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7 pm
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This screening includes IU Cinema 15th Anniversary Secret Screening
7 pm
Let's party! Celebrate our 15th anniversary with a secret screening, special guests, giveaways, and more.
New 4K Restoration
7 pm
The extraordinary, internationally embraced final film from Edward Yang is a warm, sprawling, and dazzling epic regarded as an undisputed masterwork of the 21st century.
This screening includes Dredd 3D
7 pm
Fueled by impressive special effects and rooted in self-satire and deadpan humor, Dredd 3D is a futuristic cops-and-robbers epic wrapped in some of the most mind-blowing visuals you'll see all year.
This screening includes Santosh
7 pm
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in rural Northern India. When a girl is murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic female inspector Sharma.
This screening includes Ms. 45
10 pm
Grindhouse screenings are back with provocateur Abel Ferrara's infamous thriller of revenge and Wild West lawlessness in 1980s NYC. 45th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Santosh
4 pm
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in rural Northern India. When a girl is murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic female inspector Sharma.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Throne of Blood/Kumonosu-jô
7 pm
A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he will become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
This screening includes Twin Peaks Season 2, Episodes 1-5
4 pm
Who shot Agent Cooper? Who survived the mill fire? Who is the mysterious third man from the night Laura died? And most importantly, who is the anonymous food critic coming to Norma's diner?! You'll have to join us for the first part of season two to find out!
This screening includes Tokyo Olympiad/Tôkyô orinpikku
7 pm
Witness the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Olympics with Kon Ichikawa's groundbreaking documentary that ranges from the expansive to the intimate. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Altered States
7 pm
With its totally unrestrained, mind-bending use of special effects, Ken Russell’s visionary first foray into Hollywood filmmaking is one of the most intense, exhilarating stylistic achievements of the 1980s.
This screening includes Megalopolis/Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable
7 pm
One of cinema's most revered directors bursts back onto the scene with—all hyperbole aside—something you've never seen before and may never see again. The *only* way to watch this is in a cinema!
7 pm
A complex and disquieting depiction of a caregiver in crisis, rich with haunting, metaphorical imagery that feels emanated from its acclaimed director's subconscious.
This screening includes Dracula
10 pm
Cinematic provocateur Radu Jude returns with an outrageous, madcap epic exploring the past, present, and future of the Dracula myth.
This screening includes Good Night, and Good Luck
4 pm
Based on real events, this six-time Oscar-nominated drama traces the vitality of a free press to public dissent as journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Hidden Fortress
7 pm
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines. A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make.
This screening includes Twin Peaks Season 2, Episodes 6-9
4 pm
With clues from the One-Armed Man, a secret diary, and a shocking new death, the killer of Laura Palmer is finally revealed.
This screening includes All We Imagine as Light
7 pm
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
This screening includes IU Cinema Faculty and Staff Open House
11:30 am
Drop in during your lunchtime and get to know your neighborhood movie theater at our Faculty and Staff Open House!
Midwest Premiere
This screening includes Megadoc
7 pm
A raw, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis.
This screening includes Happyend
7 pm
In near-future Tokyo, best friends on the verge of adulthood must choose between a future of either abdication or resistance, coming to terms with political fear, the tenuous bonds of friendship, and questions of individual will in the process.
This screening includes Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
10 pm
Russ Meyer's cult classic story of three go-go dancers on a mission to swindle a fortune—a tale as old as time!
This screening includes Happyend
4 pm
In near-future Tokyo, best friends on the verge of adulthood must choose between a future of either abdication or resistance, coming to terms with political fear, the tenuous bonds of friendship, and questions of individual will in the process.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes High and Low/Tengoku to jigoku
7 pm
An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
This screening includes Twin Peaks Season 2, Episodes 10-13
4 pm
Laura's case now solved, Twin Peaks experiences a strange disappearance, a surprising reappearance, unexpected romances, and one seriously devilish little boy.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes From Deep
7 pm
Delve into the profound role of basketball in American life with this one-of-a-kind film unlike anything else in the modern-day sport documentary landscape. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
New 4K Restoration
7 pm
Todd Haynes' psychological drama stars an exceptional Julianne Moore as an affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs whose life descends into the clutches of a mysterious illness.
This screening includes Nouvelle Vague
7 pm
The story of French New Wave classic Breathless comes to life: after writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism.
This screening includes Bugonia
10 pm
Yorgos and Emma team up yet again to bring you whip-smart bleak chic. We couldn't possibly prepare you for this one, so, expect anything, trust no one, and polish up your tin-foil hats!
This screening includes Nouvelle Vague
4 pm
The story of French New Wave classic Breathless comes to life: after writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism.
This screening includes Punch-Drunk Love
7 pm
PTA's darkly comedic and thoroughly idiosyncratic romantic romp—with Adam Sandler's very first dramatic role—pays homage to classic Hollywood rom-coms, with a futurist undercurrent compelled by Jon Brion's epically quirky score. Some might even say it's the perfect Valentine's Day movie for our modern times.
This screening includes Twin Peaks Season 2, Episodes 14-17
4 pm
Things in Twin Peaks once again turn deadly as the truth about Cooper's shooting comes to light while his cat-and-mouse game with former partner Windom Earle escalates.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Party Girl
7 pm
The iconic 1990s indie that reinvented Holly Golightly for the downtown crowd, launched a fashion diva, and cemented Parker Posey as the eternal Indiewood "It" girl. New 4K restoration!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Producer Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Bad Hostage + The Rebel Girls
7 pm
Two films that take alternative yet complimentary approaches to memory storytelling and historical perspective from two leading-edge filmmakers in Bloomington for the first time! Q&A to follow.
This screening includes DJ Ahmet
7 pm
In this clash of modernity and tradition, DJ Ahmet reminds us all that music is a universal language. IU Cinema's first North Macedonian film presentation!
This screening includes Sinners
10 pm
“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.” And he'll sing to you, too.
This screening includes Souleymane's Story/L'histoire de Souleymane
4 pm
Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (César Award-winner Abou Sangaré) is struggling to stay afloat.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Producer Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit
7 pm
A landmark double portrait of Detroit’s extraordinary jazz legacy and the dynamic city that produced it. Q&A with the filmmakers to follow.
This screening includes Twin Peaks Season 2, Episodes 18-22
4 pm
More is revealed about the White and the Black Lodge as the Miss Twin Peaks contest becomes part of Windom Earle's scheme, leading Cooper to face his destiny in an explosive finale featuring one of the most infamous final shots of a television show ever.
This screening includes John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
7 pm
A documentary set at the final of the 1984 French Open between tennis legends John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when the explosive McEnroe was the world's top-ranked player. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Haiku Tunnel
7 pm
An offbeat and hilariously absurd office comedy that is hard to define and even harder to resist. 25th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Little Amélie or the Character of Rain/Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes
4 pm
A tender, poignant, and visually stunning story about the healing power of human connection.
This screening includes Eyes Without a Face/The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus
7 pm
A horrific tale of guilt and obsession, Eyes Without a Face is just as chilling and poetic today as it was when it was first released.
This screening includes Babygirl
7 pm
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
This screening includes Bones and All
7 pm
Reteaming director Luca Guadagnino and his Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet, Bones and All proves a deeply romantic and thought-provoking treat, albeit one with a thoroughly unconventional twist.
This screening includes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4 pm
With its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, William Goldman’s witty screenplay, and Burt Bacharach’s lively score, this celebrated western has gone down as one of the defining moments in late-'60s American cinema.
Midwest Premiere
This screening includes Deaf President Now!
7 pm
The remarkable true story of how solidarity and collective power helped a remarkable student body transfer their university toward justice and fairness.
This screening includes To Be or Not to Be
12 pm
The last film made by screen queen Carole Lombard before her untimely death, Ernst Lubitsch’s clever WWII satire is a rallying cry against fascism while expertly balancing slapstick and darkness.
This screening includes East of Eden
1:45 pm
Based on John Steinback’s epic novel, this CinemaScope melodrama signaled the arrival of a generation-defining talent with its riveting lead performance by James Dean.
This screening includes Bullitt
3:45 pm
Steve McQueen is cool as ice in this thrilling police procedural that also happens to contain arguably the greatest car chase ever put on celluloid.
This screening includes The Game
5:45 pm
Make your life… fun with David Fincher’s twisty, darkly funny, and incredibly underrated thriller about how one man’s life unravels after he is pulled into a mysterious game that soon becomes life or death.
This screening includes A Million Miles Away + Knives and Skin
7 pm
Get ready for a visit from multi-hyphenate Jennifer Reeder with her two most acclaimed films—a stunning short and the feature that announced her as a major new indie film talent.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes A Conversation with Jennifer Reeder
7 pm
The singular Jennifer Reeder, on stage and live for a no-holds-barred conversation on art, film, popular culture, and all the messy in-between.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Night's End
10 pm
An anxious shut-in moves into a haunted apartment, hiring a stranger to perform an exorcism which quickly takes a horrific turn.
This screening includes The Shape of Water
7 pm
Sometimes you find love in the most aquatic of places. In a top-secret government facility, true affection bubbles up between a lonely human and a captive amphibious creature. Told as only Guillermo del Toro could do!
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Take Shelter
7 pm
Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) knows deep in his soul that a storm is coming—and he'll do whatever it takes to protect his family. 15th anniversary screening. Q&A with actor Michael Shannon to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
7 pm
Join award-winning writer Brett Neveu and award-winning actor/director Michael Shannon for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation on the art of collaboration and all points between. This event includes an onstage conversation, a screening of the film Eric LaRue, and a post-film Q&A.
10 pm
A controversial, claustrophobic love story brimming with paranoia and psychological terror, William Friedkin directs this desperate descent into madness adapted from Tracy Letts' stage play. 20th anniversary screening.
This screening includes A River Runs Through It
4 pm
Robert Redford directs and narrates a tale of two brothers, one family, and a timeless bond. Adapted from Norman Maclean's beloved novella, A River Runs Through It will flow right into your feels.
This screening includes Best of Un/Filmed: Short Documentaries from Russian-Speaking Filmmakers
7 pm
A collection of shorts featuring the lives of Russians and Ukrainians as they work to establish new roots away from their homelands, contemplate what sustains a romance or friendship, and more.
This screening includes Standing Above the Clouds
7 pm
Native Hawaiian activists try to protect a sacred mountain from the proposed construction of the world's largest telescope.
This screening includes Beetlejuice
7 pm
He's the ghost with the most, babe. Tim Burton's madcap second feature cemented his status as one of Hollywood's most original voices and introduced a cinematic icon for the ages. Just don't say his name three times.
This screening includes The Player
4 pm
Bitingly cynical yet somehow still good-natured, The Player is one of the all-time great Hollywood satires—and an ensemble-driven highlight of the Robert Altman oeuvre.
World Premiere, Student Showcase
This screening includes Double Exposure 2026
7 pm
Get ready for new worlds of film—literally! Double Exposure spotlights the magic that happens when film-production students team up with student composers and sound designers to creatively forge an entirely original new work. Each brilliant creation will enjoy its world premiere at this one-night-only event!
This screening includes The Shadow Scholars
7 pm
An Oxford professor uncovers the world of Kenyan essay mills, a billion-dollar industry which employs thousands of educated but underemployed Kenyans, putting forth questions of educational and ethical integrity.
This screening includes Below the Clouds/Sotto le nuvole
7 pm
Brimming with traces of history, memories of the subterranean world, and the concerns of the present, a lesser-known Naples emerges in this sumptuously filmed document of the Italian city.
This screening includes Black Snow
4 pm
In this investigative eco-thriller of defiance and accountability, a Siberian eco-activist dubbed the Erin Brockovich of Russia fights for her community.
This screening includes How Deep Is Your Love
7 pm
As marine biologists uncover mesmerizing creatures and ecosystems thriving in darkness, a looming threat emerges: the prospect of deep-sea mining in this untouched wilderness.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Basquiat – Black and White Version
1 pm
An intimate elegy for a once-in-a-generation artistic phenomenon—Jean-Michel Basquiat.
This screening includes Another Body
7 pm
Technology and misogyny combine to terrible ends in this documentary that follows several college students who find deepfaked pornographic videos of themselves online and the search to find those responsible when no one else will help. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Mamma Mia!
7 pm
You've truly never seen Meryl, Colin, Pierce—and certainly not Stellan—quite like this. The outfits! The dancing! The romance! This musical romp through pop icons ABBA's infectious catalog has the perfect combination of all three.
This screening includes The Natural
4 pm
As Roy Hobbs, Robert Redford hits it out of the park—figuratively and literally—in his relentless pursuit to fulfill his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom.
This screening includes Belle de Jour
7 pm
Luis Buñuel's entrancing portrait of a housewife (a radiant Catherine Deneuve) rediscovering her desires.
This screening includes Earth Connection Film Festival: Responsibility
1 pm
A variety of untold and unexpected stories of heroes from all walks of life doing ecological work, from teaching children to swim in their neighboring ocean to counting birds and watching the sky. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Earth Connection Film Festival: Interdependence
4 pm
Embracing the earth as our home, these films compassionately and painstakingly capture the depth and nuance of human interdependence with our planet, from the lessons we learn to the dirt under our feet. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Earth Connection Film Festival: Hope
7 pm
This shorts program highlights the radical acts of kindness, generosity, and giving found across humanity, both little and small, in the face of environmental challenges that feel insurmountable when viewed alone. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Across the Universe
7 pm
You say want a revolution? Julie Taymor delivers an onscreen one! A gorgeous staging of the classic tale of star-crossed lovers, set against a backdrop of the 1960s, and all set to a Beatles soundtrack? Dig it.
This screening includes Sneakers
4 pm
Yes, we could tell you what Sneakers is about, but then, of course, we would have to... well, you know.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes When Everyone Swims
7 pm
Through the voices of Olympic athletes, water safety experts, and families who have experienced both triumph and loss, When Everyone Swims explores the essential role of swimming in our lives. Q&A with the director and Olympic medalists Lilly King and Cody Miller to follow!
This screening includes Moulin Rouge!
7 pm
No one tackles the age-old question "for love or money?" in quite the extravagant and sparkly fashion as the one-and-only Baz Luhrmann. Revisit your favorite bohemians and fall in love yet again with Satine, Christian, and a bangin' soundtrack! 25th anniversary screening.
7 pm
The award-winning Broadway smash that retells the Continental Congress' political struggle to declare independence hits the IU Cinema big screen for the first time!
This screening includes Three Days of the Condor
4 pm
He just reads books! And yet CIA codebreaker Joe Turner still finds himself thrust into a deadly standoff against his own agency in this taut thriller masterfully helmed by director Sydney Pollack and stars Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway.
This screening includes Doctor Zhivago
7 pm
One of David Lean's most beloved epics, this sweeping romance will beguile you with its heartfelt pathos and assured artistry.
This screening includes The Hunger Games Saga
12 pm
At its core, the story of The Hunger Games is about the power of one person to change the world. Is Katniss Everdeen up to the challenge? You'll have to watch this marathon of the original four films to find out!