PRESENTED BY The Bijou Film Board is a student-run UI organization dedicated to the exhibition of American independent, foreign and classic cinema. Established in 1972, the FilmScene Staff Bijou Film Board assists FilmScene with program curation and operations. Joe Tiefenthaler, Executive Director Andrew Sherburne, Associate Director Kate Markham, Dir. of Operations Free Mondays! UI students admitted FREE to the late showing of any new release film every Monday. Ross Meyer, Head Projectionist and Facilities Manager Connie White, Film Booker Thought-provoking, visually-arresting HORIZONS STAMP YOUR PASSPORT for a FILM FORUM Special screenings of films paired with curated wines in a cinematic world tour. One UI student who attends acclaimed and provocative films followed by Aaron Holmgren, Shift Supervisor search for truth in cinema that brings every screening will win a study abroad scholarship! discussion. Dominick Shults, Projection and Facilities Assistant fresh filmmaking voices to Iowa City. POP AYE (2017) OFFSIDE (2006) Dir. Abby Thomas, Marketing Assistant Dir. Kirsten Tan. A Jafar Panahi. Iranian teen Theater Staff: Adam Bryant, disenchanted architect girls pretend to be boys to Cara Anthony, Graham Bly, TUE, 11/7

bumps into his long-lost TUE, 11/14 see the World Cup match Sean Demers, Galen Hawthorne, elephant on the streets in Tehran’s stadium. Spencer Williams of Bangkok. DIALOGUE to follow. Projectionists: Jack Christensen, Felipe Disarz, Tyler Hudson, AFTER HOURS Late nights featuring cult classics and fan favorites. Saturdays at 11pm. December 3, 7pm Tristen Kopp HOLY MOTORS STAY (2005) (2012) Dir. Leos Carax. Dir. Marc Forster. Board of Directors FOR AHKEEM (2017) From dawn to dusk, Between the worlds of Laura Bergus, Chair SAT, 11/4 SAT, Doug Ongie, Vice Chair Dirs. Landon Van Soest, Jeremy a day in the shadowy 11/11 SAT, the living and the dead Emma Barnum, Secretary Levine. Through Daje Shelton’s life of a mystic shape- there is a place you’re not shifter. supposed to stay. Chris Ameling, Treasurer intimate coming of age story, this Hannah Bonner, Nina Lohman Cilek, portrait illuminates challenges Karen Chappell, Corey Creekmur, that many Black teenagers face BIJOU PROGRAMMING IS FREE FOR UI STUDENTS $6.50 GENERAL PUBLIC Michael Davis, Will Downing, in America today, and witnesses Evan Evans, David Gould, the strength, resilience, and Tommy Haines, Adam Ingersoll, determination it takes to survive. Jake Nelson, Kembrew McLeod, Ryan O’Leary, Andre Perry, DIALOGUE Filmmakers in person. Jamie Powers, Laura Seegmiller, TICKETS $25 / $20 Members Andy Stoll, Nick Westergaard December 10 • www.icfilmscene.org/eye-opener includes hand-picked wine from the Our delicious annual fundraising brunch, poster Bread Garden Market wine experts. sale, awards banquet and short film celebration. In partnership with

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AN IMMORTAL FLICK Director Takashi Miike’s 100th is a sword-swinging samurai stunner.

November 2017

Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird. THE GIFT OF MOVIES! NEW RELEASES Getting a jump on holiday shopping? The FilmScene gift cards make a great gift! PictureShow Now Playing MARK FELT Liam Neeson is “Deep Throat,” the notorious whistleblower for Watergate. Family and Children’s Series HUMAN FLOW Artist Ai Weiwei examines massive modern day human migration.

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Our 20-week winter season of big-screen classics begins! Watch for special activities with select films. Tickets FREE for kids, $5 for adults! Films play Saturday and Sunday at 10am and Thursday at 3:30pm.

Opens 3 Opens November 3 PARANORMAN (2012) Dir. Chris Butler, Sam Fell. Young Norman has the ability to speak GOODBYE with the dead—and he often CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (2017, USA) Dir. Sean Baker. Set during a single Oct. 28, 29 & prefers their company to that of (2017, UK) Dir. Simon Curtis. After leaving London summer, director Baker (Tangerine) casts us into Nov. 2 the living. for the English countryside, writer A.A. Milne starts the world of precocious 6-year-old Moonee as LEAP! (2016) Dir. Eric Summer, she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag to spin fanciful yarns about his son’s growing Éric Warin. An orphan girl dreams collection of stuffed animals. “Drenched in dappled playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring of becoming a ballerina and flees light and a honeyed score, Simon Curtis’s glowing mother, all while living in the shadows of Florida’s her rural life for Paris, where she picture dangles the story of how the author A.A. Milne Disney World. “A must-see work—and one of the Nov. 4, 5 & 9 accedes to the position of pupil at created Winnie-the-Pooh.” — year’s best films.” —The Atlantic the Grand Opera house. FLY AWAY HOME (1996) Dir. Carroll Ballard. A father and Opens November 17 daughter attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese Nov. 11, 12 & 16 south by air. Based on the true WONDERSTRUCK story of “Operation Migration.” (2017, USA) Dir. . A lush cinematic fable ties together the WIZARD OF OZ (1939) Dir. Victor Fleming. Dorothy is swept stories of a young boy in the Midwest away by a tornado from her farm and a young girl in New York fifty years in Kansas to the magical land earlier as they both seek the same Nov. 18, 19 & 23 of Oz where she embarks on a mysterious connection. Based on quest with her new friends. the novel Wonderstruck written and PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) illustrated by Brian Selznick. Dir. Rob Reiner. A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful “Tender and vital...every performance is wonderful. young woman and her one true Wonderstuck embraces so many shimmery, evanescent ideas, it’s a marvel that any Nov. 25, 26 & 30 love. He must find her after a picture—let alone one you can take your kids to—can hold them.” –Time long separation and save her.

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Opens November 22 Opens December 1

LADY BIRD (2017, USA) Dir. Greta LOVING VINCENT (2017, UK) Featuring well-loved classics, beneath the stars and Gerwig. The semi-autobiographical directorial Dirs. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman. In a story above the streets of Iowa City. Includes a pint from Big debut of indie fave Gerwig follows young “Lady told through 65,000 frames of hand-painted oils (to Grove Brewery, and always with a little something extra Bird,” () who fights against but is mimic the art of Vincent Van Gogh), a young man to butter up your Rooftop experience. exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van FARGO (1996) Dir. Ethan Coen,

strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and 11/17 Joel Coen. FilmScene’s traditional tirelessly to keep her family afloat in tough times. ends up investigating his last days there. “A triumph rooftop finale—a classic “[A] touching, markedly feminine ode to growing up of painstaking technical prowess and stunning visuals crime caper with bottomless cocoa! that never takes its familiarity for granted.” —IndieWire over storytelling and dialogue.” —Empire

SPECIAL EVENTS BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL

Fridays, Nov. 3 & Nov. 10 (2017, Japan) Dir. Takashi Miike. After being Fri, Nov. 10, Noon Sat, Nov. 18, 1pm cursed with immortality until he kills enough evil men, Samuri Manji meets a young girl who ALL QUIET ON THE L7: PRETEND WE’RE enlists him to be her body-guard. The unlikely duo set on a remarkable quest to make right (1930) Dir. (2017, USA) Dir. Sarah Price. A real WESTERN FRONT DEAD against those who did them wrong. Director Lewis Milestone. A young soldier faces profound time journey of the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption Miike’s 100th film! disillusionment in the horror of World War I. Presented of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge by Iowa Veterans for Peace in honor of Veteran’s Day. punk: L7. DIALOGUE Director Price in person. WED, 11/1 WED, 11/8 WED, 11/15 WED, 11/22 WED, 11/29

Punch in for weird THE DRAGON BRAWL IN CELL GAY FOR PRAY PRIME CUT (1972) D.O.A. (1980) Wednesdays at 10pm for LIVES AGAIN BLOCK 99 (2017) (2017) Dir. Nathan Dir. Michael Ritchie. Dir. Lech Kowalski. b-movies, camp classics, (1977) Dir. Kei Law. Dir. S. Craig Zahler. A re- Rumler. Jesus is kicked Hollywood legends Lee This incendiary look at and fright favorites. Twelve underworld invented Vince Vaughn out of Heaven for being Marvin, Gene Hackman punk’s origins is back in Cheap tickets, cheap assassins are trained to fights his way into and gay. The of and Sissy Spacek: theaters for the first time beer & cheap fun! find and kill Bruce Lee! out of Cell Block 99. Michigan strikes again! Together, they’re murder. since the 1980s.

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