Nick Offerman, restored classics on tap at Wisconsin Film Festival

More than 150 movies, from silent-era classics to a Packers-centric world premiere, await at the Wisconsin Film Festival, showing at five Madison venues Thursday through April 6.

Festival highlights include showings of King Vidor's 1928 silent classic "The Crowd," with live musical accompaniment; a restored 35-millimeter print of the 1931 newspaper comedy "The Front Page"; and the sold-out premiere of "The 60 Yard Line," the filmed-in-Green Bay movie about a guy who buys a house next to Lambeau Field. Visiting filmmakers include 1960s independent director Larry Peerce, who'll be doing Q&A's after screenings of his social-realist films "The Incident" and "One Potato, Two Potato"; and British director Terence Davies, who'll be showing his latest movie, "A Quiet Passion."

Another highlight: "Nick Offerman Day," with actor-comedian Nick Offerman presenting four movies, including "The Hero," a new drama co-starring Offerman and Sam Elliott, on April 4.

Tickets to screenings at the Wisconsin Film Festival are $10; $8 for students, seniors 65 and older, University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty/staff and military personnel; and $5 for the festival's "Big Screens, Little Folks" movies. For tickets and information, go to wifilmfest.org.