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We have three films on our calendar this weekend. Drive My Car has received 4 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best International Feature.

Our second film is Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by acclaimed Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude: when a school teacher’s private sex tape surfaces on the internet, it engenders hysterical outrage from a mob of angry parents. Here’s a link to a story about the film that ran in the print edition of yesterday’s New York Times (it ran online last week)

We are also offering a special free screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am at the Monroe County Library Auditorium on Saturday at 2pm. This intimate portrait of the life and work of one of America’s greatest writers is co-presented by Friends of the Library and is part of the 2022 Power of Words initiative.

DRIVE MY CAR

Feb 18 and 19 at 7pm at the IU Fine Arts Theater Sunday Matinee! Feb 20 at 3pm at IU Fine Arts 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, as we mentioned earlier, has received 4 Academy nominations including Best Picture

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

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Feb 18 & 19 - 8:15 at IU’s Radio & Television Theater

Sunday Matinee! February 20 at 4pm at Radio & TV • Purchase Tickets

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a darkly comic, grandiose cinematic vision of modern life as unforgettable as its title. 2021 • Romania • 106 min

Heads Up: Contains several scenes with explicit sexual content. But it’s a comedy.

CRITIC’S PICK! There is no American filmmaker I can think of who tackles our modern-day culture wars and their historical roots with anything approaching JUDE’S HONESTY, WIT, or INTELLECTUAL RIGOR. – The New York Times

A DARING AND HILARIOUS CINEMATIC GAMBLE that gives a justifiable middle finger to the sheer inanity of the Western world – and it’s also an unpredictable blast, an angry editorial cartoon that invites us into its outrage. – IndieWire

A PROVOCATIVE BUNUELIAN PRANK. -Variety

A BOLDLY ORIGINAL VOICE IN MODERN EUROPEAN CINEMA — The Hollywood Reporter

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