Peter Sellers as Jacques Clouseau Michaela Owens takes a deep dive into the various iterations of the iconic detective at the heart of the Pink Panther franchise. Although Peter Sellers’s career offers many, many chameleonic characters — some even in the same film — there is perhaps one who looms the largest in the cultural… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Monthly Movie Round-Up: February 2025
Every month, Establishing Shot brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film that they… Read more »
Fifty Years After Watergate: Mythologizing Journalism in All the President’s Men
Guest post by Gerry Lanosga. “FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats,” read a headline in The Washington Post 50 years ago this coming Monday. Running across the top of the front page in two decks, it was set in extra-large font befitting the importance of the news. The following year, the story was one of… Read more »
Women on Top presents: Adoption (1975)
The first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Adoption tells the intertwined stories of a middle-aged factory worker who wishes to have a child with her married lover and a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. Co-written… Read more »
Monthly Movie Round-Up: March
Every month, A Place for Film brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film… Read more »
Monthly Movie Round-Up: August
Every month, A Place for Film brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked one film… Read more »