MILWAUKEE FILM FEST 2014
The Surface (film)
October 31, 2014
Flashback to Closing Night of the record-breaking 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival. Every seat in the Oriental Theater’s main room is occupied with anxious moviegoers. A slender Milwaukee-native strides to the stage where he is handed the microphone by MFF Artistic Director Jonathan Jackson.
Finding Fela! (film)
October 3, 2014
As a hip-hop kid born in the 80s I didn’t come across the “The Bob Marley of Africa,” the King of Afrobeat, the Black President, Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, or simply, Fela Kuti, as he is known to the world, until his son (Femi Kuti) made a song with Mos Def. A few years later, when I was working as a videographer in Minneapolis, my boss borrowed me a three-disc Best of Fela CD set. I was hooked instantly.
The Movie (wk 1 recap)
October 2, 2014
EXT. DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE – NIGHT
A thick fog creeps through the old stone bones of East Town. A JOURNALIST sits in the back of a cab. The piercing white lights of the cab cut across Prospect Avenue and float over Lake Michigan. The CABBIE is a
friendly local.
CABBIE
Where to boss?
JOURNALIST
Kenilworth Square East.
Revenge of the Mekons (film)
September 30, 2014
Leeds University in the mid ‘70s had the highest student population in England and was a hotbed of leftist thought. In the Art Department of this radical northern school a band of misfits, most of whom could hardly play an instrument, formed a punk band called The Mekons.
Purgatorio (film)
September 26, 2014
On Sunday night, festival goers will be granted access to a frantic portrayal of the demonic drug violence that plagues Mexico (Heli, Oriental, 9:15p.m.). Saturday afternoon offers a more subtle, yet equally brutal, sampling of the characters and lives that exist on the “anthropologically arbitrary dividing line” that separates us and our southern neighbors.
