The Long Day Closes

Union Cinema

Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s. But rather than employ a straightforward narrative, Davies jumps in and out of time, swoops... Read More

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The Cathedral

Union Cinema

New Release / Milwaukee Premiere! From singular American independent director Ricky D’Ambrose is his most refined, emotionally resonant work yet. Slicing across decades with impressionistic precision, The Cathedral tells the formally economical yet engrossing story of the Damrosch family, whose... Read More

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From the Archives

Union Cinema

Curated by MFA candidate Gillian Waldo, this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department's Cinema Arts Archive. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. For each program, the... Read More

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The Lego Movie

Union Cinema

Senior Staff Pick Currated by graduating senior staff at the UWM Union Cinema. The first-ever full-length theatrical LEGO movie follows Emmet an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key... Read More

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Weekend

Union Cinema

On 35mm! This scathing late-sixties satire from Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring... Read More

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