The Wisconsin Film Festival starts today. I'm going to a few movies. It's their 10th anniverary this year. To celebrate this momentous occasion, here are some of my favorites from years past.
Whole: an amazing documentary about people who want to have their limbs removed.
The Big Red One: the reconstruction of one of Sam Fuller's great movies and one of the best war movies ever made.
Young Frankenstein: the classic Mel Brooks comedy, shown at the beautiful Capitol Theatre last year. This was just a great movie-going experience. I wish they were using this theater as a venue again this year, but for some reason they're not.
Blackboards: a wonderful, sad film from Iran.
Slasher: John Landis's amusing documentary about used car salesmen.
Cure: a truly excellent Japanese horror film.
Wheel of Time: Werner Herzog's documentary about Tibetan Buddhists. Beautiful.
Story of the Weeping Camel: one of the sweetest, most poignant movies I've seen.
The Life of Reilly: a surprisingly (?) awesome movie about Charles Nelson Reilly.
The Milk Can: one of the funniest movies I've seen in recent years.
Martin & Orloff: a very funny comedy from the Upright Citizens Brigade.
Meet the Parents: the original that the Ben Stiller movie was based on. Much darker and weirder. With Emo Philips, who is weirder than this guy, but maybe not as good an actor.
