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 one film… Read more »
assault. nouna: a violent physical or verbal attackb: a military attack usually involving direct combat with enemy forcesc: a concerted effortFrom the Latin (ad) “saltus” meaning, “to leap” In a scene from Lana Wachowski’s most recent film, The Matrix Resurrections, she introduces a new character to the mythos of The Matrix Saga named “Bugs” (yes,… Read more »
Get to know the people behind your favorite university cinema in our new blog series, “Meet Your IU Cinema Staff.” Using the format of our exclusive filmmaker interviews — all of which can be found on our YouTube channel — we’ve crafted a questionnaire for our staff to help introduce them to you, our audience. For… 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 one film… Read more »
Guest post by Julie Le Hegarat. The film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix in French) opens with women talking about the event that first made them realize they were Black. These shared Fanon-like events set the tone for the rest of the film: what does it mean to be a Black woman in countries like… Read more »
Guest post by Katelyn Wo. The documentary And Then They Came for Us recounts the testimonies of some of the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in prison camps during World War II after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, ordering all Americans who held at least 1/16 Japanese heritage to… Read more »