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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YouTube ciné-club 2 / Perspective
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Inspired by the social and curatorial magic of Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque Française, the Bijou Blog's Youtube ciné-club is a regular series gathering moving images marvels from across the internet, available for free, 10 minutes or less.
Traversing the Troubled Waters of Fish Tank
Monday, March 25, 2019
Written and directed by Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank (2009) thrusts its audience into a world of feral feminine physicality. In doing so, the film offers an unflinching, tactile meditation on the claustrophobia of aimless adolescent ambition.
Stories We Tell
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Stories We Tell is a 2012 documentary film directed by Sarah Polley and the film follows Sarah Polley as she learns about herself, her paternal father, and her relationship to her family.
Bijou/True/False
Monday, March 18, 2019
Bijou looks back on their time in Columbia, Missouri for the True/False film festival as an inspiring and unforgettable experience.
Burning Down The House
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
We’re living in one of many adaptation-crazed times in film history: it seems that production companies have run out of new stories and are staking their whole existence on pre-existing source material.
Headroom: Jodie Mack and THE GRAND BIZARRE
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Me! he says, hand on his chest. Actually, his shirt. And there, perhaps,
The question.
Citizen Four / Tony Hopp
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
A screening of Citizenfour (dir. Laura Poitras), followed by a post-screening conversation, will be held at FilmScene on Thursday, March 7th from 3:30-6pm as a part of their Women’s March lineup. This film is the third in Poitras’ trilogy on post 9/11 America and it focuses on Edward Snowden.
VICE Review / Danny King
Monday, February 11, 2019
Danny King is currently a junior majoring in English and Creative Writing and minoring in Cinema Studies. He writes film reviews in his free time and has previously been published in Fools Magazine for his review of Roma.
Us: So Close to Being Exactly What America Needs
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
What would happen if the underclasses, the underrepresented and the underprivileged rose up against the upper class in an act of revenge? This is what filmmaker Jordan Peele describes as “The American Nightmare” and it serves as one of several underlying messages in his new film, Us (Peele, 2019).
Fall Semester Bijou Mixtape
Sunday, October 21, 2018
We say "au revior" to cinema and say "bonjour" to music on this special episode of Bijou Mixtape. We play our favorite songs from movies, you listen, it's good radio.