News
April 02, 2025
WFF Starts Tomorrow!
Hello Video Angels,
The Wisconsin Film Festival starts tomorrow! Just a reminder that we’ll have shortened hours some days this week so our staff can attend screenings, which are listed in full at the bottom of this post.
On Friday at 1pm, you can listen to WORT FM for Lewis’ annual appearance on the Mel & Floyd Summer Replacement Show for some recommendations of what to check out at the festival, as well as interviews with director of operations Ben Reiser and filmmakers who will be appearing live at the festival!
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March 26, 2025
Wisconsin Film Festival Hours
Hello Video Angels,
We want to let you know that we’ll have shortened hours for some days during the Wisconsin Film Festival so our staff can attend screenings and work as volunteers for the festival. The hours will be:
Thursday April 3rd 12-7
Friday April 4th 12-7
Saturday April 5th 1-5
Sunday April 6th 1:30-5:30
Monday April 7th 12-5
Tuesday April 8th 12-5
Wednesday April 9th 12-7
Thursday April 10th 12-4
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December 23, 2024
Closing 2:30 on Christmas Day
Hello Video Angels,
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ll only be open from noon to 2:30pm on Christmas Day. We’ll still be open from noon to 7pm on Christmas Eve.
Thank you for your understanding,
Four Star Video
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November 27, 2024
Thursdays are back!
We’re very happy to announce that for the first time since 2022, we will be open 7 days a week! Starting this Thursday, December 5th, we’ll be open Thursdays our normal noon to 7pm hours
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November 01, 2024
our web store is now live! check out shop.fourstarvideorental.com!
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Hours
12pm - 7pm Mon - Sun
in-store browsing and curbside
459 W Gilman Street, Madison WI
Coming Attractions
4/29
Anora (Criterion, DVD & Blu Ray)
Bumpkin Soup (Blu Ray only)
Cure (Criterion Blu Ray)
The Curve
The Front Page (‘71)
The Mansion Of Madness (Blu Ray only)
Paddington In Peru
Pictures Of Ghosts (Blu Ray only)
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers box set (6 discs rented separately)
Pulse ('01, DVD & Blu Ray)
The Red Light Bandit (Blu Ray only)
Star Trek: Section 31
The Teacher’s Lounge
Three Wishes For Cinderella (Blu Ray only)
4/22
Cafe Flesh (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
Catlow
The Claim (Blu Ray only)
The Eel (Blu Ray)
Hookers On Davie (Blu Ray & 4K Blu Ray)
House of Psychotic Women: Rarities Collection Vol 2 (Butterfly Kiss, Morigiana, The Savage Eye, The Glass Ceiling)(Blu Ray only, 4 discs rented separately)
I’m Still Here (‘24)
Merry-Go-Round (1923, Blu Ray only)
San Francisco ('36)
Vixen (Blu Ray only)
4/15
The Bloody Lady (Blu Ray only)
The Comeback Trail (‘20)
Deja Vu ('06 Blu Ray only)
A Foreign Affair (Blu Ray)
Get Away
Green & Gold
Ghost 2 The Future: The Grime Machine
Heart Eyes
Shocker (Blu Ray only)
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Variant
Variant II
4/8
Black Eyed Susan (Blu Ray only)
Brief Encounters/The Long Farewell (Criterion, 2 discs rented separately)
Buddy Boy
Emilia Perez (Blu Ray only)
Hyenas
L'Innocente (Blu Ray only)
A Night Full Of Rain (Blu Ray only)
Parthenope (Blu Ray only)
The Punisher (‘89 Blu Ray only)
A Silent Voice (DVD & Blu Ray)
Stripped To Kill (Blu Ray only)
There’s Still Tomorrow
The Vourdalak
Women On The Run (Blu Ray only)
4/1
Behind The Door/Below The Surface (Blu Ray only)
The Carpenter (Blu Ray only)
Coming Soon (Blu Ray only)
Companion
A Complete Unknown (Blu Ray only)
Deform Collection (Blu Ray only)
Dog Man
EGG (‘05 Blu Ray only)
Flight Risk
In The Moscow Slums (Blu Ray only)
Love Hurts
Love Me (Blu Ray only)
Mufasa: The Lion King
Not An Artist (Blu Ray only)
One Of Them Days
Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (Blu Ray only)
The Room Next Door (DVD & Blu Ray)
Waterloo
We’re In The Movies: Palace of Silents & Itinerant Filmmaking (DVD & Blu Ray)
3/25
The Brutalist (Blu Ray only)
Candy Mountain (Blu Ray only)
Cash Calls Hell (Blu Ray only)
Ex-Husbands
Flesh+Blood (DVD & Blu Ray)
Funeral Siniestro/ Triángulo De Oro (Blu Ray only)
Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (Blu Ray only)
Jeremy (Blu Ray only)
Memoir Of A Snail (Blu Ray only)
Nova Seed (Blu Ray only)
Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5
Trailer Park Boys Presents: Standing On The Shoulders Of Kitties
Two Faces Of Tai Kato: By A Man’s Face You Shall Know Him/ I, The Executioner (Blu Ray only, 2 discs rented separately)
Welcome To Fun City: A Marathon of Trailers, TV Spots and Radio Spots (Blu Ray only)
Staff Picks

Alex says:
Saw this at the 2023 Wisconsin Film Festival knowing nothing about it and stumbled out of the theater in a daze, like I'd been in a car accident, which I mean in the best possible way.
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C says:
riddle of fire: 3 precocious kids attempting to fulfill side quests for nearly 2 hours 10/10 (WFF '24)
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Lewis says:
The film I saw at the 2024 Wisconsin Film Festival that's stuck with me the most. Really strikes at the heart of internet-induced spectator dissociation brainrot in way few have been able to do successfully. Human suffering is reduced to just more content... put down your phone (this is mostly a reminder to myself).
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Luke says:
A heartfelt film that blurs the line between fiction and reality. I saw this one at the 2023 Film Fest and what stuck with me is the way this family responds to a terrible thing by making a film about it together.
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Robert says:
Directed by the late Nietzchka Keene, Professor of Communication Arts at UW-Madison, "The Juniper Tree" is a truly unique independent film from the early 1990s. Set in medieval Iceland and based on a Brothers Grimm story, the film features Bjork in her first starring role as a woman hiding in the countryside after her mother is killed for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Dreamy black and white cinematography, stark Icelandic landscapes, and Bjork's otherworldly persona made this film one of the most memorable experiences I had at the 2019 edition of the Wisconsin Film Festival.
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