Moonlight FilmScene — through Thursday, Dec. 1 Loud American cars can sometimes suggest loud, American problems. The opening scenes of Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight feature Mahershala Ali as Juan, a high-placed […]
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FilmScene to screen teenage dreams with ‘All This Panic’
All This Panic FilmScene — Sunday, June 12 at 7 p.m. Relive your teenage years this Sunday at 7 p.m. with All This Panic, the latest installation of FilmScene’s Vino […]
Island life: Two films, one fresh at FilmScene, seek emotional rescue and explore isolation
In 2010, Judith Scharansky, a graphic designer who grew up in East Germany and was thus restricted in her ability to travel abroad, published a book called Atlas of Remote […]
Baseball, bacchanalia and beauty in Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’
Everybody Wants Some!! FilmScene — Through Thursday, May 19 Nostalgia is a powerful drug. So powerful in fact that many find themselves enthralled with nostalgic feelings even for the times […]
The Eggshell Aunt: Edward Shults’ ‘Krisha’ shows family at its holiday worst
Krisha Film Scene — Opens Friday, Apr. 15 From a distance, your family Thanksgiving may not look all that different from that of director Trey Edward Shults, as portrayed in […]
Cherishing Terry Zwigoff: A chat with an auteur for our age
Illustrations by Adam Burke Mission Creek: An Evening with Terry Zwigoff FilmScene — Thurs., Apr. 7 at 7 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.) In 2001, a New York Times article […]
Series will offer ‘Reel Movies for Real Needs’ at Sycamore Cinema
Special needs-welcoming Zootopia showing Sycamore Cinema — Saturday, Mar. 5 at 10:30 a.m. Beginning next Saturday, Mar. 5, the spring portion of a film series specifically for children with autism […]
Celebrating the Oscars without forgetting their flaws
The Englert Theatre will be hosting an event on Sunday, Feb. 28 for the 88th annual Academy Awards. Co-sponsored for the second year by FilmScene, the live broadcast is billed […]
Playing well with others: ‘Room’ holds an impressive allegory for life outside the self
Room FilmScene — (Last Screening) Thursday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. There is nothing beyond Room. That’s what Jack (Jacob Tremblay), one of the protagonists of Room, believes. It’s what […]
Talking Movies: Shot in a single 138-minute take, can Victoria live up to its bold premise?
Victoria opens Oct. 23 at FilmScene. I chafe at the word “gimmick.” It’s often used in lieu of something more meaningful to describe the experimental, the exciting, or the formally […]
Saddle Creek-curated showcase featuring four Iowa films heads to FilmScene
Tonight at 6 p.m., FilmScene will screen a selection of films shot in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota — including four productions by Iowa filmmakers — as part of Film […]
New Jackson Pollock documentary debuts at FilmScene
A new documentary about one of Jackson Pollock’s most famous paintings, Mural, will debut this Friday at FilmScene at 5:30 p.m. Jackson Pollock’s Mural: the story of a Modern Masterpiece […]