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For the last two years, the Bijou has been free for UI students. This has led to a budget shortfall for the last two years. In order to continue operating, we at the Bijou must raise the price of a ticket for UI students to $3. While we deeply regret this development, we feel that it is better to charge a token admission fee than to decrease the services we are able to offer students.

We hope you continue to attend and enjoy shows at the Bijou, which is still, dollar for dollar, one of the cheapest entertainment options on campus and certainly, at $1 for concessions, the cheapest place to eat in Iowa City.

Modern twist on drive-ins, Starlite Cinema to show movies at Riverside Festival Stage!

The Bijou is proud to be a sponsor of FilmScene Starlite Cinema presented by M.C. Ginsberg starting Friday! More details at www.icfilmscene.org/events/starlite-cinema/

SHOWN AT THE ENGLERT!
Tickets prices for everyone are $8 in advance and $10 at the door.
Tickets are now on sale at the Englert box office and online! http://englert.org/event_details.php?id=766
Sponsored by Bijou Cinema, FilmScene, the Englert, and Mission Creek Festival

Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern
Starring LCD Soundsystem
105 min, BluRay

One year ago, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with New York Magazine calling the event “a marvel of pure craft” and TIME magazine lamenting “we may never dance again.” SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is simultaneously a document of a once-in-a-lifetime performance and an intimate portrait of Murphy as he navigates both the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.

This event is at the Englert! More info at: http://englert.org/event_details.php?id=766

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

Directed by Taika Waititi
90 min, 35mm

The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Inspired by the Oscar nominated TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT, BOY is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.

Trailer: http://boythefilm.com/videos

Directed by Nanni Moretti
104 min, 35mm

Nanni Moretti (THE SON’S ROOM, CARO DIARIO) joins forces with the great French actor Michel Piccoli (CONTEMPT, I’M GOING HOME) to tell the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he’s presented to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. To prevent a world wide crisis, the Vatican’s spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed, played by Moretti, to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. As the world nervously waits outside, inside the therapist tries to find a solution. But Cardinal Melville is adamant: he does not want the job, or at least needs time to think it over. What follows is a marvelous insight into the concept of a human being existing behind the title of God’s representative on Earth.

Trailer: http://www.ifcfilms.com/uncategorized/we-have-a-pope

Directed by Morten Tyldum
Staring Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
100 min, 35mm

HEADHUNTERS stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway’s most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bA3gbZxDM

Directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli
70 min, DCP

Dino is a pet cat that leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoe, a little mute girl whose mother, Jeanne, is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night he sneaks out the window to work with Nico – a slinky cat burglar with a big heart, whose fluid movements are poetry in motion – as he evades captors and slips and swishes from rooftop to rooftop across the Paris skyline.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7e07c52VWg

Directed by David Gelb
Starring Jiro Ono and Yoshikazu Ono
81 min, 35mm

JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VB_DrsHDQ0

Directed by Daniel Nettheim
Starring Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, and Morgana Davies
101 min, 35mm

THE HUNTER is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on the hunt for the last Tasmanian Tiger.

Trailer: http://www.magpictures.com/thehunter/

Directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
102 min, Blu-ray

Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra. Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation…

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYQ0IbNsBw

FilmScene and The Englert Theatre present Frederick Wiseman’s CRAZY HORSE

Trailer: http://vimeo.com/33371521

The newest documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will be screened at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 18 at The Englert Theatre. Presented by FilmScene and the Englert, the screening will be the Iowa premiere of CRAZY HORSE. Before the film, Iowa City’s own Les Dames du Burlesque will perform an opening-act routine inspired by the film.

Admission is 18-plus only, and seating for the film is general admission. Tickets are $8 in advance or $11 day of show.

The event is sponsored by Deluxe Cakes and Pastries, which will provide treats for a special pre-show reception from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Douglas and Linda Paul Gallery at the Englert. A limited number of reception tickets are available for $15, which includes admission to the film. Reception guests will enjoy sweets from Deluxe, as well as a complimentary beer or wine. A cash bar will also be available, and reception guests will have a photo opportunity with ladies from Les Dames for a small fee.

In CRAZY HORSE, director Wiseman takes audiences inside one of the most famous nude dance shows in the world — Paris’s legendary Crazy Horse cabaret, founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin. Over the years it has become a “must” of Parisian nightlife, ranking in stature alongside the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre. Wiseman’s impeccable eye finds the Crazy Horse to be a uniquely French showcase, with an emphasis on elegance, perfectionism and a grueling schedule (two shows a night and three on Saturdays, seven days a week). The film shows us the rehearsals and unveiling of the cabaret’s brand new show — Désir — created by renowned French choreographer Phillippe Decoufle.
Film critic A.O. Scott of The New York Times writes, “CRAZY HORSE is a study of artistic process that is itself a work of art, and, as such, a reminder of what a documentary can be. Mr. Wiseman has planted his camera at the intersection of the cerebral and the sensual… Some of the dances, at least as captured on film, are both pretentious and beautiful. Others are silly (occasionally on purpose), and a few do seem to touch the lofty and mysterious realms of the sexual imagination.”

For additional information, contact the Englert at 319-688-2653 or info@englert.org; or FilmScene co-founder Andy Brodie at 319-541-5443 or andy@icfilmscene.org.

Best of 2011 shorts!
The full program is 115 min.
Stay after the screening for a Q&A with Director Danny Wilcox Frazier and Alan Webber!

Free for UI students w/ID and $7 for community

Titles include:
Anima Mundi
Holland, MI
The Bees
Plot
We Are Not What They Say We Are
Tractor Chicken Scene from Our Footloose Remake
We’re Leaving
From the Ashes
Fireline
AWOL
Driftless – Directed by former UI Professor Danny Wilcox Frazier!

For more information go to: http://ruralroutefilms.com/tour/  and http://mediastorm.com/contributor/danny-wilcox-frazier/127

CAB AND BIJOU CINEMA PRESENT MIDNIGHT MOVIE SERIES AT THE ENGLERT!

MEMENTO chronicles the past and the present of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers.

Directed by Christopher Nolan
Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano
113 min

Free for UI students w/ID and $3 for community

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjjPqffI9k&feature=related

Stay after the film on Friday, May 4 for a livestream Q&A with the filmmaker, Trish Dolman, and on Saturday, May 5 for a livestream Q&A with the film’s star, Paul Watson!

A film by Trish Dolman
110 min, blu-ray

ECO-PIRATE tells the story of a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. The film follows professional radical ecologist, Captain Paul Watson, as he repeatedly flouts the law, so that he may apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers: the illegal poachers of the world. Using verité sequences shot aboard his ship as a framing device, the documentary examines Watson’s personal history as an activist through archival footage and interviews, while revealing the impact of this relentless pursuit on his personal life. From the genesis of Greenpeace to sinking a pirate whaling ship off Portugal, and from clashes with fisherman in the Galapagos to Watson’s recent headline-grabbing battles with the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica, the film chronicles the extraordinary life of the most controversial figure in the environmental movement; the heroics, the ego, the urgency of the world’s original eco-pirate.

“A handsomely made…exciting documentary encompassing the subject’s evolution from Greenpeace warrior to go-it-alone pirate.” -Jay Weissberg, Variety

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTStVKT6d_k

The Bijou will be closed with no films showing both Tuesday the 3rd and Wednesday the 4th in respect of the national holiday. Have a nice 4th of July!

A film by Terence Nance
95 min

You’ve just arrived home after a bad day. You’re broke and lonely, even though you live in the biggest and busiest city in America. You do, however, have one cause for mild optimism: you seem to have captured the attention of an intriguing young lady. You’ve rushed home to clean your apartment before she comes over. In your haste, you see that you’ve missed a call. There’s a voicemail; she tells you that she won’t be seeing you tonight. With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, Terence Nance’s explosively creative debut feature, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, documents the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. Utilizing a tapestry of live action and various styles of animation, Terence explores the fantasies, emotions, and memories that race through his mind during a singular moment in time.

“A bold, contemplative, inquisitive, complex work of art.” -IndieWire

Trailer: http://oversimplification.mvmt.com/

Directed by Béla Tarr
Starring János Derzsi, Erika Bók and Mihály Kermos
146 min, blu-ray

On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse’s neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan, until he loses consciousness and his mind. Somewhere in the countryside, the driver of the cab lives with his daughter and the horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. Immaculately photographed in Tarr’s renowned long takes, THE TURIN HORSE is the final statement from a master filmmaker.

“An auteurist triumph.” -Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Trailer: http://www.cinemaguild.com/turinhorse/

LATE NIGHT MOVIES AT BIJOU CINEMA!

When we meet Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), a small time courier for a big time gangster, he is working a standard pick-up/drop-off, and everything is going just fine. When the job is done, all he has to do is wait for his girlfriend, the orange-haired punk girl Lola (Franka Potente), to pick him up. But today is unlike any other day. Due to an incident while she was buying a pack of cigarettes, Lola is late, and Lola is never late. One stroke of bad luck leads to another, and by the time Manni calls Lola, he is at a pay phone with a big, big, big problem. His unforgiving boss will meet him in twenty minutes to pick up 100,000 marks; money that Manni, suddenly, does not have. Lola rushes out of her apartment and down the street, attempting to get to Manni and, somehow, pick up 100,000 marks on the way. She tears through the city, down sidewalks, into offices, through traffic and back again. As her feet slap the pavement and the seconds tick down, the tiniest choices become life altering (or ending) decisions, and the fine line between fate and fortune begins to blur.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta1Sn6MtC9w

Watch films created within 48 hours the previous weekend!
Approximately 120 min
Sponsored by Bijou Cinema, Campus Activities Board (CAB), and Student Video Productions (SVP)

The Kick-off Meeting for the festival will occur on Friday, April 20, at 5 pm at Bijou Cinema. All filmmakers must attend the Kick-off Meeting to be eligible to participate in the festival. Filmmakers have 48 hours, starting at 6 pm on Friday, April 20, to make their films! Additional details (regarding the films and related logistics) will be discussed at the Kick-off Meeting.

The winners of the festival will receive fabulous prizes! Filmmakers must be present to win. (One prize per film.) Prizes are provided by SVP.

1st place – $200 Best Buy gift card
2nd place – $100 Best Buy gift card
3rd place – $50 Best Buy gift card

Directed by Valérie Donzelli
Starring Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm and César Desseix
French w/English subtitles
100 min, 35mm

The opening night film at this year’s Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, this exuberant and deeply moving film follows a new couple, Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover their newborn child is very ill. Gathering their friends and family, they confront this ordeal together as a form of warfare. Donzelli infuses the story with unexpected verve using a host of cinematic techniques, music and heartbreaking performances that results in a film about a contemporary couple who surprises even themselves with their ability to fight not only for the life of their child but for each other. Drawing on the real life experiences of Donzelli and co-star/co-writer Elkaïm and what they went through when their own son fell ill, the film will bring tears to your eyes and dazzle you with its contagious vitality.

“CRITIC’S PICK! Fiercely playful, almost joyous. Extremely well-acted and deceptively offbeat.” -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine

Trailer: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/declaration-of-war