Sunday March 3 4pm IU Fine Arts Theater Free Screening Nineteen thirty-eight was a fateful year for Waldo Salt. It was the year the young screenwriter saw his first screenplay, The Shopwarn Angel produced by Joe Mankiewicz, with a cast featuring James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, and Walter Pidgeon. Salt became friends with Nathaniel West […]
There are 8,000 miles of roads and paths in New York City and for the past six years Matt Green has been walking them all – every street, park, cemetery, beach, and bridge.
A thinking person’s thriller from Denmark. When a police officer is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. The Guilty is shortlisted for a Best Foreign Film award.
Perennial students Juan and Wilson are planning a daring coup. They intend to break into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and steal precious Mayan, Mixtec and Zapotec artifacts.
Bernie Sanders inspired a generation — but who inspired him?
Most people in America don’t know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Eugene Victor Debs.
A young, aspiring writer returns home from college to face bittersweet truths in the new film by Turkish filmmaker and former Cannes Film Festival winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Truth is stranger than fiction in this exciting story of four college students who attempt to steal a rare book from the Special Collections Library at the University of Kentucky.
Ten-year-old Oleg lives in Eastern Ukraine on the front line of the war. Distant Barking portrays how a child’s universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents.
Sunday, May 4 ♦ 5pm ♦ IU Fine Arts Theater Sunday, May 5 ♦ 4:15 ♦ Buskirk-Chumley Theater As a young woman, Colette was locked in her room by her husband and ordered to ghostwrite a novel that would be published under his name. Colette, the film, is the story of how she reclaimed the […]
To say that Peggy Guggenheim was ahead of her time is an understatement. She helped to define her time. A woman of extraordinary tastes and appetites, Peggy Guggenheim was was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. She smuggled canvases out of Nazi-occupied Paris. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists.
On Sunday, May 5th at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater we are screening 3 films about women who rebelled against the status quo, followed their passions and made a difference. PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT (2pm) To say that Peggy Guggenheim was ahead of her time is an understatement. She helped to define her time. A woman of […]
Single Tickets $6 Semester Passes $35 Where Are Films Shown? Where Can I Park for free on Campus? Rike–40, a doctor from Europe–embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike’s everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfills a […]
Don’t let her small stature fool you. Standing at under five feet tall, Dr Ruth Westheimer is a force. She survived the Holocaust and lost her entire family, then went on to completely transform the way America talked about sex. At 90 years old, she hasn’t stopped working – and still promises the best sex you’ve ever had if you listen to her.
They inspired Monty Python; their fans included John Lennon and Robin Williams. The legendary satirical radio theater troupe, Firesign Theatre will perform in Brown County on May 31st and in Bloomington on June 2nd. We are showing their epic feature film, J-Men Forever
A striking debut from China’s Qiu Sheng, Suburban Birds is a tantalizing mystery and a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy rolled into one.
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city’s gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction, sometimes playing himself in his films. In 3 Faces he plays a dissident filmmaker. In real life, Panahi was arrested in Iran in 2009 and again in 2010.
Juliette Binoche and Guillame Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas for this seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature. Set amidst the bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world, Non-Fiction traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer blurs the line between fact and fiction, using his real-life love affairs as fodder for a new novel. “Non-Fiction is incredibly WITTY, FAST-PACED and unmistakably French.” -Film Threat
Wedding in Galilee is the first major Palestinian fiction film to be made by an “insider,” an Israeli Palestinian. It was awarded the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1987.
Andy’s Ghost, Eye on Forever, Inherent and Midwest are all films created by local student filmmakers Robbie Gonyea and Lucas Coniaris. Together, these four projects create a conversation about confronting things we don’t understand and challenge what the audience believes- as well as what they’re willing to believe in. The filmmakers will host a Q&A after […]
Single Tickets $6 Semester Passes $35 Where Are Films Shown? Where Can I Park for free on Campus? This documentary from BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic […]
Les Blank was one of America’s keenest documentarians of regional musical traditions — blues, Cajun, Appalachian, Creole, Hawaiian and more. These new, 4k restorations of two of his films-are a zesty introduction to Norteña music and culture that exists along the Texas-Mexican border.
Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary body of work has doubled as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations. At once his funniest and most emotionally generous film, Ash Is Purest White is both a smart rumination on love and
In the mid-60s big changes were afoot in the US, culturally, politically, and musically. Four rock music/concert films that explore these changes are being released in theaters this summer; we are hosting a two-week “micro-festival, ” including a screening of all four films at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on July 21st. Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, The Byrds and Brian Wilson are just some of the performers you’ll see on the big screen.
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church presents the legendary guitarist in full flight at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival before the largest US audience of his career, only two months before his death.
