Filmscene

Pride at FilmScene

A year-round partnership between FilmScene and Iowa City Pride showcases queer cinema's past, present and future with monthly screenings. Pride screenings are offered on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale with a suggested contribution of $10. All ticket proceeds will go towards the continued effort to screen relevant and meaningful queer films at FilmScene.

Previous Screenings

THE MATRIX

1999 / USA + / Lana Wachowski +

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY

1999 / USA / Anthony Minghella

When the charismatic, bisexual sociopath Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) is mistaken for a Princeton graduate and classmate of Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) by his shipping magnate father, he is tasked with taking a freightliner from New York to Italy to retrieve the young man from frittering away his family’s wealth.

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE

1995 / USA / Maria Maggenti

Two teenagers’ unexpected friendship grows into the joyful wildness of first love, altering their lives.

THE DOOM GENERATION

1995 / USA + / Gregg Araki

Two troubled teenage lovers, Amy Blue and Jordan White, pick up a young handsome drifter named Xavier Red. After Xavier accidentally kills a store clerk, the trio embarks on a journey full of sex, violence, and people from Amy’s past.

CRUISING

1980 / West Germany + / William Friedkin

A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.