NEW RELEASE! Set in the mountainous borderlands between the warring nations of Azerbaijan and Armenia, this story follows Rena Effendi, a photographer in pursuit of a critically endangered butterfly named in honor of her father, an enigmatic Soviet entomologist who …
Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy “Do or Die” neighborhood at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece confirmed Spike Lee as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and social engagement. Over the course of a single day, …
4K Restoration! A sleeper hit at the time of its release, Jeong Jae-eun’s perceptive debut chronicles the lives of five graduating friends whose bonds begin to fracture as they contend with a postgrad reality of squashed dreams and unequal opportunities. …
Beautiful, haunting, and unforgettable. Join us at the Union Cinema for a screening of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s acclaimed debut feature. In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five …
Family Friendly! Free for Everyone! To infinity… and beyond the fall semester! Join us at the Union Cinema for our first Fall Welcome screening!! We will be showing the animated classic, Toy Story! Released in 1995, Toy Story follows a …
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! 35mm print! In this spectacular romantic adventure, a new era of Hollywood swashbuckling was born, as …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
