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 »
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 »
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 »
*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 »
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 »
Indiana University is lucky to have wonderful resources in its students and faculty, facilities, and access to technology. On Sunday, March 5 the IU Cinema will be screening the Double Exposure 2017 shorts program, a culmination of all of these resources. With the help of renowned IU faculty, students from IU Jacobs School of… Read more »