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Orlando

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Recently, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts put on a production of Orlando, a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. It was incredible.
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The Second Mother

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), Brazil
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The Oath

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Laura Poitras is best known for Citizenfour, a documentary about Edward Snowden’s global surveillance disclosures which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014, but few people have seen the preceding two films in the trilogy that Citizenfour completes - My Country, My Country (2006) and The Oath…
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Diablo Cody: Jennifer's Body

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Hollow hallways permeated with a monolithic student body
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Diablo Cody: Juno

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
For Juno, her whole experience started with a chair. My experience with Juno started with a text message. High school is where I began to take film more seriously, and I began looking for unique and different films to watch.
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Le Bonheur

Wednesday, February 26, 2020
An Entry from Thérèse's Diary (if things had gone differently)
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True Stories

Friday, January 24, 2020
In 1984, musician David Byrne had just come off the heels of a successful collaboration with director Jonathan Demme, producing the iconic, highly energetic concert film Stop Making Sense, one of the best of the genre. Thanks to the success of that film, it seemed natural that Warner Bros.
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Roger and Me

Friday, January 24, 2020
Michael Moore has always been a bit of a divisive documentarian. Many disagree with the performative aspects of his films, some say he’s too one-sided, and some qualify his films as editorials rather than documentaries.
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Paper Moon

Friday, January 24, 2020
Kansas is an odd place. Maybe it’s because I grew up there, but I struggle to think of another place that I absolutely love and am immensely frustrated with in equal measures.
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Alice

Friday, January 24, 2020
Harry Westergaard (After Hours Committee) writes about Bijou's upcoming screening of ALICE, February 18 at 6pm!
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Lars and the Real Girl

Friday, January 24, 2020
Lars (Ryan Gosling) and his girlfriend (Bianca, a sex doll) are at a party. Someone puts on a record. Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place” begins to play.
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Bijou Valentine's: Nude on the Moon

Friday, January 24, 2020
Our adult film screening each semester is one of my favorite events, but also the most difficult.