March 01 - April 26, 2024
Film Fridays
Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center • 28 S Linn St Iowa City, IA 52240 Organized by Iowa City Senior Center
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Description
Registration for this activity is either not needed or not allowed online. Please see text below for additional information or call the Senior Center at 319-356-5220.
Mar 1 – Full Time (2023) – Julie goes to great lengths to raise her two children in the suburbs while keeping her job in a Parisian luxury hotel. She finally gets a job interview for a better position, a national strike breaks out, paralyzing the public transport system and jeopardizing her fragile ‘work-life balance.’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJp_I1pYv0)
Mar 8 – Selma (2014) – Selma chronicles the historic voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. David Oyelowo plays Dr. King in the biographical drama detailing the harrowing fight for equality that led to the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6t7vVTxaic)Mar 15 – Dunkirk (2017) – Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in (Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles). (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-eMt3SrfFU) Mar 22 – Frida (2002) – The life of artist Frida Kahlo (Selma Hayek), from her humble upbringing to her worldwide fame and controversy that surrounded both her and her husband, Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUzQYqba4Y) Mar 29 – The Fabelmans (2022) – Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see "The Greatest Show on Earth." Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his own films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother. Semi-biographical Spielberg film. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1G2iLSzOe8) Apr 5 – Jules (2023) – A man's quiet life gets upended when a UFO crashes in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Milton (Ben Kingsley) befriends the mysterious extraterrestrial. Things start to get complicated when two neighbors discover it, and the government quickly closes in. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nrYm9Shbcs) Apr 12 – The Mauritanian (2021) – Based on the NY Times best-selling memoir “Guantánamo Diary” by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a defense attorney (Jodie Foster), her associate, and a military prosecutor (Benedict Cumberbatch), uncover a conspiracy while investigating the case of a suspected 9/11 terrorist imprisoned at Guantanamo for six years. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tmxxzZXLEM) Apr 19 – You Hurt My Feelings (2023) – Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a popular writer, and her husband Don, a well-liked teacher, share the kind of relationship that cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. But when Beth discovers that Don has been untruthful to her about his opinion of her work for years Beth's world comes crashing down.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20GWk5cWPBs) Apr 26 – The Quiet Girl (2022) – Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGWyqty2m-A)Activity Secondary Category
Membership Not Required
Location
AR at Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center
meets at 302 on Mar 1, 2024
meets at 308 on Apr 5, 2024
Age and Gender
Co-Ed