Movies

Selig Family gives $200k to Milwaukee Film

Selig Family gives $200k to Milwaukee Film

Peep this -- way to go, Milwaukee Film. And for the rest of you, now you know what it costs to get an award named after you. Yep, apparently right around the 200k mark. Not bad.

Moving Pictures: Mark Metcalf does Mad Men
Moving Pictures

Mark Metcalf does Mad Men

Sometimes trips to California don't turn out as planned. Part one in a two-part essay on auditioning for, landing and shooting a one-scene part in MAD MEN.

MKE Short Film Fest Trailer Is Alive!

MKE Short Film Fest Trailer Is Alive!

MSFF Trailer Sept 11-13 @ Eisner / MAM

Moving Pictures: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Moving Pictures

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The previous Harry Potter films have been enjoyable to watch even for those who haven't read the book. How does the Half-Blood Prince compare?

Moving Pictures: A few new ways to see Shakespeare
Moving Pictures

A few new ways to see Shakespeare

There is a lot of Shakespeare on film – much of it declaimed, pompous and stale. Here are two takes on Shakespeare that everyone can love.

Frankie Latina: Milwaukee Filmmaker named Top 25 To Watch
Frankie Latina

Milwaukee Filmmaker named Top 25 To Watch

Top 25 New Faces in Independent Film included one of our own in 2009

NO GOD, NO MASTER Films In Milwaukee This Summer

NO GOD, NO MASTER Films In Milwaukee This Summer

Chicago area based film production company, Strata Productions, Inc., in association with Sacco & Vanzetti, LLC and NGNM, Inc. is gearing up for production this summer on the feature film No God, No Master. Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been a first choice location for Chicago Writer/Director Terry Green since the inception of the script. The city's rich history, vintage architecture and Lake Michigan's horizon are the perfect backdrops for the 1919 period locations, which simulate old world New York City.

Deep-Fried Romantic: Hitting up the drive-in this summer
Deep-Fried Romantic

Hitting up the drive-in this summer

There are still two or three great drive-in movie theaters to try out in Wisconsin, but this summer also find the loving low-culture return of the outdoor cinema party at three different Milwaukee locations. The 41 Twin is dead; long live the 41 Twin experience.

On Stage with TCD: July 7 to 13
On Stage with TCD

July 7 to 13

July stage work in Milwaukee comes back roaring like a tiger with a gaucho on its tail, a ballerina pirouetting to fireworks, three men in a foreign prison, and a @#%$^ Mamet couple. Confused? All becomes clear within our weekly highlight roundup.

Moving Pictures: Red River
Moving Pictures

Red River

For years I thought John Wayne was a bad actor, indicative of that kind of Hollywood movie star who could play only a paper thin character, changing his hat maybe and not much more. I felt the same way about Marilyn Monroe until I saw Bus Stop, The Misfits, Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch in a two day span on a little black and white television, hole up in my Lower East Side apartment in New York with no money and nothing to do. When you see them all at once you begin to think about what artists call a "body of work." You can see the subtlety of the changes. You can actually see the artist work, whereas before you were being fooled, as intended, and seeing just character.

Milwaukee Film rolls out first round of announcements for 2009 Festival

Milwaukee Film rolls out first round of announcements for 2009 Festival

Here they are: the first five film announcements for the first-ever, breathlessly-anticipated 2009 Milwaukee Film Festival. Who knows what we can tell from five films out of what's likely to be more than 100, but this diverse and cosmopolitan selection of screenings: a supermarket comedy from Uruguay, a clandestine documentary about the 2007 uprising in Burma and an exciting frame-by-frame restoration of Akiro Kurosawa's Rashomon.

June 5-7: The 48 Hour Film Festival Milwaukee – Go!
June 5-7

The 48 Hour Film Festival Milwaukee – Go!

Don’t blink, cos you’ll miss it!  The most exciting weekend for any and all independent Milwaukee filmmakers has arrived! The 48 Hour Film Project.  Be the ball.