QC Film Blog

"Let it Rain" Comes Down at Figge on Friday

Let it Rain

Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother's belongings. While she's there, the son (Jamel Debbouze as Karim) of family maid (Mimouna Hadji) takes advantage of her presence and attempts to interview her as part of a documentary about successful women that he's undertaken with his film school teacher, Michel (co-writer Jean-Pierre Bacri). However, Michel's intentions aren't quite what they seem, as he's having an affair with Florence and hoping to persuade her to leave her husband. Meanwhile, Karim finds his own marriage threatened when his attractive hotel co-worker (Florence Loiret-Caille) declares an interest in him. (IMDb.com)

Friday, March 18, 2011
Figge Art Museum
Davenport, Iowa

Feature Film: 6:30 p.m.

Coffee and discussion to follow in lobby.

Admission $8.00

More info: http://www.backdoorifcafe.com/

"Vincere" Featured at Figge Tonight!

Vincere

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino. (IMDB.com)

Directed by Marco Bellocchio.

Friday March 11, 2011
Figge Art Museum
Davenport, Iowa

Feature Film: 6:30 p.m.

Admission $8.00

More info: http://www.backdoorifcafe.com/

"Heartbreaker" to Screen at Figge Tonight!

Heartbreaker
105 min | BELGIUM| English/Sub. | 2010 |Romantic Comedy
Directed by Pascal Chaumeil

RESCHEDULED DUE TO CANCELLATION

Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so. (IMDb.com)

Friday February 4, 2011
Figge Art Museum
Davenport, Iowa

Feature Film: 6:30 p.m.

Coffee and discussion to follow in lobby.

Admission $8.00

More info: http://www.backdoorifcafe.com/

"Welcome" Invites your Attendance at Augustana French Film Festival

Welcome

France | 2008 | 110 minutes | Not Rated

Both a study of a budding friendship and a compassionate look at the perils faced by illegal immigrants, Philippe Lioret's Welcome centers on Bilal, a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurd who is stuck in Calais, in Northern France, and Simon, a recently divorced swimming teacher.

Desperate to join his girlfriend in London, Bilal vows to swim across the English Channel if he has to, setting the stage for his meeting with Simon. Unmistakably a condemnation of xenophobia in France, Welcome also features richly drawn, fully fleshed-out lead characters. (IMDB)

Part of Augustana College's ninth annual Tournées French Film Festival.

7:00 pm, Thursday, January 27, 2011 in the Hanson Hall of Science auditorium (room 304).

Admission is FREE!

More information: http://www.augustana.edu/x23340.xml

Contact Dr. Sarah Skrainka (309) 794-7655 or [email protected].

See "Avenue Montaigne" at Augustana on 35th Street

"AVENUE MONTAIGNE centers around Jessica (Cecile de France) a beautiful young woman from the provinces who comes to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne, the city's nexus for art, music, theater and fashion. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress (Valerie Lemercier) who is courting a major Hollywood director (Sydney Pollack) for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector (Claude Brasseur) who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist (Albert Dupontel) who is at odds with his manager/wife (Laura Morante) as to where his career is headed. Precisely because Jessica doesn't know how celebrated these people are, her guileless and completely unintimidated engagement in their lives has a transforming effect on them - and ultimately her." (Image Entertainment)

January 13, 2011 - 7:00 pm - FREE 

Tournees French Film Festival
Hanson Hall of Science
Augustana College
726 35th Street
Rock Island, IL
309.794.7323
[email protected]

"Bomber" to Screen at Rock Island Public Library

  

Alistar and Valerie have been planning a special trip to Germany for a very long time. When their son Ross stops by the house to send them off, happenstance turns into an impromptu family road trip of the most tortuous kind. Alistar berates Ross for all that he is not in life, while Valerie tries to keep the peace. It is soon discovered that Alistar's reason for the often comic, sometimes painful trip is to shed a guilt he's been carrying for years. Ultimately, the family learns they need each other more then they imagined. (filmmovement.com)

View the trailer here: http://www.bomberthemovie.com/

January 6, 2011 - 6:00 pm

FREE movie, popcorn, & discussion.

Rock Island Public Library
401 19th Street
Rock Island, Illinois
309.732.7323

"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" at Figge on Friday

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
83 min | USA, JAPAN | English/Sub. | 2007 |Drama
Directed by Wayne Wang
Friday December 10, 2010
Figge Art Museum
Davenport, Iowa
Social Hour: 5:30 p.m.
Feature Film: 6:30 p.m.

Admission $8.00

A Chinese man travels to America to visit his estranged daughter after her recent divorce. Though his trip starts off as a mission to see his daughter remarry, he sparks to an Iranian woman who, despite their language barrier, captures his heart. (IMDb.com)

More info: http://www.backdoorifcafe.com/

"Skeletons" Come Out of Closet for Weekend at Figge

SKELETONS
94 min | UK | English | 2010 | Drama
Friday Dec. 3, 2010
Social Hour: 5:30 p.m.
Feature Film: 6:30 p.m.

Admission $8.00

Two exorcists literally remove the skeletons from the cupboards from people's homes.  Some fairly embarrassing secrets are revealed along the way.  A case where the skeletons have hidden themselves turns the lives of all those involved. (IMDb.com)

More info: http://www.backdoorifcafe.com/

No Need to Check your Watch Before "Cairo Time"

 

Cairo Time

A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard. (IMDb.com)

Daylight savings time started in April and ended on October 1st in Egypt, I checked.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Social hour - 5:30 pm - $3.00

Film - 6:30 & 8:00 pm - $8.00 (new ticket price?)

Also showing on Saturday and Sunday, November 6 & 7 at 2:00 pm.

The Film Cafe website is down (at least I can't access it), so it was not possible to confirm these times or tickets prices Please call ahead to confirm.

Backdoor Independent Film Cafe
Figge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, Iowa
563.271.6173

Don't Miss "Last Train Home" at Figge

 

Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that exposes a nation tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.

Working over several years in classic cinéma vérité style, director Lixin Fan travelled with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like many of China's rural poor, the Zhangs have left their Chinese village and their newborn daughter to find work in Guangzhou in a garment factory for 16 years and see her only once a year during the Spring Festival. Their daughter Qin, now a restless and rebellious teenager- bitterly resents her parents' absence and longs for her own freedom away from school and her rural hometown, much to the dismay of her parents. Emotionally charged and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home examines one fractured family to shed light on the human cost of China's ascendence as an economic superpower. (Wikipedia)

Friday, October 10, 2010

Social hour - 5:30 pm - $3.00

Film - 6:30 pm - $7.00

Backdoor Independent Film Cafe
Figge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, Iowa
563.271.6173