Charles Gilpin in Ten Nights in a Barroom Noni Ford speaks with composer and Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner Jamey Guzman about her new score for the 1926 film Ten Nights in a Barroom, her advice for aspiring composers, and more. On November 15th, the IU Cinema will be screening Roy Calnek’s Ten Nights in… Read more »
Still from Radiohead’s “I Might Be Wrong” music video Chris Forrester extracts what makes Radiohead’s albums Kid A and Amnesiac — which are the score to a recent rerelease of 1922’s Nosferatu — such enigmatic and rewarding works. “I had never even seen a shooting star before… I looked up. I thought it was fireworks…. Read more »
Eli Denson Noni Ford speaks with composer and Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner Eli Denson about his new score for the Gloria Swanson classic Queen Kelly, his advice for aspiring composers, and more. I had an opportunity to talk over Zoom with Eli Denson, the winner of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award who wrote a full… Read more »
Still from L’Inferno Underground Film Series curator Richard Jermain notes why music is vital to the cinematic experience, particularly with silent films, as exemplified by 1911’s hallucinatory L’Inferno. On October 19, Montopolis is returning to IU Cinema to do a live score of the first ever feature-length horror film L’Inferno. Based on Dante’s Divine Comedy,… Read more »
Louise Brooks and Francis Lederer in Pandora’s Box Ever wonder how a deteriorating film can be given a second life? Ahead of our Silent Movie Day screening of the new 2K restoration of the 1929 masterpiece Pandora’s Box, learn more about this incredible film, its far-reaching cultural and cinematic impact, and the painstaking lengths it… Read more »
A corpse drifts to the bottom of a river in The Night of the Hunter Chris Forrester considers the powerful legacy of 1955’s The Night of the Hunter, a nightmare-fueled noir with far-reaching iconography and themes. There are films you can almost see without seeing. Famous images, lines of dialogue, and plot points from films… Read more »