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 »
IU Cinema is wrapping up its Fall 2016 season on December 13 and 14 with two films that have become holiday favorites: Die Hard and Gremlins! It’s going to be a lot of fun, but also a little bittersweet as we say farewell to Manny Knowles, the Cinema’s outgoing technical director. Manny will be introducing… Read more »
Guest contributor Joshua Byron shares about the process of bringing Richard Fung to campus for Interrogating Beauty: Richard Fung’s Pure Sea/Queer Dirt scheduled to take place at CAHI and The Media School as part of Themester at Indiana University. I never thought that I was going to curate. And I certainly didn’t think I would be… Read more »
The blogging team at A Place For Film extends thanks to IU President Michael A. McRobbie for supporting our new blogging adventure by inviting us to share the transcript of his remarks, which kicked off this fall’s President’s Choice: Reporting Conflict Film Series. Introduction of Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously President Michael A…. Read more »