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Union Cinema

Phone 414-229-4070
Email cinema@uwm.edu
Website https://uwm.edu/union/cinema/
The Union Cinema offers first-run foreign, domestic, documentary and experimental films, as well as “cinema classics” from all over the world. The Cinema strives to help develop a broader understanding and appreciation of the universal language of film and is a vital and unique venue for film and video.
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  • The Annihilation of Fish

    The Annihilation of Fish

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

    New Restoration In The Annihilation of Fish, Lynn Redgrave plays Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini. She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady where she …

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    The Annihilation of Fish

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

    New Restoration In The Annihilation of Fish, Lynn Redgrave plays Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini. She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady where she …

  • Compensation

    Compensation

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

    New Restoration A landmark of independent cinema, Compensation is Zeinabu irene Davis’s moving, ambitious portrait of the struggles of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of loving relationships at the bookends of the twentieth century. In extraordinary dual performances, Michelle …

  • A semi transparent photo of 4 school aged children. One child is looking at the camera, a look concern on his face. The other students seem busy in discussion with one another

    Experimental Tuesdays Presents: An Evening with Ben Caldwell

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

    FREE FOR EVERYONE! An evening of films, videos and conversation with the legendary filmmaker, artist, community activist and educator Ben Caldwell. Caldwell is widely known for his role in the L.A. Rebellion and for founding KAOS Network, a media arts …

  • Photo of actor Ben Stiller in character as the male superstar model "Zoolander". He wears a leopard print suit, with the colored turn up, his hair is quaffed, and he is glaring at the camera with a 'pouty lip' style face

    Zoolander

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

    Staff Picks! Propelled to the top of the fashion world by a photogenic gaze he calls Blue Steel, dimwitted male model Derek Zoolander thinks he's got a fourth consecutive win as Male Model of the Year in the bag. But, …

  • Image from the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs the World". The image contains three characters, from left to right: Knives, Scott Pilgrim, and Ramona Flowers. Knives and Ramona are in a fighting stances, while Scott looks bewildered.

    Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

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

    GEEK WEEK! Free For Everyon! As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she …

  • Still from the movie Magellan. The explorer and his entourage are all floating on a flat wooden raft

    Magellan

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

    New Release! At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan navigated a fleet of ships to Southeast Asia, attempting the first voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean. On reaching the Malay Archipelago, the crew pushed to the …

  • Cartoon image of a man with a stubble beard and thing mustache. His mouth is agape and he looks like he is ready to exclaim. He is colored purple and styled like a cartoon

    Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Sublime/Ridiculous

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

    FREE FOR EVERYONE! A collection of shorts that shift from abject to exalted in the black between frames. In each of these films, the mire of life is dissolved and re-made by humor. And don't we need it. Cosponsored by …

  • Experimental Tuesdays Presents: Sublime/Ridiculous

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

    FREE FOR EVERYONE! A collection of shorts that shift from abject to exalted in the black between frames. In each of these films, the mire of life is dissolved and re-made by humor. And don't we need it. Cosponsored by …

  • Image from "The Red Spectacles". A soldier with sci-fi inspired armor is depicted in the dark among heavy rain. His dark uniform glints in the small amount of light

    The Red Spectacles

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

    New Restoration! Mamoru Oshii’s first live-action feature is a delirious fusion of science fiction, film noir, and political satire. Returning to Tokyo years after a failed rebellion by his elite Kerberos police unit, Kōichi Todome finds a city warped beyond …

  • Movie still from the film NADJA. The titular vampire is center in the frame. The movie is in black and white. Next to her walks another vampire towards the viewer. She wears a cloak with her hood up upon her head

    Nadja

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

    New Restoration Merging elements from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) acclaimed cult film follows young vampire Nadja as she returns to …

  • Still from the movie 'Fire in Wind". A young girl hides behind leaves of dark green and red. Her face is dirtied and she has a pouty expression on her face
    Fire of Wind

    Fire of Wind

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

    New Releases The feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus is a forceful collision of documentary reality and myth. In the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus is from, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air …