Radium Girls (Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler, 2018) takes its inspiration from the infuriating history of watch-dial painters of the 1910s-1930s who were poisoned and then abandoned by the radium industry. Discovered in 1898 by the Curies, radium was all the rage in the early decades of the 20th century. Thought to be a… Read more »
Guest post by Alyssa Brooks, Outreach and Programming Coordinator and Events and Operations Assistant at Indiana University Cinema. On Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., IU Cinema will screen the documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, the first film in our Spring 2020 Science on Screen® series. Making Waves is directed by… Read more »
Every month A Place for Film will bring you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series will reflect the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema, as well as demonstrate the eclectic tastes of the bloggers…. Read more »
Guest post by Doug Bauder, Director of Indiana University’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center. This April 9th at the IU Cinema, come view the film States of Grace and, following the screening, meet the amazing Grace Dammann and her friend, Helen Cohen, who directed this film. Grace is a pioneering AIDS physician and a longtime resident of… Read more »
Guest post by Brittany D. Friesner, Associate Director of Indiana University Cinema. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, IU Cinema will commemorate the fifth annual National Evening of Science on Screen® with a 7:00 p.m. screening of the new documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. IU Cinema joins 28 independent theaters in 25 states as part… Read more »
SPOILERS for the movie Annihilation. Apocryphal or disproven science is fun to think about. For example, for much of our lives we truly believed we only use 10 percent of our brains. Similarly there’s another pop science factoid that gets a good amount of play around the internet, this one being that the process of… Read more »
