This July, Establishing Shot presents It’s Revived!, a miniseries celebrating some of our favorite (or at least some of the more fascinating) movie remakes out there in anticipation of IU Cinema’s fall film series Re:Made. Today, Laura Ivins looks at a different kind of remake as she discusses one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films and its… Read more »
This July, Establishing Shot presents It’s Revived!, a miniseries celebrating some of our favorite (or at least some of the more fascinating) movie remakes out there in anticipation of IU Cinema’s fall film series Re:Made. Today, Jack Miller explores how Alfred Hitchcock, Yasujirō Ozu, and Howard Hawks reached back into their own filmographies to make… Read more »
In Robin Wood’s 1988 article “The Skull Beneath the Skin: Some Indiscreet Charms of Narrativity,” the critic places some of the pantheon directors of cinema into categories of identification: “Buñuel was clearly one of the cinema’s great male-identified directors (the list would include Hawks, Godard and Scorsese), as against its great woman-identified directors (the list… Read more »
Many of us who saw David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills (2021) last month were inevitably disappointed with it, perhaps unsurprisingly. Part of what was frustrating about the new film was Green’s attempt to position it in relation to John Carpenter’s 1978 original, with constant references and “call-backs” being made throughout to the original trauma of… Read more »
Alfred Hitchcock began his career in the silent era, first as a title designer and then as an art director, before moving onto directing his first (unreleased and unfinished) feature in 1922. As a young man, Hitchcock had an interest in the movies as an art unto itself, and he was influenced by Russian, German,… Read more »
For three days this fall, Bloomington, Indiana will be transported to Pordenone, Italy as the IU Cinema, the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, and the Music Scoring for Visual Media program in the Jacobs School of Music host a variety of highlights from Pordenone’s world-renowned silent-film festival Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. As if that… Read more »