May 03 - June 28, 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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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.
May 3 – Lion (2017) – Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. He is eventually adopted by an Australian couple, but 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNI9o06vqo)
May 10 – Green Book (2017) – Tony Lip, an Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South. The Green Book lists the few establishments then safe for African-Americans.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0)
May 17 – 20th Century Women (2017) – Southern California, 1979…Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) is a single mom in her mid-50s raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Abbie, a free-spirited artist living as a boarder in their home and a provocative teenage neighbor help with Jamie's upbringing.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnFaltqnAY)
May 24 – The Holdovers (2024) – A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school must remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. An unlikely bond evolves between him, one of the troublemakers, and the school's head cook, who is grieving the loss of her son in Vietnam.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAXd27wVpIc)
May 31 – Tár (2022) – Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. She is at the height of her career, preparing both a book launch and much-anticipated live performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. The film offers a searing examination of power, and its impact and durability in today's society.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na6gA1RehsU)
Jun 7 – The Walk (2016) – As a boy, Philippe Petit dreams of performing daring feats for dazzled crowds. Under the guidance of mentor Papa Rudy, the French daredevil devises a plan to walk on a tightrope attached to the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. Fifty years ago, he set out to make the crossing.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR1EmTKAWIw)
Jun 14 – Julie & Julia (2009) – Frustrated with a soul-killing job, New Yorker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a daring project: to prepare all 524 recipes in Julia Childs' landmark cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." The film intertwines the stories of Julie and Julia as Childs conquers French cuisine.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozRK7VXQl-k)
Jun 21 – No Time to Die (2021) – Bond has retired to a tranquil life in Jamaica…until his old CIA friend Felix Leiter asks for his help to rescue a kidnapped scientist. They discover a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIhNsAtPbPI)
Jun 28 – Ordinary Angels (2024) – Based on a true story, Sharon Steves (Hilary Swank) is a struggling hairdresser who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. His younger daughter needs a liver transplant, and Sharon sets her mind to move mountains to make it happen.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNv-HpcGe0I)
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Membership Not Required
Location
AR at Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center
meets at 302 on Jun 7, 2024
Age and Gender
Co-Ed