Guest post by Shannon Gayk. October 31st will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of the ninety-five theses on the door at Wittenberg, an act of dissent and a prod to debate that is often taken as inaugurating the Protestant Reformation. This fall’s film series Heretics, Revolutionaries, and Reformers commemorates that event by… Read more »
Guest post by Rubén Corral. The day that Loreak / Flowers (Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga, 2014) was selected by the Spanish Film Academy to represent the country at the 2016 Oscars, many people could not resist using the term ‘historical.’ For the first time, Spain would be represented at the Oscars by a Basque-language… Read more »
Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. Wounded Galaxies 1968: Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach Symposium and Series of events Feb 5, 2018-Feb 11, 2018 Bloomington, Indiana The Sixties were a turbulent period, characterized by major revolutions in scholarship, politics, culture and the… Read more »
Guest post by Michelle Spencer. With the release of The Beguiled this summer marking Sofia Coppola’s sixth feature film, it seemed an opportune time to revisit her directorial debut. Recently, she won Best Director at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; making her the second female director to win in the festival’s seventy year history. Before… Read more »
Sarah Lasley’s “The Imagemaker” premieres tonight at the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive Screening Room as part of The Body & Transcendence: a night of films by women directors. Julie Rooney, whose work will also screen this evening, conversed with Lasley about her new film and the themes that resonate through the films in the program…. Read more »
Guest post by Jessica Davis Tagg, IU Cinema Events and Operations Manager. One of the most incredible parts of my job is that I have the opportunity to work with the IU Cinema Volunteer Ambassadors day-in and day-out. We count on members of the IU Cinema Usher Corps for so many things that may not… Read more »