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Critics Eric Beltmann and Shelly Sampon discuss the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival, which recently concluded.

Conversation: Critics Eric Beltmann and Shelly Sampon React to the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival

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The 10th annual Milwaukee Film Festival, which closed Nov. 1, brought more than 300 films to audiences in southeastern Wisconsin. Critic Speak contributor Eric Beltmann and The Cinemaphile blogger Shelly Sampon discuss how the election and festival seasons overlapped and why “Support the Girls” was the perfect emblem for a festival dominated by gender themes. […]

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The 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival

Celebrating 10 Years: The 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival

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The great French film director François Truffaut had a simple rule: If you want to know what a story’s really about, reflect on what’s changed by the end. By that metric, the story of the Milwaukee Film Festival’s first decade—its 10th edition opens Thursday—has a classic Hollywood theme. It’s the story of ragtag movie enthusiasts who

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