Jim Carrey in The Truman Show Themester intern Imari Walker looks at how The Truman Show wrestles with ideas of authenticity and reality. Spoilers ahead for the film! Released in 1998, Peter Weir’s The Truman Show follows the life of Truman Burbank on Seahaven Island, a seemingly perfect little town. The only catch: everyone is an actor,… Read more »
Guest post by Imari Walker. “If I have work, then I’m not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me — that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something, something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.” Marlon Riggs — filmmaker, poet,… Read more »
Guest post by Joelle Jackson. Themester intern Joelle Jackson sat down with Austen Parrish, Dean and James H. Rudy Professor of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, to discuss the upcoming Themester film Dark Waters and the roles that law plays in the environmentalism movement. The film, based on a true story, follows Cincinnati… Read more »
Guest post by Abby Carmichael. When I first saw WALL-E in summer 2008, I was at a drive-in theater in Door County, Wisconsin, lying under the stars. Onscreen, I saw fantastical sequences of robot romance unfold in an animated outer space, but just behind WALL-E and EVE’s (or, as our hero says, Eve-ah) tale, I… Read more »
Warning: spoilers throughout! People all over the world recognize Rashōmon as an important film for many reasons. They acknowledge that it introduced legendary director Akira Kurosawa and his work to the West, that it was the first Japanese film to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and, most famously, that it popularized… Read more »
Guest post by Isabel Nieves. Themester intern Isabel Nieves had a conversation with Dr. Izabela Potapowicz, a visiting assistant professor in the Comparative Literature Department. They discussed the upcoming Themester film, After Life (1998), which follows several individuals transitioning from life to their afterlife. Each person can choose one cherished memory to recreate before the… Read more »