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Article: MOVIES Indie, foreign films make hearty return UWM Union Theatre has long list of films for 2009
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2009
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What was once a bust has become a boom.
The economy should be so resilient.
One of the low points of the 2008 movie year was the crash of the
independent film scene. Studios were shuttered, "The Dark Knight"
reigned and countless art house, indie and foreign films went
unseen.
Their imminent return -- at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Ave. -- is less a "happy
days are here again"-type event than Punxsutawney Phil poking his
head out of the ground to gauge winter's damage.
This season, UWM is drawing from a long and deep list of all the
films that never played here last year.
Milwaukee premieres on the UWM Union Theatre's spring schedule
include ...