This July, Establishing Shot presents It’s Revived!, a miniseries celebrating some of our favorite (or at least some of the more fascinating) movie remakes out there in anticipation of IU Cinema’s fall film series Re:Made. Today, Noni Ford compares John Frankenheimer and Jonathan Demme’s adaptations of a chilling political thriller that brilliantly investigates the atrocities of… Read more »
This June, Establishing Shot will feature a miniseries we’re calling Here’s Looking at You, 2002 as we take a look back at films celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Today, Noni Ford points out the merits of one of the most polarizing Star Wars flicks George Lucas ever made. What I’m about to write may divide… Read more »
What is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes really about? A fairytale within a fairytale, the commitment of artistry, a story about the jealousies and passions that arise when you see a talent like no other… It’s hard to tie down the different threads in the movie, but the central theme from the… Read more »
When I started watching The B1G Story: George Taliaferro, I knew it was going to be incredible and inspiring — partially because of the way it opened, with an original leather football helmet and the field of the Indiana University football stadium coupled with the distinctive, resonant voice of the subject beginning to tell his… Read more »
The Cleaners thrusts us into an almost pitch-black office space, with one worker diligently tabbing through photos and videos barely blinking as they alternate between saying “Delete” or “Ignore.” We quickly come to learn that with every delete, the content moderators are wiping something off a social platform, scrubbing away undesirable content that doesn’t fit… Read more »
The world we find ourselves in in the animated film Cryptozoo is one chock-full of cryptids — the term used for mythological, folkloric beings or animals that exist amongst us often in hiding. Our main heroine Lauren Grey’s introduction to the world of cryptids comes in the form of help she receives from the Japanese… Read more »