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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
