SPOILERS for the movie Annihilation. Apocryphal or disproven science is fun to think about. For example, for much of our lives we truly believed we only use 10 percent of our brains. Similarly there’s another pop science factoid that gets a good amount of play around the internet, this one being that the process of… Read more »
Stephen Sondheim is a movie buff. In interviews he has called versatile studio directors Michael Curtiz and Raoul Walsh “heroes of mine” because they influenced his desire to tell high quality stories across genres. He has spoken about how the scores of Bernard Herrmann, particularly his one for Hangover Square, influenced the music of Sweeney… Read more »
Vincent Price. Just saying his name makes me want to smile. It’s also a name that brings to mind many different things for many different people. For some, he is the ghoulish introduction to “Thriller;” others recognize him as a symbol for horror movies; classic film fans know him from a wide range of things,… Read more »
On March 27, the Indiana University Cinema will be screening the documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as a part of the International Arthouse Series and this year’s Science on Screen series. Hedy Lamarr was a fascinating and incredibly influential woman in America, and not just because she was an actress of the Classical Hollywood period…. Read more »
Imagine this: after winning gold at the Olympics, an athlete like Michael Phelps or Chloe Kim goes to Hollywood, films a movie for six weeks, and then a few months later that movie is released and they become one of the biggest stars in the world. Seems crazy, right? However, this is precisely what happened… Read more »
Welcome to Score Keeping, a feature where I dive into overlooked and highly praised songs, scores and soundtracks that accompany great films. The First Contact series arranged by associate director Brittany Friesner has proven itself to be a vital one for 2018. All the stories told in the series seem to be about finding common… Read more »