osprey_archer | IU film festivals

The good news: IU is having an Ida Lupino film festival!

The bad news: Almost all of the films are at times when I’m scheduled to work so I won’t be able to see them! Particularly tragic: they’re screening Ida Lupino’s Never Fear, which is about a dancer who is stricken with polio and her struggle to recover from the disease, which draws on Lupino’s own experience contracting polio in the 1930s - doesn’t that sound fascinating? I usually hate disease stories but I’m not actually worried about catching polio so that’s all right - and I really want to see it...

…but it’s screening at 7 and I get off work at 5 and I might be able to make it if rush hour traffic isn’t too bad, and if the construction hasn’t backed everything up on 37, and if I can find a parking place without too much trouble and book it across campus…

This is too many ifs. I just have to accept that I’m not going to make this one. OH THE BITTERNESS OF LIFE.

I’m also going to miss The Hitch-Hiker, but at least that one is readily available on DVD.

But there is some good news! I’ll be able to catch Lupino’s The Trouble with Angels, which admittedly I have seen before - but that was back when I was in high school, because I wanted to see more Rosalind Russell after His Girl Friday. So I’d say I’m due for a rewatch, anyway.

And also, IU is having a four-day extravaganza of Sara Driver films, which look intriguingly weird. I hadn’t heard of Driver before I saw her films on the IU calendar, but they’re fantasy films (plus one documentary about Basquiat) so it should be interesting. And I’ve already requested the days off! So I will definitely be able to see them.

And in more proximate news - IU is showing The Miseducation of Cameron Post tomorrow! So I will be able to see that on the big screen after all, even though I missed it when it showed up here.