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. […]
Mead & Movie: The Virgin Suicides
The mead hall opens at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! Sofia Coppola’s brilliant adaptation of the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides tells of the brief lives of five teenage sisters sheltered by their strict, religious parents in a middle class suburb near the outskirts of Detroit during the 1970s. United States […]
Mead & Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mead hall opens at 5p, and the show starts at 7p! After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind. When Joel discovers that Clementine is going to extremes to forget their relationship, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins […]
Trainspotting
The mead hall opens at 5, and the show starts at 7p! Time to revisit what the hype was all about for Danny Boyle’s groundbreaking masterpiece. Renton (Ewan McGregor), deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. UK 1996 […]
Cinematheque Fall Calendar Preview
Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc Godard…all names you can expect to see in the credits at upcoming screenings put on by the UW Cinematheque.
Tone Madison: Changes in Madison's Movie Market
Capital Times film writer Rob Thomas shares his perspective on the changing Madison moviegoing landscape with Tone Madison’s Scott Gordon.