Four years ago, the whole world seemed to hold their breath when a group of boys and their soccer coach became trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. It was an unimaginable, terrifying event to watch unfold, with no guarantee of a happy ending. In their new documentary The Rescue, which was recently placed on… Read more »
Onscreen at IU Cinema
Not-Quite Midnights presents: Titane (2021)
If you’ve heard anything about Titane since its release last year, you’ve probably heard it described as the movie where a woman has sex with a car. But Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner is infinitely more complex than that. It is also the kind of film that the less you know about it, the better… Read more »
A Look at This Spring’s International Art House Series
Guest post by Dr. Alicia Kozma, Director of IU Cinema. In 1956, film scholar John Twomey surveyed his contemporary film exhibition landscape and noticed a change was taking place: small, independently run theaters across the country were turning away from the usual mainstream film fare, focusing instead on what he termed “films of quality.”[1]… Read more »
Tanna: Molten Lovers in the Pacific Ring of Fire
Guest post by David Stringer, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Second Language Studies. The film series Islands of Resilience opens in IU Cinema’s virtual screening room with the visually stunning Tanna (2015), a tale based on a true story of forbidden love on the lush, hypnotically beautiful island of… Read more »
All Hail The Donut King
In 1975, Ted Ngoy was working as a gas station attendant when he suddenly noticed the delicious smells coming from a nearby donut shop. Curious, he approached the counter and ordered his very first donut, the glorious pastry instantly reminding him of nom kong, a similar treat from his home country of Cambodia. Just four… Read more »
Shock and Alien Invasions: Valie Export and Invisible Adversaries
Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. Valie Export (1940-) is a radical feminist Austrian artist and filmmaker. How radical? Radical enough to take a popular brand of cigarettes, Export, as her last name. She liked the design of the cigarettes, she told Gary Indiana, and she… Read more »