THE CONFORMIST
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
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
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CORSAGE
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
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Coming soon …
EO
Fri, Jan 20 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Jan 21 and 22 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
Fri, Jan 27 at 7pm • Sat and Sun, Jan 28 and 29 at 4pm and 7pm • IU Fine Arts Theater • Purchase Tickets
Shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Award® for Best 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)
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 NY Times
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THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
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
Fri, Feb 10 at 7:30 • Sat and Sun, Feb 11 and 12 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
