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Two Experimental Film Screenings Next Week: Grace Mitchell and Blake Barit
Films by Milwaukee's Grace Mitchell next Monday at Side Room; Films by Madison's Blake Barit at Mills Folly Microcinema on Wednesday, September 24
Sep 15
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James Kreul
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The Toxic Avenger is too good to be much good
Updates on Duck Soup Cinema, a lecture by film scholar Genevieve Yue, and new owner for Highway 18 Outdoor Theatre
Sep 8
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James Kreul
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Fall projects: Birthday Subscriptions; Duck Soup Cinema; Film Conversations
Help celebrate the shared birthday of Rob Thomas and James Kreul, September 3, by supporting locally written film Substack newsletters.
Sep 1
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James Kreul
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August 2025
Weapons: I'm going to have to start watching more horror films
A series debuts (Side Side Room Cinematheque) and a series concludes for the summer (MMoCA Rooftop Cinema)
Aug 25
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James Kreul
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Milwaukee Experimental Films, Weapons, and 80's themed Cinematheque notes
MMoCA Rooftop Cinema concludes Thursday, August 21, and UW-Cinematheque has released their August to December schedule.
Aug 15
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James Kreul
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I-BE AREA: The backup doesn't always got your back
Ryan Trecartin plays multiple roles, who in turn have multiple identities, in his 2007 hyperkinetic meditation on identity, clones, avatars, and new…
Aug 11
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James Kreul
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Just another week of Kaiju, Bollywood, and Video Art for ol' Jimbo
I know I won't convince many of you to see Shin Godzilla (2016), but that doesn't mean I can't try. Also I-BE AREA at Rooftop, and War 2 at AMC, Marcus…
Aug 8
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James Kreul
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History intersects with current lived experience in Sugarcane
The documentary Sugarcane reminds us that, as Faulkner put it, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Aug 5
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James Kreul
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Who's up for some late-night docs?
Three picks for this week: Sugarcane, Architecton, and Son of Sardaar 2. And Paid Subscribers get to hear a fake podcast.
Aug 3
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James Kreul
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July 2025
The Cathedral of New Emotions harnesses the transformational properties of animation
Even if you lose track of who is who and what is what, The Cathedral of New Emotions offers many rich moment-to-moment rewards.
Jul 28
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James Kreul
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MMoCA Rooftop Cinema begins July 31 with The Cathedral of New Emotions
Three films I hope to catch this week: Ick (Sunday thru Wednesday); The Cathedral of New Emotions (MMoCA, Thurs); The War of the Beach Gods (Ctek, next…
Jul 25
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James Kreul
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Eddington punches left, right, up and down just a little too systematically
Eddington works best when the satire emerges from small town conflicts, but I'm not convinced that writer-director Ari Aster cares about any of these…
Jul 21
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James Kreul
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