We find it fascinating when a star transforms themselves for a role. Rebecca Romijn enduring hours of prosthetics for her role as Mystique… Jared Leto losing 30 lbs for Dallas Buyer’s Club… Christian Bale losing an even more extreme 60 lbs for The Machinist… Charlize Theron gaining 30 lbs and donning latex make-up to add… Read more »
On September 10, the year of 2020 once again proved it was terrible with the passing of fierce, dynamic Dame Diana Rigg. While rightly remembered for her legendary role as Emma Peel in the British series The Avengers (which is a must-see, in my opinion), Rigg’s talents couldn’t be confined to the small screen, as… Read more »
Guest post by Lisa-Marie Napoli, Director of the Political and Civic Engagement program at Indiana University. At the end of watching a good film, I like to sit for a few minutes, catch my breath, and reflect on what the film means to me, how it informs my thinking, and how it brings to light… Read more »
During an episode of the Pure Cinema Podcast from April, recorded remotely with guest Edgar Wright, the 1963 Italian film The Leopard came up in conversation. Co-host Elric Kane joked that this 3-hour-plus epic would be a great film to watch early in the morning. Since the coronavirus pandemic has made my schedule very flexible,… Read more »
Steve Martin called him “my greatest mentor in movies and in life.” Norman Lear remarked that he brought “pure joy” to everything he did, while Billy Crystal deemed him “a nice genius” and Dick Van Dyke gushed that he was “the greatest human being I ever met in my life.” In the worlds of television,… Read more »
I’ll never forget the day I realized that Professor Glenn Gass’s class on the history of rock in the 1960s (now called History of Rock Music II: Rock’s Classic Era) was going to be one of my favorites at IU. Professor Gass, who recently retired, was making an argument that people should appreciate the early… Read more »