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Cinematalk
by UW Madison Communication Arts
A UW Madison Department of Communication Arts Podcast
Episodes
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Ep. 94 DEAD MAIL with Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy
This February at the UW Cinematheque, in our ongoing series of new international movies making their first local theatrical showings, we present the Madison Premiere of DEAD MAIL, written and directed by the talented duo of Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy. Evocatively set in the Midwest at the dawn...
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Ep. 93 VAGABOND with Kelley Conway
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…
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Ep 92. VANISHING POINT with Robert M. Rubin
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...
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Ep 91. UW Cinematheque Summer 2024 Calendar
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/
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Ep 90 - Little Murders & Carnal Knowledge
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...
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Ep 90 - Sawyer County, 2020
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…
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Ep 89 - The Florida Project with J.J. Murphy
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.…
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Ep 88 - 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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...
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Ep 87 - Brandon Colvin: A Dim Valley
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...
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Ep 86 - FROM NOON TILL THREE with Dan Gilroy
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...
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Ep 85 - 70 Movies We Saw in the 70s: Where's Poppa
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...
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Ep 84 - Jonny Zeller & Tim Frazier SCARS Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Jonny Zeller and Tim Frazier about SCARS. In a world where every lie a person tells leaves a permanent mark on their body, the new boot camp instructor without a single scar is an anomaly… until one cadet discovers a single, massive sore across his back, leaving everyone on…
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Ep 39 - Jack Duffy & Isaac Westberg 04 Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Jack Duffy and Isaac Westberg about 04 Shot with an appropriately nostalgic Hi8 Camcorder, 04 employs extreme tonal shifts to tell a story about two teens spending an afternoon making a short film. (BS)
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Ep 38 - Kelley Conway And Serge Bromberg Discuss Louis Valray 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Louis Valray was born in 1896 and died in 1972. Beyond that, little is known of the man except what we can glean from his two marvelous feature films, La belle de nuit (1934) and Escale (aka Thirteen Days of Love, 1935), works that combine the visual invention of Jean Vigo and the humanism of...
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Ep 44 - Johanne Helgeland THE CROSSING Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Terry Kerr and Ben Reiser talk to Johanne Helgeland about THE CROSSING. Ten-year-old Norwegian Gerda wants to be a musketeer, much to the dismay of her older brother Otto. He really hates her apron cape and her wooden dagger. After the sudden arrest of their parents, right before Christmas of…
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Ep 43 - Albert Birney & Kentucker Audley STRAWBERRY MANSION Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Mike King talks with Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley about STRAWBERRY MANSION. t’s 2035, and the government is taxing our dreams. Dream about a buffalo last night? That’ll run you 25 cents. Plus 17 cents for the violin. And that’s on top of all the ads and product placement interrupting your...
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Ep 42 - Lori Felker SPONTANEOUS & NOT YOU Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser and Brody Coning talk to Lori Felker. Spontaneous Filmmaker Lori Felker employs a mixture of cinematic tools to convey her physical and emotional turmoil in this alternately humorous and harrowing first-person recounting of the time she had a miscarriage while attending the Slamdance...
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Ep 41 - Elijah Edwards & Ben Fritz MAKE A WISH Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser and Terry Kerr talk to Elijah Edwards and Ben Fritz about MAKE A WISH High-Schooler Elijah Edwards’ fresh variation on the classic “genie in a bottle” story is remarkably self-assured, filled with charming performances and pleasingly cheesy special effects. (BR)
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Ep 40 - Yael Even Or And Sam Klein SWING COUNTRY Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Yael Even Or and Sam Klein about SWING COUNTRY In this endearingly homespun documentary focusing on the run-up to the 2020 National Election, filmmakers follow Wisconsinites from the Fox Valley area who work to swing Wisconsin back to blue: Lee Snodgrass, a candidate for state...
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Ep 52 - Edith Rodriguez ASHES Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser and Pauline Lampert talk to Edith Rodriguez about ASHES. A tragic summer romance set against the backdrop of the beautiful Texas countryside, Ashes is a bittersweet meditation on how grief and regret can intertwine and how we can choose to move past these feelings, or live alongside...
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Ep 51 - Gracie K Wallner & Espere Eckard - Lee BLOOD RUNS OUT Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Gracie K Wallner and Espere Eckard-Lee about BLOOD RUNS OUT. UW-Madison student Wallner’s vampire story features a woman surviving off the menstrual blood of her friends who realizes her supply is dwindling. This is a surprisingly charming tale of selflessness that tackles its...
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Ep 50 - Jack Whaley & Eric Schabla ONE FOOT IN Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Jack Whaley and Eric Schabla about ONE FOOT IN.
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Ep 49 - Joe Brown & Rod Coronado OPERATION WOLF PATROL Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Joe Brown and Rod Coronado about OPERATION WOLF PATROL. This urgent documentary highlights the efforts of a team of wolf conservationists, known as Wolf Patrol, who are attempting to monitor the activities of wolf hunters in Northern Wisconsin. These activists have no power or...
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Ep 48 - Yael Bridge And Christie Herring THE BIG SCARY "S" WORD Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Yael Bridge and Christie Herring about THE BIG SCARY "S" WORD. The Big Scary “S” Word, directed by Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, Yael Bridge, offers an in-depth explanation of the fundamentals of progressive politics and the current state of socialism in the United...
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Ep 47 - Dale Lindquist BECOMING GEPPETTO Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser and Brody Coning talk to Dale Lindquist about BECOMING GEPPETTO. Surrounded by farmland in a small town in northern Wisconsin, father and son luthier duo, Bruce and Matt Petros make world-renowned acoustic guitars. These guitars have been played around the world by music giants like…
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Ep 46 - Megan Zabel Holmes COCOONS Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Megan Zabel Holmes about COCOONS. A three-year-old girl narrates her own story of how she navigates the pandemic and finds a bit of blissful respite raising butterflies during lockdown. (BR)
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Ep 45 - Nick Lyell And Max Puchalsky FALSE ALARM Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser, Pauline Lampert, Johnny Fruit and Bulat Schamiloglu talk to Nick Lyell and Max Puchalsky about FALSE ALARM The focus of this enlightening documentary is an event that many may remember: the ballistic missile alert that was mistakenly sent to the 1.4 million residents of Hawaii in...
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Ep 63 - Debbie Lum TRY HARDER Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Professor Lori Kido Lopez talks to Debi Lum about TRY HARDER. At Lowell High, the senior class is collectively freaking out. Finishing up their tenure at the top-ranked public high school in San Francisco, the most academically ambitious teens in the nation are knee-deep in the cutthroat college...
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Ep 62 - Gretta Wing Miller & Sara Andrews HOW TO FORM A UNION Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser & Pauline Lampert talk to Gretta Wing Miller & Sara Andrews about HOW TO FORM A UNION. Part instructional video, part call for reform, How to Form a Union walks us through the latest attempt to form a union at the Willy St. Co-op and details why such action was necessary. Of particular...
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Ep 61 - Scott Homan & James Zimmerman WITNESS UNDERGROUND Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser and Pauline Lampert talk to Scott Homan & James Zimmerman about WITNESS UNDERGROUND. Punk rock, B-movies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses unite in this heartfelt documentary. As members of Jehovah’s Witness start to explore culture outside of their religion, they have to wrestle with the...
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Ep 60 - Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh WRITING WITH FIRE Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini talks to Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh about WRITING WITH FIRE. Hailed as “the most inspiring journalism movie—maybe ever” by The Washington Post, this rousing documentary spotlights the only Indian newspaper run entirely by women. Founded nearly 20 years ago by a band…
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Ep 59 - Julian Castonovo HANNAH'S VIDEO Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Julian Castronovo about HANNAH'S VIDEO. Told in one beautifully grainy take and featuring two wonderfully naturalistic performances from young actors, Hannah’s Video tells the story of two high school students creating a video in memory of their recently deceased music…
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Ep 57 - Cecelia Condit I'VE BEEN AFRAID Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Cecelia Condit about I'VE BEEN AFRAID. As fun and playful as it is harrowing, I’ve Been Afraid finds experimental auteur Cecelia Condit reimagining the horror genre by using images from the digital age. Condit casts a mixture of familiar forms as objects stalked by mysterious...
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Ep 56 - Young Min Choi & Kaylene Yong IN DUE TIME Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Young Min Choi & Kaylene Yong about IN DUE TIME. Movies, takeout dinners, loneliness, and more movies -- In Due Time is the sometimes surreal, all too relatable story of one young woman’s Madison-based pandemic experience in apartment sitting, isolated from friends and family....
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Ep 55 - David Van Auken BID CALLER Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to David Van Auken about BID CALLER. About as Wisconsin as Wisconsin’s Own gets, Bid Caller follows Harold Betthauser, an auctioneer who has been overseeing auctions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for over 50 years. Filled with the colorful personalities, nostalgia and collectibles that...
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Ep 54 - Achal Mishra THE VILLAGE HOUSE Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Jim Healy talks to Achal Mishra about THE VILLAGE HOUSE. The astonishing debut feature from 23-year-old writer/director Achal Mishra, The Village House gently and lovingly captures a large extended Indian family over several decades as they gather at the matriarch’s rural home. As the movie…
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Ep 53 - Julien Faraut THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Mike King talks to Julien Faraut about THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT. The most unbeatable team you’ve likely never heard of gets a revolutionary treatment in this stylish documentary, which breathes vital new life into the sports film. Our heroes are the Japanese women’s volleyball team, who utterly...
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Ep 64 - Drew Durepos FORMER SINNERS OF THE FUTURE Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Drew Durepos about FORMER SINNERS OF THE FUTURE. Static images, Super-8 footage, and director Drew Durepos’ singularly matter-of-fact voiceover narration combine to tell a circuitous narrative that touches on themes of impostorism, aging, and addiction. (BR)
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Ep 69 - Pawo Choyning Dorji LUNANA A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Terry Kerr and Ben Reiser talk to Pawo Choyning Dorji about LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM. Ugyen, a young teacher in the capitol of Bhutan, dreams of moving to Australia and launching his career as a singer. In order to earn money for the move, he reluctantly agrees to teach at the world’s most...
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Ep 68 - Evgeny Ruman GOLDEN VOICES Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Jim Healy talks to Evgeny Ruman about GOLDEN VOICES. In 1990, Victor and Raya Frankel arrive in Israel along with a mass of other Jewish immigrants from the crumbling Soviet Union. Back in the USSR, the couple were the most in-demand dubbers of international cinema, sometimes providing their…
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Ep 65 - Nathan Clarke THE PASSING ON Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Nathan Clarke about THE PASSING ON. The Passing On takes us inside the world of Black-owned funeral homes, a profession that has been historically vital to the Black community but whose ranks are now dwindling in number. Focusing on 2016 Embalmer of the Year James Bryant and…
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Ep 74 - Beah Travis & Justin Newhouse WAY UPSTATE Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Beah Travis & Justin Newhouse about WAY UPSTATE. A woman travels to her family’s cabin to find comfort in the familiar belongings held within. Way Upstate is an understated and beautifully realized exploration of grief and memory. (BC)
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Ep 73 - Christian Petzold UNDINE Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Mike King talks to Christian Petzold about UNDINE. “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you.” So begins the latest film from leading auteur Christian Petzold (Phoenix, WFF 2015), a modern riff on an ancient myth about a water nymph. Undine reunites Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski, the two…
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Ep 72 - Kristin Peterson RINGOLEVIO Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser and Johnny Fruit talk to Kristin Peterson about RINGOLEVIO. In this captivating and incisive feature film debut by Milwaukee-based artist and poet, Kristin Peterson, amateur entomologist, Ada (Nicole Velasco Lockard), travels to a remote part of Wisconsin to meet her girlfriend…
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Ep 71 - Kate Corby WEST Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Kate Corby about WEST. Kate Corby masterfully fuses dance and film once again in this short piece that loosely plays off of the Western genre, offering a gendered perspective on the rugged individualism, archetypes, and violence of the “American West”. (BR)
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Ep 70 - Sofia Theodore - Pierce HEAR ME SOMETIMES Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Sofia Theodore - Pierce about HEAR ME SOMETIMES. The experimental Hear Me Sometimes is lush with beautifully textured images and sounds, addressing themes of motherhood, loss, expectation, care, and legacy. (BS)
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Ep 67 - Kym McDaniel EXIT STRATEGY #5 Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Kym McDaniel about EXIT STRATEGY #5. Filmmaker Kym McDaniel uses a variety of artistic media to paint a strikingly honest and personal portrait of the search for identity while confronting emotional and physical traumas and reckoning with a complicated parental relationship. (JF)
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Ep 66 - Caleb Peavy ORIN & KEPA Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Caleb Peavy about ORIN & KEPA. An animal trainer forms an unusual bond with a wolf. A unique story told through an eclectic array of home movies and other archival materials. (PL)
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Ep 81 - Bernard Friedman N OF 1 Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Ben Reiser talks to Bernard Friedman about N OF 1. An appliance repairman from Canada, an immunologist from Israel, and a transplant surgeon from England meet in a hospital in India. This might sound like the start of an elaborate joke, but it is actually a remarkable real-life collaboration...
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Ep 80 - Chuko & Arie Esirie THIS IS MY DESIRE Q&A 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival
Kelley Conway talks to Chuko & Arie Esirie about THIS IS MY DESIRE. This stunning diptych brings us two street-level stories from contemporary Lagos, both featuring lead characters who hope to eventually emigrate to Europe. In practical terms, this means each must scrape by with multiple jobs and...
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