Union Cinema

By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! A voiceless narrator rehashes details about his mother’s affair as he crosses America by train.“Mama has two phone numbers. We do not talk about immigration on her Obama phone. For that, we use the other number with no... Read More

Two by Christian Petzold While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised by the presence of Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at Felix’s family’s holiday home. Nadja distracts Leon from finishing... Read More

Two by Christian Petzold In Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel, Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! Thanks to an archive of never-released material consisting of notes, rushes, letters and audio recordings of interviews, Luke Fowler traces the life and work of filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait, simultaneously painting a picture of the Orcades, the... Read More

New Restoration/Milwaukee Premiere! Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges... Read More

Sembène 100 Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl (La... Read More

Sembène 100 Ousmane Sembène’s collaborators have suggested that Guelwaar is the film the director was most proud of; for a time, having considered retirement, it was to have stood as his final statement. Through the absence left by the recently... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! In a Canadian ghost town, the two remaining residents manage ominous dunes of slag left behind by last century’s copper smelting. This debut feature from Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora is a postindustrial portrait of an abandoned British... Read More

On 35mm! Nomi (Elizabeth Berkley) arrives in Las Vegas with only a suitcase and a dream of becoming a top showgirl. She quickly befriends Molly (Gina Ravera), who works at the high-profile Stardust Hotel and lands a job at a... Read More