Director Mary Harron’s film American Psycho (2000) was a sensation when it was first released. It was a financial success, received mostly positive reviews, and gained notoriety for how it depicted the violent sensibility of author Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous novel. But it was not just popular then, and continues to remain popular now, for… Read more »
From the first frames of the film, Josephine Decker’s 2014 feature Thou Wast Mild and Lovely merges violence and play. Sarah (Sophie Traub) chases her father Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet) across the lawn, jabbing him with a decapitated hen. They giggle and run at each other, getting blood on their clothes. When they’re done playing, the handheld… Read more »
Consisting of six short films directed by Indigenous filmmakers, the Sundance Indigenous Shorts program features titles from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival shorts line-up and from alumni of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. This curated collection includes narrative and documentary films from the U.S., Mexico, and the Philippines, and gives audiences a taste of the talent, power,… Read more »
Dubbed “one of this century’s most arresting tales of female anxiety” by The New York Times and chosen earlier this year as one of Entertainment Weekly‘s 12 “small but mighty movies not to miss,” Watcher is about Julia, an American woman who moves to Romania with her husband and quickly finds herself unnerved by a… Read more »
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 »
Lynne Sachs’ film output is prolific and varied, encompassing documentaries, essay films, non-narrative experiments, and installations. Like many feminist filmmakers, a theme running through her work is the insistence that the personal is important. Whether one’s own body, private moments in a doctor’s office, or one’s sense of family and home, our personal lives are… Read more »