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 …
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 …
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, …
Arthouse Classics The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
