UW Cinematheque - At the Chazen: Recent WCFTR Acquisitions
Michael Clayton | USA | 2007 | 35mm | 120 min. Director: Tony Gilroy
Event Details
Date
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Time
2 p.m.
Location
Description
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.
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.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Sunday, April 12, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.