Still from L.A. Confidential IU Cinema Director Dr. Alicia Kozma explains the impetus behind the upcoming L.A. Scams Itself film series and its inclusion of Curtis Hanson’s acclaimed neo-noir. Spoilers ahead! This fall programming season I had the pleasure of curating a series called L.A. Scams Itself, a set of four films that invest themselves… Read more »
Still from L’Inferno Underground Film Series curator Richard Jermain notes why music is vital to the cinematic experience, particularly with silent films, as exemplified by 1911’s hallucinatory L’Inferno. On October 19, Montopolis is returning to IU Cinema to do a live score of the first ever feature-length horror film L’Inferno. Based on Dante’s Divine Comedy,… Read more »
A stranger comes knocking in Oddity (Mc Carthy, 2024) Chris Forrester considers how 2024’s eerie and unexpected Oddity fits within the landscape of recent horror films. Nearly every year in recent memory has yielded one or two horror movies subjected to a repetitive, now-familiar cycle of discourse: fanatic pre-release hype, a marketing campaign that plays… Read more »
Still from The Lunchbox Gwendolyn Kirk, South and Southeast Asian Studies Librarian with IU Bloomington Libraries, breaks down the pleasures of masala films and why audiences should check out the upcoming More Than Masala series. At its most basic level, masala means “spice” in several South Asian languages. The term is unsurprisingly most familiar to… Read more »
Still from In the Mouth of Madness Guest writer April Ridge gives a quick introduction to the John Carpenter classic. “You’ll go mad with fear!” The Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun” pipes into the insane asylum as John Trent (played by the wonderfully terrified and terrifying Sam Neill) is freshly admitted into his padded cell…. Read more »
After a cartel gunman from a small Mexican town is murdered, his four-year-old son Sujo is left an orphan and in danger. Raised by his aunt in the isolated countryside amidst hardship, poverty, and the constant peril associated with his identity, Sujo grows up and attempts to make his life anew, away from the violence… Read more »