Before viewing Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, I purposefully tried to read as little as possible about the film so I could watch it with no spoilers as horror reviews often give a few away. In the broader spectrum of horror, I wasn’t sure where the movie would land; some early indications indicated more comedic… Read more »
When the New York Evening Star carelessly prints a false story about society dame Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) that results in a $5 million libel suit, editor Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy) decides to resolve the situation by hiring the sneakiest, smoothest operator he knows: ex-Evening Star reporter Bill Chandler (William Powell). The men don’t share… Read more »
Guest post by Joan Hawkins. “Who chose his words from mouths of babes got lost in the wood. Hip-flask-slinging madmen, steaming café flirts. They all spoke through you.” — “Hey Jack Kerouac,” Natalie Merchant and Robert Buck Remember the story of King Midas. He was granted a wish and without thinking it through, he asked that… Read more »
In the cinema of Leo McCarey, the act of socializing takes on paramount importance. The rhythms of his films, and the way that they make meaning, largely derive from his direction of actors and from the characters’ behavior toward one another within the fiction — the ways that they look at, listen and react to… Read more »
Guest post by Dr. Alicia Kozma, Director of IU Cinema. This fall, we will be premiering the first half of a year-long program called Women on Top: Legacies of Women in Global Cinema. It’s a program that combines film screenings, industry guests, student masterclasses, and keynotes that center diverse women film professionals from across the… Read more »
Guest post by Chris Forrester. The king is back, they say, with Crimes of the Future, and he’s promising walkouts. Eight years after his last feature film — Maps to the Stars (2014), then thought of as something of a frustrated sign-off from the once horror titan — just shy of two-and-a-half decades after his… Read more »