Filmscene

Rooftop

Our sizzling Summer Rooftop Series features well-loved classics, off-beat gems, and new favorites beneath the stars and above the streets of Iowa City.

Previous Screenings

FARGO

1996 / USA + / Ethan Coen +

An annual tradition, we close our Rooftop series with the Coen Brothers comic-crime classic. Bottomless hot chocolate and coffee with your ticket? You betcha!

CAN’T HARDLY WAIT

1998 / USA / Deborah Kaplan +

A complete graduating class, consisting of popular girls, hopeless geeks and promising footballers, assemble at a rich classmate’s residence for a party.

EXISTENZ

1999 / Canada + / David Cronenberg

A game designer on the run from assassins struggles to protect her most recent virtual reality creation.

SPRING BREAKERS

2012 / USA + / Harmony Korine

Four college girls desperate to make it out of their small college town endeavor on a spring break vacation that takes a violent turn.

FEAR OF A BLACK HAT

1993 / USA + / Rusty Cundieff

A mockumentary chronicling the rise and fall of NWH, a not particularly talented–or particularly bright but always controversial–hip-hop group.