Tuesday, March 10: It For Others
7 p.m. @ UWM Union Theatre (FREE!)
It’s Tuesday at UWM so you know what that means – let’s get experimental! This time around we get “a seamless merging of archive material, and what purports to be archive material alongside the shapes and dots created by the Michael Clark Company” (description courtesy International Film Festival Rotterdam).
Wednesday, March 11: Wild
4:15 p.m. @ UWM Union Theatre (FREE!)
Unfortunately lost in the shuffle of Oscar season was this Reese Witherspoon-led adaptation of Cheryl Strayed memorable memoir. It’s a powerful film, with really wonderful performances and solid direction from Jean-Marc Vallee.
Wednesday, March 11: Gringo Trails
7 p.m. @ UWM Union Theatre (FREE!)
UWM’s environmentally-themed film series brings us this fascinating documentary about the unexpected impact that tourism has on the environment as well as culture.
Wednesday, March 11: Random Harvest
7:30 p.m. @ Charles Allis Art Museum ($7/$5/free for seniors/students/museum members)
Charles Allis brings you another Best Picture nominee didn’t bring home the gold in the 1942 romantic drama classic Random Harvest. Ronald Colman and Greer Garson bring this James Hilton novel to life through the story of an amnesiac that falls in love with and marries a dancer.
Thursday, March 12: Yemeniettes
7 p.m. @ UWM Union Theatre (Students are FREE!/Others $6)
The 1st annual Muslim Film Festival continues at the UWM Union with this documentary about three Yemeni girls entered into an entrepreneurship competition, a moving portrait of young lives lived in the shadow of horrific upheaval.
Friday, March 13: Pulp Fiction
Midnight @ Rosebud Cinema ($5!)
The Rosebud Cinema’s Midnight Movies series continues (it started w/ The Big Lebowski last week) with the movie that made Quentin Tarantino a household name. If you haven’t seen it lately, it holds up, and if you’ve never seen it, what are you waiting for (other than for it to be this Friday at midnight, that is)?
***CRITIC’S CHOICE***
Friday, March 13: Cinderella, Run All Night, Wild Tales and What We Do In the Shadows all open in local release
Check local listings for showtimes/pricing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRuHM6rLSF8
Another full spate of releases dropping locally this Friday, a variety that should hold something for everyone. Kenneth Branagh’s live action remake of the animated classic Cinderella has been racking up good reviews so far, and the caliber of director matched with performers (Hayley Atwell, Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett) suggests something of quality. But if family friendly isn’t so much your bag, there is the latest installment in the “Liam Neeson beats people to death” series of films with Run All Night, pitting his mob hitman against Ed Harris’ crimelord over the course of one crazy night. Compressed timelines and action films go together like peanut butter and jelly so I’m looking forward to this.
If your tastes skew a little more independent, then we have some options for you dropping this week as well. Wild Tales is a fantastically entertaining anthology film revolving around ideas of revenge and comeuppance. It’s the rare anthology where there isn’t a bum entry in the whole bunch, with each one different enough in tone to distinguish itself.
If you ever watched Flight of the Conchords on HBO or saw the earlier work of Taika Waititi (Boy is really good) then you know to be excited for their vampiric mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows. For others who aren’t yet tuned into their wavelength, I will simply tell you that this comedy has garnered acclaim every step of its release so far (95% on Rotten Tomatoes!) so give it a chance and check it out.
Saturday, March 14: Notorious Gentleman
7 p.m. @ The Church in the City, 2648 N. Hackett Ave. ($3)
Be sure to catch this now-obscure lead performance from Rex Harrison as a smooth-talking playboy in the British Golden Age flick Notorious Gentleman. It’s fallen out of favor (not available on DVD so far as I can tell, and I couldn’t find a trailer either) in recent years, so true cinemaniacs take note of this rare opportunity!
