Grant Phipps

From late June through late July, the UW Cinematheque is an escape during the peak summer heat with its diverse slate of feature films. This year, though, rather than provide the fluffier fare associated with the season, programmers at Madison’s premier downtown cinema hub are skewing darker — aptly for the times — in their first-time partnership with the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair.

Following the success of its recent Thursday-themed movie series on zombies and 1980s adventures, Giant Jones Brewing Company is taking a more ambitious swing with a "May Day Eve" presentation of Sergei Eisenstein's pro-worker silent-era feature Strike (1925) on April 30 at 8 p.m. Local instrumental trio Wonderporium (Tom Curry, Noah Gilfillan, and Jason Kutz) is providing original musical accompaniment on keyboards, tuba, percussion and electronics for the 82-minute version of the film, and...

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