Fwd: this week in the Union Theatre message

[Dave Monroe]

By the way, here's where I go many/most evenings fall/spring ...

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From: this week in the Union Theatre <cinema at aux.uwm.edu>
Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Subject: this week in the Union Theatre message
To: against.the.dave at gmail.com


We’re very pleased to announce the new Union Theatre Fall 09 schedule;
viewable on-line at www.uniontheatre.uwm.edu
The full-color printed calendar is available just outside of the Union
Theatre, on the 2nd floor of the UWM Union or at various places on
campus and around town.

This fall the Union Theatre will present over 60 film programs. All
but eight of our regularly scheduled Union Theatre programs will be
free of admission. Over 30 films will receive their Milwaukee
premieres, including the most recent films from acclaimed directors
such as Claire Denis, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Lucrecia Martel, Jia Zhang
Ke, Christian Petzold, Lisandro Alonso, So Yong Kim, Nikolaus
Geyrhalter, and Olivier Assayas, in addition to visual artist Steve
McQueen’s directorial debut HUNGER (Sept 11-13).

Other highlights include several programs of contemporary animation
including the Milwaukee premiere of Nina Paley’s SITA SINGS THE BLUES
(Dec 3&4) and films from Japanese animator NAOYUKI TSUJI (Sept 15).

This fall the Union Theatre will host the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video
Festival (Oct 16-25) and the 3rd annual Turkish Film Series (Nov 6-8).

The Union Theatre will also present several special programs with
visiting filmmakers including Dutch artist JOOST REKVELD (Oct 6),
Canadian filmmaker MIKE HOOLBOOM (Oct 13), UK documentarian STEPHEN
CONNOLLY (Nov 5) and a live projector performance from NYC artist
BRUCE MCCLURE (Nov 17).

This is in addition to the rich offerings of films in our Documentary
Frontiers series, the ever popular Experimental Tuesdays series as
well as the Share the Earth Environmental Film Series.

Our fall schedule begins on August 28th with FUTURE DAYS, a series of
five films depicting comedic and dramatic visions of future dystopias;
all films are free.

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Idiocracy
Friday and Saturday, August 28 and 29 at 7pm

This 2007 feature from writer/director Mike Judge (Beavis and
Butthead, Office Space, King of the Hill) stars Luke Wilson as a very
average army private who travels 500 years into a very stupid future.
(84 min)

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Brazil
Friday, August 28 at 9pm
Sunday, August 30 at 7pm

Terry Gilliam’s 1985 classic tells the tale of a mid-level bureaucrat
in a mega-corporation who is unable to escape his regimented life
until he encounters a shadowy underground organization. (132 min)

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Minority Report
Saturday, August 29 and Monday, August 31 at 9pm

Steven Spielberg directs this adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short
story, in which Tom Cruise stars as a police chief who finds himself
implicated in a prediction by a trio of crime preventing psychics.
(145 min)

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Wall-E
Saturday, Sunday, August 29 & 30 at 5pm
and  Monday August 31 at 7pm.

This beloved instant classic from Pixar follows a scrappy
trash-compacting robot as he searches for his true love, inspiring an
apathetic human race along the way.  (98 min)

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Children of Men
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 1 - 3 at 7pm

A world that has not produced a child in 18 years finds an unlikely
savior in Theo (Clive Owen), a disillusioned man charged with
shepherding a miraculously pregnant teenager through a war torn world.
(109 min)

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E Kenwood Blvd.
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(414) 229-4070
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