Guest post by Amber Bertin. When the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA) was approached to curate an exhibit from our collections to supplement IU Cinema guest programmer Maya Cade’s amazing series Home Is Where the Heart Is: Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home, we were beyond pleased to follow Maya’s lead and bring attention to… Read more »
The 2022 winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s special jury award, Dos Estaciones follows 50-year-old businesswoman María García (a magnetic Teresa Sánchez) as she struggles to keep alive her family’s once-thriving tequila factory. An intimate portrait of the emotional and physical toll a person can experience as they strive to hang onto their business and… Read more »
The first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Adoption tells the intertwined stories of a middle-aged factory worker who wishes to have a child with her married lover and a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. Co-written… Read more »
Guest post by Jenny McComas. The inaugural exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter at Munich’s Galerie Thannhauser in December 1911 helped catapult avant-garde artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to international fame. Although often described as German Expressionists, the artists of the Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) were an international group. The… Read more »
Guest post by Seth Mutchler. Hi, everybody! Seth Mutchler here, IU Cinema’s Cinema Technology Specialist. On September 10th, IU Cinema will be presenting my Staff Selects, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF (1989). I was thinking about this movie as I was preparing to write this blog post, and I was struggling to put my finger on… Read more »
A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn, Alma’s Rainbow explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Written, directed, and produced by artist/educator Ayoka Chenzira — who was one of the… Read more »