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Footage Not Found is IU Cinema’s podcast offering biweekly interviews and conversations on everything film, including IU Cinema programming. Host Aja Essex and her guests are devoted to erasing our cinephilic blank spots with episodes full of goofy jokes, serious discussions, reviews, film histories, and more movie recommendations than you can handle. Listen and subscribe in your favorite podcast feed!
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Aja says goodbye to the IU Cinema podcast. Footage Not Found is a co-production of the Indiana University Cinema and WFIU Studios. Our theme song is “Only Ones” from the band Busman's Holiday off of their recently released album Good Songs. You can currently stream Good Songs on Bandcamp and you can find out more about the band on busmansholidayban…
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This week's Footage Not Found features a long-awaited guest: founding Indiana University Cinema director Jon Vickers joins Aja to discuss the films and themes of Hirokazu Kore-eda with special focus paid to his first narrative film, Maborosi, and his most recent film, Broker. They also discuss Jon’s origins as a film programmer and exhibition entre…
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This week's Footage Not Found features filmmaker Fred Kuwornu, the director behind the documentary film Blaxploitalian, which explores the little-known world of Italian-born and American Black performers and their roles in the Italian film industry. Fred also talks about his work with Spike Lee on the film The Miracle at Santa Anna and his role in …
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By the pricking of our thumbs, the return of an IU Cinema series this way comes. For this week's episode of Footage Not Found, we set the tone for the changing of the seasons, as the leaves begin to dry and days begin to dwindle, by highlighting IU Cinema’s long-dormant series Friday Night Frights. What makes a horror movie feel so different on a F…
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For this week’s episode of Footage Not Found, we are joined by Indiana University Associate Professor Gerry Lanosga. Gerry details his life in journalism and, since 2022 is its 50th anniversary, gets into a discussion of the Watergate scandal as well as contextualizes the profession of investigative journalism through media portrayals, most notably…
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Indiana University Cinema’s new regular series “Women on Top” seeks to showcase a couple of things. It wants to show the audience that despite the large steps being made to amplify women's voices in the film industry, it has been primarily doing that through the role of the director when so many important and overlooked roles in the film industry h…
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Welcome to the first episode of Footage Not Found (formerly A Place for Film), a podcast dedicated to filling in and contextualizing your cinematic gaps. For our inaugural episode, Indiana University Cinema’s Managing Director Brittany Friesner and Director Alicia Kozma sit down to discuss a new film series at the IU Cinema called New Americas Cine…
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This weeks episode is a little primer for one of the cinemas favorite recent editions: Monthly Movie Round-Up: Virtual Edition. I have my uneasy ally, Publications Editor Michaela Owens on to try and get y'all pumped up for what is a nice party and reunion amongst the regular IU Cinema bloggers. We even spill the beans on what will will be talking …
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Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion, Kino Lorber, Imprint Films, Arrow Video & 88 Films US. On this months episode of Physical Media Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny, we have nothing but the biggest bangers. Imprint Films delivers The Odd Couple Collection. Kino Lorber brings Zoot Suit and Shakedown. Arrow Video come…
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Hey Everyone, My name is Aja Alexandria Essex and I am a woman. I'll talk about it more as the days become weeks and so forth, but just know I am the happiest I've been in a long time. What's presented in this episode is my intro to Speed Racer on 3/25/2022 at the IU Cinema. It was an emotional and overwhelming event in the best possible way. I lov…
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On this very special 69th episode of A Place For Film, I finally had the immense pleasure of sitting down with much wanted and long awaited guest Margot Stacy, the lovely and effusive mind behind the now retired "tees-en-scène" apparel shop (which we did an entire farewell episode for: here) but also the very active and enthralling @mise_en_scene p…
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On this weeks episode of A Place For Film: I'm sick! Which means its a low energy low effort affair, so I decided to talk off the cuff about Steven Spielberg's sci-fi cannon of film in anticipation of the IU Cinema's screening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind on 3/29. Because my energy is so low I decided to throw my introduction to West Side …
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Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion, Kino Lorber, 88 Films US and Fun City Editions On this months PMISDIJSF, Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, 88 Film US, and Fun City Editions join us with some stellar titles. Millers Crossing, 12 Angry Men (1997), Man on The Moon, The Flag of Iron, Legendary Weapons of the Shaoli…
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On this 66th episode of A Place For Film (and disappointingly NOT the 69th episode) SECS Fest co-founder and programmer David Church was nice enough to come on last minute and give me the in and outs and ins and outs (i'm so sorry) as well as history of SECS Fest and how it came to end up in the Midwest. I also lose my mind on microphone when I fin…
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On this weeks episode, I had the opportunity to talk to Jon Vickers Scoring Award winner, composer and saxophonist Daniel Whitworth to discuss his background in cinema and composition and the process of working on an undertaking the demanding. He also talks about some of his musical influences including the works of contemporary classical composers…
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On this weeks episode, David is flying solo and low-key so they can casually talk about the 2022 Oscar nominations and what they feel are some good calls and glaring oversights (please ignore that they forgot to bring up Titane at all during the snubs sections but c'mon France was never submitting that for their International contender). And after …
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Full Transparency: All blu-rays reviewed were provided by Criterion, Kino Lorber, Cohen Film Collection, Imprint Films, and Arrow Video. On this weeks episode of Physical Media Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny, we have some excellent titles to kick off 2022. Imprint Films brings us a thrilling revenge film starring Kirk Douglas titled Last Train Fr…
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On this weeks episode of the IU Cinema podcast, I very briefly outline the work and legacy of Senegalese filmmaker and pioneer, Paulin Vieyra as well as follow-up with Alicia and Brittany about their virtual Sundance experience and what hidden and not so hidden gems they found at this years festival. A treat of an episode for those who want a sneak…
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Prepared to get Sirk'd up for this weeks episode of A Place For Film. Joining David once is again is his eternal enemy and elegant editor Michaela Owens to give everyone a little primer on the lush and lively world of melodrama director Douglas Sirk in anticipation of the IU Cinema's "5x Douglas Sirk: Magnificently Obsessed" series. If you don't kn…
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On this weeks A Place For Film, Professor Joan Hawkins joins me once again. We discuss the origins of the "Underground Film" series in Bloomington as well has this history of Underground film and upcoming screenings at the IU Cinema this semester featuring exciting pieces of Underground celluloid. Joan is a wellspring of information and knowledge s…
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On this weeks episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Associate Director and returning guest Brittany Friesner, as well as new Indiana University Cinema Director, Dr. Alicia Kozma about the current state of international/arthouse cinema exhibition and distribution in honor the IU Cinema's returning International Arthouse series as well the upcomi…
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On this weeks episode of A Place For Film, I do my best to give you the short version of the history of the midnight movie in honor of the IU Cinema's "Not-Quite Midnights". How it came to be, how it evolved, how it went mainstream and how it (sadly) ended. I also admit on air that I've never been to a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening in my 31 y…
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This weeks joint A Place For Film/Physical Media Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny episode is a special one. Artist and graphic designer Drusilla Adeline made her way down to the IU Cinema to chat about her work as an artist designing some of the best and most instantly recognizable work for distributors like Criterion, Kino Lorber, Arrow, Vinegar S…
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Happy holidays, everyone! 'Tis the season for merriment, goodwill to your fellow man, and watching people beat the living hell out of each other, or at least it is on “Physical Media Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny.” There’s something in the air within the world of physical distribution. It seems that the time has come for balletic martial arts an…
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Believe it or not, I’ve been doing these reviews for over a year at this point and it’s been lovely watching how much it's all grown. This originally started with me desperately wanting to review the Criterion Collection’s The Complete Films of Agnès Varda boxset and it has grown into something I couldn’t imagine. Over the past 12 months, this has …
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This weeks episode is all about the ethereal talent and beauty of the one and only Gene Tierney. In honor of the IU Cinema's "A Century of Tierney" series and "Noir-vember" I decided to have two Tierney techs on to talk about her career, persona, and life off camera. Publications Editor Michaela Owens and Maurer School of Law student Emma Kearney, …
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On this weeks episode, Elizabeth and David chat about their experience returning to theaters the past 7 months or so since their vaccines took hold. The go down a partial list of films they've seen (Nobody, Pig, The French Dispatch The Card Counter, Petite Maman, Bergman Island A Quiet Place 2, Malignant, Thelma and Louise, Last Night in Soho, Dune…
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This week on A Place For Film, David and Elizabeth reunite during David's social media hiatus to talk about some film news that did trickle down him in his Twitter and Instagram free "Fortress of Solitude". They discuss Disney's refusal to make a separate cut of The Eternals, Robert Downy Jr. being cast in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer film as we…
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Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Kino Lorber, Arrow Video, and Synapse Films. Finally, the best month of the year is here: OCTOBER! The one I’ve been waiting for, folks. There’s nothing quite like the thrills and chills of a month marinated in the macabre. As the days dwindle and the nights grow longer, it’s nice to sit dow…
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This week on A Place For Film, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Fun City Editions founder Jonathan Hertzberg to talk to him about his experience starting up a boutique blu-ray label in an already crowded landscape. We also get into his passions as a programmer and his time as an IU alumni in The Department of Communication and Culture. After…
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This month’s round-up is an eclectic bunch, which, if you know me at this point, is a good thing. Things are beginning to lean towards the change of seasons thematically. There is a Carl Reiner/Steve Martin comedy-noir collab called Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid featuring some help from a bevy of screen legends, plus an unexpected discovery from Code R…
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This week on A Place For Film, David sits down with Eskenazi and Elizabeth Sage Collection Curator Kelly Richardson to discuss the ongoing Art of The Character exhibit featuring costumes from Glenn Closes most iconic films and characters. As this is also in partnership with IU Cinema, Kelly explains how that came to be along with what the collectio…
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This week on A Place For Film, we take some time to eulogize Michael K Williams and Norm MacDonald. We get excited about Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley and finally we give some short and sweet thoughts on the film Princess Mononoke and discuss why its so special us. You can purchase The IU Cinema's first book "Indiana University Cinema: The N…
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This week on A Place For Film, we had the pleasure of sitting down with the team behind "Indiana University Cinema: The New Model", the new book from Indiana University Press looking back at the first 10 years of IU Cinema's journey. The team discusses the fun and unexpected hardships of writing and publishing a book, as well as the possible future…
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The semester has started, summer is coming to a close, but the Blu-ray reviews are back in full swing. If there was a theme to this month’s titles, it would be stellar performances and star personas, with the exception of one title that actually played at the IU Cinema in a long-ago era known as “November of 2019.” Cohen Film Collection has a great…
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Our final review for the month is Criterions release of Lizzie Borden's socio-economic examination of middle class sex work: Working Girls. "Physical Media Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny" Will be back in the podcast feed AND on the IU Cinema blog later this month. Thanks for hangin out with me this week folks.…
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Todays episodes focuses on Fun City Editions most recent release: Rancho Deluxe. A slacker western about how the west was done. Take a listen and find out why I loved this movie and this release so much.
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Up next in our week of blu-ray reviews, we have the MVD Entertainment Group umbrella of labels. From Arrow, a cult favorite 1975 gang exploitation film. From Severin, a mid-career masterpiece from art house provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky. And we round out the month with the Lovecraftian delight co-penned by Alien writer Dan O'Bannon. Once again i…
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We've been mostly dark this past July for some R&R but that doesn't mean you aren't getting some bonus episodes before the summer falls away! This week on the pod is Physical Media Isn't Dead Week! I decided to split up the giant pile of blu-ray reviews into their own episodes. Todays episode is all about Kino Lorber's crop of hidden gems. A romant…
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We've come to the end of our summer movie series once again, and its been a great time. To send the who thing off we decided to have a very chill conversation about John Waters 1990 film Cry Baby (A MOVIE WE WILL REVISIT IN THE FUTURE. DO NOT PANIC AT THE LENGTH OF THIS EPISODE) and to give our thoughts about how much fun exploring these movies the…
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Summer is here and that means things are gonna wind down around here at the blog for the month of July, but I had one more round-up of Blu-rays to bring the people while we try and get some rest before the pandemonium of August brings us out of our sleep. This month, we’re rollin' with Kino and Criterion to bring you an underseen “cops and robbers”…
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For our final episode with a guest we decided to bring a delightful and warm presence from the recesses of the World Wide Web. Emma Kearney joins us to talk about the 1942 Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth re-team, You Were Never Lovelier. Elizabeth and David sit back and listen while Emma dazzles them facts about fashion, Rita Hayworth history and wh…
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GOOOOOD MORNING LISTENERS. We're happy to present the next film in our summer series of symphonic-esque sweets: In The Heights. That's right, we decided to do an ep on the brand spankin' new musical you can see in your home on HBO Max OR in your local multiplex. However, when we decided we were going to do this episode, there was only one person we…
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You guys are in for a treat with this episode. Not only are we covering David's favorite musical of all time, West Side Story, were doing it with a bonafide PH.D. holder. Jay Hurst, a wonderful and incredibly talented composer, has come on the podcast to bring his musical expertise to give a crash course on some of the dense musical motifs present …
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Well, folks, things have heated up considerably since I started doing these reviews last fall. I’ve reached out to so many great distributors and all of them have been kind, helpful, and generous with what they allow access to and there are some genuinely amazing new discoveries this past month. Joining the round-up we have Arrow Video with its rel…
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Todays heralds some pieces of good news. The first being that it is Vincent Prices birthday. It also marks the time Vincent Price joined us at A Place For Film to talk about his illustrious career in honor of his daughter Victoria Price visiting the cinema back in March of 2018. We accomplished this by having Vincent's good friend and birthday budd…
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"It's showtime, folks!" This week on A Place For Film, we begin our six week soak in the sun celebrating our summer series with movie musicals! We dive headfirst in to the oeuvre of acclaimed musical director Vicente Minelli and his final MGM musical, Bells Are Ringing. Who better to start us off than three time returning guest AND publications edi…
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Sometimes the movies reviewed for Physical Media Isn't Dead just don't show up when my deadlines are long past due and usually it wouldn't be a huge issue, but considering that Fun City Editions went out of their way to send me a copy of Michael Ritchie's seemingly under talked about film Smile in the mail, I figured I'd make some space for some co…
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