https://criticspeak.com/2016-milwaukee-film-festival-eric-beltmanns-top-five/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2016-milwaukee-film-festival-eric-beltmanns-top-five Movie Reviews & Film Criticism Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://criticspeak.com/2016-milwaukee-film-festival-eric-beltmanns-top-five/#comment-2472 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:23:36 +0000 http://www.criticspeak.com/?p=7882#comment-2472 […] Eric: Well, you certainly have me pegged, Shelly. I saw “Kaili Blues” at the Times Cinema on the first full day of the festival, mostly because there was no way I was going to miss seeing that 40-minute shot on the big screen. While the rhythms and visuals of the movie are entrancing—long traveling shots become a motif; sometimes it feels like we are riding a guided Zoomobile sideways and up-and-down through the verdant, leveled places on screen—what has really stuck in my mind are the sounds, including the thunder bellowing through the alleys. “Kaili Blues” is a movie to get lost inside, and I may have made a mistake by not including it on my best list. […]

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