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Milwaukee Premiere! This film in three parts explores traditions in rural Albania and the role of women in society. The project begins by describing the filmmaker’s relationship to the country and an unwanted personal sacrifice which solidifies this connection. The... Read More

Alan Rudolph's LA The characters in Alan Rudolph’s multilayered romantic comedy interact within a film noir of deception, love, and sex among the night people of Los Angeles. Keith Carradine stars as a mental patient with a mysterious past who... Read More

Alan Rudolph's LA Welcome to L.A., the city of the one-night stand. The arrival of musician Carroll Barber to L.A. kicks off a chain of loosely related affairs and double-crosses among a group of upper-class Angelenos all looking to be... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! A public program of newly digitized films from the Cinenova collection addressing representations of gender, race, sexuality, health and community. The Work We Share gathers a number of films which previously existed in precarious conditions; in some cases,... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! As an excursion to the work of botanical and film preservation, Herbaria explores in its invisible processes the artistic and political derivations that connect them. Sustained in a narration where times and spaces seem to merge, the records... Read More

2 by Hou Hsiao-Hsien/ New Restoration! An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a late... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! / Close Encounters  An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visitations to Earth and Earth’s self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans... Read More

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