Nan Brewer speaks at a pre-screening gallery talk at the Eskenazi Museum before a screening of Mapplethorpe at the IU Cinema (Photo credit: Brittany D. Friesner) Art and a Movie series partner Nan Brewer reflects on the program’s past 13 years as she prepares to retire this month. From us here at IU Cinema, thank… Read more »
Behind the Scenes
A Look Back at the Origins of the City Lights Film Series
In 1997, two graduate students in the Indiana University Bloomington Film Studies program began the City Lights Film Series. Through City Lights, Drew Todd, now a senior lecturer at San José State University, and Eric Beckstrom, a senior academic advisor for the Indiana University Center for Students in Transition, offered “Free 16mm Weekly Screenings of… Read more »
Black Film Center & Archive’s Exhibit on Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home
Guest post by Amber Bertin. When the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA) was approached to curate an exhibit from our collections to supplement IU Cinema guest programmer Maya Cade’s amazing series Home Is Where the Heart Is: Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home, we were beyond pleased to follow Maya’s lead and bring attention to… Read more »
Meet Your IU Cinema Staff: Elizabeth Roell
Get to know the people behind your favorite university cinema in our new blog series, “Meet Your IU Cinema Staff.” Using the format of our exclusive filmmaker interviews — all of which can be found on our YouTube channel — we’ve crafted a questionnaire for our staff to help introduce them to you, our audience. For… Read more »
New Americas Cinema: What is international about international cinema, anyway?
Guest post by Dr. Alicia Kozma, Director of IU Cinema. International films are central to the core of the U.S. art house. In the 1950s and 1960s, art house theaters were often the only places you could see international films. Today, it would be rare to find an art house theater worth its salt that… Read more »
Meet Your IU Cinema Staff: Michaela Owens
Get to know the people behind your favorite university cinema in our blog series, “Meet Your IU Cinema Staff.” Using the format of our exclusive filmmaker interviews — all of which can be found on our YouTube channel — we’ve crafted a questionnaire for our staff to help introduce them to you, our audience. For today’s… Read more »