The question of realism in narrative cinema is an interesting and complex one. When a group of Italian filmmakers in the 1940s, led by Roberto Rossellini but also composed of quite different figures such as Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, began to produce works that have come to comprise the Italian Neorealist canon, their… Read more »
Bite-Sized Blogs
“I am two bodies”: The Maternal in Two Lynne Sachs Films
Lynne Sachs’ film output is prolific and varied, encompassing documentaries, essay films, non-narrative experiments, and installations. Like many feminist filmmakers, a theme running through her work is the insistence that the personal is important. Whether one’s own body, private moments in a doctor’s office, or one’s sense of family and home, our personal lives are… Read more »
In Memoriam: Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)
Rest in peace to the filmmaker who taught us how to see (and how to hear), who opened our eyes with his ferocious reconstruction of film form and with the emotional intensity of his images. Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema remains, above all, an attempt to restructure perception. His deeply sensual films seek to retrain our eyes… Read more »
“Ancient Grudge to New Mutiny”: How Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Romeo + Juliet (1996) Create Cinematic Adaptations of a Classic Text
One of the many things that is fascinating to me about cinema is what happens when artists tell the same story in different ways. I love how they make bold choices when adapting a work of art which causes it to feel original and fresh, while at the same time honoring the qualities which made… Read more »
Albert Bloch: An Unknown Artist of the Avant-Garde
Guest post by Jenny McComas. The inaugural exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter at Munich’s Galerie Thannhauser in December 1911 helped catapult avant-garde artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to international fame. Although often described as German Expressionists, the artists of the Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) were an international group. The… Read more »
10 Reasons Why I Love Weird Al’s 1989 Film UHF (#6 Will Shock You!)
Guest post by Seth Mutchler. Hi, everybody! Seth Mutchler here, IU Cinema’s Cinema Technology Specialist. On September 10th, IU Cinema will be presenting my Staff Selects, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s UHF (1989). I was thinking about this movie as I was preparing to write this blog post, and I was struggling to put my finger on… Read more »