Still from Nosferatu (2024) IU Cinema Director Dr. Alicia Kozma reveals the Cinema’s connection to Robert Eggers’s latest hit. We all know that IU Cinema is the best place to see a film on the big screen — our projection technology, rigorous quality control, and theatrical experience standards are well known on campus and in… Read more »
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Alternative Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the “Spiritual Avant-Garde”
Though certain filmmakers have been making films for personal reasons, rather than institutional or financial ones, since the days of silent cinema, this tendency toward authorial independence only began to coalesce into a bonafide artistic movement in the United States during the 1940s – the decade in which American filmmakers like Maya Deren and Kenneth… Read more »
How IU Cinema Gets Its Movies–A Conversation with Brittany D. Friesner
In the past few years that I’ve been at IU I’ve had the opportunity to see movies on several formats at the IU Cinema. I’ve always been interested in how exactly the IU Cinema gets its hands on such a wide variety of materials. In order to learn a bit more about the process, I… Read more »
Manny Knowles: “The Last Link in the Filmmaking Chain”
Well, the day is here—we knew it would eventually come. The day when an organization loses one of its key members, one who has been there from the beginning, shaping what would follow. What followed was the building and opening of the IU Cinema, in all of its glory. The key member is Manny Knowles,… Read more »