Filmscene

Movies are the New Comics

The panels of the pages of comic books could almost double as storyboards, so it's no surprise that some of the most inventive film adaptations have drawn from the world of comics. In the lead up to Love and Rockets creators the Hernandez Brothers visiting FilmScene (4/14), we present a small series of turn of the millennium graphic novel and comic book adaptations that showcase the versatility and power of the marriage of these two artforms.

Previous Screenings

LOVE AND ROCKETS: THE GREAT AMERICAN COMIC BOOK

2022 / USA / Jose Luis Figueroa +

Brothers Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez made graphic novel history in 1981 with their self published “Love and Rockets #1.” Follow the story of their beginnings with the artists in person!

PERSEPOLIS

2007 / France / Marjane Satrapi +

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS

2001 / USA / Deborah Kaplan +

A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music.