Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber. The unofficial title of this month’s batch of reviews will be called Oops! All Kino. Yes, February’s titles are all from Kino Lorber, and what a batch it is: a sizzlin’ Eartha Kitt vehicle, a Sammy Davis Jr. double feature, two crime pictures, a foundational… 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… Read more »
I think it’s long past due we start talking about Spike Lee in the same reverence and awe we talk about other distinctly American filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and John Huston. Here sits a director in his 60’s, prolifically making movies just as vibrant, vital, and varied (I hate that most of his career has… Read more »
Guest post by Ronda L. Sewald. As part of its 2020 film series, Love! I’m in Love! Classic Black Cinema of the 1970s, the IU Cinema will be screening John Berry’s romantic comedy Claudine (1974), at 7 pm on Thursday, February 6th. Claudine stars James Earl Jones in the role of Roop, a charming garbageman,… Read more »
Welcome to Score Keeping, a feature where I dive into overlooked and highly praised songs, scores and soundtracks that accompany great films. Near the midpoint of Spike Lee’s 1989 generation-defining classic Do the Right Thing, a strange but welcome moment is presented to the audience. Throughout the film a one-man Greek Chorus in the form… Read more »
Guest post by Terri Francis. Jamaica’s history with motion pictures radiates in multiple directions within a broad aesthetic and geographic framework that reflects its transnational and multicultural realities. Such an approach challenges a number of conventions in both film studies and Caribbean studies. The division between nonfiction and fiction films becomes less important if we… Read more »