Hey, check it all out Baby, I know what it’s all about Before the night is through You will see my point of view Even if I have to scream and shout – Prince, “Baby I’m a Star” In the very first piece I ever wrote for the IU Cinema blog, I wrote about the… Read more »
I’m always curious to know how people remember Rita Hayworth. Is it as the woman who was pictured seductively sitting in bed, making thousands of soldiers’ hearts beat faster during WWII? Or is it as Gilda, singing “Put the Blame on Mame” while playfully stripping off her gloves? Or maybe you recall her high-profile marriages… Read more »
If you were to ask the average person to name an actress from old Hollywood, you’re likely to hear the same handful of names: Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn, maybe even Ginger Rogers. If you’re a classic film fan, you know that while these ladies are incredible representations of… Read more »
As rhythmic meditations on urban spaces that shied away from character and narrative, city films of the 1920s and 1930s blended modernism, documentary, everyday life, and abstraction. The filmmakers took their cameras into the streets, capturing architecture, people, and industrial tempos, and then they pieced together their footage using graphic and thematic modes of organization.
Guest post by Rubén Corral. The day that Loreak / Flowers (Jon Garaño & Jose Mari Goenaga, 2014) was selected by the Spanish Film Academy to represent the country at the 2016 Oscars, many people could not resist using the term ‘historical.’ For the first time, Spain would be represented at the Oscars by a Basque-language… Read more »
“MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, I. 1-3 “The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself. He is at home when he is not working, and when he… Read more »