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50 Years of Bijou

Join us for a throwback to a time when we were still just a grassroots cinema in the Iowa Memorial Union, a taste of the cinematic landscape in the year we were founded. Our 50th Anniversary series includes 35mm screenings and a 4K Restoration.

Previous Screenings

MALATESTA’S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD

1973 / United States / Christopher Speeth

Late Shift at the Grindhouse joins The Bijou Film Board in celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of favorites from the year 1973.
Free admission for University of Iowa students.
You’ll shriek with horror as you watch his victims take a diabolical roller-coaster ride to bloody death!

LADY SNOWBLOOD

1973 / Japan / Toshiya Fujita (Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo)

Late Shift at the Grindhouse joins The Bijou Film Board in celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of favorites from the year 1973.
Free admission for University of Iowa students.
From her dying mother’s lips comes her only reason for living… bloody revenge!

DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER

1973 / Italy / Joe D'Amato (Zombie 5: Killing Birds)

Late Shift at the Grindhouse joins The Bijou Film Board in celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of favorites from the year 1973.
Free admission for University of Iowa students.
A haunting Gothic horror/giallo hybrid, Death Smiles on a Murderer is a compelling early work from the legendary sleaze and horror film director Joe D’Amato (Anthropophagus, Emanuelle in America).

BADLANDS

1973 / USA / Terrence Malick

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

FANTASTIC PLANET

1973 / France + / René Laloux

On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.