This essay on the music featured in Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears was written by UW Cinematheque Programmer and Chief Projectionist, Mike King. The Strange Color will have …
JUST ADDED: BENEFIT SCREENING OF NEW GODARD 3D MOVIE, ‘GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE’
November 13, 3:30 p.m., UPDATE: Online ticket sales for this event have ended. A very limited number of tickets will be available at the will call table in the Point Cinema lobby beginning at 6 …
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY: Hitchcock’s Surrealist Romance
By Amanda McQueen, UW Cinematheque Programmer and Project Assistant The Trouble With Harry is a bit of an outlier in Alfred Hitchcock's oeuvre. Though ostensibly about the discovery of a dead body, the film is …
UW Cinematheque’s Ben Reiser on DON’T LOOK NOW
DON'T READ NOW By Ben Reiser, UW Cinematheque Programmer and Accounts Manager (There are some mild spoilers below, but if you want to experience this film the way it should be experienced, maybe wait ‘til …
Belmondo: Cascadeur
By Jim Healy, UW Cinematheque Director of Programming In the U.S. today, Jean-Paul Belmondo is still recognized as an iconic superstar of international cinema, but American audiences of today might not be quite as aware …
Even More Hitchcock!
by Amanda McQueen, UW Cinematheque Programmer and Project Assistant Not only is Alfred Hitchcock one of cinema's most popular directors, he is also one of the most studied and analyzed. It has helped, of course, …
The Slaprobatics of Denis Lavant
By Amanda McQueen, UW Cinematheque Programmer and Project Assistant Denis Lavant is an incredibly physical actor. Though also known for his distinctive face – interesting, but not really classically handsome – Lavant has become associated …
Music in Friedkin’s Movies : Aint’ No Mickey Mouse-ing Going On Here!
By Jim Healy, Director of Programming In a terrific interview with Vulture last month, complete flim-maker John Carpenter (whose action masterpiece, Escape from New York will have a Cinematheque/WUD Film screening next month) answers a …
Some Things to Know About MARKETA LAZAROVA
By Jim Healy From Professor David S. Danaher in UW Madison's Slavic Languages Department comes word of a new, NEA-funded translation of Vladislav Vancura's epic 1931 Czech novel Markéta Lazarová. You can read more on …
Levitation Test Footage from THE EXORCIST
By Ben Reiser Writer Mike McPadden currently resides in Chicago, where his encyclopedic knowledge of exploitation movies of all types and his winning way with double entendres and sex-based puns had served him well as …