This past semester the IU Cinema has shown a number of films depicting strong females. On Thursday, February 23 it screened A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), the first feature film by Ana Lily Amirpour. In preparation for this screening I co-wrote a blog post celebrating Amirpour’s work and her visit to the… Read more »
Many names get tossed around by cinematically savvy people when you bring up great American 90’s independent cinema. You have the usual suspects: Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee. Maybe next you’d get to some deep cuts like Hal Hartley, Jamie Babbit, and Whit Stillman to round off the conversation. One name, however, that should be… Read more »
Last month The New York Times Magazine ran a piece titled “The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns.” In it the author argues that, although Reichardt has only made one “true” Western, all of her films, in fact, can be considered revisionist Westerns that promote the possibility of a quiet, often lost, and in… Read more »
