Every month, Establishing Shot 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 one film that they… Read more »
Tag: foreign language
New Americas Cinema presents: Dos Estaciones (2022)
The 2022 winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s special jury award, Dos Estaciones follows 50-year-old businesswoman María García (a magnetic Teresa Sánchez) as she struggles to keep alive her family’s once-thriving tequila factory. An intimate portrait of the emotional and physical toll a person can experience as they strive to hang onto their business and… Read more »
Women on Top presents: Adoption (1975)
The first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Adoption tells the intertwined stories of a middle-aged factory worker who wishes to have a child with her married lover and a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. Co-written… Read more »
Women on Top presents: Love Letter (1953)
One of the most popular actors of her time, Kinuyo Tanaka appeared in over 250 films and collaborated with such legends as Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Kenji Mizoguchi. (Her performance in Ozu’s proto-noir Dragnet Girl will actually be coming to IU Cinema’s screen next year as part of our 2023 Jon Vickers Scoring Award.)… Read more »
Women on Top: Spotlighting the Work of Global Women Filmmakers
Guest post by Dr. Alicia Kozma, Director of IU Cinema. This fall, we will be premiering the first half of a year-long program called Women on Top: Legacies of Women in Global Cinema. It’s a program that combines film screenings, industry guests, student masterclasses, and keynotes that center diverse women film professionals from across the… Read more »
New Americas Cinema: What is international about international cinema, anyway?
Guest post by Dr. Alicia Kozma, Director of IU Cinema. International films are central to the core of the U.S. art house. In the 1950s and 1960s, art house theaters were often the only places you could see international films. Today, it would be rare to find an art house theater worth its salt that… Read more »