Cinematalk

Jul 09 2024 94 ep. 44 mins 8
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A UW Madison Department of Communication Arts Podcast

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Ep. 93 VAGABOND with Kelley Conway

Jul 09 2024 31 mins  
Winner of the top prize at the 1985 Venice Film Festival, Vagabond begins with the discovery of the lifeless, frozen body of the young hitch-hiker Mona (Bonnaire). Through flashbacks recounted by individuals who crossed paths with her (portrayed predominantly by amateur actors), Varda constructs a fragmented depiction of this mysterious woman, crafting a mosaic-like portrayal that

Ep 92. VANISHING POINT with Robert M. Rubin

Jul 03 2024 52 mins  
On a new episode of the official UW Cinematheque podcast, Director of Programming Jim Healy talks with Robert M. Rubin, author of Vanishing Point Forever, a gorgeous new volume from Film Desk Books. Rubin discusses the enduring legacy of Vanishing Point (1971), director Richard Sarafian’s existential car chase classic. Rubin also talks about the essential contributions of author

Ep 91. UW Cinematheque Summer 2024 Calendar

Jun 17 2024 69 mins  
Director of programming for UW Cinematheque and Ben Reiser, programmer for Cinematheque walk through the Cinematheque's Summer 2024 calendar which kicks off on June 19th and runs through July 26th. Full details at https://cinema.wisc.edu/

Ep 90 - Little Murders & Carnal Knowledge

Sep 27 2022 150 mins  
On a special double feature/dual podcast episode of 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s/Cinematalk commemorating the screenings of both films at UW Cinematheque, Ben Reiser and Jim Healy take a deep dive into a “Fistful of Feiffers”, discussing both LITTLE MURDERS (1971) and CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971). ‘71 was a big year for screenwriter/playwright/cartoonist Jules Feiffer, with Alan Ar

Ep 90 - Sawyer County, 2020

May 03 2022 38 mins  
Ben Reiser talks with Nick Libbey and Zach Tomasovic, the filmmakers behind Sawyer County, 2020, which screened at the 2022 Wisconsin Film Festival. This survey of a cross-section of Sawyer County, Wisconsin residents in the immediate runup to the 2020 presidential election reveals a lot about the state of the state and the ever-increasing divide between neighbors.

Ep 89 - The Florida Project with J.J. Murphy

Nov 10 2021 26 mins  
On Saturday, November 13th, the Cinematheque will present a 35mm print of Sean Baker’s THE FLORIDA PROJECT. Our free screening coincides with the publication of J.J. Murphy’s revelatory new monograph on the film’s production from University of Texas press. Our guest on this episode is, J.J. Murphy, professor emeritus at here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he t

Ep 88 - 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Oct 26 2021 130 mins  
On October 30th 2021, UW Cinematheque presents a screening of a 4K restoration of the 1974 film THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, directed by Tobe Hooper. Five hippies on a road trip through rural Texas wind up in the clutches of a murderous, cannibalistic family in this profoundly unsettling modern horror classic. Nerve-rattling from start to finish, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre can

Ep 87 - Brandon Colvin: A Dim Valley

Oct 20 2021 49 mins  
On this episode of Cinematalk, Mike King welcomes filmmaker and film teacher Brandon Colvin, whose first two features screened at UW - Madison's annual Wisconsin Film Festival. A Dim Valley is the writer/director's first foray into comedy. Mystical, sexy, and funny, this dreamlike indie casts you under its spell. Deep in the Appalachian wilderness, a pair of ecology grad students

Ep 86 - FROM NOON TILL THREE with Dan Gilroy

Jul 26 2021 55 mins  
On a new episode of the Cinematheque's Cinematalk podcast, we are thrilled to welcome Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler, Roman J. Israel, Esq.) to talk about his father's movie From Noon Till Three. Spoilers abound in this discussion, so you might want to see the movie first before listening.

Ep 85 - 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Where's Poppa

Jul 02 2021 96 mins  
After a 16 month pause, we are back with in-person screenings at our home venue of 4070 Vilas Hall. Things kicked off this week with a trilogy of films: MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, TOKYO STORY, and WHERE’S POPPA, that each explore the relationships between elderly parents and their adult children. In conjunction with our screening of WHERE’S POPPA we thought we’d share an episode