Join us for some well-loved classics beneath the stars and above the streets of Iowa City from the summer through fall. You never know what we’ll add to each screening to butter up your Rooftop experience. Get your tickets early to these extra special screenings as seating is limited, and Rooftop shows do sell out! Doors open for our summer season with seating and pre-show fun at 8pm. Screening at dusk. In the case of inclement weather, the screening will occur indoors.
BATTLE ROYALE
"Not a face value film, it leaves its audience questioning, reflecting, and debating its hauntingly resonant implications."—Mattie Lucas, From the Front Row
"Positively hums with youthful lust and rage."—Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
"A teen melodrama gone feral as cliques fall apart under fire and young love is literally under the gun."—Sean Axmaker, Stream on Demand
A Y2K-Hole selection
In a near-future Japan, the Battle Royale Act has been initiated to curb Japan’s wave of rising juvenile delinquency. 42 delinquent 9th graders, believing they are on a class trip, are trapped in a school bus and taken to a remote island where they are primed on their objective: kill one another and be the last one standing. Initially, most students do not engage in combat – however, as time passes, the desire to survive at all costs and leave the island causes the rising tensions between students to come to a bloody head.
Y2K-Hole
Catch the Y2K bug at FilmScene! Y2K-hole is a celebration of some of the grimiest, most outrageous yellow-and-blue-tinted standalone sci-fi of the turn of the millennium. A generational sense of impending doom, fear of youth in revolt, and the tightening grip of technology on malleable young brains underscore these stylish, high-concept titles – so come on up to the roof to party like it’s the end of the world.