When I learned that I was one of the lucky IU Cinema employees to be randomly picked for the Staff Selects series, I was over the moon. I mean, a chance to program a film at one of my favorite places in the world? Seriously? Incredibly enough, my first choice worked out — a 1953… Read more »
During my first viewing of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, his ninth feature-length film in 27 years, I was in hangout heaven. I marinated in the world. I took in the sights of the sun-drenched and lazy Los Angeles of 1969 and pulsed to the pop sounds pouring from the speakers in the… Read more »
Guest post by Rachel McCabe. When originally released in 1969, Roger Ebert claimed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid “must have looked like a natural on paper, but, alas, the completed film is slow and disappointing.” Paul Newman, the film’s star, had achieved critical success playing the rebel in Cool Hand Luke just two years… Read more »
A new movie and a special anniversary make May 2018 a fantastic time to revisit the life and work of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. A biopic about Godard, Le Redoubtable, recently played at the IU Cinema. It tells the story of his political radicalization during the late 1960s. One section of the film… Read more »
Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. It’s hard for people coming up now to understand how important movies were in the 1960s. 1968 especially. 1968 was a year of international revolution. It was the year of the Chicago Democratic Convention; Prague Spring and the subsequent Soviet… Read more »