January 2019

118 E. College St. #101Iowa City, IA 52240

AND THE AWARD GOES TO Prize winners and Oscar hopefuls If Beale Street Could Talk, Shoplifters, Cold War and more.

BRING THE KIDS Our Picture Show brings you in from the cold with animated gems for the whole family!

BEAT THE BITTER Join us in North Liberty for a skate-in outdoor screening of The Mighty Ducks!

TicketsOnline: www.icfilmscene.org Box Office: open at noon daily

Members: $6.50* See all the benefits of FilmScene membership at www.icfilmscene.org.

Evening: $10.50* Matinee: $9.00* Senior (60+): $8.00* Youth (12 & under): $8.00* UI Students: $8.00**includes $1.50 venue fee.

Getting HereLocated at 118 E. College St. on the Ped Mall in Downtown Iowa City.

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Stephan James and KiKi Layne as Alonzo Hunt and Tish Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk.

About FilmSceneFilmScene 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 educates, FilmScene works to build and connect community through film. For more information, visit www.icfilmscene.org.

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Programs, showtimes and ticket prices subject to change. Special events may be priced differently. Movie Hotline: 319-358-2555.

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In partnership with

FilmScene Staff Joe Tiefenthaler, Executive Director Andrew Sherburne, Associate Director Rebecca Fons, Programming Director Emily Salmonson, Dir. of Operations Ross Meyer, Head Projectionist and Facilities Manager Connie White, Film Booker Aaron Holmgren, Operation Asst. Dominick Shults, Projection and Facilities Assistant Stacia Rain, Marketing & Design

Theater Staff: Adam Bryant, Graham Bly, Mariah Cooper, Emma Gray, Galen Hawthorne, Jack Howard, Max Johnson, Emily Stagman

Projectionists: Jack Christensen, Mac Chuchra, Felipe Disarz, Tristen Kopp, Aaron Longoria, Michael Wawzenek

Board of Directors Karen Chappell, Chair Hans House, Vice Chair Laura Seegmiller, Secretary Chris Ameling, Treasurer Emma Barnum, Laura Bergus, Corey Creekmur, Will Downing, Evan Evans, Sal Goedken, David Gould, Tommy Haines, Adam Ingersoll, Tristen Kopp, Uri Lessing, Nina Lohman, Jake Nelson, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, Kembrew McLeod, Doug Ongie, Ryan O’Leary, Andre Perry, Jamie Powers, Nick Westergaard

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OVERHEARD... Excellent service, and really good popcorn. Overall, a great place to watch a movie. I’ll definitely be going back!Chris Grier, Google Review

CONTAGION (2011) Government officials and everyday people fight against a worldwide epidemic. Film followed by a presentation from epidemiologist Sharon DeWitte.In partnership with Iowa City Darwin Day.

HIDDEN FIGURES (2017) Free Admission Includes soul food dinner Old Brick, 26 E Market St NASA astronaut Jeanette J Epps introduces award-winning film about the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race.In partnership with Beloved Community, Iowa City Police Department, Iowa City Community School District, Black Voices Project, and NASA.

Friday Feb 22, 5pm

Saturday Feb 23, 3pm

Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

SUMMER SESSIONS

ON SALE MID-JANUARY

Girls, trans, and gender non-binary youth 7-14 are invited to make films with accomplished animator Kelly Gallagher—totally from scratch!

March 18 - 228:30am to 3:00pm$300 includes snacks, lunch and t-shirtRegister now at icfilmscene.org/education

SPRING BREAK CAMP

We accomplished a lot together in 2018 launching Women's March, high school education initiatives,

and our open captions initiative. With your help we can do even more in the new year.

Show your support at icfilmscene.org/season-of-giving

NEW RELEASES

Showtimes set and published weekly on Tuesday. Schedule subject to change. Showtimes at www.icfilmscene.org or the Movie Hotline at 319-358-2555.

Our winter season of big-screen classics continues! Join us 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.

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LIYANA (2018) Dirs. Aaron Kopp & Amanda Kopp. Five Swazi orphaned children turn their past trauma into creative fuel for a collective fairytale, which sends a young girl on a dangerous quest.

Jan. 5, 6 & 10

ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS (2018) An annual tradition—15 new thought-provoking, poignant, and very funny animated shorts from around the world.

Jan. 12, 13 & 17

EARLY MAN (2018) Dir. Nick Park. Dug, along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.

Jan. 19, 20 & 24

BMX BANDITS (1983) Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith. Two BMX expert bikers and their friend (a young Nicole Kidman) tangled with bank robbers after discovering a carton of walkie-talkies.

Jan. 26, 27 & 31

MIRAI (2018) Dir. Mamoru Hosoda. A young boy finds a magical garden which allows him to travel through time and meet relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Feb. 2, 3 & 7

BACK FOR A 2ND YEAR!Showcasing films made exclusively bywomen through the entire month of March.

VOX LUX (2018, USA) Dir. Brady Corbet. Vox Lux follows the rise of Celeste (Natalie Portman) from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. The film spans 18 years and traces important cultural moments through her eyes, starting in 1999 and concluding in 2017. “Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, with a big performance by Portman, is an audacious story about a survivor who becomes a star, and a deeply satisfying, narratively ambitious jolt of a movie.” —Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Opens Jan 4 (tentative)

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018, USA) Dir. Barry Jenkins. Director Jenkins follows his remarkable Moonlight with an adaptation of a novel by James Baldwin. Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while carrying their first born child to term. “A work of social realism elevated to poetic heights by the sheer beauty of its voice and the humanism of its spirit.” —Peter Debruge, Variety

Punch in for weird Wednesdays at 10pm for b-movies, camp classics, and fright favorites. Cheap tickets, cheap beer & cheap fun!

THE THING (1982) Dir. John Carpenter. Join us for our annual celebration and remember...man is the warmest place to hide.

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THE SUCKLING (1990) Dir. Francis Teri. A teenage couple sets off a bizarre series of events that they’ll never forget... if they live to tell about it.

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CODE NAME: DYNASTUD (2018) Dir. Richard Griffin. Stronger than Superman, gayer than Batman—the superhero we need.

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CAROUSHELL (2016) Dir. Steve Rudzinski. A carousel unicorn has broken free of the merry-go-round. Step right up and die!

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BMX BANDITS (1983) Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith. BMX stunts, screwball comedy, and 16-year-old Nicole Kidman!

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SHOPLIFTERS (2018, Japan) Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu. A dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. Unexpected events test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Palm d’Or winner at Cannes Film Festival.

“This is the year’s most compassionate movie.” —Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out

WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY (2018, USA) Dir. Roberta Grossman. A moving documentary on the Oyneg Shabes Archive, presented on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in partnership with Agudas Achim Congregation. DIALOGUE to follow.

CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO! (2018, USA) Dir. Marie Losier. Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.

a Parisian New YearMonday, December 31 4pm Doors, 5pm Showtime$25 public / $20 members FilmScene’s traditional countdown to the New Year on Paris time includes champagne toast and French pastries!

THE ARTIST (2011) Dir. Michel Hazanavicius. An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood’s silent era. icfilmscene.org/new-years-eve

COLD WAR (2018, Poland) Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski. Two people are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to love each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times. From the director of the equally stunning, Oscar-winning Ida. “One of the most colourful things you’ll ever see in black and white.” —Philip De Semlyen, Time Out

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS

Free Admission • Penn Meadows Park, North Liberty

MIGHTY DUCKS (1992, USA) Dir. Stephen Herek. Join us at the annual Beat the Bitter Winter Games & Good Cheer event for a “skate-in” outdoor screening of the 90s classic! Bring a chair or blanket and don’t forget your skates.

Opens Feb 1

Opens Jan 11 (tentative)

Opens Jan 18 (tentative)

Monday Feb 4, 6pmSunday Jan 27, 5pm Tuesday Jan 29, 6pm

STAN & OLLIE (2018, USA) Dir. John S Baird. John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan star as Laurel and Hardy—the world’s greatest comedy team—facing an uncertain future as their golden era of Hollywood films remain long behind them. Long-buried tension and Hardy’s failing health start to threaten their precious partnership. “Stan & Ollie is an undeniably sweet testament to the pair’s final years.” —Charlie Nicholson, Film Inquiry

Opens Jan 25

Now Playing THE FAVOURITE Rivals compete for the affections of the Queen.MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS A historic family rivalry for the united throne.

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY BEAT THE BITTER PRIDE AT FILMSCENE