Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by GKIDS, Kino Lorber, and Criterion. Another month is upon us and with it brings more of those sweet, sweet discs. I’m talkin Blu gold, baby! However, it also brings some changes. Me and the powers-that-be have decided to integrate these reviews into the A Place for Film… Read more »
I shall never forget the day I saw The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in Paris. With a pounding headache and an overwhelming sense of loneliness after two weeks of studying in a strange city, I convinced myself to go stare in awe at Notre Dame before settling in at La Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, a… Read more »
Every month, A Place for Film 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… Read more »
Every month, A Place for Film 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… Read more »
“Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.” – William Blake, “Proverbs of Hell” c. 1793 Many critics and commentators of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, an artfully grim, post-classical “acid western” from 1995, have casually noted its relationship with the work of William Blake (1757-1827), both because the film’s main character,… Read more »
This fall, the IU Cinema programmed a series entitled “The Rashōmon Effect” which, in the spirit of the 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic, brought together a number of titles from disparate countries and decades which all employ a narrative device that deals with contradictory interpretations of the same events by various witnesses. Upon reviewing their selections,… Read more »