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 »
Like so many others, the exhaustive weight of living and working in a pandemic has really been running me down, especially now that we’re close to the one-year mark of this tragic, seemingly endless moment in time. One of the most important pieces of advice that’s been said during this past year, however, is that… Read more »
In 2018 I wrote a piece about the death of the streaming service Filmstruck, the burgeoning streaming wars, and ways you could support the tried and true models of continuing to watch films not dictated purely by algorithms or a company’s bottom line. It was my attempt at reminding people that there were easy, affordable,… 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 »
Guest post by Leah Marie Chizek. Ahead of the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s recent reopening, I had the opportunity to walk through the galleries, where I ran across Jim Dine’s 44-print Pinocchio suite just after it had been installed. Dine first saw Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) when he was six years old, and his prints… Read more »
The witch is a longstanding media archetype, one featured frequently in 20th century Disney films. In this video, I look at the delightfully evil Sanderson Sisters from the 1993 Disney film, Hocus Pocus (dir. Kenny Ortega), connecting the sisters to other Disney villains, the history of the witch, and what it means for women to defy… Read more »