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The Thing (1982)

The Thing
Friday, April 20
11:15 pm
Saturday, April 21
11:15 pm

LATE NIGHT MOVIES AT BIJOU CINEMA!

Directed by John Carpenter
Starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley and Keith David
109 min

An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realizes that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don’t know who may already have been taken over…

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg

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This Is Not a Film

This is Not a Film
Friday, April 20
9:30 pm
Saturday, April 21
9:30 pm
Tuesday, April 24
7:00 pm
Wednesday, April 25
7:00 pm
Thursday, April 26
9:30 pm

A film by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi
75 min, DCP

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-
minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (OFFSIDE,
THE CIRCLE) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence – six years in
prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking – Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone,
discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.

“Against all odds, an unquenchable artist has made yet another piece of powerful art.” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmZjcgH_iE

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In Darkness

In Darkness
Friday, April 20
6:30 pm
Saturday, April 21
3:45 pm
Tuesday, April 24
8:45 pm
Wednesday, April 25
8:45 pm
Thursday, April 26
6:30 pm

Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Starring Robert Więckiewicz, Benno Fürmann and Agnieszka Grochowska
Polish/German/Yiddish/Ukranian with English subtitles
145 min, DCP

From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, IN DARKNESS is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger.

“Agnieszka Holland’s brave epic!” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Trailer: http://www.sonyclassics.com/indarkness/

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Bijou Cinema

The University of Iowa
166-B Iowa Memorial Union
Iowa City, IA 52242

319-335-3258
bijou@uiowa.edu