The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is serving up a variety of genres for moviegoers, as three new films — a tragicomedy, a documentary and a biopic — open Sept. 21.
The Ross is closed Sept. 20 due to the Husker football home game.
Helmed by the director of the award-winning documentary "Our Last Tango," "Adios Buenos Aires" is the charming tragicomic story of a charismatic bandoneon player trying to keep his life together during Argentina’s political and economic crisis of 2001.
Julio Färber is the charismatic bandoneon player of the “Vecinos de Pompeya,” a tango band. He is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment he makes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him. The government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country. There are protests all around him. And Mariela, a witty young woman, and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio’s last possession of value before stealing his heart.
"Adios Buenos Aires" is not rated, and is showing through Sept. 26.
"Merchant Ivory" is a compelling feature documentary exploring the filmmaking duo behind the beloved films "A Room With A View," "Howards End," "Remains of the Day" and more.
It is the first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence.
"Merchant Ivory" is not rated and is showing through Sept. 26.
"Kneecap" follows the formation of the titular music group. When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant sound — whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, Kneecap play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.
"Kneecap" is rated R, and is showing through Oct. 3.
Learn more about the films, including show times and ticket availability.
