Stories indexed under: Film

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  • Cinema Day highlights German, Iranian cultures March 25, 2009 On Friday, April 3, Wisconsin high school students and teachers will participate in World Cinema Day, with an educational screening of “Football Under Cover,”, a film that documents the efforts of both the Iranian and German teams to cross cultural and national borders to play the match of a lifetime.
  • Tickets now on sale for Wisconsin Film Festival March 11, 2009 It started as an experiment in 1999. Now in its 11th year, the Wisconsin Film Festival has grown so popular that it’s taken over Babcock Hall.
  • Still from The Great McGinty Cinematheque series explores American politics Sept. 24, 2008 It seems as if the presidential campaigning has been going on forever. With primaries, caucuses, dueling ad campaigns and the spectacle of conventions designed to energize the faithful, even the most dutiful voting citizen can grow weary. Mercifully, Cinematheque will rescue us with films that explore American politics and give some healthy perspective to the chatter.
  • Photo of Lakeside Cinema showing Recent sightings: Lakeside Cinema June 30, 2008
  • Oscar-winning producer returns to campus for reception, film screening April 28, 2008 On Friday, May 2, UW-Madison will welcome Hollywood producer Walter Mirisch back to campus with two special events.
  • Award-winning filmmaker Pierre Sauvage to give human rights, democracy lecture April 14, 2008 Pierre Sauvage, award-winning filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, will deliver the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  • Hundreds of high school students to participate in World Cinema Day March 31, 2008 For the past five years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has welcomed hundreds of Wisconsin high school students and teachers to World Cinema Day, a program of the Language Institute and the Wisconsin Film Festival to raise cultural awareness and deepen understanding of diverse perspectives through international film.
  • History professor part of Oscar-winning documentary Feb. 25, 2008 History professor Alfred McCoy plays a role in "Taxi to the Dark Side," a harrowing film about U.S. interrogation techniques that won the Academy Award Sunday for best documentary feature.
  • Students, professors invited to apply for Hirsch Family Award Feb. 13, 2008 Undergraduate students and their professors still have time to apply for the inaugural Hirsch Family Award, created by alumnus Jim Hirsch and his wife, Judy. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 14.
  • Cinematheque begins semester of rarely seen films Feb. 6, 2008 In a culture that has people installing expensive home theaters to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster in the basement of their suburban starter castle, UW–Madison’s Cinematheque might seem a sprocket or two off.
  • Concerts, exhibits, plays among spring events Jan. 28, 2008 There’s no end in sight for the strike at the Writers Guild of America, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit around boo-hooing, watching reruns or mind-numbing reality TV. Much finer entertainments are in the works on campus for the spring semester. See a play, visit a gallery, take in a film and attend a concert, or two or seven. Campus arts groups will present the works of the world-renowned as well as our student artists-in-the-making.
  • Gangsters, dark comedy featured in film festival Dec. 5, 2007 The 17th installment of the Polish Film Festival returns to the Madison campus Friday-Sunday, Dec. 7-9.
  • Portion of cover from the book Beowulf’s world comes to life in new book Nov. 14, 2007 A new Hollywood film opening in theaters Friday, Nov. 16, employs special effects wizardry to tell the story of Beowulf, but a just-released illustrated edition of the epic tale from a UW-Madison English professor comes much closer to showing us the world where the action takes place.
  • Video editing New classes explore environmental film’s mobilizing power Oct. 31, 2007 Gregg Mitman believes in the power of a well-told story. This semester the professor of history of science is teaching two new courses on the environment from a cinematic perspective: a class on environmental film in history and a hands-on production class in documentary storytelling.
  • Kirk Douglas Spartacus publicity photo A glimpse into Kirk Douglas: Film center shares online collection Oct. 30, 2007 Kirk Douglas was Spartacus. But that's not all. The iconic, dimple-chinned movie star was also a powerful producer who blazed a trail and took command of his own acting career in the new era of American filmmaking that followed the demise of the Hollywood studio system. Now, letters, photos and other documents Douglas donated to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research are available through a new Web site that tells the story of his career both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
  • Tale from Planet Earth logo Festival to showcase environmental films in November Oct. 17, 2007 From travelogue-expedition films to the experimental avant-garde and the worlds of Walt Disney and Jacques Cousteau, cinema has been central to how we think about nature and the environment.
  • Several UW-Madison programs partner with film festival March 15, 2007 As film festivals sprout up around the state, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's very own event returns for its ninth year, running Thursday-Sunday, April 12-15.
  • Traveling festival takes unique approach to women’s films Feb. 14, 2007 Alice Guy Blaché made movie history in 1896 with the release of “La Fee Aux Choux’” (“The Cabbage Fairy’”), generally acknowledged to be one of the very earliest films to tell a story, and certainly the first film directed by a woman.