Gentle and timid, Haider (Ali Junejo) lives with his wife Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq), his father, and his elder brother’s family in Lahore, Pakistan. Following a long spell of unemployment, Haider finally lands a job at a Bollywood-style burlesque, telling his family he is a theater manager when, in actuality, he is a backup dancer. The… Read more »
Nan Brewer speaks at a pre-screening gallery talk at the Eskenazi Museum before a screening of Mapplethorpe at the IU Cinema (Photo credit: Brittany D. Friesner) Art and a Movie series partner Nan Brewer reflects on the program’s past 13 years as she prepares to retire this month. From us here at IU Cinema, thank… Read more »
Peeping Tom‘s killer admires his handiwork from the comfort of his darkroom Chris Forrester considers the act of looking and how it’s intertwined with filmmaking in the proto-slasher Peeping Tom. Spoilers ahead! Nighttime in London. An eye opens. A man prowls the streets. Concealed beneath the folds of his coat is a camera, and as… Read more »
After being mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned with no human contact for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly released without any explanation. In a twisted game of cat and mouse, he has only five days to retrace his past, track down his captors, and get his revenge. An incredibly influential thriller from master filmmaker… Read more »
Nicolas Cage stars as Paul Matthews, a listless family man and tenured professor with an affinity for evolutionary biology and anxiety regarding his own anonymity. One day, he discovers he has begun to appear in other people’s dreams at an exponential rate. He becomes an overnight celebrity and is soon showered with the attention he… Read more »
James Cagney as George M. Cohan Michaela Owens explains why she appreciates James Cagney’s tour-de-force performance in Michael Curtiz’s tremendous musical biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy. It only takes a few seconds of a James Cagney performance to know that there hasn’t been and never will be another actor like him. With his rat-a-tat voice, jerky… Read more »