Sociocultural

Power of the Pen: ZINES!!!

Power of the Pen: ZINES!!!  Thursday, October 8  4:30 PM -6:30 PM | Gasthaus  Learn how to create your own DIY zine and express your creativity through art, writing, and storytelling in this hands-on workshop. We’ll provide all the supplies, plus free appetizers while you craft, connect, …

Bend It Like Beckham

Follow your dreams, break the rules, and bend it like Beckham.  Joins us at the Union Cinema for a screening of Bend It Like Beckham, the beloved coming of age comedy about family, friendship, and finding courage to chase your goals. This …

Do the Right Thing

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, …

Take Care of My Cat

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. …

The Motorcycle Diaries | Latine Heritage Month

Free For Everyone! In 1952, two Argentinean students took off on a sputtering Norton 500 motorcycle to discover their magnificent continent. Traveling northward through Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, and finally ending in Venezuela, the two discover not only the complex …

By the Stream | Hong Sang-soo Double-Bill

Milwaukee Premiere! In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim, an artist and lecturer at a women’s university, asks her actor-director uncle, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own, to step in to direct a …

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

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 …

Tampopo

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 …

Pompei: Below the Clouds

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 …