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 »
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An Interview with Composer Ebenezer Eferobor
Ebenezer Eferobor (Photo by Chris Meyer/Indiana University) Noni Ford speaks with composer, Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner, and former IU Cinema projectionist Ebenezer Eferobor about his new score for the Ozu classic Dragnet Girl, why he thinks like an athlete rather than a musician when he is composing, and more. Ahead of the world premiere… Read more »
A Look Back at the Origins of the City Lights Film Series
In 1997, two graduate students in the Indiana University Bloomington Film Studies program began the City Lights Film Series. Through City Lights, Drew Todd, now a senior lecturer at San José State University, and Eric Beckstrom, a senior academic advisor for the Indiana University Center for Students in Transition, offered “Free 16mm Weekly Screenings of… Read more »
Monthly Movie Round-Up: November
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 »
An Interview with Composer Yi-Chen Chiang
Last year, Yi-Chen Chiang was selected as the recipient of the Jon Vickers Scoring Award and will be showcasing her original score for the Jean Epstein film Cœur Fidèle at the IU Cinema on November 5th. She is a recent graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and currently works in Los Angeles as an… Read more »
Cinema as Portraiture: Dovzhenko’s Earth
In Jonathan Rosenbaum’s definitive 2002 text on the Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko, he persuasively argues that Dovzhenko’s cinema represents a form of “heroic portraiture” more than it does a vehicle for storytelling or narrative expression. Comparing Dovzhenko’s work with a more contemporary film by Jean-Marie Straub, Rosenbaum writes that “[Straub’s film] qualifies as heroic portraiture… Read more »