Ed. note: contains spoilers for The Land Before Time. It was with a certain trepidation I revisited the films of Don Bluth. It’s probably been over 20 years since I first saw his classic films, including The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), and All Dogs Go to… Read more »
Entries by Caleb Allison
The Weight of 143 lbs.: “I Love You” as Mister Rogers’ Universal Constant
There will be a moment for each of you — well, most of you, with any semblance of a heart anyways — when your emotional defenses so bravely holding back that lump in your throat give way. The flood gates will open and you might be embarrassed for a moment, until you realize everyone else… Read more »
Summer Moviegoing Nostalgia Right in Your Backyard
Guest post by Caleb Allison. Summer is nearly here, which for most is exciting, but it also means IU Cinema will be temporarily closing its doors for a summer hiatus, forcing you to search elsewhere for your daily film fix. If the other local movie theatre options are leaving you cinematically dejected, you might be… Read more »
Now in 2K!: Restoring and Erasing STALKER’s Visual Obscurity
Guest post by Caleb Allison. In Andrei Tarkovsky’s poetic monograph Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, he comments on the perpetual need for viewers to understand what the Zone in Stalker (1979) symbolizes. I believe part of the film’s power lies in its symbolic and visual ambiguity. There are no definitive answers given –… Read more »