“I hope it will be less painful this time…” — Ruben Östlund, joking about The Square’s selection as Sweden’s official nominee for Best Foreign Language Film for the 90th Academy Awards Although the Nordic country is a mainstay of the award season in the United States, having been represented 15 times since 1956, Sweden has… Read more »
Welcome to Score Keeping, a feature where I dive into overlooked and highly praised songs, scores and soundtracks that accompany great films. Today, however, I sit down and talk to a composer with an upcoming performance at the IU Cinema.
Known for their hypernaturalistic, slow but rhythmic dramas that invariably concern the struggles of one or more working class characters, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are Belgian’s most renowned filmmakers. The brothers began working in documentaries in the 1970s and in these early works one can already see the gradual formation of their signature styles —… Read more »
Born in 1941, Faye Dunaway is a Hollywood classic. Although more of the second or third generation of old Hollywood (like Jane Fonda or Natalie Wood), she, like the others, had the opportunity to work with many of the older, classical Hollywood stars. Arguably, most of Dunaway’s best work was released in the 1960s and… Read more »
Guest post by Barbara Grassia, IU Cinema Technical Director. On November 9th, IU Cinema will screen a rare 35mm print of The Simple-Minded Murderer, my choice for the series Staff Selects. The last time I saw this film was in 1984, which was my first year as projectionist at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco…. Read more »
I think it’s safe to say that at this point Bruce Campbell has gone beyond nerd and fanboy cult icon to THE living cult icon. To put it in terms for the modern reader: he is the original Nathan Fillion, an almost cartoonishly handsome square-jawed lothario type that had something classic and “Old Hollywood” about… Read more »