Guest post by Jeanette Clausen. Catching up with Cuba presents two films focused on the importance of mentors for children and youth. Conducta (Behavior, 2014) by Cuban filmmaker Ernesto Daranas Serrano shines a critical lens on Cuban education. The film was widely screened in Cuba and prompted discussion of problems in the education system. Ghost… Read more »
Guest post by Evie Munier. What is reality? Is there only one reality? Can there be several? These are some of the questions that the film series Cinéma Sans Frontières, offered by the French and Italian department in collaboration with IU Cinema, tries to ask. The rationale behind the series was born from the assumption… Read more »
There’s nothing like a debut film that announces the arrival of a fascinating talent with a one-of-a-kind voice. Films such as this — Brick, The Childhood of a Leader, Citizen Kane — are bold and entertaining in their freshness. It’s apparent from a single viewing of Little Woods that it is such a film, and… Read more »
Guest post by Abigail Gipson. Elena Volochine and James Keogh arrived in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on a June evening in 2015 to begin filming the documentary Oleg’s Choice. The Russian-backed battalion in which they were to be embedded was preparing for battle the next day. Before the battle, one fighter stopped to… Read more »
Guest post by De Witt Douglas Kilgore. When Universal Pictures released the second of its horror classics, Frankenstein, in November of 1931, no one could have imagined the vast cultural shadow this apparently modest motion picture would cast. Its initial popularity prompted a series of sequels and licensed properties that helped define the “monster movie”… Read more »
Guest post by Kathryn Glen. Readers of a certain age and socioeconomic privilege will remember Marc Summers as the host of Nickelodeon’s hit game show Double Dare, where pint-sized contestants competed in physical challenges and hoped to avoid Nickelodeon’s ubiquitous green slime. Anyone who missed the show can catch its reboot on air today, or… Read more »