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 »
Tag: Black cinema
Physical Media Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny: Kino Lorber, Fun City Editions, and Criterion Blu-ray Reviews for November 2022
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber, Fun City Editions, and the Criterion Collection. This month’s cavalcade of carefully curated content is mostly some near-and-dear favorites of mine and a new certified slapper in my arsenal of “dad movies” I’ll be revisiting on many Sunday afternoons to come. From Kino Lorber, we… Read more »
The Myriad Shades of Blackness in Black Is… Black Ain’t
Guest post by Imari Walker. “If I have work, then I’m not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me — that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something, something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.” Marlon Riggs — filmmaker, poet,… Read more »
American Neorealism: My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
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 »
Black Film Center & Archive’s Exhibit on Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home
Guest post by Amber Bertin. When the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA) was approached to curate an exhibit from our collections to supplement IU Cinema guest programmer Maya Cade’s amazing series Home Is Where the Heart Is: Black Cinema’s Exploration of Home, we were beyond pleased to follow Maya’s lead and bring attention to… Read more »
Home Is Where the Heart Is presents: Alma’s Rainbow (1994)
A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn, Alma’s Rainbow explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) as she enters womanhood and navigates standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Written, directed, and produced by artist/educator Ayoka Chenzira — who was one of the… Read more »