Dear Students,
I know the rain is a drag, but trust me, sunshine is not a required element in your ardent intellectual pursuit. What you need is to complement your academic endeavors with a heaping weekendful of fine international cinema! So I give to you, live (well, mostly prerecorded) from the greatest city in the world:
The [...]
If you’re a student, you’ll probably attend at least one event at the University of Iowa Welcome Week. And there’s plenty of fun to be had–from the President’s Block Party to Chuck Klosterman at the Englert courtesy of the UI Lecture Series next Wednesday. But, there are also, plenty of non-University events this weekend to [...]
Editor’s Note: A summer full of festivals winds down this week with the second annual Landlocked Film Festival. This year, Iowa City’s umbrella organization Summer of the Arts wove Landlocked into the fold, giving the fledgling festival a bigger profile than last year’s inaugural event. In our August issue, we previewed two Iowa Film Festivals, [...]
What I See When I Close My Eyes
Documentary, 29 min
Directed by Leslie Hope
Landlocked: Saturday, August 23, 12:30pm as part of the kid-friendly program.
The Khmer Rouge just cannot catch a break. Every director since Roland Joffe has wanted to portray them as the Asian equivalent of the Third Reich, despite the fact that decades of political [...]
This American Gothic
Documentary, 63 min
Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer
Hardacre: Saturday, August 2, 1:25pm; Landlocked: Friday, August 22, 5:30pm
In the director’s statement for This American Gothic—a documentary about Grant Wood’s painting and the people of Eldon, Iowa, where the austere house with the lavish window still stands—Sasha Waters Freyer says that she wants to bring attention [...]
Pond Hockey
Documentary, 79 min
Directed by Tommy Haines
Landlocked: Saturday, August 23, 3:00pm
Pond Hockey is a documentary no hockey fan should miss. But it would be a shame if only hockey fans were to see it, because, like all good sports movies, it’s about the forces that nurture and threaten what truly brings us joy. The movie—directed [...]
Illegal Use of Joe Zopp
Narrative, 90 min
Directed by Sarah Rykal
Landlocked: Saturday, August 23, 9:30pm
Filmmakers constrained by a cheaper-than-dirt budget often turn to horror or shoot-em-up action for their first movie foray. In these dark and gritty cinemascapes, the limits of DIY filmmaking can actually enhance a film instead of hinder it. Much more ambitious is [...]
Alicja Wonderland
Short Film
Directed by Martin Gauvreau
Landlocked: Thursday, August 21, 8:35pm
Alicja Wonderland is a surreal Polish exploration of human emotions. Those emotions are a bit hard to discern, however, as the mostly linear plot is interrupted several times by Alicja, a woman who is both reading the story unfolding in a different space and an active [...]
