The Bijou Film Board is a student-run UI organization dedicated to the exhibition FilmScene Staff of American independent, foreign and classic cinema. Established in 1972, the Joe Tiefenthaler, Executive Director Bijou Film Board assists FilmScene with program curation and operations. Andy Brodie, Program Director Andrew Sherburne, Associate Director THE Free Mondays! UI students admitted FREE to the last showing of any new release film every Monday. Emily Salmonson, ROOFTOP Director of Operations SERIES AFTER HOURS Late-night cult classics FILM FORUM Special screenings of acclaimed and Ross Meyer, Head Projectionist and fan favorites. Saturdays at 11pm. provocative films followed by discussion. Tuesdays at 6pm. and Facilities Manager presented by Aaron Holmgren, Shift Supervisor THE WAILING Dominick Schults, Projection and (2016) Dir. Hong-jin Facilities Assistant Na. The arrival of a SAT, 10/1 SAT, 10/9 TUE, 10/11 mysterious stranger TUE, 10/25 Wendy DeCora, Britt Fowler, Emma in a quiet rural village Husar, Ben Johnson, Sara Lettieri, causes suspicion. BEFORE THE FLOOD THE LISTENERS Carol McCarthy, Brad Pollpeter SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, (2016) Dir. Fisher Stevens. (2016) Dir. Bob Hurst. Spencer Williams, Theater Staff LONGER & UNCUT (1999) THE GREASY UN ambassador Leonardo Empathetic volunteers Cara Anthony, Tyler Hudson, Dir. Trey Parker. R-rated film STRANGLER DiCaprio campaigns to learn to answer suicide (2016) Dir. Jim Hosking. Jack Tieszen Sarah Ulanowicz, corrupts the boys and the rooftop. 10/8 SAT, raise global awareness hotlines. DIALOGUE to Drafthouse Films about climate change. follow with director Hurst. Projectionists presents an outlandish 10/16 ready-made cult classic. HORIZONS Stamp your passport for a cinematic world Board of Directors tour. One UI student will win a scholarship! Tuesday at 6pm. Laura Bergus, Chair BEND IT LIKE Doug Ongie, Vice Chair AN AMERICAN BECKHAM (2003) Emma Barnum, Secretary WEREWOLF IN LONDON Dir. Gurinder Chadha. Chris Ameling, Treasurer (1981) Dir. John Landis. The horror 10/15 SAT, An Indian family in Karen Chappell, Corey Creekmur, TUE, 10/4 classic turns 35 with the full moon. London raise their TUE, 10/18 Michael Davis, Will Downing, soccer-playing daughter. Evan Evans, Michael Finlayson, (2015, (2015, THE IDOL IXCANUL David Gould, Tommy Haines, Adam 11/6 SUPER 8 (2011) Dir. Palestine) Dir. Hany Guatemala) Dir. Jayro Ingersoll, Nicole Matos, Kembrew JJ Abrams. Friends in a Abu-Assad. A musician Bustamante. On the slopes McLeod, Ryan O’Leary, Andre Perry, small town witness an in Gaza sets a seemingly of an active volcano a Jamie Powers, Andy Stoll, FARGO (1996) Dir. Joel & Ethan 10/22 SAT, inexplicable train crash impossible goal: to marriage is arranged for Damon Terrill, Nick Westergaard Coen. Our annual tradition. Close while making a movie. compete on “Arab Idol.” 17-year-old María. down the rooftop with Marge and a In partnership with bottomless cup of coffee or cocoa. BIJOU PROGRAMMING IS FREE FOR UI STUDENTS $6 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: $6.00* See all the benefits of FilmScene membership at www.icfilmscene.org. CLINTON ST CLINTON DUBUQUE ST COLLEGE ST Evening: $10.00* Matinee: $8.50* Senior (60+): $7.50* PARKING PARKING RAMP RAMP Youth (12 & under): $7.50* BURLINGTON ST UI Students: $7.50* *includes $1 venue fee. Programs, showtimes and ticket prices subject to change. Special events may be priced differently. Movie Hotline: 319-358-2555. OVERHEARD... Happy #ArtHouseTheaterDay! If you need me, I’ll be at @icfilmscene for the vast majority of the day. CONNECT with Seth Reineke @SethReineke @ICFilmScene www.icfilmscene.org WOMEN TAKE THE SCREEN v3.10 Artists and rebels—four remarkable tales of young women charting their own paths SILENT FILM MAKES NOISE World-renowned silent film musical scoring ensemble Alloy Orchestra return to Iowa City ALL NIGHT FRIGHT FilmScene celebrates Halloween with our first-ever overnight horror marathon October 2016 The Birth of a Nation opens October 7. NEW MERCH! Just for kids: All-night horror marathon NEW RELEASES FilmScene onesies and tees! Just for The screams are coming non-kids: koozies only $1 with a beer! from inside the building at our first-ever 12-hour fright fest! Friday, October 28, 8pm - Saturday, 8am! Opens October 7 $50 Public / $40 Members / $25 Students Ticket includes bottomless coffee, breakfast & commemorative keepsakes + suprises all night long. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016, USA) Dir. Nate Parker. Based on a true I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (1970) Dir. David Durston. Satanic hippies story: in the antebellum South, Nat Turner, a literate become rabid after being fed meat pies. slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) Dir. Fred Dekker. A kids fan club meets Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he up with Dracula, Wolfman and the gang. witnesses countless atrocities--against himself and his fellow slaves--Nat orchestrates an uprising in CREATURE ROM THE BLACK the hopes of leading his people to freedom. LAGOON 3D (1954) Dir. Jack Arnold. A perilous jungle hunt for a rare beast. “Steeped equally in grace and horror...exists to provoke a serious debate about the necessity WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL and limitations of empathy, the morality of retaliatory violence, and the ongoing black struggle (1987) An infamous local tv broadcast of for justice and equality in this country. It earns that debate and then some.” —Variety a live seance at a haunted house. Winner of Audience Award & Grand Jury Prize, 2016 Sundance Film Festival + Two Special Secret Sceenings! ALLOY ORCHESTRA Wed, October 5, 7pm Live at The Englert Theatre MAN WITH A MOVIE Opens October 7 Opens October 7 CAMERA (1929, Soviet Union) Dir. Dziga Vertov. Iowa City’s favorite silent film accompanists present a AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY WHITE GIRL (2016, USA) Dir. live score to “the best documentary STORY (2016, USA) Dir. Jeff Feuerzeig. Elizabeth Wood. Summer, New York City: A college film of all time.” (Sight & Sound) In 2006, The New York Times sent shockwaves girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of through the literary world when it unmasked “it partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to boy” lit wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose get him back. Drawing comparisons to Larry Clark’s about a sordid childhood had captivated so many. landmark “Kids,” a provocative film based on the COMING IN NOVEMBER But LeRoy didn’t actually exist. The wild true story real-life events of director Wood. “Seductive and behind the persona and his creator, Laura Albert. repellent by turns, it augurs the arrival of a powerful, “The stuff of literary legend.” —The Guardian audacious new directorial talent.” —Hollywood Reporter GIMME DANGER MOONLIGHT (2016) (2016) Dir. Jim Jarmusch. Dir. Barry Jenkins. A The legendary director’s beautiful coming of age rock doc on The Stooges. story set in Miami during A Cannes premiere. the “War on Drugs” era. Opens October 21 Opens October 28 MISS HOKUSAI (2016, Japan) AMERICAN HONEY (2016, UK / Dir. Keiichi Hara. From the creators of “Ghost USA) Dir. Andrea Arnold. A teenage girl with nothing in the Shell” and “A Letter to Momo” comes the to lose hits the road, and gets caught up in a remarkable animated story of the daughter behind whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young THE EAGLE THE CINEMA one of history’s most famous artists. The life and love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band HUNTRESS (2016) TRAVELLERS (2016) works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter of misfits. Jury Prize winner at Cannes. “You could Dir. Otto Bell. The true Dir. Shirley Abraham, Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his also argue that this almost intentionally exhausting story of the first female Amit Madheshiya. Vino daughter, Katsushika O-Ei. “Gorgeous! A small film is too much of a good thing. But there’s amazingly eagle hunter in a nomadic Vérité screening about film poetic wonder!” —Hollywood Reporter little of it you’d want to live without.” —The Telegraph Mongolian culture. projectionists in India. SPECIAL EVENTS STARVING THE BEAST (2016, TORREY PINES (2016, USA) Dir. USA) Dir. Steve Mims. As college tuition Clyde Peterson. Based on a true story, a skyrockets and student debt explodes, a stop-motion animated queer punk coming- nationwide fight for control of the heart, soul of-age tale, taking place in Southern and finances of public universities ensues. California in the early 1990s. LIVE SCORE Monday, October 17, 7pm Monday, October 24, 9pm Sponsored by the Obermann Center and the performed by three-piece band Your Heart Free. At the Englert Theatre $7 Public / $5 Members Public Policy Center. DIALOGUE to follow. Breaks. THE WAY WE TALK (2015, USA) OASIS: SUPERSONIC (2016, Dir. Mike Turner. A moving documentary UK) Dir. Mat Whitecross. From the Oscar about stuttering and grappling with our winning producers of “Amy” and “Senna” inner shame. Presented on Int’l Stuttering comes the incredible true story of the Awareness Day by Univ. of Iowa Wendell meteoric rise, chaotic reign, and epic Saturday, October 22, 2pm Wednesday, October 26, 8pm Johnson Speech and Hearing Center.