The 2026 Dialogues Documentary Festival kicked off from Milwaukee film this week. Turner Classic Films had a crew in the house shooting footage for an upcoming segment on the Oriental Theatre and there was a decent sized crowd to see a pair of documentary shorts at the beginning of the festival under the title “Drawing
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The 2025 Dialogues Documentary Film Festival had its second day Friday with some fall rain coming in following the last showing of the night. A noticably larger crowd showed up for SPACE COWBOY as well. SPACE COWBOY is essentially the story of Joe Jennings who has a unique career of being perhaps the greatest skydiving
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Robert, Nat, and Cody accept an offer we can’t refuse in 1951’s THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL debuted near the dawn of the Cold War and 50s science fiction films. And while not setting the box office on fire, but still making money, it became a favorite of
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Cody, Robert, and Nat dive deep into the mind with a look at 1983’s BRAINSTORM. The troubled production of BRAINSTORM, Natalie Wood died during filming, is probably what the film is most famous for today. But, it’s an ambitious film aiming to explore big ideas like our deepest dreams and nightmares, emotions like love, memory,
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Cody, Robert, and Nat take time off from our beach reading to bring you a special bonus episode focusing on four films reflecting Hollywood’s attempt at fantasy films in the wake of STAR WARS. It’s a podcast full of scantily clad women, swords, violence, revenge!, magic, superstition, and might makes right. Our first destination, is
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BAND is one of those films where it’s hard to tell what is literally true in its documentary-like presentation. I suspect very little. Conversely, it’s easy to tell what’s emotionally true, practically all of the film. Milwaukee Film describes BAND as follows: “Icelandic performance art meets THIS IS SPINAL TAP in this wickedly fun look
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