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Due to the travel advisory, we have decided to cancel our Friday night screenings. The Sat and Sun screenings of Hive, Drive My Car, and Kurt Vonnegut will take place, although with a slightly revised schedule (see below). Since we also canceled screenings of Hive and Drive My Car last weekend, we are we will try to extend the engagements of both. More on that in a few days. In the meantime, please pass this along to anyone who you think might be venturing out tonight and if you are venturing out tonight, drive safely.

This Weekend’s Films

DRIVE MY CAR

THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR! • National Society of Film Critics • New York Film Critics Circle • LA Film Critics Circle

Feb 5 at 7:30 at the IU Radio & Television Theater • Sunday Matinee! Feb 6 at 3:15 at Radio & Television • Purchase Tickets

A film about language, sexuality, trust, and infidelity adapted by filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi from a short story by acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakami

Drive My Car won Best Screenplay at Cannes, Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globes and is on the shortlist for Oscar nominations in multiple categories.

Critic’s Pick. A QUIET MASTERPIECE… a story about grief, love and work as well as the soul-sustaining, life-shaping power of art.
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

A passionate deployment of art as resistance to mortality.
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

5 out of 5 stars. An engrossing and exalting experience.
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

HIVE

Feb 5 - 6:30 at the IU Fine Arts Theater
Sunday Matinee! Feb 6 at 3pm at IU Fine Arts Purchase Tickets

In a small village in Kosovo, years after her husband went missing during wartime, Fahrije awaits evidence of his death. Without it, not only is she unable to mourn, but the hovering patriarchy deems it disrespectful, morally loose even, to move forward: to get a job, a driver’s license — to provide for her family. Stoically determined, with inspiring pluck and humor, Fahrije openly drives around town and begins a business selling ajvar (roasted red pepper paste). If that weren’t enough, she pulls together other widows to help. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and threaten her newfound sovereignty. Based on one woman’s true story, Hive is a universal tale of quiet, potent resistance.

Hive won the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Back By Popular Demand! February 5 at 8:15 at the IU Fine Arts Theater

Sunday Matinee! February 6 at 4:45 at Fine Arts • Purchase Tickets

A touching, long-in-the-works film directed by Robert B. Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm) tracing the life of Kurt Vonnegut. This is a deep, immersive dive into the author’s upbringing and his creative output. Beginning with his childhood in Indianapolis, the film delves into his experience as a prisoner of war, his marriage and family, his early careers as a publicist for General Electric and a car salesman, and his years as a struggling writer, leading to eventual superstardom in 1969 following the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five. The film is abundant with whimsical anecdotes about Vonnegut. We also hear from his children, his contemporaries, and Weide himself, as the documentary turns inward as a thoughtful examination of its own creation. The light-touch technique is one that echoes the work of Vonnegut, who often placed himself as a supporting character in his own novels, with unexpectedly profound results. 2021 • 121 min

presented in part by the IU Arts & Humanities Council

The Last Picture Show

You can watch The Last Picture Show in our virtual theater right here, right now

The Last Picture Show is Peter Bogdanovich’s masterpiece (the filmmaker died on January 6th), and is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set in Texas during the early fifties, in one of the loneliest, I-was-born-in-a-small-towns to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless high school seniors—the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward athlete Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd, in her film debut, and never better)—and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich. Adapted by Larry McMurtry and filmed in Texas in his home town. The decision to shoot in black-and-white was suggested by Bogdanovich’s house guest at the time, Orson Welles. (1971, 118 min).

Pandemic Protocols: Filmgoers must be vaccinated and must show proof of vaccination.
Filmgoers must wear masks in the theater. Seating will be capped at 35% of capacity.

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