UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen: Recent WCFTR Acquisitions
Cast: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson
Clooney is the title character, a law firm’s fixer drawn into a deadly conspiracy after a star attorney (Wilkinson) uncovers explosive evidence against a powerful corporate client. Swinton won an Oscar as the client’s slick general counsel in this celebrated legal thriller that is “just about perfect as an exercise in the genre” (Roger Ebert). 35mm print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen: Recent WCFTR Acquisitions
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
A bitterly married couple, George and Martha, invite a young pair, Nick and Honey, for drinks, unleashing a night of sharp-edged games, verbal duels, and emotional cruelty that exposes the raw truths behind their facades. This Oscar-winning adaptation of Edward Albee’s darkly comic play marked director Nichols feature-film debut. 35mm print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen: Recent WCFTR Acquisitions
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey
Spielberg’s deeply moving adaptation of Alice Walker’s celebrated novel follows the heroic Celie (Goldberg) as she endures years of childhood abuse and marriage to the cruel Mister (Glover). As Celie gradually finds her voice and strength, the film transforms her suffering into a powerful story of resilience and hard-won triumph. 35mm print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen: Recent WCFTR Acquisitions
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
Roberta (Arquette), the bored wife of a NJ hot tub salesman, becomes infatuated with young couple Susan (Madonna) and Jimmy (Robert Joy), whom she discovers through a newspaper personals section. Bopped on the head, Roberta wakes up thinking she is the headstrong and hedonistic Susan. A full persona swap takes place when Roberta’s husband hires the real Susan to find his missing wife! Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
Leilehua Lanzilotti: Screening and Talk
The hidden soundscapes of Toshiko Takaezu’s closed ceramics have long captivated Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kanaka Maoli sound artist, composer, and co-curator of the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within. Over the course of several years, Lanzilotti collected recordings of Takaezu’s closed forms, gently tapping their surfaces and revolving them so the small ceramic rattles within them resound.
Free and open to all. RSVPs appreciated. Walk-ins welcome as capacity allows. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen
Cast: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker
It’s Christmas in New York City, but Frankie Bono (Allen Baron) is in no mood to celebrate the season. Frankie is a paid assassin from Cleveland just in town to carry out a hit, a man who prefers to remain anonymous and alone, even if friends from the past keep appearing in his path. Writer/director/star Baron presents a grim odyssey, aided by a jazzy score, a sinister voiceover (read by Lionel Stander). Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen
Cast: Robert Liensol, Ambroise M’Bia, Bernard Fresson. A landmark of anti-colonial cinema, Soleil Ô flips the colonial gaze to expose the hypocrisies of postcolonial France through the eyes of a West African immigrant (Liensol) looking for work in Paris. Confronted with exclusion, exploitation, and institutional racism, our hero navigates a surreal, often absurdist landscape shaped by celebrated Mauritanian’ filmmaker Med Hondo (West Indies). Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen
Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine
When salesman Harry Graham (O’Brien) applies to adopt a child with his wife (Lupino), a routine background check reveals a shocking secret: he’s already married to another woman (Fontaine). As Harry recounts how emotional neglect and loneliness led to his double life, The Bigamist unfolds as a sympathetic yet sobering portrait of moral failure, emotional isolation, and the quiet desperation beneath domestic stability. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
UW Cinematheque – At the Chazen
Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin. Two Black immigrants—Dah from Benin and Jocelyn from the Caribbean—run an underground cockfighting ring at the mercy of a domineering white French gangster. Their uneasy authority over the roosters mirrors their own exploitation, caught in a system where power remains firmly in colonial hands. Chazen Museum of Art. 2 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 262-3627, ben.reiser@wisc.edu
Film Screening: Sheetla by Anamika Singh
In conjunction with "Corpus, an exhibition by Anamika Singh", come view Singh’s related film "Sheetla" (24 minutes, 2025) in the Chazen Auditorium. The film follows the Hindi language daily journal Jan Morcha and its role in reporting the highly contested desecration of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Faizabad in 1992. Singh titled the film in honor of her grand uncle, Sheetla Singh, a prominent editor, journalist and union leader in north India. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-5:30 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu