Guest post by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed. This year the Ukrainian Homelands Series explores memory as one of the central elements for facilitating transcultural and transnational conversation regarding what we know about our own selves and others, what we remember, and what we forget. Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass (2018) opens this year’s series: this film emphasizes the topic… Read more »
There are many pleasures to be found in silent comedy. There’s the energy of the Keystone Kops, the mix of slapstick and emotion of Charlie Chaplin, and the stone-faced absurdity of Buster Keaton. But one of the most underrated pleasures in silent comedy can be found in the films of an underappreciated actor: the escalation… Read more »
For three days this fall, Bloomington, Indiana will be transported to Pordenone, Italy as the IU Cinema, the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, and the Music Scoring for Visual Media program in the Jacobs School of Music host a variety of highlights from Pordenone’s world-renowned silent-film festival Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. As if that… Read more »
The witch is a longstanding media archetype, one featured frequently in 20th century Disney films. In this video, I look at the delightfully evil Sanderson Sisters from the 1993 Disney film, Hocus Pocus (dir. Kenny Ortega), connecting the sisters to other Disney villains, the history of the witch, and what it means for women to defy… Read more »
I feel like we don’t talk about how special it is to go into a film blind in the modern era of movie viewing. Due to the nature of the constant onslaught of advertising on multiple fronts; the way trailers are cut to market to increasingly disinterested and picky audiences; the interconnectivity of culture through… Read more »