The 1944 D-Day invasion may continue to impress us largely due to the sheer scope of the project: The most immense and technically advanced seaborn invasion force …
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Interview with UI Grad Arthur Jongewaard, Set Coordinator for ‘God’s Pocket’
This week, FilmScene is screening God’s Pocket, one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last projects before dying tragically in February of this year. God’s Pocket is also …
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Dolls in a Dollhouse: Wes Anderson puts up his most cartoonish characters in Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel was released the first week of March, showed up in Iowa City in late April and is remarkably still showing twice daily at …
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Talking Movies: The Wind Rises explores humanity’s capacity to both create and destroy
May has been christened by FilmScene as “May-azaki” in honor of Hayao Miyazaki, and they will screen four of his masterpieces: My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited…
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FilmScene celebrates Craft Beer Week, unveils rooftop happy hour
In the 1980s, beer aisles looked very different. According to Chad Young, the craft brand manager at 7G Distributing, there were few options…
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Documentary featuring The National’s Matt Berninger (and his roadie brother) opens Friday at FilmScene
One of the most well-established ways in which capitalism defeats us is by finding increasingly devious ways to commodify nonconformity and general…
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Talking Movies: ‘At Berkeley’ takes an important look at public education
A very long documentary that simply observes all facets of a complex institution is probably the most urgent movie that you can see this year. Frederick…
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Talking Movies: In Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume 1, sexual urges become allegory for artist and audience
Lars von Trier has a flair for being provocative. Remember when he called himself a Nazi? His new movie, Nymphomaniac: Volume 1, which opens at FilmScene…
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Get your grub on: Five Days of food in Iowa City
With so much buzz around Mission Creek and the talented musicians and artists visiting our town, it is easy to overlook the stellar line-up of food events that are happening throughout the week. Here’s a five-day guide to feasting through the festivities.
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Celebrate Pete Seeger and his musical legacy this weekend
Legendary folk musician Pete Seeger died just two months ago at the age of 94. He not only gave the world songs like “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” and adapted “We Shall Overcome” into its now-familiar form, but also showed how music can be a tool for progressive politics. Both of these songs, for example, were anthems of the Civil Rights Movement, in which Seeger was an early, avid and vocal participant — despite having been blacklisted from television appearances during the communist witch hunts of the 1950s.
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Talking Movies: In director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, murder and desire make strange bedfellows
The erotic thriller, with its mix of illicit sex and anxieties about bodily harm, can often come off as rather morally conservative. The femme fatale lures the…
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Talking Movies: The year’s most overlooked foreign films
In a mid-career interview with Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman was asked about how a filmmaker should treat his or her audience. He responds by telling a sort of morality tale about a Chinese wood carver during the Middle Ages who is asked to sculpt a wooden bell stand for a local temple. The carver makes […]
