The Ryder Magazine & Film Series

SAINT OMER
2023-03-24 - 2023-04-03
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Fri, March 24 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, March 25 and 26 at 4pm and 7pm IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
Sat and Sun, April 1 and 2 at 4pm and 7pm
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When asked why she killed her infant daughter, the accused, a young Senegalese-French woman – a PhD student writing on Wittgenstein – answers, “I don’t know. I hope this trial can help me understand.” What would compel such a shocking act, and why would an accomplished writer obsessively attend the woman’s trial? The complex mysteries at the heart of this absorbing, wholly original take on both the courtroom drama and the African immigrant experience, unfold like a Russian nesting doll of gazes and projections. Is the accused a liar, a victim, a sorceress, or all of the above? In her first fiction film, Senegalese-French documentarian Alice Diop uses her sharp eye for political realism to craft a captivating portrait of motherhood amid cultural isolation.
in French with subtitles • 122 minutes

Shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Award® for International Feature Film.
A complex and brilliant film… [Alice] Diop creates a wide-ranging and probing drama… to explore such critical matters as the nature of personal and national identity, the multigenerational traumas of migration, France’s ongoing political and cultural failures to reflect its ethnic and racial diversity, and, centrally, the very power of language to create images and to embody realities… [with] mightily inventive cinematic craft.
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Brilliant. Extraordinary. Spellbinding. A stunner of a narrative debut… probes the mysteries of the seen and the unseen. Supremely intelligent and haunting. With remarkable stealth and concentration, Diop rewires the generic circuitry of the courtroom drama, avoiding its natural inclination toward sensationalism and grandstanding.
– Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
2023-03-17 - 2023-03-27
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Fri, March 17 at 7pm • Sat, March 18 and Sun, March 19 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater
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WINNER! 7 ACADEMY AWARDS
including BEST PICTURE BEST ACTRESS BEST DIRECTOR

By turns very funny and surprisingly moving, Everything Everywhere All at Once tells the story of a Chinese-American immigrant who is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. Everything Everywhere is an inter-dimensional head-trip through alternate universes comprising time, luck, regret, and myriad parallel realities.
Writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as Daniels) are best known for their inventive music videos and the 2016 feature Swiss Army Man
139 minutes • in English, Mandarin and Cantonese with subtitles
An ORGIASTIC work of slaphappy genius. – Indiewire
One of the most ORIGINAL and CREATIVE films of the past couple of years. – San Francisco Chronicle
Everything Everywhere All At Once is everything cinema was invented for. – Empire

DECISION TO LEAVE
2023-03-17 - 2023-03-20
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Fri, March 17 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, March 18 and 19 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Park Chan-wook, the visionary director behind Oldboy and The Handmaiden, won Best Director at Cannes this year for this stylish thriller. Decision to Leave begins with a man falling to his death from a Korean mountain peak, and unravels into a sensual noir with subtle nods to Hitchcock’s Vertigo–a constantly surprising, elegantly constructed film that builds in power to a truly haunting denouement.

South Korea • in Korean and Chinese with English subtitles • 138 minutes
One of the many pleasures of Decision to Leave is that the director Park Chan-wook clearly had as much fun making the movie as you will have watching it. Park dazzles you with the beauty of his images and the intoxicating bravura of his unfettered imagination. – The New York Times

2023 Oscar Shorts: Animation
2023-02-17 - 2023-03-13
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Four of the five animated films this year are appropriate for children (although one of the four, The Flying Sailor, features brief nudity, but it’s harmless, and it’s a charming film) The 5th film, My Year of Dicks, might be inappropriate for some younger viewers (see below).
The five nominated short films add up to 94 minutes.
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It (Lachlan Pendragon) A young office worker uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich (Australia/12 minutes)
The Mole, the Fox, and the Horse (Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud) Four unlikely friends come together in search of a young boy’s home. Both cast and crew are high profile as the film features Tom Hollander, Idris Elba, and Gabriel Byrne (as the mole, the fox, and the horse respectively) and is produced by J.J. Abrams and his company, Bad Robot. (UK/33 minutes)
The Flying Sailor (Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis) Based on the true story of a sailor who survived an explosion in Halifax Harbor in 1917. This is the third nomination for filmmakers Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis. We mentioned above that this film contains fleeting nudity (although it’s hardly worth mentioning). Some of you will be more disconcerted by the cause of the explosion. (Canada/8 minutes)
Ice Merchants (João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano) Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily. There is no spoken dialogue in this absorbing, beautifully animated story of family love. (Portugal, France/15 minutes)

My Year of Dicks (Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon) An imaginative fifteen-year-old is determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early 90’s. My Year of Dicks is a hilarious, genre-mashing film, directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir and created by Pamela Ribon from her critically-acclaimed memoir. (USA/26 minutes) This film will be the last one shown and a parental warning will appear on the screen before it begins, giving patrons a chance to flee the theater. There is no nudity. (The film’s title refers to the guys that she dates (and we’re using “dates” here in a loose sense)). But the film does feature heavy petting and more or less everything else you can do in intimate situations with your clothes on.
Some of you will see My Year of Dicks as a learning opportunity that will spark interesting conversations around the dinner table. But some will feel uncomfortable with what their children are watching. (And some children might also feel uncomfortable.) We’ve offered similar warnings about individual films in the past and have been informed by parents afterwards that we’d overreacted. “My kids have seen far worse in the average Marvel movie.” That said, you know your kids better than we do. Parents should feel free to email us (editor@theryder.com) with questions about the appropriateness of films for younger viewers. And younger viewers should also feel free to email us about the appropriateness of films for their parents.

Fri, March 10
Live Action 6:45 IU Fine Arts Theater Upstairs
Animation 7:30 IU Radio & Television Theater

Sat, March 11
Animation 2 pm IU Radio & Television
Documentary 3pm IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 4pm IU IU Radio & Television
Animation 6:45 IU Radio & Television
Documentary 7:30 IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 8:45 IU Radio & Television

Sun, March 12
Animation 2 pm IU Radio & Television
Documentary 3pm IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 4:15 IU IU Radio & Television

2023 Oscar Shorts: Live Action
2023-02-17 - 2023-03-13
Single Program Tickets $12 Oscar Festival Passes $25 Not sure where our theaters are located? Purchase Tickets Any other Questions? Send an email to editor@TheRyder.com
Like short stories, short films are sometimes overlooked. But they often display all of the scope, power, insight and resonance of feature length films. The five films in the Live Action program run 1 hours, 50 minutes.

An Irish Goodbye (Tom Berkely and Ross White) Two brothers reunite when their mother passes. Estranged, one brother wants to leave right away, but the other, who has Down Syndrome, refuses to go until they have finished their late mother’s bucket list. (UK/23 minutes)

Ivalu (Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan) A young girl searches for her missing sister in Greenland while their father remains indifferent. Based on a Danish graphic novel, Ivalu is directed by Anders Walter, who won an Oscar for his short film, Helium, in 2013. (Denmark/17 minutes)
Le Pupille (Alice Rohrwacher) Le Pupille (The Pupils) is set at a strict Catholic boarding school for orphaned girls at Christmas in the early 1940s. A group of rebellious “bad girls” and the nuns who are responsible for their welfare quietly battle for sovereignty over a Christmas cake. A charming yet suspenseful, tale of innocence and greed, but who is innocent and who is greedy? (Italy/39 minutes)

Night Ride (Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen) A woman’s tram ride takes a surprising turn when she accidently becomes the conductor. Hold on to your seats. (Norway/16 minutes)
The Red Suitcase (Cyrus Neshvad) Luxembourg Airport, late in the evening. A veiled 16-year-old Iranian girl won’t let go of her red suitcase after her flight has landed. She keeps pushing back the moment to go through the arrival gate and seems more and more terrified. When we learn what she is hiding from, we realize that innumerable Iranian women might be going through the exact same scenario. In Cyrus Neshvad’s captivating short film, this young girl must make swift decisions to ensure her survival. (Luxembourg/19 minutes)

Fri, March 10
Live Action 6:45 IU Fine Arts Theater Upstairs
Animation 7:30 IU Radio & Television Theater

Sat, March 11
Animation 2 pm IU Radio & Television
Documentary 3pm IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 4pm IU IU Radio & Television
Animation 6:45 IU Radio & Television
Documentary 7:30 IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 8:45 IU Radio & Television

Sun, March 12
Animation 2 pm IU Radio & Television
Documentary 3pm IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 4:15 IU IU Radio & Television

2023 Oscar Shorts: Documentary
2023-02-17 - 2023-03-13
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Five thoughtful stories make up this year’s slate of nominees. The documentary program is the longest of the three (2 hours, 50 minutes). You can split the docs in two viewings: watch the first three and then come back on another night to watch the last two, (no extra charge).
The Elephant Whisperers (Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga) A South Indian couple adopt an orphaned baby elephant. How cool is that? Kartiki Gonsalves spent five years documenting the incredible familial love that forms between the couple and Raghu. (India/40 minutes)
Haulout (Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev) These brother and sister filmmakers tell the story of a scientist observing Walrus migration in the Russian Arctic. (UK/25 minutes)
How Do You Measure a Year? (Jay Rosenblatt) For 16 years Jay Rosenblatt would ask his daughter Ella the same questions. The questions are: What do you dream about? What scares you? What do you think about our relationship? The short compiles each year’s answers as Ella ages from 2 to 18, and the audience sees how the relationship evolves. Jay Rosenblatt received a nomination for last year’s When We Were Bullies. (USA/29 minutes)

The Martha Mitchell Effect (Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison) — “If it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate,” said Richard Nixon. Martha Mitchell was married to Nixon’s Attorney General, John Mitchell. When Martha attempted to speak out about her suspicions, the Nixon administration did everything to keep her quiet. (USA/40 minutes)
Stranger at the Gate (Joshua Steffel and Conall Jones) A former marine consumed by Islamophobia, plans to bomb a Mosque in Muncie, Indiana. But before he does, he visits the Mosque. (USA/29 minutes)

Fri, March 10
Live Action 6:45 IU Fine Arts Theater Upstairs
Animation 7:30 IU Radio & Television Theater

Sat, March 11
Animation 2 pm IU Radio & Television
Documentary 3pm IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 4pm IU IU Radio & Television
Animation 6:45 IU Radio & Television
Documentary 7:30 IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 8:45 IU Radio & Television

Sun, March 12
Animation 2 pm IU Radio & Television
Documentary 3pm IU Fine Arts Upstairs
Live Action 4:15 IU IU Radio & Television

BROKER
2023-02-10 - 2023-02-13
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Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, Academy Award nominated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Broker, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite). The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.
Japan • 129 min • subtitled
Kore-eda’s nonjudgmental approach to all his films is what makes him such an enticing auteur, and with Broker he brings what he excels at to a new destination with an all-star South Korean cast that really understands his material and delicate subtleties. – The Austin Chronicle

When it all comes together it proves to be yet another poetic and patient cinematic reflection on the families we build for ourselves from one of the best observers of humanity to ever do it. – Collider

CRITIC’S PICK! – The New York Times

Every baby deserves to be loved and taken care of, but so does every adult. Broker does an impressive job of articulating how these two truths are inextricably intertwined. – Paste
Broker keeps on getting funnier and knottier as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, mysteries deepen and dangers multiply. – BBC

EO
2023-02-04 - 2023-02-06
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Saturday and Sunday, Feb 4 and 5 at 2:45. • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets

2023 Academy Award® Nomination for International Feature Film.
WINNER
Best Foreign Language Film
New York Film Critics Circle
#1 Film of the Year – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
This immersive drama by 84-year-old Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End, The Shout, Moonlighting) – is a visually spectacular, often surreal odyssey of a winsome, nomadic donkey named EO (played by six different Polish and Sardinian donkeys). This long, strange trip begins in a Polish circus where EO is adored (and liberated by animal rights activists), moves on to a horse farm (from which he escapes), after which he briefly becomes the mascot of a soccer team. The world experienced through the animal’s eyes is at times cruel, loving, random, dreamy, chaotic, or idyllic. Surprisingly, Isabelle Huppert makes an appearance as The Countess in a palatial Italian villa where the donkey briefly sojourns. EO’s journey speaks to the world around us, an equine hero boldly pointing out societal ills all while on a quest for freedom. (in Polish, Italian and French with subtitles)
EO IS FUNDED IN PART BY THE IU POLISH STUDIES CENTER
Now 84, Jerzy Skolimowski has made one of the rare movies that speak to life’s most essential questions, and he’s done so with the ecstatic vision and fearlessness of a cinematic genius who seems as if he’s just getting started. Wild, boldly expressionistic… NO MOVIE THAT I’VE SEEN THIS YEAR HAS MOVED ME SO DEEPLY, made me feel as optimistic about cinema or engaged me with such intellectual vigor as EO, whose octogenarian genius auteur and all the donkeys who play EO — Hola, Tako, Marietta, Ettore, Rocco and Mela — deserve all the love and the carrots, too. – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
EO’s personality shines thanks to Skolimowski’s daringly imaginative depictions, both visual and emotional, of the donkey’s point of view. – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
A FLAMBOYANT, VISIONARY WORK. The wildest, youngest film in the Cannes lineup was made by an 84-year-old director up for anything. – Jonathan Romney, Film Comment

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
2023-02-03 - 2023-02-13
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Fri, Feb 3 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Feb 4 and 5 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Feb 10 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Feb 11 and 12 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets

2023 Academy Award® Nominee: Best Documentary Feature

WINNER! Best Non-Fiction Film: New York Film Critics Circle
Nan Goldin rose from the New York “No Wave” underground to become one of the most revered photographers of the late 20th century; her photographs and slideshows have captured her most intimate relationships with friends and lovers. But more than just a portrait of an extraordinary artist, All the Beauty also looks at Goldin’s grassroots political activism, specifically, her David-and-Goliath battle with the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who have been described as the “most evil family in America.”
Academy Award®–winning filmmaker Laura Poitras’s newest film is a testament to the fearless honesty of an irrepressible artist, for whom creative expression and political conviction are inextricably linked. (112 min)
A towering and devastating work of SHOCKING INTELLIGENCE and still greater emotional power… This is an overwhelming film. — Indiewire
Maybe the MOST ESSENTIAL FILM of the year. — Original Cin
If you’ve ever doubted how ART, RAGE, or ACTION can make meaningful change, Goldin’s combination of all three fighting an opioid crisis that nearly killed her is exhilarating proof of the power of “screaming in the streets.” — The LA Times
There is a distinct sense of against-all-odds triumph that hits hard, and lingers long. — The Globe and Mail
It strikes at the core of what makes us human, our hopes and fears and the relationships we invest ourselves in. It is COMMUNITY AS ART AS ACTIVISM in one giant loop, filtered through the gaze of a woman so unflinchingly tireless in her efforts that you cannot help but be on her side. — Collider
Laura Poitras has a point of view, she has passion, she has politics, and there never was any danger of her both-siding this raw, emotionally ferocious story of the world that Nan Goldin inherited and remade, one that she continues to remake with her brilliance and with all the bruises that never heal. CRITIC’S PICK! – The New York Times

It entered the festival circuit as a politically charged take on the standard there-goeth-the-great-artist story and exited it as A PEERLESS ACT OF PERSONAL RECLAMATION. I can’t shake the feeling of being shook by it. — Rolling Stone

THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
2023-01-27 - 2023-02-06
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Fri, Jan 27 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Jan 28 and 29 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Feb 3 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Feb 4 and 5 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Tilda Swinton plays both lead roles in this story of an artist and her elderly mother who return to a former family home in the English countryside, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
British writer/director Joanna Hogg ingeniously plays with the conventions of the ghost story without abandoning a warm and humanist beating heart. And Tilda Swinton, in a performance of rich, endless surprise, turns in one of the most remarkable acting feats in her astonishing career. Secrets from the past lurk, a film that is both an examination of a complex family relationship, and a woman’s journey of self-discovery (96 minutes)
CRITIC’S PICK! Joanna Hogg’s lovely and haunted dream of a movie … Hogg’s greatest stroke in The Eternal Daughter is her casting of Tilda Swinton in both lead roles. Swinton is a wonderful chameleon and while she can go as big and showy as any Oscar contender, she is also a brilliant miniaturist. – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
The Eternal Daughter is very much a two-hander for one actor, an astonishing tour de force for Tilda Swinton’s art and for Joanna Hogg’s writing and direction. – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Here is a Profile of Joanna Hogg in The New Yorker

CORSAGE
2023-01-13 - 2023-01-23
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Fri, Jan 13 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Jan 14 and 15 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Jan 20 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Jan 21 and 22 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film
A visually stunning contemporary waltz through the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Vicky Krieps), the beloved, restless, and occasionally scandalous 19th-century ruler.
It’s Christmastime, 1877, in the Austro-Hungarian capital of Vienna, and Empress Elisabeth is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman–after all, she’s almost 40. She is feeling constricted: by her dysfunctional marriage to the emotionally distant Emperor Franz Joseph, by her largely ceremonial public appearances, and by the corset that gives this film its title.
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) won Best Actress at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her performance as a woman who rebels against the stifling conformity of her stuffy, unfulfilling lifestyle.
Written and directed by Marie Kreutzer • Winner: Best Film, British Film Institute • in German, French, English, and Hungarian with English subtitles • 113 minutes
Corsage is the Austrian writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s bold, visually striking and ingeniously anachronistic portrait of an empress in complicated rebellion. Vicky Krieps is mesmerizing as the rebel. CRITIC’S PICK! – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

NEPTUNE FROST
2023-01-07 - 2023-01-09
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Sat and Sun, Jan 7 and 8 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets

Multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that Williams has explored in his work, notably his 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. Co-directed with his partner, the Rwandan-born artist Anisia Uzeyman,
The film itself resists the very idea of a beginning and end; it shatters any attempt at summation. But we’ll try. Neptune Frost is the story of an intersex hacker (named Neptune Frost, and played by two different actors) who leads a revolt against the world’s resource-rich–those who mine Africa’s land and peoples to power global currency.
In the end, this film needs to be experienced on its own terms. Put differently: this is cinema as an ecological gift to the dispossessed. Generously creative and unafraid, Neptune Frost seeks to reclaim technology for progressive political ends. (105 min)
Here is an interview with the filmmakers
presented in partnership with Cicada Cinema

CRITIC’S PICK! Williams and Uzeyman marry anarchist politics with anarchist aesthetics, making something that feels both handmade and high-tech, digital and analog, poetic and punk rock. . . . An EXUBERANT ENERGY . . . A TREASURY OF IDEAS and provocations — a pocket full of possibilities. A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW, IF THE PLANET SURVIVES, THIS WILL BE COUNTED AMONG THE CLASSICS OF OUR SORRY TIME, TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AND QUOTED IN SPEECHES. – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

THE CONFORMIST
2023-01-06 - 2023-01-16
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Fri, Jan 13 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Jan 14 and 15 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets

At the peak of his creative powers the 29 year old Bernardo Bertolucci rejected the influence of mentor, Jean-Luc Godard, and partnered up with Vittorio Storaro and developed his own style, creating one of the most visually dazzling, politically and psychologically intriguing, landmark Italian films.
The story begins in Rome, 1938. Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a young fascist who takes on the job of assassinating his former professor who has fled to Paris. A thriller as well as study of Italian politics and psychological character, Bertolucci’s Oscar nominated adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s novel (an adaptation Moravia greatly admired) has gone on to influence filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese and remains one of the great triumphs of world cinema.
This is a new 4K restoration, supervised by Vittorio Storaro • 1970 • in Italian with English subtitles • 111 min

Bertolucci’s masterpiece…the most revelatory experience you’ll have in a theater this year. – Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
Bernardo Bertolucci’s expressionist masterpiece…offered a blueprint for a new kind of Hollywood film, which is why Coppola, Spielberg and Scorsese owe him a huge debt. – John Patterson, The Guardian
The brilliant mix of ideas, the audacity and originality of approach, the sensualist delight in the ravishing play of light and shadow — all these remain, as bracing and inspirational as ever. – Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Carries with it a jolt of youthful creative energy, the memory of a time when movies were the most important art and their creative possibilities seemed endless. – David Kehr

THE DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT
2022-12-09 - 2022-12-19
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Fri, Dec 9 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Dec 10 and 11 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Dec 16 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Dec 17 and 18 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets

A TANTALIZING PUZZLE, WRAPPED IN EROTICISM AND PRESENTED WITH THE UTMOST ELEGANCE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A MOVIE QUITE LIKE IT.
– Roger Ebert
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway’s witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema when it was released in 1982. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway’s first narrative feature weaves a labyrinthine mystery around the maxim “draw what you see, not what you know.”
An aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemes in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.
UK | 1982/2022 | 104 min |
Newly remastered in 4K by the British Film Institute National Archive.
The Draughtsman’s Contract confronts the viewer in 2022 the same way as it did in 1982. This is a movie which (rather magnificently) refuses to dumb anything down, always demanding the highest pitch of attention. The Draughtsman’s Contract has a singular brilliance. — The Guardian

AFTERSUN
2022-12-09 - 2022-12-19
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Fri, Dec 9 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Dec 10 and 11 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Dec 16 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Dec 17 and 18 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets

At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with Calum, her loving and idealistic father. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship.
First-time Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells creates two rich characters through a series of subtle and beautifully observed sequences. Aftersun packs an emotional power that lingers long after credits have rolled. (99 minutes)
presented in partnership with Cicada Cinema
A MINIMALIST MASTERPIECE! – Chicago Sun-Times
That a director can summon such emotional maturity paired with grand narrative originality in her first outing, particularly working from a deeply personal standpoint, astounds. Wells, a forward-thinking artist, invites into a vortex of feelings and sensations that fully exploits the language of cinema for its gorgeously humanistic pursuit. AN EXQUISITE REVELATION, Aftersun is the type of movie from which you don’t walk away the same person. – The Wrap
It’s hard to find a critical language to account for the delicacy and intimacy of this movie. This is partly because Wells, with the unaffected precision of a lyric poet, is VERY NEARLY REINVENTING THE LANGUAGE OF FILM, unlocking the medium’s often dormant potential to disclose inner worlds of consciousness and feeling. CRITIC’S PICK! – The New York Times
We have centuries’ worth of stories about the ways boys relate to their mothers. But in the movies, reflections on how girls feel about their fathers, told from a woman’s point of view, are still relatively rare. That’s the territory of Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ GORGEOUS, RESONANT debut, Aftersun.- Time Magazine

HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG
2022-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
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One Night Only! • Friday, Dec 2 at 7pm • IU Cinema
Poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen spent over 7 years writing “Hallelujah,” initially an obscure track on an early 80s album rejected by his record label (“Look, Leonard, we know you’re great – but we’re not sure you’re any good”). Yet it enjoyed a new life in 1991 after being covered by John Cale (Cohen shared over 100 unused verses with him), then Jeff Buckley on his Grace album — and evolved through countless versions to become one of the most beloved songs of all time. Drawing from rare and never-before-seen archival materials, directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine meticulously trace the career of the restless Canadian artist as they detail the unlikely path of his famous composition, the meaning of which has transformed with each popular cover version. • 118 min
A co-presentation of the IU Cinema, The Ryder and WFHB
Read Joan Hawkins’ tribute to Leonard Cohen, originally published in the December, 2016 issue of The Ryder

ETERNAL SPRING
2022-12-02 - 2022-12-05
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Fri, Dec 2 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Dec 3 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Dec 2 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Dec 3 and 4 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
In March 2002, a state TV station in China was hijacked by members of outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal: to challenge the government narrative. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong, a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are disputed when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea.
Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong’s art, Eternal Spring retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance, eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.

MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY
2022-12-02 - 2022-12-05
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Fri, Dec 2 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Dec 3 and 4 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
In October 2019, there was an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. One and a half million people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new Constitution. Chile had recovered its memory. The event that activist-filmmaker Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for since his student struggles in 1973 had finally materialized.
After decades in which Guzmán saw Chile turn into a sort of “huge mall with windows that didn’t show what was going on behind them,” society at large woke up to see their young turning the streets into battlefields, and the state using disproportionate force against them.
Guzmán was there when the coup against Salvador Allende took place in 1973 — his epic film depicting those events, The Battle of Chile, remains one of the most widely praised documentary films of all time, and was named “one of the 10 best political documentary films in the world” by Cineaste. My Imaginary Country offers filmgoers one of this year’s most keen and perceptive accounts of transformative events and social change happening right before our eyes. As Elisa Loncón, a Mapuche woman who presided over the Constitutional Convention states powerfully: “Marichiweu! The people won’t be defeated!”
Directed by Patricio Guzmán • 2023 • 83 min • in Spanish with English subtitles)
CRITIC’S PICK! Hundreds of thousands of Chileans took to the streets.They were met with tear gas, baton charges and plastic bullets aimed at their eyes. Some fought back with cobblestones chiseled from the street, which they hurled at the police. My Imaginary Country has a resonance specific to Chile, and to the career of its director, Patricio Guzmán, now in his early 80s, who can fairly be described as Chile’s biographer, and also its cinematic conscience. He has seen events like this before. – A. O. Scott, The New York Times
It’s a vindication, not just for the nation, but for its most clear-eyed, full-hearted chronicler. Would that all countries were so lucky as to have a Patricio Guzmán, to help with the painful process of recovering what has been lost and, as with My Imaginary Country, occasionally to celebrate what has been gained. — Jessica Kiang, Variety
With civil liberties in America under attack, those willing to fight to keep the liberties we have in place could learn a thing or two from … My Imaginary Country. — Valerie Comkplex, Deadline
Despite all the sorrow from the ever-present trauma of young lives lost or permanently scarred, My Imaginary Country drips with the contagious thrill of hope… it is hard not to be moved. — Rafaela Sales Ross, The Playlist

MY OLD SCHOOL
2022-11-11 - 2022-11-21
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Fri, Nov 11 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Nov 12 and 13 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Nov 18 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Nov 19 and 20 at 4:30 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend. One of the most talked-about documentaries at Sundance, My Old School unravels the astonishing true story of a mysterious new student who may not be who his classmates and teachers believe. (Scotland • 104 min)

RESURRECTION
2022-11-10 - 2022-11-14
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Thursday, November 10 at 8pm Hopscotch Coffee Purchase Tickets
Fri, Nov 11 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Nov 12 and 13 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Soon, her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university, just as Margaret had hoped. Everything is under control….
Directed by Andrew Semans • Starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth • 103 minutes • co-presented by Cicada Cinema
Resurrection is a sleek, hurtling, RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING horror movie. I actually gasped. And then I laughed, tickled by how easily filmmaker Andrew Semans and his star, the charismatic Rebecca Hall, had persuaded me to invest in their lunatic shenanigans. CRITIC’S PICK! – The New York Times.

THE CANYONS / THE CARD COUNTER - POSTPONED
2022-11-04 - 2022-11-09
PRODUCER (AND BLOOMINGTON NATIVE) BRAXTON POPE, WHO HAD PLANNED TO BE IN BLOOMINGTON TO INTRODUCE THESE FILMS, FINDS HIMSELF STRANDED ON LOCATION IN IRELAND. BOTH FILMS (AND BRAXTON) WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
THE CANYONS

Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho) and acclaimed director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo) join forces for this explicitly erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveillance. Over the top and lots of fun. Lindsay Lohan stars. 2013 • 100 minutes
THE CARD COUNTER:
An ex-military interrogator turned gambler is haunted by the ghosts of his past. Oscar Isaac stars in Paul Schrader’s atmospheric thriller. 2021 • 112 minutes
Braxton Pope, a Bloomington native, produced The Canyons and The Card Counter. He will host a Q&A after the screening on November 8th

LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S BLACK AND BLUES
2022-10-28 - 2022-11-07
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FRIDAY, OCT 28 • 7:30 • IU RADIO & TELEVISION THEATER
SAT, OCT 29 & SUN, OCT 30 • 3:45 & 7:30 • IU RADIO & TELEVISION THEATER
FRIDAY, NOV 4 • 7:30 • IU RADIO & TELEVISION THEATER
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Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues offers an intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary, directed by Sacha Jenkins, honors Armstrong’s legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States. The film shows how Armstrong’s own life spans the shift from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, and how he became a lightning rod figure in that turbulent era.
Directed by Sacha Jenkins • 2022 • 104 minutes
Mining an archival mother lode of audio and video interviews and clips, Jenkins delivers a bountiful portrait of one of the 20th century’s superstars — on Armstrong’s own terms. — The New York Times (10/28/2022)

HOLD ME TIGHT
2022-10-21 - 2022-10-31
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FRIDAY, OCT 21 • 7pm • IU RADIO & TELEVISION THEATER
SAT, OCT 22 & SUN, OCT 23 • 4:15 & 7PM • IU RADIO & TELEVISION THEATER

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Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear.
Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature as director is his most ambitious to date. You’ll be uncertain as to the reality of what your seeing until the final moments of this unpredictable, richly rewarding film.
France • 97 min
“Vicky Krieps mesmerizes… she delivers a disarmingly vulnerable, yet understated performance.” – Indiewire
“Gripping… cathartic…Amalric’s generosity of feeling and commitment to a percolating, hypnotic poetry of image, sound and human expression is noteworthy” – The Wrap
“Rich and evocative thanks to a bravura performance by Vicky Krieps.” – The Playlist
“Krieps’ performance is a standout in its profound, elegiac devastation—one not seen since Juliette Binoche’s turn in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Blue.”– Paste

MAD GOD
2022-10-20 - 2022-10-24
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Thursday, October 20 at Hopscotch at 8pm Purchase Tickets / Hopscotch
Friday, October 21 at 7:30 • Sat, Oct 22 and Sun, Oct 23 at 3:30 and 7:30 • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets to campus screenings
From master creature-maker and special effects guru Phil Tippet, comes a decades long, handcrafted passion project that must be seen to be believed.
Set in a hallucinogenic hellscape populated by mad scientists, defecating monsters and crushed humanoids, Mad God is a wildly imaginative, stop-motion animated adventure that follows a lone, intrepid soldier on a mission through a Miltonesque world.
Phil Tippett is best known for his pioneering work at Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic on such films as Robocop, Starship Troopers and of course Star Wars. Mad God is a visually inventive, hand-crafted cinematic creation—try to imagine Dante’s Inferno by way of Hieronymus Bosch and Clash of the Titans on acid. That said, Mad God is a strikingly original, dark fantasy all its own.
84 minutes • a co-presentation with Cicada Cinema

THE DUTCHMAN
2022-10-16 19:00 - 20:00
Sunday, Oct 16 • Free Screening at 7pm at the IU Fine Arts Theater
A young, conservative Black man is riding on a New York City subway car. The only other passenger is a blonde femme fatale looking for trouble. She sizes him up. Sexual tension, righteous fury, and racial bigotry collide in a razor’s edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
Al Freeman (Malcolm X) and two-time Academy Award nominee Shirley Knight in this adaptation of LeRoi Jones’ controversial play directed by Anthony Harvey.
1966 • 55 min
presented by The Bloomington Writers Guild

THE SOURCE
2022-10-16 15:00 - 17:00
Sunday, Oct 16 at 3pm • Free Screening at the Monroe County Public Library
The Source traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Several actors (including Johnny Depp) provide dramatic interpretations of their work. The Beat movement connects with bebop, John Cage’s music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats’ meaning and impact.
The Source is a presentation of The Bloomington Writer’s Guild
(1999 • 86 min)
Co-feature: The Dutchman
Read Joan Hawkins article about Jack Kerouac in the current issue of The Ryder

PETITE MAMAN
2022-10-14 - 2022-10-17
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October 14 & 15 at 7:30 • Sunday, Oct 16 at 3pm & 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a mysterious friend in the woods outside her grandmother’s home. The two girls look alike; they bond immediately and together they embark on a fantastical journey of discovery.
Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) proves again that she’s among the most accomplished and unpredictable of contemporary French filmmakers. She draws subtle and evocative performances from her young stars, Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz. Petite Maman is a masterwork–a sublime, modern fairy tale where the spectral meets the everyday and time seems to fold in on itself. France • 72 minutes •
There is magic in French writer/director Céline Sciamma’s beautiful new film. Running just 72 minutes, this spare and gentle little film has an emotional core that feels true and authentic. -The Guardian

Petite Maman is what every film should be: powerfully, even arrestingly original; grounded in emotional truth; hyper-specific; deeply universal; strange; mesmerizing; and not a minute longer than necessary. It is, in short, a small wonder. – The Washington Post

Céline Sciamma’s luminous Petite Maman is a once-upon-a-time tale with a twist. Set in present-day France, in an isolated hamlet made for solitude and imagination, it is a story about family ties, childhood reveries and unanswerable questions. It’s also a story about finding someone who, like the final piece of a jigsaw puzzle — the piece you knew existed but just needed you to find it — completes the picture. Put differently, it is a story about love. CRITIC’S PICK! – The New York Times

Here’s an interview that you might find interesting…

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
2022-09-30 - 2022-10-03
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Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie in this blend of live-action and stop motion animation. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, Marcel and Connie now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy.

Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer Camp’s quirky short films about Marcel have an enthusuastic online following. Marcel is voiced by Slate and Connie by Isabella Rossellini, who’s come a long way since Blue Velvet. (89 min)
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is one of the most, inventive, and downright lovely films of the year. It’s a film with massive ambitions and an even larger heart. – Collider
The film’s heap of personality tics places it adjacent to Wes Anderson and softer Spike Jonze in a way that would seem smarmily optimistic were it not for the tinges of darkness that Slate, Camp, and co-writer Nick Paley weave into the story. Maybe quirky earnestness is back—so long as it’s done with as much care and insight as this rather marvelous curio. – Vanity Fair
AN UNASSUMING GEM! UNIQUE AND UNFORGETTABLE! -ABC News
One of those movies that sneaks up and surprises you with how good it is. There is great depth to this uncomplicated story. – Film Threat

LOST ILLUSIONS
2022-09-30 - 2022-10-03
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Friday, Sept 30 at 7pm • Saturday, Oct 1 at 3:45 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets

An all-star cast dazzles in the spectacular and exhilarating new film by Xavier Giannoli (Marguerite), an adaptation of Balzac’s classic novel about a idealistic young poet who learns that anything can be bought and sold. In 1821, Lucien de Rubempré arrives in Paris where, as a narrator explains, “Money was the new royalty, and no one wanted to cut off its head.” Lucien hopes to make his mark as a writer. Instead, he finds himself swept into the exciting but cynical world of tabloid journalism.
Epic in scope and impact, Lost Illusions is an eerily prescient fable bracingly attuned to the anxieties of the modern media age. This is grand French cinema at its most lavish, and finest. Winner of seven French César Awards, including Best Film!
149 min • in French with English subtitles
CRITIC‘S PICK! Lost Illusions is SENSATIONAL. Nobody paid me to say that. Well, actually, The New York Times did, but you should believe me anyway. -A. O. Scott, The New York Times

FIRE OF LOVE
2022-09-29 - 2022-10-08
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Fri, Oct 7 at 7:30 • Sat, Oct 8 and Sunday, Oct 9 at 4:15 and 7:30 • IU Radio & Television Theater • Purchase Tickets

Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and documenting their discoveries. Directed by Sara Dosa with narration from filmmaker Miranda July, Fire of Love is a lyrical and moving portrait of two bold explorers as they venture into the unknown, leaving a legacy that forever enriches our knowledge of the natural world, all for the sake of love.
in English and French with subtitles • 93 minutes
Fire of Love is co-presented by Cicada Cinema

One of the most moving and mesmerizing films of the year, a meditation on the wonders of nature and human curiosity. – The Atlantic

A one-of-a-kind story of both science and romance, a movie which captures the overlapping unpredictability and ineffable beauty of both volcanoes and human bonds, and the unknown length of fuse which each ultimately possess – The AV Club
One of the year’s few awe-inspiring documentaries. – The Wall Street Journal
The Greatest Lava-Fueled Love Story Ever Told. – Rolling Stone
