The Bijou Film Board is a student-run UI organization dedicated to the exhibition of American independent, foreign and classic FilmScene Staff cinema. Established in 1972, the Bijou Film Board assists FilmScene with program curation and operations. Joe Tiefenthaler, Executive Director 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 night of the semester. Emily Salmonson, Director of Operations Ross Meyer, Head Projectionist AFTER HOURS A late-night series featuring FILM FORUM Special screenings and discussions of acclaimed and Facilities Manager cult classics, fan favorites, and the best in and provocative films in conjunction with UI departments and orgs. Aaron Holmgren, Shift Supervisor modern genre films. Saturdays at 11pm. Francis Agnoli, Theater Staff Mary Clark, Theater Staff Wendy DeCora, Theater Staff TUE, 2/2 Sun, Mar 6, 10am TUE, 2/16 Sean Demers, Theater Staff SAT, 2/6 SAT, SAT, 2/13 SAT, Anna Lee, Theater Staff BARISTA (2015) WELCOME TO LEITH SONGS FROM THE Amanda Rossmiller, Theater Staff Dir. Rock Baijnauth. (2015) Dir. Michael Beach NORTH (2014) Dir. Soon-Mi Dylan Schreder, Theater Staff Five top baristas find CANNIBAL 10 THINGS I Nichols, Christopher K. Walker. Yoo. An essay film constructed Spencer Williams, Theater Staff themselves pushing HOLOCAUST (1979) HATE ABOUT YOU The attempted takeover of a small of new and archival footage, Emily Brown, Projectionist the limits of coffee Dir. Ruggero Deodato. (1999) Dir. Gil Junger. town by white supremacists. songs, spectacles and cinema Dominick Shults, Projectionist perfection to win A documentary team Heath Ledger stars in DIALOGUE with director to understand North Korea. Duncan Sinclair, Projectionist David Trudell, Projectionist the National Barista goes to the jungle, and a modern take on a Walker and subject Ryan Lenz. DIALOGUE with panel to follow. Sarah Ulanowicz, Projectionist Championship - a only the footage returns. Shakesperean classic. STAMP YOUR PASSPORT for a cinematic world surreal competition HORIZONS Board of Directors tour. One UI Student will win a scholarship! where even one Michael Finlayson, Chair mistake is far too Tommy Haines, Vice Chair Emma Barnum, Secretary many. SPECIAL 2/20 SAT, 2/27 SAT, Chris Ameling, Treasurer EVENT Pre-screening TUE, 2/9 TUE, 2/23 Laura Bergus, Karen Chappell, coffee tasting and THE ROOM (2003) AKIRA (1998) Dir. Corey Creekmur, Michael Davis, pastries with The Java THEEB (2015) Dir. Naji Abu MUSTANG (2015) Dir. Dir. Tommy Wissau. Katsuhiro Ôtomo. Will Downing, Evan Evans, David House, Waterstreet Nowar. Oscar-nominated film Deniz Gamze Ergüven. 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CONNECT with Rachel Stewart @rastewar @ICFilmScene www.icfilmscene.org v3.2 OSCARS, OSCARS, OSCARS 15 nominated shorts, 13 nominated features and our annual awards night celebration SCREEN TWO OPENS 2/2 Celebrate the opening of The Screening Room with a free all-day Groundhog Day marathon IF A TREE FALLS... You should be there to hear it when the one-of- a-kind Bob and the Trees comes to Vino Vérité February 2016 Géza Röhrig stars in Son of Saul, the remarkable debut film from László Nemes. A Grand Prix winner at Cannes Film Festival and Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. PRESENTED BY BE MINE Evening for two? NEW RELEASES Our wine is available by the bottle. Thought-provoking, genre-busting films are paired with curated wines in a search for truth in cinema that brings fresh filmmaking voices to Iowa City. Opens February 12 Opens February 19 February 21, 7pm 45 YEARS (2015) Dir. Andrew Haigh. SON OF SAUL (2015) Dir. László How well can you really know your partner—even Nemes. In this searing drama, a concentration camp after decades of marriage? That’s the question at inmate tasked with burning the dead discovers the BOB AND THE TREES (2015) the heart of this emotional tour-de-force. Screen body of his young son, and must choose between Dir. Diego Ongaro. Filmed during a deep winter legends Charlotte Rampling (in an Oscar-nominated participating in the clandestine uprising being planned in the Berkshires, the film stars the real-life Bob role) and Tom Courtenay star as a couple preparing among the prisoners, or securing a proper Jewish Tarasuk as himself, a 50-year-old logger with to celebrate their 45th anniversary. But a stunning burial for his child. Winner—Best Foreign Language a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, struggling revelation suddenly changes everything. “Five Film, Golden Globes; Grand Prix—Cannes Film to make ends meet in a merciless industry. A Sundance world premiere. “A film you experience stars! Supremely intelligent and moving. Rampling and Festival. “A stunning piece of art. It is unlike anything on every level; visually, auditorily, emotionally, and Courtenay are superb.” —The Guardian you have seen before.” —RogerEbert.com almost tactily.” —Reel Honest Reviews DIALOGUE Director Diego Ongaro in person. TICKETS $25 / $20 Members includes hand- OSCAR picked wine from Wally “The Wine Guy” Plahutnik. SHORTS Thru February An annual tradition returns —each program will ANIMATED LIVE ACTION DOCS Body Team 12, Bear Story, Prologue, Chau, beyond the Lines, screen multiple times in Ave Maria, Day One, Sanjay’s Super Team, Claude Lanzmann, Spectres The Screening Room, Everything Will Be The We Can’t Live without Okay, Shok, Stutterer of the Shaoh, A Girl in the our new second screen! Cosmos, World of River: The Price of Forgiveness, www.icfilmscene.org/oscar-shorts PictureShow Tomorrow Last Day of Freedom Family and Children’s Series presented by Come out of the cold for our ongoing series of big-screen FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION classics old and new—for movie lovers of all ages! Tickets always only $2.50! Winter films play February 5-28 Passes: $65 / $40 Presented by Press-Citizen Media Saturday at 10am and Thursday at 3:30pm. A curated series of Academy Award nominees from four categories: Best Picture, Foreign Language Film, Animated KID FLIX: BEST OF NEW Feature and Documentary Feature. Individual tickets available for each show or book one of a limited number of full YORK INTERNATIONAL series pass and see all 10 films before Oscar night! Details: www.icfilmscene.org/for-your-consideration CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL (2015) Two 60-minute programs Feb. 6 & 11 of award-winning shorts, one for kids 3 to 8 and one for 9 and up. MINIONS (2015) Dir. Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda. The Minions AMY A WAR BOY AND THE BROOKLYN CARTEL LAND are recruited by super-villian Dir. Asif Kapadia. Dir. Tobias Lindholm. Dir. Alê Dir. John Crowley. Dir. Matthew Scarlet Overkill in a slapstick WORLD Feb. 13 & 18 Documentary Foreign Language Abreu. Animated Best Picture. Heineman and Tom plot to take over the world. Feature. Film, Denmark. Feature Film. Yellin. Documentary Feature. THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999) Dir. David Lynch. Pure, profound, beautiful true story of an Iowa man’s 260-mile lawnmower Feb. 20 & 25 journey to visit his ill brother. THE PEANUTS MOVIE INSIDE OUT MAD MAX: MUSTANG SPOTLIGHT THEEB (2015) Dir. Steve Martino. Dir. Pete Docter FURY ROAD Dir. Deniz Gamze Dir. Tom McCarthy. Dir. Naji Abu Nowar. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and Jonas Rivera. Dir. George Miller. Ergüven. Foreign Best Picture. Foreign Language and the “Peanuts” gang make Animated Feature Best Picture. Language Film, Film, Jordan. Feb. 27 & Mar. 3 their big-screen debut in 3D! Film. France. SPECIAL EVENTS GROUNDHOG HOLLYWOOD PLYMPTOONS: DAY MARATHON LIVE 2016 THE SHORTS (1993) Dir. Harold Ramis. Join us on Hollywood’s OF BILL An all-day celebration of biggest night for a benefit the comic genius of Bill celebration hosted by PLYMPTON An evening with Oscar- Tue, February 2 Murray and Harold Ramis Sun, February 28, 7pm Megan Gogerty and Fri, March 4, 10pm nominated animator and Free Admission and the grand-opening Tickets: $45 VIP / Kristy Hartsgrove Mooers! Tickets: $5 / Free with cartoonist Bill Plympton, presented by FilmScene of The Screening Room, $10 general admission Walk the blue carpet, festival pass whose work has been and KCJJ 1630am.