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Oriental Theatre will host Circle Jerks show, ‘Repo Man’ screening, Q&A August 9

June 17, 2026

This is pretty rad, so we're just gonna stick to the facts: On Sunday, August 9, legendary L.A. punk band Circle Jerks will play a show at Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre. Wow! After that, there'll be a Q&A wi...

Milwaukee Film will screen all 18 episodes of ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ January 9-14

Matt Wild

January 2, 2026

Visionary artist and filmmaker David Lynch died on January 20, 2024. (Bob Uecker died the same day. Talk about tough days.) Now, ahead of the one-year anniversary of Lynch's passing to a realm both wonderful an...

Mandatory Milwaukee: The popcorn at the Oriental and Downer theaters is the best

Matt Wild

June 17, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the popcorn at Oriental and Downer theaters! Popcorn and movie th...

Milwaukee Film’s historic Oriental Theatre awarded Cream of the Cream City Award for Commercial Rehabilitation

Press Release

May 29, 2025

Milwaukee Film’s Historic Oriental Theatre Awarded Cream of the Cream City Award for Commercial Rehabilitation The City of Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission selected award recipients for the 2025 Crea...

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, Downer theaters will go cashless beginning March 10

Matt Wild

March 3, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to run April 24 through May 8 at the Oriental Theatre and Downer Theatre. (Sorry, MFF films won't be screening at the Avalon or Times this year.) It will feature approxim...

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 ...

Whoa! Here’s the schedule for Milwaukee Film’s “Keanuthon”

Matt Wild

October 28, 2024

If October is prime time for horror movies, what should folks binge in November? Thanksgiving movies? Christmas movies? Planes, Trains And Automobiles 24/7? If you're Milwaukee Film, the answer is a little more...

Watch “too-gross-for-theaters” trailer for 1994 Milwaukee-made horror film ‘Aswang’

Matt Wild

October 17, 2024

It's the spooky season, and Milwaukee Film is currently neck-deep in its vampire-tastic "Bite Club" series. On Saturday, October 26 at the Oriental Theatre, that series will go local with a screening of the 199...

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 ...

‘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...

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