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Search Results for: "oriental theatre"

Here’s the schedule for Oriental Theatre’s David Lynch retrospective

Matt Wild
March 13, 2025
If you're a David Lynch obsessive like we are, you've been mainlining Lynch movies, Lynch TV, Lynch documentaries, Lynch music, and Lynch clips ever since the director's death in January. Ugh. Just typing that ...

Enjoy this bootleg recording of Stevie Ray Vaughan at Oriental Theatre in 1985

Matt Wild
March 10, 2025
Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre isn't just a historic movie palace, it's a historic concert venue. Dedicated musical concerts at the East Side theater may be few and far between these days, but, over the decades, ...

Oriental Theatre: “We’re never going to have” reclining seats or whatever (thank goodness)

Matt Wild
February 6, 2025
We're about two and a half months away from the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival, which runs April 24 - May 8. And while the fest is amazing for 15 days, the Milwaukee Film-operated Oriental Theatre is amazing all ...

‘Hundreds Of Beavers’ will return to Oriental Theatre (again!) December 5

Matt Wild
December 3, 2024
Since screening at the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival, the Wisconsin-made film Hundreds Of Beavers has enjoyed an unprecedented amount of success. Glowing reviews from big-time national publications, celebrity en...

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin to perform live score to ‘Demons’ at Oriental Theatre this Halloween

Press Release
October 9, 2024
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin to Perform the Live Score to Demons at the Oriental Theatre this Halloween MILWAUKEE – Wednesday, October 9th  – Milwaukee Film invites audiences to spend Halloween at the Oriental T...

WMSE’s Friday Night Freak Show moving to Oriental Theatre, will screen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ September 20

Matt Wild
August 6, 2024
From 1997 until 2006, and again from 2016 until early 2024, WMSE's Friday Night Freak Show delivered a monthly cult film screening to the Times Cinema. But now, beginning with a Friday, September 20 screening o...

Coming this August to Oriental Theatre…creepy kids!

Matt Wild
July 30, 2024
Back in May, Milwaukee Film celebrated Mother's Day with a monthlong program of "Cool Moms" films at the Oriental Theatre. In June, in honor of Father's Day, it was time for the "Hot Dads" to step up. So what's...

Turn up the heat with some “Hot Dads” this June at Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild
May 29, 2024
Dads. They can be great. They can be funny. They can be competent. They can be bumbling. And yes, they can be HOT. So this June, why not make Father's Day a monthlong celebration and check out Milwaukee Film's ...

We ARE serious: David Zucker will attend screening of ‘Airplane!’ March 16 at Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild
March 7, 2024
Joey, do you like endlessly quotable and ridiculously absurd movies from 1980 that feature Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? ("Tell your old man to drag Walton ...

Milwaukee Film to screen ‘Wildcat’ at Oriental Theatre this May with writer/director Ethan Hawke in attendance

Press Release
March 1, 2024
Milwaukee Film To Screen Wildcat at the Oriental Theatre this May with Writer/Director Ethan Hawke in Attendance Four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke will attend two screenings of his 2023 feature Wild...

‘Hundreds Of Beavers’ (the film, not the real beavers) will return to Oriental Theatre January 31

Matt Wild
January 24, 2024
If you attended the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival and you have vague memories of a bunch of costumed critters running around outside the Oriental Theatre, it wasn't a dream (and it wasn't just another night on t...

Take a peek at Oriental Theatre’s newly restored 1925 Wurlitzer pipe organ

Matt Wild
November 3, 2023
Milwaukee Film's recent restoration of the Oriental Theatre has turned the stunning East Side movie palace into a really, really stunning East Side movie palace. But one element has been missing: a big ol' pipe...

Oriental Theatre will soon feature a spiffy “new” (a.k.a. restored) 1925 Wurlitzer pipe organ

Matt Wild
October 23, 2023
Milwaukee Film's recent restoration of the Oriental Theatre has turned the stunning East Side movie palace into a really, really stunning East Side movie palace. But one element has been missing: the big ol' pi...

‘Stop Making Sense,’ Jerry Harrison will return to Oriental Theatre this fall

Matt Wild
September 14, 2023
It's a testament to how spoiled we are in Milwaukee that, when you receive a press release announcing that the 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense will screen at the Oriental Theatre, and that Tal...

See ‘Southland Tales’ at Oriental Theatre, complete with director Q&A, Rebekah Del Rio performance

Matt Wild
June 9, 2023
In 2006, director Richard Kelly followed up his beloved cult classic Donnie Darko with the wildly ambitious, wildly bizarre, and just plain wild Southland Tales. The film...well...it was about...um, er...we'll ...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Oriental Theatre is a majestic movie palace of memories

Matt Wild
May 5, 2023
Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some Milwaukee things become iconic. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the Oriental Theatre! Is it possible to take something extraordinary—some...

Oscar shorts, family films coming to Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild
February 17, 2023
If you're in the market for catching up on this year's crop of Oscar-nominated short films and enjoying the original Muppet Movie on the big screen, have we got some news for you. Beginning Friday, February ...

Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin will perform a live score to ‘Suspiria’ October 30 at Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild
August 31, 2022
Back in 2018, Milwaukee moviegoers were treated to a screening of Dario Argento's 1977 classic giallo film Suspiria at the Oriental Theatre. But it wasn't just any screening—it came complete with a live score f...

Oriental Theatre will screen 4K restorations of David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway,’ ‘Inland Empire’

Matt Wild
July 26, 2022
Don't you love it when Milwaukee movie palace Oriental Theatre screens David Lynch films? WE DO. Now, a few years after that screening of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the Oriental is set to screen A.) one of ...

Oriental Theatre’s COVID-canceled ‘Cats’ screening claws its way back to July 23

Matt Wild
June 16, 2022
It's been two loooooong years since Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre announced that, thanks to an online petition, it would screen the misbegotten 2019 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's misbegotten 1981 stage m...
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