. So, yes, it’s not going to
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One of the continuing features of the Milwaukee Film Festival is an emphasis on music documentaries, courtesy of its Sound Vision program. And music documentaries are unlikely just to be a dry recitation of facts, but get into the cultural and geographic aspects of where the music comes from. And that’s one of the principal
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