Girls Rock!

This is one of the movies that Rachel and I saw during the Wisconsin Film Festival. It was my favorite movie of the festival. It might immediately appear silly, and do not be mistaken: it is a great movie in several respects.

This is a Rock 'n' Roll camp for girls in Seattle. I was expecting a nice feel-good movie, where the participants would be shepherded through a process--no way! These girls learn an instrument in five days if they don't know one, and they have to pick their own bandmates. Nothing about this movie is predigested. The women who staff the camp rock themselves. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

It's currently playing at Sundance Theatres in Madison. I recommend this film to anyone, and any girl or woman who wants to feel more empowered--go see it!

You can also visit the Girls Rock movie website.

Enjoy!

Wisconsin Film Festival So Far

This is Rachel writing in our "Analog Database" of reviews during lunch on Saturday - she suggested that we keep a single notebook of our reviews and write them separately. She tends to summarize the movie and give a few impressions, where I go solely with impressions and opinions.

Here we are at the Majestic before seeing Garbage Warriors. They started the wrong movie (something Italian with subtitles), so the movie started 30 minutes late. We had time to snarf down a sandwich at Michelangelo's, where I Jotted the last blog entry.

This was our reaction to the wrong movie starting...

This is the final image of the intro that they play before each film. Such great music and great graphics! They are so incredibly creative with all of this stuff. One of the sayings they have on the back of the shirts is:

Keeping You in the Dark for 10 Years.

How funny is THAT?

We have five more films to see tomorrow. All kidding aside, sitting through 15 films (16 for me) is a bit physically grueling, especially with some of the aweful chairs in some of these theatres. Good thing we're hardcore...

Saturday during the Film Fest

Rachel and I have seen 3 films so far. The first one was Wisconsin shorts the second was The Girls Rock, which was awesome. The 3rd one was Garbage Warrior, which we both enjoyed a lot. Right now we are grabbing a couple of Sandwiches on State Street before going to number 4. We are having a good day, although sitting is getting a bit tough and the chairs are not comfortable, but we are hardcore enough to stick it out. We are having fun. listen

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Wisconsin Film Festival - Hardcore!

Rachel and I have already been to the first three films that we're going to see at the Wisconsin Film Festival. We are now standing outside Orpheum Theater in order to see film number four. We can't wait. It's our last film for the night and we start again tomorrow, when we will see six films, more later. Listen to this Jott

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