You'll be able to pick up your official program book for the 2010 Milwaukee Film Festival on Saturday at Made in Milwaukee, the all-day event at Cathedral Square Park.
The full schedule will be posted on-line Sunday.
The 11-day festival will open Sept. 23 with "Blue Valentine," starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, in a story of how a troubled relationship began.
Here's a clip:
It closes Oct. 3 with "Buried," starring Ryan Reynolds a man who awakens to find himself buried alive.
Here's a trailer for that film:
The film festival will feature 173 movies from more than 40 countries
Tickets go on sale Thursday. You can buy them on-line, by calling 414-727-8468, or at the three festival venues:
- Landmark Oriental Theatre, 2230 N. Farwell Ave.
- Marcus North Shore Cinema, 11700 N. Port Washington Rd., in Mequon.
- Marcus Ridge Cinema, 5200 S. Moorland Rd., in New Berlin.
Tickets are available at those theaters from 4 to 8:30 p.m., Mondays to Thursdays, and from noon to 8:30 p.m. Fridays through Sundays, beginning Thursday.
Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.
A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.
In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.
When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.
