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  • A wide, distant shot of two figures—one riding a horse and one walking beside it—traveling across vast, rolling desert sand dunes under a clear sky.

    El Topo

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Midnight Classics! 35mm print! Alejandro Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit arguably created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Melding influences from tarot reading to the Bible to …

  • A group of young men wearing matching white tank tops and numbers pinned to their chests crowd behind a glass window labeled "SHOW WINDOW" under a glowing "Adonis" sign.

    Macho Dancer

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Queer International. 4K Restoration! Heavily censored upon release in director Lino Brocka's native Philippines but hugely successful overseas, Macho Dancer blends a flair for socially conscious melodrama with niche erotic pulp provocation. Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo …

  • A white cat sitting inside an open window of a white brick building.

    An Evening With Dick Blau | Experimental Tuesdays at The Union Cinema

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Free for everyone! Filmmaker in Attendance! Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau—a co-founder of the UWM Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community—works across …

  • A wide-angle, black-and-white photograph capturing a vast expanse of land and a distant city spreading out toward a prominent, double-peaked mountain on the horizon. The sky is filled with a dramatic, heavy blanket of clouds, with distinct rays of sunlight breaking through on the far left, illuminating the edge of the landscape. The foreground features darker, elevated terrain looking down over the sprawling, densely patterned plains below.

    Pompei: Below the Clouds

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    New Release! International Documentary! From Oscar-nominated documentarian Gianfranco Rosi comes Below the Clouds — a monumental meditation on life lived on the edge of catastrophe. In Naples, beneath the looming threat of Vesuvius and the simmering Campi Flegrei caldera, Rosi …

  • A dark, atmospheric film still of Johnny (David Thewlis) standing alone at night in a desolate, misty urban courtyard in front of a gritty brick building.

    Naked

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    David Thewlis depicts philosopher Johnny, the ultimate antihero of our time, an unemployed Mancunian who vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey. Preceded by The Black Tower (John Smith, 1985-87, 23 mins). Situating …

  • An anime still from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind showing Nausicaä, a young woman with short reddish-brown hair wearing a blue tunic and pants, flying her white, bird-like glider (the Mehve) through a lush green valley. She stands upright on the glider, holding onto its control bars, with a small, fox-squirrel creature perched on her shoulder. In the background, green cliffs and distant towers rise under a partly cloudy sky.

    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    35mm print! Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, written and directed by Academy Award-winner Hayao Miyazaki, is an epic masterpiece of sweeping scope and grandeur that remains one of the most breathtaking animated films of all time. A thousand …

  • A black-and-white shot of a woman sitting down, surrounded by four men wearing hats and jackets, all looking toward a man on the right who is leaning forward and holding a hat.

    Only Angels Have Wings | Pirates vs. Pilots

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Choose your crew! This film is part of our Pirates vs. Pilots weekend at the Union Cinema. Celebrate legendary adventures on the sea and in the sky! At night in Barranca, a South American port jammed up against the Andes, …

  • An animated red seaplane flies through a blue sky with white clouds, its exposed engine smoking and spitting debris as pieces of its wings break apart.

    Porco Rosso | Pirates vs. Pilots at The Union Cinema

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    35mm Print! Choose your crew! This film is part of our Pirates vs. Pilots weekend at the Union Cinema. Celebrate legendary adventures on the sea and in the sky!  From the legendary Studio Ghibli comes a dazzling aerial adventure set in and above …

  • A black and white film still capturing a moment between two people in a parking lot. In the center, a woman sits on the curb in the narrow space between the rear bumpers of two parked cars—an SUV on the left and a sedan on the right. She is wearing a light-colored dress, looking up and slightly toward the camera with a subtle expression. Standing just behind her and slightly to the right, a man in a dark shirt and a light jacket looks off-frame to his right, away from the woman. The background features a manicured hedge and a line of trees under bright, natural daylight.

    The Day She Returns | Hong Sang-soo Double-Bill

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Milwaukee Premiere! A famous actress, having stepped back from her career after marriage and a subsequent divorce, returns to the profession with a role in an independent film. As the film’s release approaches, she takes part in a series of …

  • A narrow blue waterway winding through a vast, flat expanse of green wetlands under a bright blue sky with a large, fluffy white cloud.

    River of Grass

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Experimental Documentary New Release! River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which forever changed the public understanding of the region from a worthless swamp to an essential …