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:
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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.
The Oath
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Laura Poitras is best known for Citizenfour, a documentary about Edward Snowden’s global surveillance disclosures which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014, but few people have seen the preceding two films in the trilogy that Citizenfour completes - My Country, My Country (2006) and The Oath…
Diablo Cody: Jennifer's Body
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Hollow hallways permeated with a monolithic student body
Diablo Cody: Juno
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
For Juno, her whole experience started with a chair. My experience with Juno started with a text message. High school is where I began to take film more seriously, and I began looking for unique and different films to watch.
Le Bonheur
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
An Entry from Thérèse's Diary (if things had gone differently)
True Stories
Friday, January 24, 2020
In 1984, musician David Byrne had just come off the heels of a successful collaboration with director Jonathan Demme, producing the iconic, highly energetic concert film Stop Making Sense, one of the best of the genre. Thanks to the success of that film, it seemed natural that Warner Bros.
Roger and Me
Friday, January 24, 2020
Michael Moore has always been a bit of a divisive documentarian. Many disagree with the performative aspects of his films, some say he’s too one-sided, and some qualify his films as editorials rather than documentaries.