UW-Cinematheque’s spring season of art-house film screenings kicks off on January 18 at Vilas Hall with Blake Williams’ Prototype, which will take advantage of Cinematheque’s recently installed 3-D screening equipment. It won’t be Cinematheque’s first 3-D screening, but it will be a debut of sorts for new 3-D gear that recently became a permanent piece […]
Oldboy
Free screening. The mead hall opens at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. South Korea 2003 120 minutes Color 2.35:1 Korean
Bad Timing
The mead hall opens up at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). When their all-consuming passion takes a life-threatening turn, Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) is assigned to […]
Raging Bull
The mead hall opens up at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece about an emotionally self-destructive boxer’s journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it. Stars Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Catherine Moriarty. United States 1980 129 […]
Contempt
The mead hall opens up at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le Mépris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer […]
Mead and a Movie: Cutter’s Way
The mead hall opens at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! Best friends Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) and Alex Cutter (John Heard) are two middle-class guys living in an upper-class town. The Santa Barbara buddies get dragged into a murder mystery when Richard accidentally spots a man ditching a body into a trash can. […]