Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
Join influential and award-winning film critic David Ehrlich for a frank and wide-ranging conversation on all things blockbusters, including the impact of blockbuster filmmaking on independent film, film criticism, audience culture, moviegoing, and more.
Few film critics hold as much sway in today’s film landscape as does the award-winning David Ehrlich, who will be joining us at IU Cinema this October to officially kick off our Blockbuster Futures conference.
As IndieWire’s reviews editor and head film critic, the Brooklyn-based Ehrlich is responsible for overseeing and writing many of the site’s movie reviews. He has been with IndieWire since 2016, where he has contributed countless reviews, essays, and interviews; spearheaded several of the site’s larger-scale lists and projects; and covered major festivals like Cannes, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice.
Prior to IndieWire, Ehrlich was a staff writer at Rolling Stone, the associate film editor at Time Out New York, the film editor at Film.com, and an editor-at-large for Little White Lies. His writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Slate, and Reverse Shot among several other outlets, and he has served on juries and nominating committees for the Gotham Awards, South by Southwest, and the Montclair Film Festival.
Ehrlich is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Film Critics Society and received the 2022 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Film Critic. Through partnerships with filmmakers Garrett Bradley, Jane Campion, and Charlotte Wells, his beloved annual video essays counting down the 25 best films of the year have raised more than $100,000 for various charities.
Ehrlich will join IU Cinema Director Dr. Alicia Kozma onstage in a frank and wide-ranging conversation about all things blockbusters, including the impact of blockbuster filmmaking on independent film, film criticism, audience culture, moviegoing, and much more.
Blockbuster Futures is funded in part by a grant from the IU Bloomington Public Arts & Humanities project and is presented in partnership with The Media School at IU Bloomington.
