“Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.” – William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell” c. 1793 Many critics and commentators of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, an artfully grim, post-classical “acid western” from 1995, have casually noted its relationship with the work of William Blake (1757-1827), both because the film’s main character,… Read more »
Guest post by Elliot J. Reichert. Ai Weiwei is perhaps one of the most famous—or infamous—living artists. Known internationally for his provocative and politically charged artworks and films, Ai has lived in exile since the lifting of a ban on his travel by the Chinese government in 2015. The Fake Case, a 2013 documentary by… Read more »
The end of the 2010s and the beginning of the 2020s marks a few important turning points in cinema that would seem out of the question in the burgeoning 21st century mindset of the 2000s. Keanu Reeves’s star has once again risen (I would argue we are in the third Keanu-ssance, the “Bronze Age” of… Read more »
Every month A Place for Film will bring you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series will reflect the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema, as well as demonstrate the eclectic tastes of the bloggers…. Read more »
If there’s one thing I learned about film this past decade, it’s that where and how you see a film is just as important as the content of the film itself. Even without bringing up the totemic shift in how streaming services have fundamentally changed our relationship to media, the theatrical experience itself has changed… Read more »
This fall, the IU Cinema programmed a series entitled “The Rashōmon Effect” which, in the spirit of the 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic, brought together a number of titles from disparate countries and decades which all employ a narrative device that deals with contradictory interpretations of the same events by various witnesses. Upon reviewing their selections,… Read more »