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 »
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 »
For years, Maya Cade longed for a resource that catalogued Black cinema and its availability on streaming platforms. With the vastness of the internet and countless streaming services — both niche and popular — tracking down these films wasn’t often easy, and it became yet another barrier that kept audiences from discovering the rich history… Read more »
This fall, IU Cinema presents Re:Made, a thrilling series that pairs an original film with its remake to articulate how filmmaking, film culture, and film impact evolves as the industry, audiences, and cultures change. To celebrate our first Re:Made pairing — Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s The Thing From Another World (1951) and John Carpenter’s… Read more »
Many of us watch cat videos without a second thought. We follow cats on Instagram, subscribe to multiple cat-themed sub-Reddits (r/startledcats, anyone?), and own Lil BUB or Grumpy Cat merch. Cats are weird and cute; why overanalyze it? Some researchers seem to agree, using cat videos as the frivolous internet foil to their serious subject…. Read more »
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 »