Posted inMusic & Events

The Semi-Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival

Old Skool Productions and local filmmaker Ross Bigley proudly announce the return of The Semi-Annual Milwaukee Short Film Festival. The festival will be held at Bean Head Cafe, 1835 North Martin Luther King Drive. There are only two weeks left to submit a film/video. The entry deadline is November 1st.

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Clamor Magazine / Rooftop Films

MIAD’s Liberal Studies and Fine Arts Division Present:

Clamor Magazine / Rooftop Films Event at the Eisner Museum Auditorium

Corner of Water and Chicago Street in Milwaukee’s Third Ward

Tuesday, October 7th

7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Free and Open to the Public!

Posted inA&E Briefs

October 2003

City Talk – Radio for Milwaukee – Crime and Judy – Chris Smither – Center St. CD Releases – Bremen Cafe’s open mic packs the room – Last Gordon Park Grooves – Sierra Tarahumara – Tolan on At Ten

Posted inArts & Entertainment

UWM’s Film Forward Union Theatre

by Eryn Moris / photo by Peter DiAntoni

As the program manager for UW-Milwaukee’s film-forward Union Theatre, Sieczek rarely screens films as a casual observer. “I’m always looking at programming ideas,” he says, “Whenever a new film comes out, whenever there’s a festival, and there’s always a festival every month somewhere, I kind of see what’s out there and I slowly start to accumulate titles and lists of films.”

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Tarkovsky’s Solaris Re-released on Special DVD

by Dan Wilson

Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 “Solaris” has been re-released as part of the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films. You may be familiar with “Solaris” from Stanislaw Lem’s classic science fiction novel or Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 film starring George Clooney, but if that’s your only exposure to this story, Tarkovsky’s interpretation is well worth viewing.