QC Film Blog

"Men In Black" Returns on July 3rd & 4th at Cinemark

Happy 25th Anniversary to Men in Black!  This classic sci-fi comedy shows Sunday, July 3rd and Monday, July 4th 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the Cinemark Davenport 18, 3601 East 53rd Street, Davenport, IA . For ticket info click HERE!

Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith star in this blockbuster as the Men in Black, regulators of all things alien on Earth. With our planet crawling with extraterrestrials cleverly disguised to blend in with the clueless human population, top-secret organization MiB is charged with monitoring and controlling alien activity while keeping it all a secret. World-weary Agent K (Jones) and his enthusiastic young partner, Agent J (Smith), are investigating several mysterious alien deaths with the help of the coolly resourceful Dr. Laura Weaver (Linda Fiorentino), deputy medical examiner of New York. On the trail of an intergalactic terrorist (Vincent D'Onofrio) with a deadly agenda, K and J face a simple imperative: track down the interloper or the Earth will be destroyed. It's all in a day's work for the Men in Black.

 

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"The Fifth Element" Screens at Cinemark for its 25th Anniversary

Fathom Events celebrates The Fifth Element 25th Anniversary with special screenings at Cinemark 18 Davenport 18 on June 26 and June 29 at 3PM and 7PM. The event features an exclusive interview with director Luc Besson and outtakes from the film. Click HERE for tickets.

From its opening scenes in 1914 Egypt to its towering views of 23rd Century New York City, and its mind-expanding journey to the faraway world of Fhloston Paradise, “The Fifth Element” follows cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) as he discovers that the fate of the world is contained within the mysterious Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), who literally drops from the sky and into his life. To save humanity, he must protect her from the evil industrialist Zorg (Gary Oldman), who is embroiled in an intergalactic war between the Mondoshawans and the Mangalores.

The spectacular odyssey across space and time also stars Ian Holm as the mysterious Vito Cornelius, Chris Tucker as hyperactive radio host Ruby Rhod, and Luke Perry as Billy Masterson. The story was conceived by Besson when he was just 16. “The Fifth Element” became a passion project and took more than 20 years to bring to the screen. “The Fifth Element” was nominated for eight César Awards, France’s top cinematic honor, and received three awards, including Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design.

 

When you want to see great documentaries, independent, foreign, classic and other noteworthy films in the Quad-Cities area, visit QCFilmBlog.com for the latest screenings and special film events.

"Bix" Documentary Screens at the Figge July 31 for Bix Jazz Festival

WHBF's reporter Jonathan Turner shared some exciting news on OurQuadCities.com today. And we share the good news with you!

A week before the 2022 Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, the Bix Museum and World Archives and Bix Jazz Society will present a public screening of the newly restored documentary “BIX: ‘Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet.”

The film will be shown Sunday, July 31st at 1 p.m. in the Figge Art Museum auditorium, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. Tickets will be $5, and members of the Bix Museum or Bix Society can get a free ticket at the doors the day of the screening.

The showing will be the first QC look since the doc’s original release, and its 2020 restoration in 4K by filmmaker Brigitte Berman. She is known for her film, “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” (1985), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (feature).

Director Brigitte Berman.

Cornetist / pianist / composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz’s man who got away — the James Dean, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain of his day, according to a Bix Museum release.

Born in Davenport into an upper middle-class family, Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing an amazing new energy and unprecedented maturity to the music and influencing generations of musicians. After years of battling alcoholism, Bix died in Sunnyside, Queens, N.Y. on August 6, 1931. The cause of death was given as lobar pneumonia. He was 28.

Read the rest of the story HERE!

 

When you want to see great documentaries, independent, foreign, classic and other noteworthy films in the Quad-Cities area, visit QCFilmBlog.com for the latest screenings and special film events.

 

 

John Carpenter's "The Thing" Celebrates 40th Anniversary at Cinemark June 22

Happy 40th Anniversary to The Thing!

 

This 1980s classic horror film shows Wednesday, June 22 at the Cinemark Theaters in Davenport, Iowa at 7PM and 9:55PM. This special screening also features the documentary "Terror Takes Shape". For ticket info click HERE.

 

Director John Carpenter (Halloween) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visual effects to create a chilling version of the classic The Thing. Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve-man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon it is unfrozen and unleashed, creating havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.

 

When you want to see great documentaries, independent, foreign, classic and other noteworthy films in the Quad-Cities area, visit QCFilmBlog.com for the latest screenings and special film events.

 

 

Jewish Federation of QC's Israeli Film Series featured at Figge in July

The Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities presents the "Israeli Film Series 2022" at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd Street, Davenport, Iowa, beginning in July.

Tickets available at the door. Adults $7; Seniors (60+) and Military $6; Students Free. For info call (309) 793-1300.

Three award-winning films will screen:

Sunday, July 10, 4:00 p.m "Crescendo"
Sunday, July 17, 4:00 p.m "Sublet"
Sunday, July 31, 4:00 p.m "Asia"

All have adult content.

"Crescendo"
Sunday, July 10, 4:00 pm
106 minutes - English & German with English subtitles - Drama (2020)

When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems. Having grown up in a state of war, suppression or constant risk of terrorist attacks, the young musicians from both sides are far from able to form a team.

"Sublet"
Sunday, July 17, 4:00 pm
89 minutes - Hebrew & English with English Subtitles - Drama (2020)

Michael is a travel writer for The New York Times, travelling to Tel Aviv for work. He is a former bestselling author, having written a book about New York City during the peak of the AIDS crisis, in which he lost a good friend to the disease. Instead of staying at a hotel, Michael meets Tomer, a younger film student in need of some extra money, and sublets his apartment in a popular neighborhood. The two gay men face a generational gap that puts their personal and clashing life philosophies into perspective.

 

"Asia"
Sunday, July 31, 4:00 pm
85minutes - Hebrew & Russian with English subtitles - Drama (2020)

Asia's motherhood has always been an ongoing struggle rather than an obvious instinct. Becoming a mother at a very early age has shaped Asia's relationship with her teenage daughter Vika. Despite living together, Asia and Vika barely interact with one another. Asia concentrates on her job as a nurse while Vika hangs out at the skate-park with her friends. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs. Vika's illness turns out to be an opportunity to reveal the great love within this small family unit.

The Israeli Film Series is sponsored by:

The Joyce and Tony Singh Family Foundation

Rauch Family Foundation II, Inc.

Wheelan-Pressley Funeral Homes

Quad City Bank & Trust

Stanley and Bernice Harris Memorial Endowment Fund

Bernard and Irene Goldstein Memorial Endowment Fund

Louis & Ida-Fox Rich Fund

Gary and Randi Segal Family

Marlyne and David Weiner Family

Glenn Peterson

 

When you want to see great documentaries, independent, foreign, classic and other noteworthy films in the Quad-Cities area, visit QCFilmBlog.com for the latest screenings and special film events.

QC's Truth First Film Alliance brings award-winning documentary & filmmaker to Figge June 4

By Jonathan Turner
OurQuadCities/WHBF

Director/writer David O’Shields will appear with his award-winning documentary “America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie” for a special Truth First Film Alliance event at the Figge Art Museum on Saturday, June 4 at 2 p.m.

O’Shields will take part in a Q & A session following the 60-minute film in the museum auditorium, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. The special National Prairie Day event is free to the public and sponsored by Living Lands and Waters, Produce Iowa, and the Northwest Illinois Film Office.

“America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie” tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history, according to a release from Truth First Film Alliance (TFFA).

Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900, in the space of a single lifetime, the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps, the release said.

Read the rest of Turner's WHBF story HERE.

The Figge Art Museum is located at 225 West 2nd Street in Davenport, Iowa. This is the second public program sponsored by Truth First Film Alliance, Inc.

Truth First Film Alliance, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports and encourages the production and exhibition of documentary films, and narrative films based on true stories, through public presentations and educational programs in the Quad Cities region. For more information, visit TruthFirstFilmAlliance.org.

This special film event is sponsored by:

  

By Jonathan Turner
OurQuadCities/WHBF

Director/writer David O’Shields will appear with his award-winning documentary “America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie” for a special Truth First Film Alliance event at the Figge Art Museum on Saturday, June 4 at 2 p.m.

O’Shields will take part in a Q & A session following the 60-minute film in the museum auditorium, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. The special National Prairie Day event is free to the public and sponsored by Living Lands and Waters, Produce Iowa, and the Northwest Illinois Film Office.

“America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie” tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history, according to a release from Truth First Film Alliance (TFFA).

Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900, in the space of a single lifetime, the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps, the release said.

Read the rest of Turner's WHBF story HERE.

The Figge Art Museum is located at 225 West 2nd Street in Davenport, Iowa. This is the second public program sponsored by Truth First Film Alliance, Inc.

Truth First Film Alliance, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports and encourages the production and exhibition of documentary films, and narrative films based on true stories, through public presentations and educational programs in the Quad Cities region. For more information, visit TruthFirstFilmAlliance.org.

This special film event is sponsored by:

  

By Jonathan Turner
OurQuadCities/WHBF

Director/writer David O’Shields will appear with his award-winning documentary “America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie” for a special Truth First Film Alliance event at the Figge Art Museum on Saturday, June 4 at 2 p.m.

O’Shields will take part in a Q & A session following the 60-minute film in the museum auditorium, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. The special National Prairie Day event is free to the public and sponsored by Living Lands and Waters, Produce Iowa, and the Northwest Illinois Film Office.

“America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie” tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history, according to a release from Truth First Film Alliance (TFFA).

Prior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900, in the space of a single lifetime, the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps, the release said.

Read the rest of Turner's WHBF story HERE.

The Figge Art Museum is located at 225 West 2nd Street in Davenport, Iowa. This is the second public program sponsored by Truth First Film Alliance, Inc.

Truth First Film Alliance, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports and encourages the production and exhibition of documentary films, and narrative films based on true stories, through public presentations and educational programs in the Quad Cities region. For more information, visit TruthFirstFilmAlliance.org.

This special film event is sponsored by: