Through its unique showing of movies and emphasis on community engagement, FilmScene has established a central presence in Iowa City’s art scene since its opening in November 2013.  To celebrate...

Since the first presentation of a motion picture in December 1895, film has played a large role in society. High-budget cult-classic movies like “Star Wars,” “The Godfather,” and “Harry Potter”...

Hannah Crooks [email protected]   Increasingly, connections between our current political climate and the dystopian film, 1984, have come clearer into view. This week, with a special...

By Austin Henderson [email protected] Toni Erdmann treads familiar territory. The trope of an independent movie examining the deep questions of life is not anything new.  However, director...

2017 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: DI’s Chosen Three By Lily Goodman [email protected]   There’s something to be said about a film that has a runtime of forty minutes or less and utilizes...

Moonlight Review By Girindra Selleck [email protected]   Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’s stellar new film—his second, after 2008’s Medicine for Melancholy—evades classification....

Two people dance across the window of a studio in New York, their bodies unperturbed by passersby, creating masterful figures like a live painting. The cacophony of the street meets the pleasure of the...

By Girindra Selleck and Tessa Solomon [email protected] | [email protected] This year’s Mission Creek Festival, held April 5-10, saw hip-hoppers, krautrockers, proto-punks, slam...

Anomalisa, a stop-motion animated film from Charlie Kaufman, will open today at FilmScene, 118 E. College. By Girindra Selleck [email protected] @Bala596 Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa,...

Marielle Heller’s directorial feature début (and Sundance-prèmiere) Diary of a Teenage Girl manages to escape the clichés and pitfalls normally associated with coming-of-age films; instead, it paints...