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Review: Screen Dance at Danceworks
Review

Screen Dance at Danceworks

Dances for film, screened in the open air on a summer night by the river.

Moving Pictures: Coco & Igor
Moving Pictures

Coco & Igor

It's beautiful to look at, but watching this film is like thumbing through a coffee table book while waiting for dinner to be served at a boring party. Nothing happens.

Moving Pictures: MicMacs
Moving Pictures

MicMacs

MicMacs is stunning to look at and delightful to see. There is tenderness is right in the middle of the story, beneath the gloss and behind the shimmer.

Moving Pictures: Please Give
Moving Pictures

Please Give

Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt play a couple who sell what the dead leave behind. It's like something out of a Woody Allen film, but with less artfulness and subtlety.

Moving Pictures: Mother and Child
Moving Pictures

Mother and Child

It can’t be true. But it is true. As true as anything we might hope to be or become.

Milwaukee Film unveils partial lineup for 2010 festival

Milwaukee Film unveils partial lineup for 2010 festival

The local premiere of Fritz Lang's now fully-restored Metropolis is just one of the treats in store for film lovers this fall

Moving Pictures: I Remember Better When I Paint
Moving Pictures

I Remember Better When I Paint

For those living with Alzheimer's, the act of creation is an act of liberation.

PODCAST: Rocky Trails
PODCAST

Rocky Trails

Local filmmaker Drew Rosas' first feature, an 80s hipster slasher/comedy, opens tomorrow night at the Oriental

Moving Pictures: The Secret in Their Eyes
Moving Pictures

The Secret in Their Eyes

Even though the film begins with a murder and follows the obsession of one man to solve that crime, "The Secret in Their Eyes" is a romance, really.

“The first art disaster movie”

“The first art disaster movie”

Banksy never intended to make a film. He didn't intend to create an "art" monster either, but sometimes these things just happen.

Moving Pictures review: Babies
Moving Pictures review

Babies

Babies is a surprising film, both in the technique it uses to communicate and in the emotional response that accumulates while watching it.

Sergio

Sergio

"Revolutionary to the core." Milwaukee Film and HBO present a film about the world's go-to guy