Poster for Real Genius Jesse Pasternack looks back at the comedic work Val Kilmer brought to the screen in the ’80s and how it precipitated his later movie stardom. Val Kilmer was one of the most beloved American actors of the second half of the 20th century. Over the course of his decades-long career, he… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Still from Brazil Ben van Welzen explains how genre tropes, the tension between banality and absurdity, overwhelming production design, and more make Terry Gilliam’s 1985 masterwork so effective. It’s sure that the world is heading towards dystopia, the only question is when. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four presumed it would be, well, in 1984. However, as… Read more »
The question of realism in narrative cinema is an interesting and complex one. When a group of Italian filmmakers in the 1940s, led by Roberto Rossellini but also composed of quite different figures such as Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, began to produce works that have come to comprise the Italian Neorealist canon, their… Read more »