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SUMMARY:Keiran Goddard: I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Told from the alternating perspectives of five friends who grew up together on the same council estate\, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning asks what happens when all the expectations we have of our lives are dashed. \nOnly Rian has made it out of the estate and moved away to another city\, but his money doesn’t stop him from clinging to a vision of the past that is quickly slipping away. Oli is fading by the day\, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom. Things are looking up for Conor\, but he is never too far away from chaos. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever\, always the calm in the eye of the storm\, but even they are rocked when old secrets begin to open new wounds. \nBold\, ambitious\, and stylistically striking\, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning lays bare the economic\, psychological\, and spiritual impact of poverty\, explores the redeeming and transforming beauty of friendship and examines the true limits of hope and forgiveness. \nPresented in partnership with Refocus Film Festival
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/keiran-goddard-i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning/
LOCATION:Iowa City Masonic Building\, 312 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Matt Singer: Funny Business
DESCRIPTION:If you were a moviegoer in the early aughts\, you had a front-row seat to a golden age of comedy. Ben Stiller\, Seth Rogen\, Will Ferrell\, Owen Wilson\, Steve Carell\, and Vince Vaughn became unlikely leading men—a band of rowdy wedding crashers\, hungover bachelors\, and 40-year-old virgins dubbed the “Frat Pack” that took Hollywood by storm over the span of a single decade. Then\, seemingly overnight\, Frat Pack movies vanished. Or did they? \nIn Funny Business\, award-winning author and film critic Matt Singer traces the path these gonzo stars and directors took from the fringes of comedy to the mainstream—beginning on tiny stages like Second City and the Groundlings\, then infiltrating into talent incubators like SNL\, eventually leading to the big screen. Along the way\, he shares insider stories of the films that raised a generation\, including: The 40-Year-Old Virgin\, Zoolander\, Borat\, Anchorman\, Old School\, and The Hangover. \nHow did these movies and their stars come to dominate a generation of moviemaking? Who won—and who was left out—of this comedy boom? And can studio comedies make a comeback in our modern digital and streaming world? Funny Business points the way forward to a (possible) new future for cinema—never forgetting that the audience always gets the last laugh. \nPresented in partnership with the Refocus Film Festival
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/matt-singer-funny-business/
LOCATION:Iowa City Masonic Building\, 312 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Jane Schoenbrun: Public Access Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Trailblazing filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun will join Refocus Film Festival for a reading and conversation to discuss their latest creative project\, Public Access Afterworld\, their first novel. Schoenbrun will visit Iowa City as the first stop on a promotional book tour. \nSpanning decades and realities\, with an unforgettable ensemble of outcasts and nerds—especially the messy but wholly relatable Bethany\, who must overcome paranoia and self-doubt to transform into a hero of our times—Public Access Afterworld will have you reading through the night and rooting for its characters to survive. A mesmerizing mash-up of speculative fiction\, horror\, and conspiracy\, it marks the arrival of a major new force in contemporary fiction by a groundbreaking filmmaker who’s been compared to David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson. \nPresented in collaboration with Refocus Film Festival\, Prairie Lights Bookstore and the Iowa City Book Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jane-schoenbrun-public-access-afterworld/
LOCATION:Iowa City Masonic Building\, 312 E College St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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