TCD’s Milwaukee Film Fest Picks

Tuesday, October 8/Wednesday, October 9/Thursday, October 10

TCD Pick: Blood Brother

Most of the film times in the last few days of the Milwaukee Film Festival are dedicated to last-chance-screenings, films that have already debuted but are going up on the screen one last time in case you missed it amid the other big openings. But there’s one debut that can’t be missed: Blood Brother, a heartrending and uplifting doc about Rocky Braat, a tourist whose visit to an Indian orphanage for women and children suffering from HIV and AIDS would lead him to return, devoting himself to helping care for the kids now in his care. The film comes from Braat’s best friend, director Steve Hoover, who’s returned with a fascinating portrait of commitment and compassion for a population otherwise ignored.

Blood Brother screens once as the closing night feature of the festival: Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Oriental Theatre. Tickets are $20, $17 for Milwaukee Film members.

—

TCD also recommends: Here Comes the Devil, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 10:30 p.m., Oriental (also screening Wednesday, Oct. 9, 9:45 p.m., Downer)

Re-screening recommendations, Tuesday: Closed Curtain, noon, Oriental; Free the Mind, 12:30 p.m., Oriental, Picture Day, 2:30 p.m., Oriental; Remote Area Medical, 2:30 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; War Witch, 4:30 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; When the King Tilts, 5 p.m., Oriental; The Girls in the Band, 5 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; Bound by Flesh, 7:15 p.m., Downer; Becoming Traviata, 7:45 p.m., Oriental; Stories We Tell, 7:45 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; Somm, 8 p.m., Oriental; Billy Club, 9 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; Shorts: The Best Damn F*#@ing Midnight Program Ever. Sh*t., 10 p.m., Downer; Sightseers, 10:15 p.m., Oriental

Tuesday’s Full Listings:

Re-screening recommendations, Wednesday: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, noon, Oriental; Maidentrip, 12:30 p.m., Oriental; Sign Painters, 3 p.m., Oriental; When I Walk, 4:30 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, 4:45 p.m., Downer; Penelope, 5:15 p.m., Oriental; Laurence Anyways, 5:45 p.m., Oriental; Google and the World Brain, 7:30 p.m., Downer; Spinning Plates, 7:45 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; The Angels’ Share, 8:15 p.m., Oriental

Wednesday’s Full Listings: 

Re-screening recommendations, Thursday: When the King Tilts, noon, Oriental; Narco Cultura, 1 p.m., Oriental; Picture Day, 2:30 p.m., Oriental; Becoming Traviata, 2:30 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema; 12 O’Clock Boys, 5:30 p.m., Oriental; Tanta Agua, 7:15 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema

Thursday’s Full Listings:

Article Continues - Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13