Guest post by Shannon Gayk. October 31st will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of the ninety-five theses on the door at Wittenberg, an act of dissent and a prod to debate that is often taken as inaugurating the Protestant Reformation. This fall’s film series Heretics, Revolutionaries, and Reformers commemorates that event by… Read more »
Onscreen at IU Cinema
Trailer: Good Time
Capturing a city as it is is a priceless tool as a filmmaker. Cities have as much personality as any character in a film and if used right can become the whole focal point of the film. The “as it is” part is what some filmmakers don’t get quite right. It easy to romanticize a… Read more »
Trailer: Endless Poetry
I think sometimes we take our master filmmakers for granted. I think it comes from our somewhat misconstrued idea that with old age comes a deterioration of an artist work, even though even in the past few years we’ve seen elder stateswomen and men such as Martin Scorsese, Agnes Varda, Claire Denis and Steven Spielberg… Read more »
Appreciating the Complexities of Life
I can’t remember exactly when or where I first saw Monsieur Lazhar, but I know it couldn’t have been long after it was released. What I do remember, and quite vividly, is how moved I was by it. I can remember the complexity of feelings I felt for its characters: the sadness, the joy, the… Read more »
Ripley Saves the Day… Although She Doesn’t Flaunt It
*If you have never seen Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, beware of spoilers ahead.* Many science fiction films or television shows push the frontier logic — so many are, after all, about “space, the final frontier” and man’s ability to conquer it, or be conquered by it. Although space is often, in these cases, where we… Read more »
Om Shanti Om: A Giddy Cinematic Ride
Guest post by Michaela Owens. Four years ago, I watched a film I never forgot. Every week for my musical theatre class, we would watch a range of musicals, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to Rent. I had heard of all of them, except for an export from Bollywood called Om Shanti Om. Only one person… Read more »