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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
At the risk of sounding too negative, I’d say that the majority of filmmakers, even some very good ones, are ultimately conventional in that they rely on established forms of film language to communicate with us. Throughout the history of cinema, it has only been a much smaller group of artists who have sought to… Read more »
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber and Criterion. I miss going to the movie theater so much. I would battle God atop a hilltop to even just sit and watch something in a darkened room and crowd full of enthusiastic and virus-free film lovers. Sadly, I cannot “Stone Cold Stunner” the… Read more »