‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s new film, is a satisfying solution to a problem you may not have known cinema…
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‘Iowa Screendance’ brings female perspective to an evolving art form
Screendance is a visual artform that combines elements of live dance performance, post-production and cinematography to create works that couldn’t exist…
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Join the club: Celebration to honor ’80s cult classic film
Attention brains, athletes, basket cases, princesses and criminals: In celebration of the film’s thirtieth anniversary, the Englert Theatre will host a costume contest and screening of John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club this Saturday, March 28 beginning 6 p.m.
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FilmScene screens black and white Jim Jarmusch films in anticipation of Mission Creek Festival
Many know Jim Jarmusch’s recent films for their sun-soaked landscapes and thirsty night owls. International in funding, casting and musical scoring, his last three…
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Talking Movies: ‘Two Days, One Night’ takes a hard look at how financial hardship can shatter group solidarity
Lessons that we can immediately ascertain from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s intriguing film Two Days, One Night include the following: sometimes the…
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Highlights of the documentaries featured in FilmScene’s FLAM series
As a treat to lovers of the arts this holiday season, FilmScene, in partnership with the Bijou and Mission Creek, is presenting the FLAM series, a week-long celebration…
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Documentary ‘Music of the Moment’ features Iowa City musical improv scene of early ’00s
The following is a look back at the history of the Iowa City improvisational music scene featured in Music of the Moment, a documentary screening this…
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Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language’ Screens in Iowa City
FilmScene has been playing three-dimensional movies since they opened, but all of it has been children’s fare, including Frozen, Polar Express and Hugo, as part of The Picture Show — a low-priced children’s and family series sponsored by MidWestOne Bank. Now, FilmScene has become one of the only theaters in the country to screen Goodbye […]
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Talking Movies: Isao Takahata’s ‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya’
http://youtu.be/tM6hcHp0_kU The Tale of Princess Kaguya Opening at FilmScene on Wednesday, Nov. 26 The Tale of Princess Kaguya is animator Isao Takahata’s first film in 14 years, and if you told me that he spent the last decade and a half working on this film, I might believe you. The most immediately striking aspect of […]
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Finding the flaws in flawed reviews of ‘Dear White People’
“Having something important to say,” opines The New Yorker’s Richard Brody in his review of Dear White People, “isn’t the same thing as making an important movie, or even a good one.” While Brody found the film to be a too-tame series of “epigrammatic, calculatedly provocative monologues” meant to “simulate” controversy instead of actually causing it, for the most part, critics, audiences and the bulk of the non-racist internet love Dear White People.
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The Skeleton Twins: Hader and Wiig shine in brother-sister dramedy
After screaming into a pillow, Maggie (Kristen Wiig) sees Milo (Bill Hader) at the stereo. Cue the best use of the ’80s throwback “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”…
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Ghostbusters Night: Where you gonna go? FilmScene!
That’s right, folks, as the poorly paraphrased lyrics that you hopefully still sang in your head indicate, your favorite ghostbusters are coming to Iowa City for a special screening — the 30th Anniversary Restoration of Ghostbusters (1984). This Friday , all spooky shenanigans will start at 9:00pm. Festivities will include Ghostbusters-themed drinks, Ghostbusters-themed trivia,
