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September 2017 . The Bijou Film Board is a student-run UI organization dedicated to the exhibition of FilmScene Staff American independent, foreign and classic cinema. Established in 1972, the Bijou Film Joe Tiefenthaler, Executive Director Board assists FilmScene with program curation and operations. Andy Brodie, Program Director Andrew Sherburne, Associate Director Free Mondays! UI students admitted FREE to the late showing of any new release film every Monday. Kate Markham, Dir. of Operations Ross Meyer, Head Projectionist and Facilities Manager AFTER HOURS A late-night series featuring HORIZONS STAMP YOUR PASSPORT for a five Aaron Holmgren, Shift Supervisor cult classics and fan favorites. Saturdays at 11pm. film cinematic world tour. One UI student who attends Dominick Shults, Projection and every screening will win a study abroad scholarship! Facilities Assistant HOT FUZZ (2007) Dir. Abby Thomas, Marketing Assistant Edgar Wright. Simon Pegg Theater Staff: Cara Anthony, SAT, 9/2 SAT, and Nick Frost star in the hilarious buddy cop satire. Graham Bly, Sean Demers, TUE, 9/12 TUE, 9/26 Galen Hawthorne, Anna Lee, www.icfilmscene.org/membership Spencer Williams THEY LIVE (1988) Dir. John Carpenter. A sci-fi action THE NILE HILTON THE ORNITHOLOGIST Projectionists: Jack Christensen, INCIDENT (2017) Dir. (2017) Dir. João Pedro Felipe Disarz, Tyler Hudson, SAT, 9/9 SAT, thriller crossed with witty anti- Tarik Saleh. In Cairo, just Rodrigues. A dashing Reagan satire. Tristen Kopp before the 2011 revolution, scientist endures the THE TRANSFIGURATION a murder case unfolds. extreme in the deep forest. Board of Directors Laura Bergus, Chair (2017) Dir. Michael O’Shea. FILM FORUM Special screenings of acclaimed Doug Ongie, Vice Chair Loss, loneliness, class, and SAT, 9/16 SAT, and provocative films followed by discussion. Emma Barnum, Secretary vampires mix in New York. Chris Ameling, Treasurer Hannah Bonner, Karen Chappell, (1979) Dir. Ridley ALIEN Corey Creekmur, Michael Davis, Scott. In space, no one can TUE, 9/19 TUE, 10/3 Will Downing, Evan Evans, hear you scream. One of the SAT, 9/23 SAT, David Gould, Tommy Haines, greatest sci-fi flicks ever. HAIL! HAIL! ROCK STARLESS DREAMS Adam Ingersoll, Jake Nelson, N’ ROLL (1987) Dir. (2017) Dir. Mehrdad Kembrew McLeod, Ryan O’Leary, MATINEE (1993) Dir. Joe Taylor Hackford. Chuck Andre Perry, Jamie Powers, Dante. A small-time producer Oskouei. A portrait Berry—inventor of rock ’n’ Laura Seegmiller, Andy Stoll, releases a B horror film to of teenage girls in an SAT, 9/30 SAT, roll—an American genius! Nick Westergaard cash in on America’s war fever. Iranian detention center. DIALOGUE to follow. DIALOGUE to follow. FilmScene’s August Member Month was a record-setting success! We’re hunbled by August Member Month was a record-setting success! We’re FilmScene’s the overwhelming support of our movie loving community—from Iowa City and beyond. For full details on all the perks of membership, visit In partnership with BIJOU PROGRAMMING IS FREE FOR UI STUDENTS $6.50 GENERAL PUBLIC Join our email list at www.icfilmscene.org for weekly updates! About FilmScene FilmScene is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the cultural vitality of the Iowa City area through the presentation and discussion of film as an art form. With programming that entertains, inspires, and 118 E. College St. #101 educates, FilmScene works to build and connect community through film. Iowa City, IA 52240 For more information, visit www.icfilmscene.org. Tickets Getting Here Online: www.icfilmscene.org Located at 118 E. College St. on the Box Office: open at noon daily Ped Mall in Downtown Iowa City. Members: $6.50* See all the benefits of FilmScene membership at www.icfilmscene.org. CLINTON ST CLINTON DUBUQUE ST COLLEGE ST Evening: $10.50* Matinee: $9.00* Senior (60+): $8.00* PARKING PARKING RAMP RAMP Youth (12 & under): $8.00* BURLINGTON ST UI Students: $8.00* *includes $1.50 venue fee. Programs, showtimes and ticket prices subject to change. Special events may be priced differently. Movie Hotline: 319-358-2555. OVERHEARD... Thanks to @icfilmscene for showing films like @stepthemovie in Iowa City. #StepIsLife #HopeAndGrit. Brian Brandsmeier @BBrandsmeier CONNECT with @ICFilmScene www.icfilmscene.org GET SCHOOLED v4.9 The Bijou delivers a full slate of late nights, foreign films and cinematic conversations. EMBRACE THE MADNESS A lost-now-found Japanese silent gets a live score from Iowa City faves Alloy Orchestra. MANY ONE-OF-A-KINDS Fresh voices and famed auteurs bring truly unique visions to the big screen. September 2017 Whose Streets? is an unflinching street-level look Sunday, at the Ferguson unrest, its causes and impact. September 24! STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS Heading back to school? Show your student ID for a Sunday, September 24 NEW RELEASES $25 membership. www.icfilmscene.org/membership www.icfilmscene.org/ahtd A worldwide celebration of the art house and its cultural role in community with exclusive one-time programming, giveaways, concession deals and more! New release films also playing all day. REVOLTING RHYMES One Week Only! (2016, UK) Dir. Jakob Schuh, Opens September 1 Opens September 8 Jan Lachauer. Two BBC- crafted short films based on 10am // Free for kids the much-loved rhyme book PATTI CAKE$ (2017, USA) LOST IN PARIS (2017, France/ courtesy MidWestOne from Roald Dahl. Dir. Geremy Jasper. Aspiring rapper Patricia Belgium) Dirs. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon. In Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, is a this slapstick delight, Fiona is a Canadian librarian TITICUT FOLIES (1967, big girl with a big mouth and big dreams. Stuck in who flies to Paris and discovers her elderly aunt USA) Dir. Frederick Wiseman. The 50th anniversary of doc Lodi, New Jersey, Patti battles an army of haters is missing. As she scours the city looking for her, on a hospital for the criminally as she strives to break the mold and take over the she encounters Dom, a friendly but annoying tramp 2:30pm insane. DIALOGUE between rap scene. A Sundance audience favorite. who won’t leave her alone. “Married director-stars w/ Recorded Q&A Wiseman and Wes Anderson. “An unambiguous joy. A sensational Danielle Gordon and Abel show a grace for physical comedy Macdonald.” —The New York Times and pretzel-like pas de deux.” —The New York Times LUCKY (2017, USA) Dir. John Carroll Lynch. Harry Dean Stanton stars in the spiritual journey of a 90-year- 7:30pm old atheist. Advance screening Sneak Preview courtesy Magnolia Pictures. One Week Only! Opens September 15 Opens September 22 ALLOY ORCHESTRA ENDLESS POETRY (2017, MENASHE (2017, USA) Dir. Joshua Chile/UK/France) Dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky. Z. Weinstein. Set—and secretly shot—within Wed, September 27, 7pm Through renowned father of the midnight movies Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a Live at The Englert Theatre Jodorowsky’s intensely personal lens, Endless good-hearted grocery store clerk struggles against A PAGE OF MADNESS Poetry tells the story of his years spent as an tradition to keep custody of his only son after his (1926, Japan) Dir. Teinosuke aspiring poet in Chile in the 1940s. An ode to wife passes away. A tender story told entirely in Kinugasa. Iowa City’s favorite silent the quest for beauty and inner truth. “Contagious Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of film accompanists present a live score to this “bold, striking” (TCM) passion and stunning imagination...an exuberant faith and the price of parenthood. “Genius. A new once-lost Japanese silent. celebration of life and art.” —The Harvard Crimson way of looking at humanity.” —The Huffington Post Opens September 22 Opens September 29 presented by WHOSE STREETS? (2017, SAVING BRINTON (2017, USA) USA) Dir. Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis. An A film by Tommy Haines, John Richard, Andrew unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Sherburne. Eccentric Iowa collector Michael Zahs Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, inspired makes a remarkable discovery—the showreels Featuring well-loved classics, beneath the stars and a community to fight back and sparked a global that introduced the movies to the Heartland over a above the streets of Iowa City. Includes a pint from Big movement. “It represents the spirit of something century ago. This Iowa City made film had its world Grove Brewery, and always with a little something extra more powerful than a bullet, the seed of something premiere at AFI Docs. “Mr. Zahs [is] one of the most to butter up your Rooftop experience. good springing from a terrible and unjust event. A unlikely, yet most likeable, heroes of contemporary TICKETS and details: www.icfilmscene.org/series/rooftop brash example of guerrilla filmmaking.” —TIME nonfiction cinema.” —The Washington Times WAYNE’S WORLD (1992) Dir. 9/3 Penelope Spheeris. Party time! Wayne SPECIAL EVENTS (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey) take their sketch to the big screen. September 6 THE HOWLING See Late Shift listing ROBOCOP (1987) Dir. Paul 9/17 Verhoeven. In a dystopic, cyberpunk Friday, September 8, 11pm Saturday, September 16, Noon October 2, 8pm Detroit, a terminally wounded cop Tickets: $7 public Tickets: $8 public Let’s play another round—quiz returns to the force. Your move, creeps. BLUE RAIN WITH A LITTLE SWIM TEAM (2017) Dir. Lara night returns with a movie trivia 9 TO 5 (1980) Dir. Colin Higgins. Dolly RED IN IT (2015) Dir. Christopher Stolman. The extraordinary rise of night through (and for) the ages. 10/1 Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda Kirkley. Nigerien musician Mdou the Hammerheads, a New Jersey Gather your team of four for a night get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist Moctar’s remake of Prince’s based swim team for children and of multimedia movie minutiae! boss. What a way to make a living! Purple Rain screens in advance teens on the autism spectrum.
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