Every month, A Place for Film brings 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 reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film… Read more »
*Contains spoilers! Watch the film before you read!* Keanu Reeves’ beard proved challenging for the animation team of A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006). It’s patchy and inconsistent, requiring a high-degree of detail work to capture the tonal and textural variations across the actor’s cheek. A Scanner Darkly is made in an animation style called… Read more »
“What makes a man leave bed and board And turn his back on home? Ride away, ride away, ride away.” — Stan Jones, theme song from The Searchers “Face to face…with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Steven Spielberg loves The Searchers (1956). He has repeatedly cited… Read more »
As the leading lady in two of Douglas Sirk’s finest and most enduring melodramas, Magnificent Obsession (1954) and All That Heaven Allows (1955), it wouldn’t be entirely accurate to say that Jane Wyman is an actress forgotten to time. Then again, given that those two films represent but a small part of her varied… Read more »
assault. nouna: a violent physical or verbal attackb: a military attack usually involving direct combat with enemy forcesc: a concerted effortFrom the Latin (ad) “saltus” meaning, “to leap” In a scene from Lana Wachowski’s most recent film, The Matrix Resurrections, she introduces a new character to the mythos of The Matrix Saga named “Bugs” (yes,… Read more »
The Cleaners thrusts us into an almost pitch-black office space, with one worker diligently tabbing through photos and videos barely blinking as they alternate between saying “Delete” or “Ignore.” We quickly come to learn that with every delete, the content moderators are wiping something off a social platform, scrubbing away undesirable content that doesn’t fit… Read more »