“No talking, no texting,” Milwaukee Film Executive Director Susan Kerns said. “But you can dance if you want to.” Kerns was introducing a 40th-anniversary screening of Susan Seidelman’s “Desperately Seeking Susan,” a thrift-store screwball comedy starring Madonna that, for ’80s kids like me, threatens to someday, someway morph into a jukebox. (Marshall Crenshaw fans unite!) […]
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At the concession stand, be sure to order some popcorn, a soft drink and a box of tissues. Napkins may not cut it. Today the Milwaukee Film Festival is showing “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” (6:45 p.m., Oriental Theatre), a blockbuster last year in Southeast Asia that inspired a viral trend of filmgoers
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Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a book signing with a Hollywood director. Once you go, you’ll miss the documentary about former Pizza Huts. If you pick that one, your schedule blows up. What do you do? What do you do? Howard Payne didn’t program the 17th annual Milwaukee Film Festival—after all, he lost his head in
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The last time the Milwaukee Film Festival operated at only two venues, “Slumdog Millionaire” was the reigning Oscar champ. Contraction might be the subtext of MFF’s 17th annual edition, which launches with “Sally,” a documentary about the first American woman in space, at 6 p.m. April 24 inside the Oriental Theatre on North Farwell Avenue.
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