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December 1, 1999 FILM REVIEW `Wisconsin Death Trip': How a Town in Wisconsin Went Mad Related Links Theater and Ticket Information From New York Today Related Article `Wisconsin Death Trip': A Record of Despair Born of a Single Image Forum Join a Discussion on Theater By STEPHEN HOLDEN t may not have a headless horseman charging murderously through a Gothic forest, but James Marsh's film "Wisconsin Death Trip" frequently suggests a semidocumentary offshoot of Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow." The movie, which opens Wednesday in Manhattan, is a visually audacious riff on Michael Lesy's macabre 1973 cult classic book of vintage photographs and news clips chronicling the human tragedies that engulfed the rural farming community of Black River Falls, Wis., in the 1890s. Eigil Byrld "Wisconsin Death Trip" uses archival photos like this one of a girl in a coffin. Faced with economic depression, a brutal climate and a diphtheria epidemic that decimated its infant population, a good number of the town's citizens (most were recent German and Scandinavian immigrants) went berserk. The murder, suicide and arson rates skyrocketed. Religious and occult fanaticism ran rampant, and many citizens of Black River Falls found themselves incarcerated in the nearby Mendota Asylum for the Insane. The heart of the book consists of formal portraits of Black River Falls' upright citizens taken by the town photographer, Charles Van Schaik. Their stony death-mask visages (precursors of Diane Arbus' most disturbing work) suggest that in the worst of times the town had deteriorated into a real-life village of the damned. The accompanying newspaper accounts of the violent acts of the townspeople are so dryly factual in their understated way that read alongside grim photographs, they convey a mood of gallows humor. The very term "death trip" has an aura of sardonic hippie nonchalance. Marsh's film uses the pictures and reporting as springboards for re-enactments of some of the most notorious crimes described in the book. Filmed in smudgy black and white and underscored with spiritually exalted music (everything from Arvo Part to Faure's Requiem), they are staged as silent-movie tableaux vivants. The sardonic tone of the book is accentuated by the voice of Ian Holm reading the newspaper accounts of the murders and suicides in an insinuating voice that conveys an attitude of sly, supercilious amusement. Occasionally he dramatically lowers his voice to a hissing conspiratorial whisper. Among the grisliest true vignettes is the story of a 13-year-old boy who shot an old hermit for kicks, then inhabited his property until his crime was discovered, after which he fled and engaged in a gun battle with a pursuing posse. Many of the other murders were crimes of passion carried out by rejected lovers. In addition to recounting individual murders, the movie has several stories of notorious local loonies like Mary Sweeney (Jo Vukelich), a schoolmistress who traveled around Wisconsin snorting cocaine and breaking windows. (She claimed to have destroyed $50,000 worth of glass.) Then there is Pauline L'Allemand (Marilyn White), a once-successful European opera singer who arrived in the area nearly penniless and unsuccessfully tried to find patrons through a series of musical soirees. She was eventually carted off to the Mendota Asylum, from which she later escaped. When the movie is concentrating on the book, it is a creepily enthralling document that illustrates the susceptibility to breakdown of what we think of as sanity and civilization. But the film stumbles in its color sequences, which examine life in Black River Falls today and imply that the toxins of the 1890s are still present. As evidence that life in Black River Falls and in thousands of similar small towns across America is potentially deadly, the movie focuses on local parades, beauty contests and other small-town rituals, and relays newspaper reports of recent crimes that recall those of a century ago. But the comparison seems shallow and forced. Life in Black Water Falls may be bland and homogenized, but it doesn't appear uncomfortable. Only one scene, in which the camera studies the stony faces of the residents of an old-age home as they are serenaded by a male chorus singing "The Star-Spangled Banner," does the contemporary imagery mirror the book's grimmest photographs. Framing these tales is a vintage Chamber of Commerce-style pitch that extols the joys of life in Black River Falls and states that "nowhere in this great continent of ours can be found a more desirable residence." PRODUCTION NOTES 'WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP' Written and directed by James Marsh; based on the book by Michael Lesy; director of photography, Eigil Bryld; edited by Jinx Godfrey; produced by Maureen A. Ryan and Marsh; released by Cinemax Reel Life and BBC Arena. Running time: 76 minutes. This film is not rated. WITH: Ian Holm (Narrator), Jo Vukelich (Mary Sweeney), Marilyn White (Pauline L'Allemand), Jeff Golden (Newspaper Editor), Marcus Monroe (Young Anderson) and John Schneider (Asylum Clerk).

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Using archival photos, newspaper stories, and hospital records to recreate life in 1890s Black River Falls, Wisconsin-- a Protestant community of merchants, farmers, most of them recent German and Scandinavian immigrants. The multiple cases of murder, madness and mayhem make today's tabloid headlines seem tame by comparison. (Having Mendota Asylum for the Insane nearby certainly helps.) The area is plagued by ghost-sightings, bizarre suicides, teenage outlaws--and a cocaine-crazed school mistress with a compulsion to smash windows. 'Little House on the Prairie' will never look the same.

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Eigil bryld, jinx godfrey, carol hirschi, ellen kozak, michael lesy, sheila nevins, christopher russo, maureen a ryan, anthony wall.

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Released in United States 1999

Released in United States 2011

Released in United States July 2000

Released in United States September 13, 2001

Released in United States September 1999

Released in United States Winter December 1, 1999

Shown at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival October 20 - November 15, 1999.

Shown at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival July 5-15, 2000.

Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 3-6, 1999.

Broadcast in USA over Cinemax July 24, 2000.

Released in United States 1999 (Shown at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival October 20 - November 15, 1999.)

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Released in United States July 2000 (Shown at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival July 5-15, 2000.)

Released in United States September 1999 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 3-6, 1999.)

Released in United States September 13, 2001 (Shown in Los Angeles (American Cinematheque) as part of series "The Alternative Screen: A Forum For Independent Film Exhibition and Beyond..." September 13, 2001.)

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  • A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.
  • Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the nineteenth century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's book of the same name, which published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls, dating from the 1890s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town's newspaper from the same decade. The effect was surprising and disturbing. The town of Black River Falls seems gripped by some peculiar malaise, and the weekly news is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, eccentricity, and violence amongst the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the town are haunted by ghosts, possessed by demons, and terrorized by teenage outlaws and arsonists. Like the book, the film is constructed entirely from authentic news reports from the Black River Falls' newspaper, with occasional excerpts from the records of the nearby Mendota Asylum for the Insane. The film also makes use of the haunting black and white photographs taken by the resident portrait photographer of Black River Falls at the end of the nineteenth century. Contemporary color documentary footage of the town today, is also included at the end of each section of the film that take place over the course of four seasons. — MAR

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Directed by James Marsh

Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the 19th century.

Ian Holm Marcus Monroe Marilyn White John Baltes Molly Nikki Anderson Brittany Haydock Eddie Kunz Steven Strobel

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James Marsh

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James Marsh Maureen A. Ryan

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Michael Lesy

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Jinx Godfrey

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Eigil Bryld

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Anthony Wall

Additional Photography Add. Photography

Frankie DeMarco

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John Cale DJ Shadow

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Ellen Kozak

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laird

Review by laird ★★★★ 1

Old, Weird America

Mary Sweeney , the schoolteacher who became a serial window-smasher/coke-addict, is my new favorite folk hero.

mrbalihai

Review by mrbalihai ★★★★ 6

Film 1 of my Behind the Cheddar Curtain Film Festival .

If you've ever paged through a copy of Michael Lesy's 1973 book, with its melancholy daguerreotypes of child corpse photos, stoic immigrant farmers, and newspaper clippings describing the bizarre, disturbing, and murderous activities that took place in and around the small town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin at the turn of the century, then you can probably imagine how difficult it would be to turn it into a documentary that wouldn't have viewers running for the exits in terror or putting a gun in their mouths.

Fortunately, director James Marsh figured out how to translate the book's exceedingly weird cabin-fever dream into an intimate, oddly beautiful, and heartfelt examination…

Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus

Review by Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★★★ 1

Northern gothic. One of those movies that should be FAR wider known- it's an odd little docudrama from a director who went on to win Oscars, which means it's at least got a somewhat big name behind the camera, and the mood here is so incredibly thick, full of violence, death, and absurdity that it's shocking this isn't a popular cult classic. Needs a blu-ray stat, and a release of the absolutely incredible soundtrack wouldn't hurt either.

s. mill

Review by s. mill ★★★★½ 3

life is temporary, death is forever, and photography cannot save us. folk murder ballad cinema. one of the most essential midwest movies i’ve ever seen. it is rather slight and still and quiet and certainly not for everybody, but it’s sorta made for me.

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The beauty of 'Wisconsin Death Trip' is its balance of lurid imagery and numbing monotony. Any piece worth its salt on James Marsh’s film is sure to include a depressing list of everyday horrors: dead and abandoned children, pestilence, suicide, murder, starvation, poverty, famine, despair, economic collapse, arson, addiction, witchcraft and satanic rituals, drunk bees, blind rage, rampant gun violence, self-immolation. The list goes on, all tied to events that occurred over a 10-year period, the last decade of the 19th century, in the greater Black River Falls, Wisconsin, area.

The volume and intensity of the events depicted in the film has a cumulative effect, and the matter-of-fact, adjective-free recitation of each tale makes the aberrant feel ordinary, even expected…

Matt Lavender

Review by Matt Lavender ★★★½

An account of some fucked up shit that happened in Black River Falls, Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900. Uses newspaper articles and black and white photos from the time with some black and white shot recreated scenes so it's not just a slideshow. Here's some shit from the first 15 minutes: Suicide by dynamite, a serial window smasher, kids murdering siblings, people losing their minds, creeping depression, a spreading diphtheria epidemic, burning houses and dead children. A tour de force of misery and suffering. Changes it's style up a bit after the relentless opening, goes to the present day (or sometime in the 90s at least) and a quick hello from the Mayor. Then it's back to the black and…

Klon

Review by Klon ★★★★★

Each sentence of narration could be the subject of its own Nick Cave song, but Mary Sweeney, the coked up teacher that gets her jollies breaking windows, is the breakaway star of this movie.

Niall Urquhart

Review by Niall Urquhart ★★★½ 1

This was surprisingly enjoyable. It felt more like an essay film than a documentary. It mostly consisted of Ian Holm reading out newspaper reports of grisly goings-on in 1890s Wisconsin. Most involved people with mental health issues, many of whom were immigrants. There were recurring characters like the woman addicted to cocaine who loved breaking windows. There were also 1890s photos plus reconstructions of some events. The footage from modern day America wasn't needed though.

The Professor

Review by The Professor ★★★½ 1

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I watched this movie back in September of last year, and it's just been sitting here, waiting for someone to request it. It had been so long, that I had to do a rewatch, and, further research (including acquiring the original 1973 Michael Lesy book [no easy task] and absorbing it completely).

And this is what I have to say about Wisconsin Death Trip .

It's a perfectly creepy adaptation of a perfectly unfilmable book.

The book itself is a masterpiece, plain and simple. Just news clippings, random quotations and photographs from Black River Falls, Wisconsin, taken from the years 1895-1910. Apparently, life was pretty hard back then.

You would think that this would be something that would be completely…

Lochlan Ashton

Review by Lochlan Ashton ★★★

I wasn’t planning on watching this but my uncle stuck it on i. The caravan and I ended up enjoying it. It’s something different for a documentary. It was really enjoyable but also scary at the same time.

Review by Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★★★

Murder. Suicide. Disease. Crime. Welcome to Wisconsin heading into the turn of the 20th century, a place where bad news is plentiful and every change in weather just heralds a slightly different case of seasonal depression. Director James Marsh (Man on Wire, The Theory of Everything) recreates selected headlines from the era in beautifully staged reenactments. This has gotta have one of the best compiled soundtracks of all time.

cameron fetter

Review by cameron fetter ★★★★ 2

really worth watching

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A most extraordinary experience awaits those with a taste for the strange and the bizarre in the small town of Black River Falls. Rocked by an inexplicable confluence of events in the late 1890s, this sleepy Wisconsin town generated some of the most unlikely news reports and stories ever told. Previously harmless residents including children commit a series of gruesome, violent murders. Sightings of ghosts and reports of haunting and possession run rife. An epidemic sweeps through the town and takes with it some of the residents newest born sons and daughters. Extreme cases of paranoia, insanity and delirium plague the townsfolk. And the population finds itself terrorized by a cocaine-snorting madwoman with a taste for smashing windows. Based on documented accounts and narrated by award-winning British actor Ian Holm, this haunting and surreal film beautifully evokes the otherworldly spirit and wayward madness of a time and place marked by an altogether unreal set of circumstances. Bizarre. But true.

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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.56 x 5.35 x 0.63 inches; 2.47 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 5023965347022
  • Director ‏ : ‎ James Marsh
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 16 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe, Marilyn White
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Anthony Wall, Carol Hirschi, James Marsh, Maureen A. Ryan, Nancy Abraham
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    Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1999 docudrama film written for the screen and directed by James Marsh, based on the 1973 historical nonfiction book of the same name by Michael Lesy.The film dramatizes a series of macabre incidents that took place in and around Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the late-19th century. It utilizes silent black-and-white reenactment footage contrasted with contemporary ...

  2. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

    Wisconsin Death Trip: Directed by James Marsh. With Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe. A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.

  3. Wisconsin Death Trip

    Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 historical nonfiction book by Michael Lesy, originally published by Pantheon Books.It charts numerous sordid, tragic, and bizarre incidents that took place in and around Jackson County, Wisconsin between 1885 and 1900, primarily in the town of Black River Falls.The events are outlined through actual written historical documents—primarily articles published in ...

  4. Wisconsin Death Trip

    Wisconsin Death Trip. The late 19th century finds the town of Black River Falls experiencing a wave of disturbing, macabre and truly eccentric occurrences. Perhaps the town's economic troubles or ...

  5. `Wisconsin Death Trip': How a Town in Wisconsin Went Mad

    t may not have a headless horseman charging murderously through a Gothic forest, but James Marsh's film "Wisconsin Death Trip" frequently suggests a semidocumentary offshoot of Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow." The movie, which opens Wednesday in Manhattan, is a visually audacious riff on Michael Lesy's macabre 1973 cult classic book of vintage ...

  6. 50 Years On, 'Wisconsin Death Trip' Still Haunts and Inspires

    Michael Lesy's 1973 book "Wisconsin Death Trip" is an American oddity, a cult classic for a reason. In a way that few documentary texts do, it makes us leave the baggage of modernity at the ...

  7. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

    Brief Synopsis. Using archival photos, newspaper stories, and hospital records to recreate life in 1890s Black River Falls, Wisconsin-- a Protestant community of merchants, farmers, most of them recent German and Scandinavian immigrants. The multiple cases of murder, madness and mayhem make today's tabloid headline.

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    Inspired by the Michael Lesy book of the same name, Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking, and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the 1890s. The town of Black River Falls is gripped by a peculiar malaise and the weekly news accounts are dominated by bizarre talk of madness, eccentricity, and violence amongst the local population.

  9. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

    Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the nineteenth century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's book of the same name, which published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the ...

  10. Wisconsin Death Trip

    Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1999 docudrama film written for the screen and directed by James Marsh, based on the 1973 historical nonfiction book of the same name by Michael Lesy. The film dramatizes a series of macabre incidents that took place in and around Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the late-19th century. It utilizes silent black-and-white reenactment footage contrasted with contemporary ...

  11. Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later

    Revisiting 'Wisconsin Death Trip,' 50 Years Later The Times's critic Dwight Garner looks back on Michael Lesy's cult classic of documentary literature, which was first published in 1973.

  12. ‎Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) directed by James Marsh

    The beauty of 'Wisconsin Death Trip' is its balance of lurid imagery and numbing monotony. Any piece worth its salt on James Marsh's film is sure to include a depressing list of everyday horrors: dead and abandoned children, pestilence, suicide, murder, starvation, poverty, famine, despair, economic collapse, arson, addiction, witchcraft and satanic rituals, drunk bees, blind rage, rampant ...

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    Wisconsin Death Trip. 40 Metascore. 1999. 1 hr 15 mins. Documentary. NR. Watchlist. Morbidly fascinating documentary about the small town of Black River Falls, which experienced, back in 1890, an ...

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    Product Description. Inspired by the Michael Lesy book of the same name, Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking, and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the 1890s. The town of Black River Falls is gripped by a peculiar malaise and the weekly news accounts are dominated by bizarre talk of madness, eccentricity, and violence amongst ...

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    Wisconsin Death Trip. NR, 1 hr 16 min. The late 19th century finds the town of Black River Falls experiencing a wave of disturbing, macabre and truly eccentric occurrences. Perhaps the town's economic troubles or the harsh Wisconsin climate contribute to the plague of murder, arson, insanity, disease, suicide and other ills the cursed citizens ...

  17. Wisconsin Death Trip

    Back in 1967, author and historian Michael Lesy stumbled across a collection of late-19th century photographs taken in a small town in Wisconsin called Black...

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    Wisconsin Death Trip. NR 1999 Crime, Documentary · 1h 16m. We've checked all the major streaming services, and this title is not found on any of them right now. Get Notified. Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade Black River Falls ...

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    Wisconsin Death Trip. Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews. 40. User Score Available after 4 ratings tbd. My Score. Hover and ... We rank every one of the British director's movies by Metascore, from his debut Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels to his brand new film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

  20. Wisconsin Death Trip

    Synopsis. Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the 19th century.

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    4.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the ironically?! negative reviews from American customers, Wisconsin Death Trip is a thought-provoking movie. Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018. I fear that Black River Falls was the rule and not the exception when it came to turn-of-the century America...I can only imagine the scope of human misery ...