As yet another feature of the University of Iowa’s ongoing Food for Thought semester, a jury-selected collection of short, food-themed fi…
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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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Filming underway for holiday movie shot in IC, starring Saved by the Bell’s Dennis Haskins and adorable dogs
If you happen to see a bunch of dogs being filmed around Iowa City this week, you may have stumbled onto the set of a movie. Iowa-based film production…
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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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Talking Movies: Best films of 2014 that you might have missed
As Johnny Depp’s drunken tribute at the Hollywood Film Awards reminds us, the winter film awards season is underway. With tons of new releases, now is good time to look back at some of the films that will be recognized and some that might be overlooked in the upcoming slew of awards shows. Ida […]
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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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Talking Movies: Snowden documentary ‘Citizenfour’ raises uncomfortable questions
It’s no surprise that right-wing national-security types think that Edward Snowden is a traitor. But it’s been interesting to hear prominent mainstream…
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Interstellar: Finding director Fritz Lang’s influence on Nolan’s new space epic
Director Christopher Nolan has a knack for drawing people into the theater in an age when many can’t be bothered. His latest film Interstellar, promises big-screen…
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Director Louis Doerge launches campaign for Iowa City-based horror film
After seven years of working in the film industry in both Arizona and Texas, director Louis Doerge returns to his hometown of Iowa City to shoot his latest horror…
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Talking Movies: Exploring true crime
Americans like to feel that we invented the ‘true crime’ genre. We think that it happened sometime after World War II, was rooted in classic detective fiction and was nurtured by pulp magazines, film noir, excessive smoking and the shock and disillusionment bred from serial killers and post-war ennui. Several movies currently showing in town […]
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Homemade Horror: Filmscene and Bijou to host a night of amateur fright films
This Sunday at 6 p.m, FilmScene is hosting “Homemade Horror,” the second installment of the Bijou Open Screen fall series. Prizes will be given to those who…
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Talking Movies: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan set out on another hilarious adventure in ‘The Trip to Italy’
At the risk of sounding daft, let me emphasize that Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip (2010) and The Trip to Italy, its hilarious sequel, are about trips.
