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Oscar shorts, family films coming to Oriental Theatre

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 ...

Here are the films and events coming to Milwaukee Film’s Black History Month celebration

Matt Wild

January 6, 2023

February is Black History Month, and, for the fifth consecutive year, Milwaukee Film and its Black Lens program are going all out with a monthlong lineup of screenings and events. Want to see 1985's The Last Dr...

2022 Cultures & Communities Festival opens Wednesday, closes Sunday with ‘Butterfly In The Sky’

Matt Wild

September 13, 2022

If you need an occasional reminder that Milwaukee Film is more than just the Milwaukee Film Festival, here you go: From September 14-18, Milwaukee Film will host the second annual Cultures & Communities Fes...

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 ...

2022 Cultures & Communities Festival will feature Rosa Parks doc, Prince concert film, more

Matt Wild

July 21, 2022

If you need an occasional reminder that Milwaukee Film is more than just the Milwaukee Film Festival (and cats), here you go: From September 14-18, Milwaukee Film will host the second annual Cultures & Comm...

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...

Black Lens program will celebrate Tupac Shakur with ‘Juice’ screening, career retrospective

Matt Wild

June 9, 2022

Thursday, June 16, 2022 will be / would have been Tupac Shakur's 51st birthday. (Is it mind-boggling to think that Shakur would have been only 51? Yep.) To mark the occasion, Milwaukee Film's Black Lens program...

This week at Oriental Theatre: ‘Rise Roar Revolt,’ red carpet premiere of ‘Small Town Wisconsin’

Matt Wild

May 31, 2022

Feeling lost since the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped earlier this month? Seen Everything Everywhere All At Once three times already and looking for something new at the Oriental Theatre? Then you're in l...

2022 Milwaukee Film Festival announces attendance, awards, 2023 dates

Matt Wild

May 10, 2022

The 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped last Thursday. Though it marked a return to in-cinema screenings after fully virtual outings in 2020 and 2021, it was very much a hybrid festival. Out of the 285 total f...

9 films to see during the final 3 days of the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

May 3, 2022

Counting the single-film Opening Night, the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival is a whopping 15 days long. That's a lot of days! Even more alarming: THERE ARE ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT. Yes, MFF2022 is set to wrap this T...

When and where to see all 14 Cinema Hooligante films at the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

April 18, 2022

The 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to take over the Oriental Theatre, Avalon Theater, and Times Cinema April 22 - May 5. The 14th annual fest will feature 134 features and 150 short films. Of those 134 fea...

The full lineup for the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival is here, and it’s spectacular

Matt Wild

April 7, 2022

It's time to dig in. The 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to return to Milwaukee movie screens April 21 - May 5. The 14th annual fest will feature 134 features and 150 short films from 43 countries. All f...

Milwaukee Film announces in-person films, events for Black History Month

Matt Wild

January 11, 2022

With Black History Month a few weeks away, Milwaukee Film and its Black Lens program have revealed their slate of programming for the monthlong event. Six feature screenings, two shorts programs, and four event...

Oriental Theatre will require proof of vaccination or negative COVID test beginning August 25

Matt Wild

August 24, 2021

After less than a week back in business, the Oriental Theatre has announced it will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours for entry. The policy, announced by the oper...

Oriental Theatre will reopen August 20, will soon require proof of vaccination or negative COVID test

Matt Wild

August 13, 2021

When the Oriental Theatre reopens on Friday, August 20, attendees will be "expected" to be fully vaccinated or to have received a negative COVID-19 test within the past 72 hours. But that honor system approach ...

Oriental Theatre will reopen August 20

Matt Wild

July 19, 2021

After approximately 8,000 years of pandemic/restoration-related silence, Milwaukee's historic Oriental Theatre will reopen Friday, August 20. Milwaukee Film, which operates the theater, made the announcement Mo...

Check out the nearly complete restoration of the Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild

June 18, 2021

The last time we visited the Oriental Theatre (way back in July 2020), the historic East Side landmark was kind of a mess. But in a good way! Milwaukee Film's extensive five-phase Oriental restoration and renov...

2022 Milwaukee Film Festival set for April 21 – May 5, intends to be in-person

Matt Wild

June 8, 2021

If it feels like the 2021 Milwaukee Film Festival just wrapped up, well, it kind of did. The event ran May 6-20; like the 2020 fest, it was all-virtual. But today, Milwaukee Film not only announced the dates fo...

2021 Milwaukee Film Festival announces (virtual) attendance, awards

Matt Wild

May 25, 2021

The 2021 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped up last Thursday. Once again, it was a virtual fest, bringing hundreds of films directly to your TV, laptop, phone, tablet, etc. How many film minutes were viewed during...

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