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 …
Iowa City Cinema
Posted inFood & Drink
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…
Posted inArts & Entertainment
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…
Posted inArts & Entertainment
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…
Posted inArts & Entertainment
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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
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…
Posted inArts & Entertainment
FilmScene to host Q&A with John Carter Cash, screen Walk the Line
Once again our country is proving that the Civil War isn’t over. The representatives of our red states and blue states, which correspond neatly with the North and the…
Posted inArts & Entertainment
FilmScene to host triple feature scarefest this Halloween
FilmScene is hosting a fright-filled triple feature at its Scene 1 theater in Downtown Iowa City this Halloween. The local non-profit has spent the last few days revealing…
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Bask in sexual tension this Saturday at the Englert
The Englert Theatre will be hosting its annual Halloween screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday, October 26 at 11:59 p.m. The midnight screening marks an unspoken annual tradition of sorts for the Englert, who are presenting this year’s show as part of a collaboration with Comics in Action. With the purchase of […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Donate some food, gain some knowledge this Sunday
New Pioneer Food Co-op has partnered with the Englert Theatre and FilmScene to offer a screening of A Place at the Table Sunday at 3:00 p.m. The screening takes place at Englert Theatre and will be followed by refreshment and a post-film discussion.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Talking Movies: The perfect game
As spring turns the grass green, my fancy lightly turns to thoughts of baseball. The fancies of movie producers must also turn in that direction, because 42, the new biopic about Jackie Robinson, is just opening.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Complete Schedule: IC DOCS 2013
The 11th annual Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (IC DOCS) kicks off Thursday, offering Iowa City film-lovers the chance to catch dozens of 30-minute-or-less productions shot both locally and around the world. We’ve highlighted a few productions in particular, but don’t be afraid to dive in blind. Soaking in many of these cinema experiences […]
