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MPR photo/Euan Kerr The 2010 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival opens its doors Thursday night. For the next two weeks the St. Anthony Main movieplex will be awash in films, directors, and actors from around the world. Organizers say they tried hard really hard to keep the number of films down. Then event director Al Milgrom went to Berlin and found a bunch of must-haves. What do you do? he asked. Deprive the active film claque in the Twin Cities the chance to have a life changing experience? It s in that spirit that Milgrom has been programming the festival for decades, gathering films from around the world to show in Minnesota every spring. ....
Al Milgrom, a major figure in the Twin Cities film scene, has died at age 98. Milgrom taught film at the University of Minnesota and founded the U Film Society in the 1960s. In time his efforts produced what became the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Milgrom was a cinema zealot, who could ruffle feathers. One day he d be handing out flyers on campus for international films he was screening, and the next jetting off to festivals around the world to find more. He inspired generations of Minnesota film fans, bringing some of the world s great directors to visit. In recent years he turned to his own film projects, working up material he shot decades ago. Ever the promoter, he took to describing himself as Minnesota’s oldest emerging filmmaker. ....
Copy shortlink: Al Milgrom was the kind of guy who always seemed young, even when he wasn t. At age 96, he came out as the oldest emerging documentary filmmaker with the premiere of Singin in the Grain, his portrait of a multigenerational Minnesota polka band. But he s better known for fostering the Twin Cities film scene. Milgrom founded what is now the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, taught cinema at the University of Minnesota and launched the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Along the way, he built an audience for foreign and indie films while bringing such famed directors as Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard and Milos Forman to town. ....
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For more than 30 years, Al Milgrom ran the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, putting directors and their artistic visions in the spotlight. But this weekend Milgrom, who stepped down as director in 2010 will participate in the festival in a different capacity as a filmmaker. Four and a half decades after taking his camera into the Minneapolis streets, he has completed his long-awaited documentary The Dinkytown Uprising. The film documents a student protest in April 1970, when the University of Minnesota campus was tense over President Richard Nixon s escalation of the Vietnam War. Milgrom confesses people who know him are surprised when he tells them he has finished the project sometimes to the point of astonishment. ....