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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
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AUTISM SOCIETY OF IOWA SCREENING: BAMBI
Lights up, sound low, and limited tickets allowing room to move!
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BAMBI
In this life-changing adventure, Bambi sets off with his best friends Thumper and Flower to explore the wonders and challenges of the woods—and fulfill his destiny as prince of the forest.
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BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD
A magical hybrid documentary fairy tale about a Czech poet and his twin brother, adapted from the book "Better to Go Mad in the Wilderness" by Aleš Palán.
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BLUE MOON (2025)
The story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life unravel at the opening night party for his former partner’s hit show Oklahoma!
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BOXCUTTER (2024)
Rome has the talent to break out as a rapper, but his chance to impress a megastar producer is jeopardized when the only copy of his album is stolen.
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BRAZIL
A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
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BUDDIES (1985)
When 25 year-old gay yuppie David volunteers to be a "buddy" to an AIDS patient, the gay community center assigns him to Robert, a 32 year-old politically impassioned gay California gardener abandoned by his friends and lovers.
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BUGONIA
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT
A poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership.
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DIE HARD
When a New York City policeman visits his estranged wife and daughters on Christmas Eve, and a group of terrorists take over the exclusive high-rise where he's attending a holiday party, he realizes that there's no one to save the hostages but him.
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DIE MY LOVE
Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless.
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EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY
A documentary exposé of the world's biggest—and most unaccountable—polluter: the US military. Learn the environmental cost of having a military Empire with Abby Martin.
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EDUCATIONAL ACTIVISM: BLACKSIDE INC. ON 16MM
Take a look at different perspectives on the healthcare system and get a rare look at esteemed writer, photographer, and filmmaker Gordon Parks from Henry Hampton's Blackside, Inc.
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ENCANTO
A Colombian teenage girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers in the the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia.
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FARGO
An annual tradition, we close our Rooftop series with the Coen Brothers comic-crime classic.
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FILMSCENE 101: HOLIDAY AFFAIR (1949)
In this FilmScene 101, we explore Holiday Affair’s unusual emotional register: a dash of melancholy with the merry, achieved through savvy casting and the distinct stylings of the RKO studio.
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FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
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HAMNET
Witness the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of a timeless masterpiece when tragedy strikes for William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley).
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HOME ALONE
When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic, and he is mistakenly left home alone. Now must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
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IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
With her life crashing around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, and an increasingly hostile therapist.
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IN A LONELY PLACE
Dixon Steele reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read it himself, he convinces a star-struck hat check girl to tell him the story in her own words. When she's found murdered later that night, Steele becomes the prime suspect.
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IOWA'S DIRTY SECRET: THE TRUE COST OF BURNING COAL
Examine the cost of coal through first-hand accounts shared by neighboring families, doctors, and the advocates fighting for something better.
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IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
An unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he gathers several former victims of the same captor to try and confirm his identity.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Frank Capra's paean to small-town values stars James Stewart as a man who's come to the end of his rope one Christmas Eve in this classic story of redemption and second chances.
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KILLER OF SHEEP
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to work at a job he finds repugnant and finds he has little sensitivity for his family.
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LA HAINE
Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, three young men give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their resentment at their marginalization simmering until it reaches a boiling point.
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LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN + ÉIRU
The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. Soon Amélie discovers the wonders of nature and deeper emotional truths of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.
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LITTLE WOMEN (1994)
Jo March struggles for independence and sometimes clashes with her beloved mother and sisters Meg, Amy and Beth, their cranky Aunt March and their impulsive neighbor Laurie.
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MARTY SUPREME
In the 1950s Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness to become a table-tennis champion.
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MILDRED PIERCE (1945)
A hard-working mother (Joan Crawford) inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter (Ann Blyth) in Michael Curtiz's (Casablanca) melodrama tinged noir.
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MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION
Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune– but at what cost?
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MY LIFE IS WIND (A LETTER)
A refugee torn from her Middle Eastern home, Myriam resettles in the Midwest, documenting her early experiences in this new land through a poignant letter addressed to her grandmother she was forced to leave.
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NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)
Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) aches for a life of ease and plenty. Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime, but there's no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh.
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NO ONE CARES ABOUT CRAZY PEOPLE
An intimate, immersive deep dive into the crisis and chaos of severe mental illness – and a burgeoning grassroots movement to do something about it.
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NOUVELLE VAGUE
This is the story of Jean-Luc Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made the original.
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NUREMBERG
As the Nuremberg trials are set to begin, a U.S. Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) gets locked in a dramatic psychological showdown with accused Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe).
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own's daughter.
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RENTAL FAMILY
An American actor (Brendan Fraser) in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers.
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REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
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ROT
Director Marcus Koch joins us in person for a tale of punks and corpses that has to be seen in VHScious Video.
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When she turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
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SLAP SHOT
Paul Newman takes the trophy in this all-time great late-night hockey movie mayhem.
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SOMEWHERE
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
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SONG SUNG BLUE
Lightning and Thunder, a Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute act, experience soaring success and devastating heartbreak in their musical journey together.
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STORIES OF COMMUNITY 2025 ROUNDUP
A celebration of FilmScene's two year partnership with Resilient Sustainable Future for Iowa City.
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SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
Fame isn’t forever—just ask Norma Desmond. Once a Hollywood legend, now a forgotten relic, the silent movie star refuses to fade away. When struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis stumbles into her decaying mansion, he becomes trapped in her web of obsession, control, and delusion.
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THE FIFTH STEP
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Responder, Sherlock) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play.
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THE IDIOT (1951)
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
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THE MASTERMIND
In Massachusetts circa 1970 an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
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THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
'Tis the season for love, laughter and one of the most cherished stories of all time. Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale.
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THE PLAYER
A hotshot Hollywood studio executive starts receiving death threats from a rejected writer.
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THE PUPPET MASTERS
Extraterrestrial beings have landed and are quickly taking control of the residents of a small Iowa town.
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THE STRIKE (2024)
The Strike is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history.
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THE TOWER (WORK IN PROGRESS CUT)
A kaleidoscopic tapestry of colorful characters collide in a small Iowa town. Spooky, serendipitous resonances bubble up between stories where people play themselves in fictionalized as well as real life scenarios.
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TOY STORY
A cowboy doll is profoundly jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as the top toy in a boy's bedroom. When circumstances separate them from their owner, the duo have to put aside their differences to return to him.
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TRAIN DREAMS
Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.
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TWIN PEAKS: SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2 + EPISODE 3
Agent Cooper meets with Audrey, who confesses to leaving him the note about One Eyed Jack's. Cooper tells Truman he can't remember who the killer was in his dream, but insists the dream is a code to solving the crime.
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TWIN PEAKS: SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4 + EPISODE 5
Cooper and company have tea with the Log Lady, who tells them there was a third man following after Leo and Jacques the night Laura died. At Jacques Renault's cabin Cooper, Hawk, and Truman find Waldo the bird.
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TWIN PEAKS: SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6 + EPISODE 7
Audrey is hired at One Eyed Jack's, but is caught in a trap when her father arrives. Cooper gets Jacques Renault to reveal the details of Laura's last night in the cabin. Deputy Andy saves Truman's life and apprehends Renault.
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TWIN PEAKS: SEASON 1 - PILOT + EPISODE 1
The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic.
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UNCONVENTIONAL
In honor of the 35th anniversary of New Jersey's Chiller Theatre Horror Convention we look back at the documentary of the 13th annual con.
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) takes on a new case that brings him into the orbit of a charismatic priest, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), and his devout congregation.
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WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?
The hostess (Juliet Prowse) at a Manhattan disco receives nasty phone calls from a sexual predator (Sal Mineo) and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.
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WICKED + WICKED: FOR GOOD DOUBLE FEATURE
See the whole saga in one epic event. Relive the majesty of WICKED followed by the magical conclusion with WICKED: FOR GOOD.
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WICKED: FOR GOOD
Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
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