“Medusa Deluxe,” a devilishly funny murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest, opens at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Aug. 25.
Continuing is “Squaring the Circle.”
“Medusa Deluxe” tells the story of talented, ambitious and backstabbing hairstylists gather for a competition in England, only to find one of their own murdered before judging can begin. Winding through neon-lit halls and backstage dressing rooms, competitors unspool long-simmering resentments and secrets as they search for the killer among them, in this uniquely stylish whodunit from debut filmmaker Thomas Hardiman.
“Medusa Deluxe” is rated R for language throughout, some sexual references and brief drug use, and is showing at the Ross through Sept. 7
Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary “Squaring the Circle” tells the story of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell, the creative geniuses behind the iconic album art design studio, Hipgnosis, responsible for some of the most recognizable album covers of all time. They formed Hipgnosis in Cambridge during the ferment of the sixties and became rock royalty during the boom time of the seventies. They conjured into existence sights that no one had previously thought possible, produced visuals which popularized music that had previously been considered fringe, and were at the white-hot center of the maddest, funniest and most creative era in the history of popular music. During this period, record companies didn’t dictate to acts like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney what their LP covers should look like — Storm and Po did. They made money; they lost money. They did great things; they did silly things. They fell out bitterly; they made up. They never played a note, but they changed music.
“Squaring the Circle” is not rated and is showing at the Ross through Aug. 31.
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