Guest post by Seth Mutchler. Our world is messy. Our world is overwhelming. Our world endlessly expands in every direction. Humans have many things that differentiate us, but the world’s incomprehensible totality is universal. Another thing that we have in common is art. Art has many functions but one that many, myself included, find the… Read more »
Guest post by Vivian Nun Halloran, associate professor of English and American Studies. In celebrating the visual adaptations of the fictional works of Haitian-born, Quebec-based journalist, novelist, and screenwriter Dany Laferrière through a three-film festival, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies sets out to deepen our collective appreciation of the imaginative richness and political… Read more »
Guest post by Craig Simpson, Manuscripts Archivist at Lilly Library. “For me, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is the standard for a sort of emotional purity, a movie whose feeling permeates you without ever once forcing a thing. Emerging from it, I always feel like the town drunk who attempts a jig on the ice in one… Read more »
Six years ago today Indiana University Cinema launched its first season with an unforgettable screening of Lawrence of Arabia—officially transforming the University Theatre from its origins as a live performance space to an amazing place for film. I was finally seeing the film as it was meant to be experienced—beautifully projected on the big screen.
Guest contributor Landon Palmer shares insights into the enduring appeal of Elvis Presley’s film career in anticipation of IU Cinema’s Elvis in Hollywood: Shaking Up the Silver Screen film series, which starts on Sunday. Throughout the 1960s, following his stint in the army, Elvis Presley’s career was devoted principally to performing in films and recording their… Read more »
Guest contributor Nzingha Kendall reflects on Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy in anticipation of IU Cinema’s screenings of Jenkins’s acclaimed new feature film Moonlight later this week. Barry Jenkins’s first feature Medicine for Melancholy: two gorgeous black people embarking on a love story, one that’s doomed from the start. Perhaps these kinds of love stories… Read more »