Noni Ford writes about how Ray Bradbury finds empathy for the unknown, as exemplified by the 1950s sci-fi flick It Came from Outer Space, whose script is based on the author’s original film treatment “The Meteor.” My first introduction to the work of Ray Bradbury was the book Martian Chronicles, which was one of the… Read more »
Last year, Yi-Chen Chiang was selected as the recipient of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award and will be showcasing her original score for the Jean Epstein film Cœur Fidèle at the IU Cinema on November 5th. She is a recent graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and currently works in Los Angeles as an… Read more »
Film scoring for silent film has long been something that has interested me, even before I had the pleasure of seeing films with live accompaniment at the IU Cinema. It’s a practice that seems both endless and finite in its possibilities. You can create something that’s in the pocket of the era the film was… Read more »
Guest post by Joelle Jackson. Themester intern Joelle Jackson sat down with Austen Parrish, Dean and James H. Rudy Professor of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, to discuss the upcoming Themester film Dark Waters and the roles that law plays in the environmentalism movement. The film, based on a true story, follows Cincinnati… Read more »
Guest post by Elizabeth Roell, co-host of A Place for Film: The IU Cinema Podcast. If you thought the filmmaking process was difficult, just imagine what it would be like to make a film during the global COVID pandemic. Well, there is a group of IU students that doesn’t have to imagine, because they did… Read more »
Guest post by Isabel Nieves. Themester intern Isabel Nieves had a conversation with Dr. Izabela Potapowicz, a visiting assistant professor in the Comparative Literature Department. They discussed the upcoming Themester film, After Life (1998), which follows several individuals transitioning from life to their afterlife. Each person can choose one cherished memory to recreate before the… Read more »