*BEWARE OF SPOILERS BELOW* One of my earliest memories is an afternoon spent at my uncle’s house watching Rob Reiner’s 1987 film The Princess Bride with my parents and my uncle. I must have been young, because it’s a hazy memory—in that way memories of early childhood can be. What I do remember clearly, however, is… Read more »
Guest post by Noni Ford. Recently, many people have been looking at the box office receipts for this year’s films and scratching their heads at why so many female-led and female-directed films are performing so well. As though it’s an absolute mystery, or if all women are just going to theaters to support these rare… Read more »
Guest post by Rubén Corral. The day that Loreak / Flowers (Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga, 2014) was selected by the Spanish Film Academy to represent the country at the 2016 Oscars, many people could not resist using the term ‘historical.’ For the first time, Spain would be represented at the Oscars by a Basque-language… Read more »
Welcome to Score Keeping, a feature where I l dive into overlooked and highly praised songs, scores and soundtracks that accompany great films. Please press play. Let’s go back. The year is 1975 and relatively unknown actor Sylvester Stallone has just finished writing the first draft of Rocky in three days. He was inspired by… Read more »
There is going to be a National Theatre Live broadcast of both parts of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes on August 5th and 12th at the IU Cinema. A recent rumor suggested that the current production in London might come to the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City for Broadway’s… Read more »
George Cukor, known as the “woman’s director” during Hollywood’s Studio Era, seems to have been a part of a vast number of Hollywood classics. He is, in fact, one of my own favorite directors, a handful of his films sitting in my list of favorites. It’s no wonder then that in my three years co-coordinating… Read more »
