Best Milwaukee alternative-movie options: Frederick Wiseman documentary, Reagan melodrama
Chris Foran
FOCUS Film Society
"The Hasty Heart": Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal star in this rarely shown 1949 drama, filmed in England, about soldiers left behind in a hospital in Burma as World War II is coming to an end. Church in the City, 2648 N. Hackett Ave. 7 p.m. Saturday. $3.
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Info: ficoa.biz/focus.htm
UWM Union Cinema
Unless noted, admission is $5, and free for UWM students and members of the Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
"From the Archives: Portraits": Program of short works using different approaches to portraying people and places in nonfiction filmmaking, curated by Ada McMahon, an MFA candidate in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free admission.
"Ex Libris: New York Public Library": Documentary film master Frederick Wiseman trains his smart, very patient lens (the movie runs 197 minutes) on one of America's great cultural institutions, the New York Public Library. 6 p.m. Wednesday.
"Rebels onPointe": Cinéma-vérité-style documentary about Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo — the all-male, drag-ballet company founded more than 40 years ago. 7 p.m. Thursday.
Info: cinema.uwm.edu
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