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Rooftop

Our sizzling Summer Rooftop Series features well-loved classics, off-beat gems, and new favorites beneath the stars and above the streets of Iowa City.

Previous Screenings

FARGO

1996 / USA / Joel & Ethan Coen

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson

THIEF

1981 / USA / Michael Mann

An ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight.

BOOGIE NIGHTS

1997 / USA / Paul Thomas Anderson

Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

AKIRA

1988 / Japan / Katsuhiro Ohtomo

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.