IU Cinema Director of Events and Engagement Jessica Davis Tagg explains why the Disney classic (and childhood favorite) is her choice for this fall’s Staff Selects series. Before starting, I want to emphasize the most important thing I will say here: to watch Fantasia in a theater like IU Cinema may well be a once-in-a-lifetime… Read more »
Get to know the people behind your favorite university cinema in our new blog series, “Meet Your IU Cinema Staff.” Using the format of our exclusive filmmaker interviews — all of which can be found on our YouTube channel — we’ve crafted a questionnaire for our staff to help introduce them to you, our audience. For today’s… Read more »
Hard to believe there was a point in the 21st century when you could say Disney wasn’t completely risk-averse or desperate enough for something to connect that they’d take a shot on giving a person or team enough creative slack to impose a hefty amount of character and vision onto a film. Well, it’s been… Read more »
Guest post by Kelly Richardson, Director and Curator, Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection. In 1996, Disney released a live-action version of the beloved 1961 animated film 101 Dalmatians starring Glenn Close as the fur-crazed Cruella de Vil. The reframing of Cruella de Vil as a fashion designer — as opposed to a mere fur-loving clotheshorse —… Read more »
If I had to describe Cruella (2021) in one word, it would be unexpected. Everything about it — from its sympathetic portrayal of one of Disney’s most iconic villains to its 1970s London setting — feels like a curveball. But what most surprised me about this film wasn’t its third act plot twist or its… Read more »
Guest post by Abby Carmichael. When I first saw WALL-E in summer 2008, I was at a drive-in theater in Door County, Wisconsin, lying under the stars. Onscreen, I saw fantastical sequences of robot romance unfold in an animated outer space, but just behind WALL-E and EVE’s (or, as our hero says, Eve-ah) tale, I… Read more »