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 […]
Nights of Cabiria
The mead hall opens up at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! Giulietta Masina won Best Actress at Cannes as the title character of one of Fellini’s most haunting films. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) is the tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for […]
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. […]
Labor History Film Series Shows Democratizing Force of Labor Unions
The Madison Labor History Film Series begins this week and is free for the public. The series aims to make labor history available to a wide spectrum of citizens, with the hope that broad exposure to the subject field may entice people to research further. With Gov. Walker’s current suppression of the public sector labor […]