The Way We Get By
Bijou Theatre
Saturday, April 24, 7pm
Why did buying DVDs become all the rage in the 2000s? Director commentaries. Just as interesting as watching the film (or, often more so) was listening to the people who made the movie talk about the work, the thought process and the people on the other side [...]
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THURSDAY
Culinary Walk |Downtown Iowa City | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | $25/$15 for students
It’s a very great weekend to be in Iowa, [...]
La Strada
dir. Federico Fellini
108 mins
In the early morning hours, at the end of a spirited drinking party, as passed-out sophisticates snore on the couches, an old man lectures two weary writers that tragedy and comedy have the same source, and that one who truly understands their root should be able to compose both with equal [...]
Australia
Directed by Baz Luhrman
Drama, 165 Minutes
One of the great pleasures of the movies is seeing what a purposeful filmmaker can do with an old genre or story by attempting to remake it in her or his own image. Such was the case with Baz Luhrman’s last film, 2001’s Moulin Rouge, his hyperkinetic reinvention of the [...]
Hi, Kent Williams here. I kinda sorta talked to Melody about doing a Weekender post, but we didn’t really get beyond the ’sure why not?’ planning stage, so I’m operating here on the principle that it’s easier to apologize than ask permission. Anyhoo…
The Mill
Thursday: Monroe Crossing. A Bluegrass outfit that tours nationally and won awards [...]
In the 10 years since the release of The Big Lebowski, a few things happened. Cell phones overtook our public spaces. The internet colonized our private time. George W. Bush won once in the popular vote and twice in the electoral college. On a single morning, terrorists brought down the twin towers, destroyed part of [...]
Appaloosa
Narrative, 108 min
Directed by Ed Harris
Once upon a time in the American cinema, the western was king. Between the silent era and the late 1970’s, the U.S. film industry churned out thousands of western movies, most of them toward the end of that time starring Clint Eastwood. Not so today, when fans [...]
Righteous Kill
Drama, 101 min
Directed by Jon Avnet
The buddy cop film has been a staple of the American cinema since at least the 1970’s, and it’s been tooled for everything from suspense to comedy to straight action, but rarely has it actually been about friendship. That makes Righteous Kill, the new cop drama teaming Robert [...]
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)
Directed by Fatih Akin
October 3-5, Bijou
There is an old poem by Horace that celebrates simple country living; its surprise ending is that the whole thing turns out to be the pitch of a city dweller trying to sell some rural property. During the Olympics, there was a series [...]
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is celebrating this fall its 50th anniversary as an object of obsession for movie lovers. This year also marks the less-auspicious 15th anniversary of when I became obsessed with it in the commons room of a college dorm. Though I squirmed right off the filthy couch at the final [...]
