Here’s what retirement looks like for UW film Professor Emeritus David Bordwell: He had to miss the end of the Wisconsin Film Festival (for which he helped secure several films and the presence of Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert, a Bordwell fan) to fly halfway around the world to the Hong Kong Film Festival.
He came back late last month, was home for a couple of days, and then went down to Champaign-Urbana for Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, where he rubbed shoulders with the likes of John Malkovich and “Junebug” Oscar nominee Amy Adams. Then he finally returned home to Madison, where he and his wife, fellow film scholar Kristin Thompson, have to finish three books between them in the next month.