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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Punch-Drunk Love
Friday, February 4, 2022
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of my favorite directors in the industry. Within his slightly-off characters and sweeping California landscapes is an exploration of what makes us human. Part of our experience as people is falling in love.
Bijou's Best of 2021
Friday, January 28, 2022
Members of the Bijou Film Board share their favorite new releases, first watches and film-related experiences of 2021. Did any of your favorites make the lists? Read on to find out...
Mixtape Archive
Friday, February 5, 2021
Hey there folks! Bijou Banter has had to, unfortunately, take down our very popular and ever so fantastic Mixtape episodes due to copyright concerns on our platforms. Shucks, we know, but we thought it would be a shame for them to go to waste.
It's Only Flowers [THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT]
Saturday, December 19, 2020
A long, green candle burns down to a final nub and sputters in the surrounding wax. Hiss… and a smoke trail rises in curly tendrils, reaching, grasping, searching for an exit from the room. There is no exit. The sickly black smoke pools at the ceiling, poisoning the air.
Sacha Baron Cohen Fools No One With BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (2020)
Monday, November 23, 2020
Sacha Baron Cohen could justifiably be called the comedian of the millennial generation. He’s become something of a hero for people in the age-group with his righteous pranking of stodgy politicians and bigoted americans.
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (Peter Strickland, 2012)
Sunday, October 11, 2020
In anticipation of Bijou After Hours' upcoming virtual screening of In Fabric on the weekend of October 17th, we look back at Peter Strickland's second feature.
Occultism and Cutural Crisis: An Interview with Andrew Owens
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Lee Sailor: In your class, you mentioned early filmmakers, German expressionists, I think, who were interested in occultism and the occult. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that. Like, were they worshiping the devil or something?
Andrew Owens: No, no, at least not that I'm aware of.
Dispatches from True/False 2020 (Part 2)
Friday, May 15, 2020
It was around this point—after watching Collective, but before going to bed—that I heard South by Southwest had been canceled as a result of the pandemic.
Dispatches from True/False 2020 (Part 1)
Monday, May 11, 2020
Three days before leaving for True/False, I sent a dumb joke to the Bijou group chat. “A reminder that with coronavirus spreading everyone at True/False should take sensible precautions such as not licking strangers unless you are pretty sure they've washed their hands first.
Orlando
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Recently, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts put on a production of Orlando, a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel. It was incredible.