Milk Punch + Florence

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Kris Hansen, Liz Avery and John Sarris (from left) and the Delta 88 in "Milk Punch."

Kris Hansen, Liz Avery and John Sarris (from left) and the Delta 88 in "Milk Punch."

If you weren’t able to score a seat during the Wisconsin Film Festival for the one and only screening of Milk Punch, you have a second chance. The feature, shot in the mid-1990s in Madison, premiered at the 2000 WFF, and the screenings this year celebrate the 25th anniversary with a newly restored 4K scan. The story follows a day or so in the lives of some slightly aimless friends and the “adults” they inadvertently end up crossing paths with. If you have lived here long enough, prepare to be shocked at how much the city has changed in the last three decades. Also screening is Aaron Greer’s new short documentary about the '90s Milwaukee band Little Blue Crunchy Things, through the story of their song “Florence.”

media release: We are excited to have an extra screening of the Wisconsin Film Festival's sold-out Milk Punch + Florence show!

April 11, 7 pm Bartell Theatre. Tickets at bartelltheatre.org

Instagram @milkpunch2000

Milk Punch | directed by Erik Gunneson | 90 Minutes | 2000 

Shot in Madison in 1995-96, this feature film had its world premiere at the 200 Wisconsin Film Festival.

Florence | directed by Aaron Greer | 30 Minutes |2025

This film is about the song Florence by the Little Blue Crunchy Things, a 1990s Madison band.

––It's a '90s throwback block––

"Milk Punch" revels in a Madison beautifully adrift, on Tone Madison:

https://tonemadison.com/articles/milk-punch-revels-in-a-madison-beautifully-adrift/

"Milk Punch Is a Joy Ride Back To '90s Madison," on City Cast Madison:

https://madison.citycast.fm/madison-best/milk-punch-joy-ride-madison

Florence:

In 1989, while doodling in driver's ed class, a 15-year-old wrote a love poem. That poem would later become a song, and that song would later become a regional hit, but no one quite remembers how. "Florence" is a nostalgic, sometimes wistful, often funny celebration of the fleeting nature of creativity, memory, youthful stardom, and the music that shaped us. Florence is a song by the Madison band, The Little Blue Crunchy Things.