It’s difficult to tell whether director Larry Abrahamson’s comedy-drama Frank benefits from or is hindered by its central conceit: Star Michael Fassbender… […]
Talking Movies: Larry Abrahamson’s ‘Frank’ is one heady indie rock film
Iowa City film
PATV competition gives area filmmakers 48 hours to do their best (or worst)
PATV Channel 18′s first-ever No Sleep 48 Hour Film Festival is scheduled to kick off on October 17th at 7:30 p.m., challenging teams of local filmmakers to create… […]
Mood Indigo review: Is director Michel Gondry’s latest film brilliant or just plain cheesy?
If you’re at all familiar with Mood Indigo‘s director, Michel Gondry, and its star, Audrey Tatou, you can probably venture a pretty accurate guess as to what… […]
2014 Landlocked Film Festival kicks off Thursday with more than 50 films
This month marks the eighth year of Iowa City’s Landlocked Film Festival, an event with over 50 film screenings, including these two notable features: Antboy and… […]
Little Village’s picks for the summer’s best flicks
Blockbuster movie season is in full force, bringing yet another summer full of mutants, robots, aliens, monsters and all manner of CG creatures to our silver screens. Even if monsters and mechs aren’t your thing, July is jam-packed with reasons (both CG-heavy and not) to make it out to theaters. Here are recommended films to […]
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… […]
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… […]
IC DOCS incoming: Annual film fest kicks off this Thursday
Co-hosted by FilmScene, the Bijou film board and the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (IC DOCS) will run for its 12th season, April 17-19 at FilmScene. The festival seeks to provide a nominally competitive forum for short works of experimental documentary film in order to consider alternative views of what it means to document, and indeed what it means to experience reality itself. IC DOCS is entirely student organized and will feature both locally-produced and international films no longer than 30 minutes in length. […]
Talking Movies: The Broken Circle Breakdown takes on the age old ‘reason vs. religion’ argument
Let me take you on a quick tour of the first three scenes of The Broken Circle Breakdown, the Belgian melodrama nominated for the best foreign… […]
Talking Movies: Abu-Assad’s ‘Omar’ is a heartrending tale of loyalty under occupation
Omar opens Friday, Feb. 21 at FilmScene’s Scene 1 theater. Parkour may not be as popular as it once was, but don’t tell that to anybody fleeing the Israeli undercover police in the occupied territories. Adam Bakri does a lot of this in the title role of Hany Abu-Assad’s 2013 film, Omar, though the topography […]
Mission Creek adds Of Montreal, S. Carey, Kishi Bashi and more to 2014 lineup
The Mission Creek Festival released its second round of lineup details today, adding more than 20 artists to the initial billing announced last month… […]
Filmmakers transform IC restaurant into television set, wrap up ambitious pilot
Short’s Burgers and Shine briefly transformed into a television set Monday as area filmmakers wrapped up the final shot for an independently produced… […]
