Ten Sundays, summer through fall, featuring well-loved classics, beneath the stars and above the streets of Iowa City. You never know what we’ll add to each screening to butter up your Rooftop experience. Join us for these very fun special shows, and buy tickets early as seating is limited and Rooftop shows do sell out!
Doors open for seating and pre-show 30 minutes before the posted start time. Screening at dusk.
In the case of inclement weather, the screening will occur indoors.
"Every element coalesces into a hard bunch of excitement you can't imagine belter done."— Alexander Walker, London Evening Standard
"Gritty, downbeat and, in Hackman’s “Popeye” Doyle, fronted by one of the most unlikely heroes that cinema had seen, this was one of the great films of Hollywood’s most creatively uncompromising period."— Wendy Ide, Times (UK)
"To watch The French Connection now is to experience the shock of the old: a lost world of the city, and a lost style of film-making."— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
William Friedkin's gritty police drama, based on a true story, portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle (Gene Hackman) is a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) is a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America.
