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(09/19/11 6:00am)
Wisconsin is not a state traditionally known for producing music of
national prominence, though there have been a few notable
exceptions. Steve Miller was a hero of mid-70s rock FM radio,
Wisconsin's laid-back ambassador to a format vice-gripped by mythic
Detroit-bred elbow sleaze-grease. A decade later, the Violent
Femmes had their solid one-album run as New Weird America's
sex-starved, eager vanguard. Now, one name on the national scene
evokes Wisconsin.
(09/18/11 6:00am)
This summer's movie selection has been,
let's face it, lackluster at best. Where was the ""Inception"" of
this summer?
(09/15/11 6:00am)
Despite countless weeks of touring, DJ and producer
Tiësto never fails to be hyped for an upcoming show,
and Madison's party at the Alliant Energy Center
tonight promises to be no exception.
(09/14/11 6:00am)
Do signs and posters of WUD around campus have you saying WTF?
Well, I'm here to help.
(09/09/11 6:00am)
I was about 12 years old when I began my long and contentious,
co-dependent relationship with the Clash's London Calling.
Only recently have I realized that it has loomed larger in my life
than all but a few friends or family members. Over the last nine
years, I've listened to that album hundreds of times. In the last
month alone, I must have put it on a dozen times or more. Only one
of my friendships has lasted as long, and sadly, I haven't spoken
to that particular friend since January.
(09/09/11 6:00am)
Sleeping in the Aviary is currently one for two when it comes to
playing sober shows at the Memorial Union Terrace, and until they
hit the stage on Friday night, which direction this ratio turns is
currently up in the air.
(09/08/11 6:00am)
You'll have to look elsewhere this weekend if you want to see
singing nuns or children frolicking in the hills of Austria.
Instead, ""[title of show],"" a modern one-act musical, will be
playing at the Mitchell Theatre. This meta-theater
production ran in Madison over the summer and is being brought back
for a two-weekend run.
(09/07/11 6:00am)
With all the excitement surrounding the Wisconsin football team and
Russell Wilson's brilliant debut last Thursday, I'm sure that the
top priority of every Badger fan right now is the 2011-12 UW men's
hockey season that kicks off in just about a month. There is no way
that only applies to me, right?
(09/07/11 6:00am)
When you're in high school, it's cool when a band writes about
issues that are close to your heart. Unfortunately, these bands are
also most likely way older than you. I mean, these guys or gals are
way out of high school, but they're still singing about that one
girl they couldn't grow a pair to talk to.
(09/06/11 6:00am)
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Recently, I re-watched the quality flick ""High Fidelity."" It's
one of those rare movies that I can watch perpetually without it
ever feeling stale. The movie follows a group of record store
employees who have a penchant for conversing in lists: top five
songs to play on a Monday morning; top five musical crimes
perpetrated by Stevie Wonder in the 80s and 90s; top five track
one, side ones—you get the idea. In this ""top five"" spirit, my
last column of the semester is a countdown of my top five favorite
movies. These aren't the five movies I think are the best for any
technical, artistic or cultural reasons. These are simply the
movies that make me love movies.
(04/25/11 6:00am)
One of my chief laments regarding the Wisconsin Film Festival was
the scarce supply of prominent, buzz-worthy independent films.
Luckily this Wednesday marks the kickoff of WUD Film's third annual
Mini Indie Film Festival. The festival brings to campus some of the
most interesting indie flicks from both the past and previous
years, all at the the brand-spanking new Marquee at Union South.
WUD may not be hosting the glamorous premiers of these movies, but
that's OK, as word-of-mouth and past performance is what earned
each of them their place on the lineup. All of the films are
completely free and a full schedule of films can be found at
union.wisc.edu/WUD/film.aspx
(04/18/11 6:00am)
With impending finals and looming end-of-the-semester projects
starting to darken your horizon, you can at least anticipate the
summer 2011 movie season. And this summer is filled to the gills
with action-packed blockbusters and intriguing indie hits alike. In
fact, this year's summer schedule is so crowded that director Jon
Favreau (""Iron Man""), whose flick ""Cowboys and Aliens"" is out
July 29, described it as, ""Omaha Beach, it's going to be a blood
bath. There's never been a summer like this next summer. It's going
to be bloody [for filmmakers and studios].""
(04/11/11 6:00am)
Even if you feel like you keep seeing the same mediocre genre
movies repackaged with just a different façade, year after year, a
few American studios have some surprises in store that promise to
change that storyline. A trend has begun among big studios to begin
producing so-called ""microbudget"" films that they would have
otherwise left to the tiny indie studios to produce. This isn't
just the well-established genre of American independent films, but
a whole new genre of even ""indie-er"" flicks.
(04/04/11 6:00am)
While I'm not exactly a film festival connoisseur, I've attended my
fair share, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Chicago Film
Festival, the Maui Film Festival and, of course, the Wisconsin Film
Festival. They all have pros and cons, and each does some things
better than the others. After my third year attending the Wisconsin
Film Festival, I'd like to offer up my wish list of
improvements.
(03/29/11 6:00am)
Wisconsin is hardly the center of the film industry. Just look at
the massive hype surrounding ""Public Enemies"" from two years
ago––the final product only included a few scenes shot in
Wisconsin, but it kept people entranced and was embraced as a
""Wisconsin movie"" despite how loose its cheesehead connections
may have been.
(03/29/11 6:00am)
With South by Southwest now over, there's a renewed interest in
many independent film favorites that have been riding the festival
circuit, hoping to find distribution or generate buzz. The
following are four film festival favorites finally seeing
theatrical releases worth checking out this spring.
(03/25/11 6:00am)
At Sundance this year, I noticed a particularly strong marketing
push by the festival to promote that about six of the movies at the
festival were already available to be streamed by the home viewer
via various video-on-demand outlets. This is the second year
festival titles have been simultaneously released at Sundance and
in the digital market. In conjuncture with the 2010 festival,
YouTube launched its own streaming movie-rental service by offering
several contemporary and previous festival selections. And in the
year since YouTube stuck its toe in the movie-streaming pool, a
variety of other outlets have emerged and are jumping in the pool
themselves.
(03/07/11 6:00am)
The Wisconsin Film Festival, running March 30-April 3, offers 209
films this year, which can make ticket selection a daunting task.
But in the hopes that you won't take this opportunity for granted,
I've picked a few intriguing films I'd recommend to best enjoy our
local film fest.