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entertaining,
amusing, and other useful links .
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- Production
- small
movies -- great site that covers all
aspects of super 8 and 16mm filmmaking.
- western
cine -- motion picture laboratory and
video service out in Colorado. Highly recommended;
great student rates.
- Distribution
- Exhibition
- Fredric
March Play Circle -- Offers inexpensive
movies during all UW-Madison sessions. Films
are shown Friday, Saturday and Sunday (MU
Movies) during fall and spring semesters.
In addition, the Lakeside
Cinema film series is offered year-round,
free of charge, on Monday evenings, either on
the Memorial Union Terrace at dusk, weather
permitting, or in the Stiftskellar at 8 p.m.,
and several other series (International
Cinema, Starlight
Cinema, Sneaks,
and Blow-Up
Cinema), run throughout the academic year.
- Hilldale
Theatre -- Two screens, one with DTS. Screens
primarily arthouse movies.
- Majestic
Theatre -- Located just off the Capitol
square, and recently rennovated, the Majestic
features classic and avant-garde
cinema and a weekly midnight showing of the
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Orpheum
Theatre -- An old-fashioned movie experience.
The main theater is the most ornate in Madison
and, with 1,800 seats, the largest theater in
the Midwest. Also features full digital sound.
Renovation recently completed including a "gracious
lobby and historic rebirth of the interior spaces."
The adjoining theater can seat 285. Located
on State Street in downtown Madison, near the
Capitol.
- Organizations
- Random
links:
- flicker
home
page
-- site about avant garde film. the home of
many current filmmakers.
- hollywood
bitchslap
-- somewhat caustic, but entertaining reviews
of hollywood's latest releases.
- internet
movie database -- an unbelieveably comprehensive
database of more than 180,000 films.
- the
isthmus
-- a local alternative newspaper with an eye on,
and an opinion about, madisonian culture.
- milk
punch -- a 16mm feature film first by
an ifvc founders, erik gunneson.
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