Guest post by Hannah Chiarella. Each year U Bring Change 2 Mind is excited to collaborate with IU Cinema as part of the series Real Lives in Mental Health & Mental Illness. The accurate depiction of mental health and mental illness in film is a powerful tool that can help others better understand mental health… Read more »
Tag: drama films
Stories of Reformation and Dissent
Guest post by Shannon Gayk. October 31st will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of the ninety-five theses on the door at Wittenberg, an act of dissent and a prod to debate that is often taken as inaugurating the Protestant Reformation. This fall’s film series Heretics, Revolutionaries, and Reformers commemorates that event by… Read more »
La Haine and The Cold Comfort of History
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -James Baldwin One cliché… Read more »
The Cellphone is a Spirit Board: Unresolved Readings in Assayas’s Personal Shopper
“There was a presence… I felt something I just can’t tell… it was too far.” ― Kristen Stewart as Maureen in Personal Shopper, 2016 Olivier Assayas’s 2016 film is stuck between its identity as an art film and a genre film. These distinctions are organized, with some inelegant neatness, around the dual life of Kristen Stewart’s… Read more »
Some of My Favorite Female Characters in Film
This past semester, the IU Cinema has shown a number of films depicting strong females. On Thursday, February 23, it screened A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), the first feature film by Ana Lily Amirpour. In preparation for this screening I co-wrote a blog post celebrating Amirpour’s work and her visit to… Read more »
Amadeus and the Binary of Genius
There is a lot to like about the movie adaptation and the recent National Theatre Live production of Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus. There is the the sumptuous production design, the fantastic acting from both casts, and of course the beautiful music. But one of my favorite things about Amadeus is its articulation of a cultural… Read more »