Bijou Blog
Creative and critical movie writing from the Ped Mall to the moon!
Regular features on the Bijou Blog include reviews, personal and critical essays, creative work, coverage of the True/False film festival, our Youtube Cine-Club, and more! Open to the public for submissions! Submit to bijoubloggers@gmail.com using the format:
Submission title / author name + bio / piece (uploaded as a Doc)
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Dear White People
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Like its protagonists, Dear White People is brilliant, funny, and righteously pissed off.
Quick. Think about the last mainstream American film you’ve seen whose central protagonist* is black. Got it? Good.
Fruitvale Station
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Fruitvale Station is provocative, but perhaps not in the way you expect.
In 15th- and 16th-century Europe, touring ‘morality plays’ warned the spectating public of the potential for damnation lurking under the surface of their every decision—eating supper, choosing a spouse, arguing with one’s neighbors.
The Skeleton Twins
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
The Skeleton Twins serves as a great reminder to us all that even though my older sister once fed me unsalted popcorn as a joke, I was able to forgive her after ten years.
Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors and Hannah Arendt (with guest Scott Sulzener)
Thursday, October 9, 2014
In this week's show, we'll be discussing three films that are coming soon to FilmScene in Iowa City. Our line-up includes Ghostbusters, which - in honor of its 30th Anniversary - opens at FilmScene on October 24.
The One I Love
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
The One I Love will have you questioning everything you know about your significant other in the best way possible
It is nearly impossible to write anything about this movie without spoiling the twist, but alas, here we are.
Mother
Sunday, October 5, 2014
A woman in a blue dress walks through a rain-soaked field. She is no longer young but not yet old. Comfortably middle-aged. The type of woman who looks like she is expecting her first grandkid. The camera glides around the woman, and she starts to dance.
America, Through The Eyes of Our Youth
Monday, September 29, 2014
Never have I seen film that displays the heartache and passion of childhood as well as Rich Hill does.
The Trip to Italy: Staying Small for the Sequel
Friday, September 26, 2014
Please don’t take it as hyperbole when I say that The Trip to Italy (2014) is a type of film we should probably have more of.
The Internet’s Own Boy
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Most films, we view for entertainment. Some, we view to deepen our education. But behind certain films—a select and potent few—there lies a moral imperative so powerful as to make not watching them feel like a crime.