For today’s holiday edition, co-hosts Richelle Wilson and Nate Carlin look back on some of the notable moments in arts and culture in 2019—the books, movies, and TV that generated important conversations about what we value in society. With the input of listeners, they take up the effect of mega box-office hits on cinema and […]
UW Cinematheque’s adventures in 3-D
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 […]
Movie Hell
Come see Joey Bednarski torture the panel of the damned with another film that might have better been forgotten. Prizes brought to you by the good folks at Four Star Video Cooperative. Stop in today!
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 […]
