Natasha Richardson and Faye Dunaway star in the original film, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel about religious tyranny and sexual slavery. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum). 1990; 108 min

One of the most entertaining categories at the Academy Awards — and one of the least heralded — is for the Best Animated Short Subject.

Like short stories, short films are sometimes overlooked. But they often display all of the scope, power, insight and resonance of feature length films. 109 minutes DETAINMENT / Ireland / 30 min Director: VINCENT LAMBE Synopsis: Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story […]

Five of the bravest international filmmakers working today tell thoughtful, compelling stories in this year’s documentary short film program. This year’s slate of nominees are shorter than in years past (2 hrs, 23 min) and will be presented in one program without an intermission   BLACK SHEEP / UK / 27 MIN Director: ED PERKINS […]

We’ll host a special screening of all five nominees in both the short animation and live-action categories at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sat, Feb 23rd. The BCT program will also include one-time screenings of Beauty and the Beast (1991 Academy Award Winner, Best Picture) & RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary) Here’s […]

Beauty and the Beast is part of our Oscar celebration at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Saturday, Feb 23rd. It is the first animation film to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It also became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film … An unconventional, loving family come across a five-year-old girl in the freezing cold. They take her in — and teach her the family trade. Shoplifters won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Up for an ACADEMY AWARD for Best Documentary Feature, Hale County is an inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people.

The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world.

A smart, Hitchcockian mystery/thriller about class conflict and sexual longing adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami

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.