The Milwaukee Film Festival - Winter Edition will feature 10 critically acclaimed, award-winning films never before seen in Milwaukee. The screening schedule and tickets are available now at www.milwaukee-film.org and at the Marcus North Shore Cinema Box Office (11700 N. Port Washington Rd.), the cost is $10 per movie screening.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
USA | 2009 | 122 min | English | Director: Werner Herzog

In arguably his best performance, Nicolas Cage owns the role of a rogue detective equally addicted to his job and drugs, who reigns over the ruins of a post-Katrina New Orleans with authority and abandon.
www.badlt.com

Collapse
USA | 2009 | 82 min | English | Director: Chris Smith

Milwaukee's own Chris Smith (American Movie, The Pool) created this "shockingly persuasive and unexpectedly moving" (The New York Times) portrait of radical thinker Michael Ruppert.
www.collapsemovie.com

La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
France | 2009 | 159 min | French w/English subtitles | Director: Frederick Wiseman

A breathtakingly beautiful, behind-the-scenes documentary, on the world of ballet. "If you don't already swoon over this art form, this film will make you wonder what took you so long. - Los Angeles Times
www.zipporah.com/films/37

Fish Tank
UK | 2009 | 123 min | English | Director: Andrea Arnold

After the trouble-prone teen Mia is expelled from school, her mother brings home a mysterious stranger who promises to change everything. "I'm telling you here and now to seek out Fish Tank because it's absolute dynamite." - Salon
www.fishtankmovie.com

Lola Montes *Newly struck 35mm print from the new restoration
France | 1955 | 115 min | French w/English subtitles | Director: Max Ophuls

Lola Montes is the visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol.




The Maid
Spain | 2009 | 95 min | Spanish w/English subtitles | Director: Sebastian Silva

This Sundance winner is the humorous story of one family's long time maid. Firing her is unthinkable, but living with her is worse.
www.themaidmovie.com

Mine
USA | 2009 | 80 min | English | Director: Geralyn Pezanoski

A must see for pet lovers, this acclaimed documentary profiles the essential bond between humans and animals against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina.
www.minethemovie.com




Red Cliff
China | 2008 | 148 min | Mandarin w/English subtitles | Director: John Woo

Legendary action-cinema master John Woo brings us this breathtaking historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty.
www.redclifffilm.com

 


A Town Called Panic
Belgium | 2009 | 75 min | French w/English subtitles | Directors: Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar

The off-the-wall adventures of a horse, a cowboy and an Indian set the stage for this zany, animated crowd pleaser that might just be the first cult film made for the whole family.
www.atowncalledpanic.com




Which Way Home
USA/Mexico | 2009 | 82 min | Spanish w/English subtitles | Director: Rebecca Cammisa

This 2010 Best Documentary Oscar Nominee shows the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage as they endeavor to make it to the United States from Mexico.
www.whichwayhome.net