Courtesy of Caleb Allison Ahead of our screenings of Perfect Days, IU Cinema’s founding director emeritus Jon Vickers spoke with student filmmaker Caleb Allison about Sol Folium, his new short that the Cinema will be playing before each showing of the Wim Wenders film. This article was originally published by CanopyBloomington. In a town like… Read more »
Léa Seydoux stands against a green screen in the opening of The Beast Chris Forrester dissects the heady themes of Bertrand Bonello’s genre-defying romance and the Henry James novella that inspired it. Spoilers ahead! “The escape would have been to love her; then, then he would have lived. She had lived — who could say… Read more »
12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) lives with her single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan) and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere in this unique coming-of-age story from Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold. An official selection of the… Read more »
Still from Juliet of the Spirits IU Chancellor Michael A. McRobbie shares his introductory remarks from our January 25th screening of Juliet of the Spirits, the first film in IU Cinema’s ongoing series of Federico Fellini pictures as chosen by McRobbie. I formally dedicated and opened the IU Cinema as IU president exactly 14 years… Read more »
A biological miracle with disastrous consequences in The Substance Chris Forrester connects Coralie Fargeat’s award-winning body-horror sensation The Substance to its B-movie roots. As is now something of a tradition with buzzy festival hits, The Substance (Fargeat, 2024) almost immediately became the subject of a discourse whose least productive concerns have more or less eclipsed… Read more »
The Female Monster of Flesh for Frankenstein Underground Film Series curator Justin Bonthuys contextualizes Paul Morrissey’s cult classic. In his book on comedy-horror films, screenwriter and actor Bruce Hallenbeck describes the irony in the script of Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) as “[giving] the film a winking detachment, so that you find yourself convulsed with laughter… Read more »