Des Moines Film

The Big Short: DMFS Best of 2015

Posted on January 25, 2016

Des Moines Film Society asked some of our favorite local writers and film fanatics to pick their favorite film of 2015. You can read them all at DMFS: Best of 2015. A few years ago, after seeing Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning feature documentary Inside Job, I couldn’t stop recommending it to people as a lucid, compelling explanation of the 2008 financial crisis. As a documentary, however, it proved a hard sell; not everyone is willing to watch...

Your Guide to Star Wars (plus other movies) in Des Moines (but mostly just Star Wars)

Posted on December 22, 2015

by jill@on-pitch.com

If you're one of the millions anticipating the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens this week, the question isn't so much if you're going to see the movie, but how. In Des Moines, we are lucky enough to have three choices in format: Standard and 3D (both projected digitally), or IMAX (projected on film). The Science Center of Iowa IMAX Dome Theater is one of only seven theaters in the US screening The Force Awakens on...

The Hateful Eight

Posted on December 8, 2015

by jill@on-pitch.com

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight was shot on Panovision 70mm film* - the widest and richest cinema format, used for epics like Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia. And while the film will be mass-distributed digitally when it hits theaters on Christmas Day, the 70mm version is also rolling out as an exclusive Road Show in a few select cinemas around the country. The Road Show release format was popular in the 1960s, often for big "event pictures. Road...