osprey_archer | IU Cinema this fall

I just looked up the IU cinema’s program for this fall, and you guys, it is like they designed it JUST FOR ME except I live AN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY so instead of being designed for me it is designed to mock me from afar. Offerings include:

An evening of short silent films directed by women, with live accompaniment! Including pieces by Alice Guy-Blache, Zora Neal Hurston (in addition to writing books, she shot documentary footage of black communities in Florida in the late twenties), Marion E. Wong’s Curse of Quon Gwon, AND an episode from The Hazards of Helen.

….I may have to drive down just to see this, even though I would have to drive back home that very evening because I have work the next day.

A series of films by Dorothy Arzner! Including the rarely shown Working Girls! Which, fittingly but cruelly, is showing while I’m literally at work, so even if I could teleport to Bloomington, I would also need a duplicator in order to see it. Other offerings include Christopher Strong, Merrily We Go to Hell, and The Wild Party; so far Christopher Strong is looking like the most likely candidate for me to actually see.

A series of films by Agnes Varda! I may be able to make it to town for Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courante, but we’ll see. I’ve already seen Vagabond, but it would be nice to see it on the big screen… and of course I want to see Le Bonheur... and this would help me atone for the time that the IU cinema had an Agnes Varda film series while I lived in Bloomington and I didn’t go.

AND ALSO a series of films by Sergei Eisenstein! Most of which I did not write down, because by this point I was simultaneously suffering from ecstasy and despair, but Ivan the Terrible was on the table.

The actual lesson from this is probably “I should see if there’s a similar cinema somewhere closer to home,” but let’s be real, what I’m actually getting out of it is “IF ONLY I POSSESSED A TELEPORTATION DEVICE.”