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Circle Jerks performing at Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre

Circle Jerks bring ‘Repo Man,’ multi-generational mosh pit to Oriental Theatre

Juan Miguel Martinez
August 10, 2026
A 12-year-old kid approached the microphone during the question-and-answer session at the Repo Man screening at the Oriental Theatre on Sunday. "Where did you come up with the name Circle Jerks for your band?" ...

Behold the lineup for Milwaukee Film’s 70mm Film Series, coming soon to Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild
July 31, 2026
Did you know that Milwaukee's historic Oriental Theatre is one of fewer than 20 cinemas in the entire country equipped to project 70mm films year-round? It's true! Seeing movies projected on 35mm film is rare e...

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

Matt Wild
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...
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