FilmCastPodScene

We go deep on The Hourglass Sanatorium on the occasion of the film's 50th anniversary. The film is one of 10 titles in the Cinematic Century series that showcases 100 years of film to celebrate 10 years of FilmScene!

On this episode we take a look at Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat, the film that kicks off FilmScene 101: Movie Musicals led by FilmCastPodScene co-host Nathan Platte.

On this episode we take a look at the titles that bookend the month-long Billy in the Sky with Diamond series at FilmScene all August long: Some Like it Hot and Avanti!

On this episode we hand over hosting duties to University of Iowa graduate students Zach Vanes and Celeste Howington for an interview with filmmakers Michelle Parkerson and Chris Prince to discuss Fierceness Served! The ENIKAlley Coffeehouse, which will be featured in the Literary Shorts Program of the Out of the Archive: Black Women Behind the Lens series at FilmScene.

On this episode we welcome Christopher Harris, filmmaker and F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa to discuss Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora (3/30-4/1).

On this episode Chicago based musician, producer, composer, photographer, and educator, Alvin Cobb Jr. joins us to talk about his new score for Oscar Micheaux's 1919 film Within Our Gates. Cobb will be performing the score with his trio at FilmScene on January 19. We also briefly touch on a few other events happening in the coming weeks.

This episode we welcome special guest Mary Owen, daughter of Donna Reed, to talk about an all time holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life. We also have a brief preview of our entire Holiday Classics series at FilmScene.

On this episode, it's all about Cary Grant! FilmScene Programming Assistant, Jane Keranen, joins us to talk about FilmScene's Screwball Summer Series and to take a deeper look at George Cukor's HOLIDAY (1938), the third film that Grant starred in with Katherine Hepburn.  

This episode we have a special mini-cast of FilmCastPodScene as part of The Parking Spaces, a series of site-specific listening experiences to invite rest, activation, and imagination around downtown Iowa City where we discuss FilmScene in the Park.

On April 14, Justin Sherburn comes to FilmScene with his guitarist Gunner Ross to perform a brand new live score to the Soviet era masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera. We talked to Justin about his process and history with composition. We also got to talk about the wonderful Peter Bogdanovich screwball comedy What's Up Doc? which is playing as part of the Peter Bogdanovich: In Memoriam series that runs from April 1-7 at FilmScene.