Thursday at the 2011 Wisconsin Film Festival: A chimp named Nim, favorite photog and Ash

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The Wisconsin Film Festival ramps up in intensity on Day Two, with more films in more venues, more coworkers sporting festival schwag and more friends posting available singles and pairs of tickets on Facebook ("My boyfriend is stoned on Nyquil! Who will see Viva Riva! with me?!?!").

We are fired up about Bill Cunningham New York, British Television Advertising Awards, Project Nim and -- this isn't a misprint -- a screening of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead.

Weather: It's another brilliant early spring day, but the clouds are approaching and, if you're holding tickets to a late-night screening, consider some protection against precipitation. With crowded screening rooms, we advise against the golf umbrella, but by all means take a slicker!

Big thanks to Isthmus digital media intern Lin Weeks for assembling links for yesterday and today.

British Television Advertising Awards - Monona Terrace, 5:00

My Perestroika - Chazen Museum, 5:15

Beneath Hill 60 - Orpheum Main, 5:15

Bill Cunningham New York - Wisconsin Union, 5:30

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle - Stage Door Theater, 5:30

Blood Hook - MMoCA Museum, 5:30

Stranger Things - Wisconsin Union, 7:30

Project Nim - Chazen Museum, 7:30

Night Train to Terror - MMoCA Museum, 7:30

Mark Lewis: Nowhere Land - Monona Terrace, 7:30

Made in India - Play Circle Theater, 7:45

Boy - Stage Door Theater, 7:45

Circo - Bartell Theater, 7:45

The Stool Pigeon - Orpheum Main, 8:00

Westbound: The Journey of a Lifetime - Monona Terrace, 9:30

Marwencol - Wisconsin Union

The Evil Dead - MMoCA Theater, 9:45

Foreign Parts - Bartell Theater, 9:45

Sasha - Play Circle Theater, 10:00

Viva Riva! - Stage Door Theater, 10:00

Outcast - Orpheum Main, 10:30