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New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Legally Blonde
7 pm
Welcome a brand-new school year with the whip-smart comedic chops of Witherspoon, Wilson, Coolidge, and more! What, like it's hard? Not with this set of legal eagles! 25th anniversary screening.
This screening includes IU Cinema Open House
3:30 pm
IU Cinema's Open House: the *only* way to start the semester!
This screening includes Volunteer Callout Meeting
4 pm
Grab some pizza and learn how to join the IU Cinema family!
7 pm
Last year's surprise hit out of Cannes and all the way to the Oscars, Sirât is a mesmerizing journey into the depths of oblivion that needs to be seen—and heard—on the big screen to be believed.
This screening includes CatVideoFest 2026
1 pm
The cats are back and sillier than ever! Don't miss our annual celebration of sitting back, relaxing, and marveling at feline antics from across the globe! A percentage of all ticket sales will benefit the Monroe County Humane Association.
This screening includes The Secret Agent/O Agente Secreto
4 pm
Combine the political turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert on the run, the underground resistance, and one rogue leg and you get this three-time Cannes winner and Oscar contender.
This screening includes Elevator to the Gallows/Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
7 pm
Louis Malle's hypnotic noir infuses its tale of plans gone awry with wistful performances, swooning cinematography, and a sultry Miles Davis soundtrack. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Singles
7 pm
Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, writer/director Cameron Crowe collects a stellar ensemble cast in this sweet, funny tale of twentysomethings searching for, running from, and finding love in early 1990s Seattle.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Days and Nights in the Forest/Aranyer Din Ratri
7 pm
Indian master Satyajit Ray crafts the ultimate hangout film whose breeziness belies its deep exploration of human connection. New 4K restoration.
This screening includes Not One Less
7 pm
A determined 13-year-old girl substitutes as a village school's teacher and must find the class troublemaker after he runs away. Q&A to follow.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes House Party
7 pm
Hip-hop duo Kid ’n Play bring their '90s star power to the big screen as aspiring high-school MCs preparing to throw the biggest, baddest, and freshest party of the year.
This screening includes Cold Water/L'eau froide
4 pm
An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas that has long remained unavailable, this coming-of-age drama is a heartbreaking immersion into the emotional tumult of adolescence.
7 pm
An examination of the life of “horse whisperer” Buck Brannaman, who recovered from years of child abuse to become an expert in the interactions between horses and people. 15th anniversary screening. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
7 pm
Do you want to play with fire? David Lynch’s stunning prequel to his landmark TV show takes you into the dark soul and unrelenting tragedies of murdered homecoming queen Laura Palmer.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Hackers
7 pm
Teenage hackers Zero Cool and Acid Burn have been banned from using computers until they turn 18, but they can't resist the lure of the chase, and, soon enough, their hijinks land them and their buddies in a mess of trouble, framed for deadly industrial espionage and now fighting for their lives.
This screening includes Resurrection/Kuang ye shi dai
7 pm
A visual masterwork that plunges you into a pure dreamscape of illusion, beauty, and a century of cinema, eventually depositing you at the end of time.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Mulholland Drive
7 pm
A 25th anniversary screening of David Lynch's ode to Hollywood and the psyche of Los Angeles, presented in 35mm. Conversation with noted Lynch scholar Justus Nieland to follow.
This screening includes Reality Bites
7 pm
A '90s-to-the-core existential romp through the inevitable post-collegiate blues, featuring quintessential Gen X babes Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke flirting their way through a terminally tumultuous will-they-won't-they situationship.
This screening includes No Other Choice/Eo-jjeol su-ga eop-da
7 pm
Park Chan-wook's darkly funny, bloody, and bleak capitalist satire follows a man who will make sure he gets a job... at any costs.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Cronos
10 pm
Guillermo del Toro’s audacious feature debut is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy, an unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality.
This screening includes No Chains No Masters/Ni chaînes ni maîtres
7 pm
On an island in the 1700s, a plantation slave must find his escaped daughter before a ruthless slave hunter does.
This screening includes No Other Choice/Eo-jjeol su-ga eop-da
4 pm
Park Chan-wook's darkly funny, bloody, and bleak capitalist satire follows a man who will make sure he gets a job... at any costs.
Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
7 pm
Celebrate the first 10 years of the IU Cinema Jon Vickers Scoring Award with us as we revisit IU alum Ryn Jorgensen's new orchestral score for what is considered to be the first major American horror film! Witness acting legend John Barrymore thrill and chill in a role that made him a household name. Silent Movie Day screening.
This screening includes Dead Ringers
7 pm
Two bodies, two minds, one soul, all Cronenberg. A twisted tale of bodies, science, and love that could only come from the Canadian master.
This screening includes Maya, Give Me a Title/Maya, donne-moi un titre
4 pm
Distance makes the heart grow fonder and more dazzlingly creative in Michel Gondry's stop-motion animated love letter to his daughter, Maya.
Bloomington Premiere
This screening includes Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
7 pm
First screened as a world-premiere live streaming performance in 2021, catch IU Cinema's theatrical premiere of IU alumnus Patrick Holcomb's new orchestral score for one of the greatest documentary achievements of cinematic history.
This screening includes War Paint: Women at War
1 pm
Traditionally a male domain, war art by women has been largely unrecognized. Until now. War Paint: Women at War asks when it’s life or death, what do women see that men don’t?
This screening includes Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
4 pm
A crown jewel of ‘50s cinema, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is both a dazzling, candy-colored musical comedy and an ode to the undeniable power of female friendship.
This screening includes Mangrove School + Makongo/Caterpillars
7 pm
Outsider communities struggle against the odds for education in this pair of deeply humanist documentaries. Q&A to follow.
Live Music Event
This screening includes The Flying Ace
7 pm
When a railroad paymaster and the $25,000 he was carrying disappear, returning WWI ace Billy Stokes is put on the case in this landmark silent film that is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Two Prosecutors/Zwei Staatsanwälte
7 pm
The latest from the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa is a scalpel-precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy.
Live Music Event, Bloomington Premiere
This screening includes Faust/Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
7 pm
A 100th anniversary celebration of the F.W. Murnau classic with a live score from organic-electro duo ten thousand lakes.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Battle of Algiers/La battaglia di Algeri
7 pm
A 60th anniversary screening of the revolutionary classic that remains as incendiary and righteous as ever.
This screening includes It Was Just An Accident/Yek tasadof-e sadeh
7 pm
Iranian maverick Jafar Panahi's bluntly political film is a defiant rebuke of authoritarianism wrapped in a gripping thriller.
This screening includes Hellboy
10 pm
Prep for our visit from Indiana's own Doug Jones with this beloved Guillermo del Toro adaptation of the iconic comic book.
This screening includes It Was Just An Accident/Yek tasadof-e sadeh
4 pm
Iranian maverick Jafar Panahi's bluntly political film is a defiant rebuke of authoritarianism wrapped in a gripping thriller.
This screening includes Dersu Uzala
7 pm
One of Kurosawa’s most beautifully composed and photographed films, Dersu Uzala is suffused with the humanism that illuminates the Japanese master’s oeuvre.
This screening includes Lean on Pete
7 pm
Filmmaker Andrew Haigh's empathetic coming-of-age drama about a young man at a crossroads who finds a connection with an aging racehorse. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
7 pm
Melvin Van Peebles' indelible imprint on social consciousness, U.S. film culture, and political discourse burns onscreen with righteous anger and radical style. 55th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The President's Cake/Mamlaket al-qasab
7 pm
A tenderly crafted, often devastating portrait of childhood in rural Iraq, The President's Cake vividly brings to life its morally complex world through richly drawn characters and intimate storytelling.
4K Restoration
This screening includes Don't Look Now
10 pm
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie lead a haunting, suspenseful, and uncanny tale of tragedy in this influential horror classic.
This screening includes Hocus Pocus
4 pm
It's a night full of zany fun and comic chaos once the tricky 300-year-old Sanderson witches set out to cast a spell on the town of Salem and reclaim their youth!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes And So I Stayed
7 pm
An eye-opening and award-winning documentary about three survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and how the legal system betrayed them. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
This screening includes The President's Cake/Mamlaket al-qasab
4 pm
A tenderly crafted, often devastating portrait of childhood in rural Iraq, The President's Cake vividly brings to life its morally complex world through richly drawn characters and intimate storytelling.
This screening includes Kagemusha
7 pm
Grand in scope and awash with striking color, Kagemusha marks Akira Kurosawa's successful return to the samurai epic.
Indiana Premiere
This screening includes Everybody to Kenmure Street
7 pm
A remarkable story of resistance, community care, and the power of everyday people coming together to fight injustice.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Indiana Premiere
This screening includes Zodiac Killer Project
7 pm
Director Charlie Shackleton rescues victory from the jaws of defeat in this revelatory rumination on filmmaking and the overindulgences of the true crime genre.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Harder They Come
7 pm
The epic cultural moment that brought reggae onto the national scene: an action-packed combo that's like if Scarface, The Godfather, and A Star Is Born were thrown into a blender with Jamaican soul and the endless cool of Jimmy Cliff. Unmissable!
10 pm
A double feature of two classics of meta-horror that never forget their slasher roots. 30th and 15th anniversary screenings.
7 pm
A double dose of J-horror for Halloween night with a new entry into the genre you won't soon forget, followed by one of Takashi Miike's surreal and disturbing masterpieces.
This screening includes Don’t Bother to Knock
4 pm
One of the best Marilyn Monroe films you never knew existed, this taut thriller about one woman’s dangerous unraveling exemplifies what made Monroe such a heartbreaking, sensitive performer.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Ran/Chaos
7 pm
Kurosawa's sprawling, monumental take on King Lear is required viewing for fans of westerns, war movies, or films in general.
This screening includes Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
7 pm
Featuring interviews with her close friends and fans—including John Waters, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, and Steve Buscemi—this deeply personal portrait considers the poet Mary Oliver's lifetime of work and captures the natural beauty that inspired her. Spend this one evening of your wild and precious life exploring her remarkable life!
This screening includes Grave of the Fireflies/Hotaru no haka
7 pm
Isao Takahata and Studio Ghibli's harrowing depiction of World War II's final days, seen through the eyes of teen Seita and his little sister Setsuko.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Indiana Premiere
This screening includes Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, Dile Que No Soy Malo)
7 pm
With humor and grit, Mad Bills to Pay paints a tender portrait of the chaos and charm of urban life and the ups and downs of youthful abandon when things take an unexpected turn. Q&A with writer/director Joel Alfonso Vargas to follow!
Indiana Premiere
This screening includes Aanikoobijigan [ancestor / great-grandparent / great-grandchild]
1 pm
History, spirituality, and the law collide as Michigan tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains trapped in museums. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes No No Nooky T.V. + Nitrate Kisses
7 pm
A landmark of queer film that illustrates the invisibility of LGBTQ+ history, Barbara Hammer’s first feature Nitrate Kisses is paired with her playfully subversive short about the impact of technology on sexuality and emotion.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Rental
This screening includes Vindication Swim
7 pm
The real-life journey of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel, who endured grueling conditions and societal pressures in her fight for recognition. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes The Wages of Fear/Le salaire de la peur
7 pm
An existential suspense classic that blends nonstop tension with biting satire whose influence is still felt on today's thrillers.
New 4K Restoration
This screening includes Raise the Red Lantern/Da hong denglong gaogao gua
7 pm
Visually thrilling and rich with emotion, Raise the Red Lantern offers a nuanced portrait of love, family, and the strength of solidarity in the face of oppression. 35th anniversary screening.
Special Guests Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Sorcerer
7 pm
William Friedkin's remake of The Wages of Fear maintains its perverse punch and turns the tension up to 11.
This screening includes Beauty and the Beast/Panna a Netvor
7 pm
Gorgeously shot, intriguingly surreal, and thrillingly sensual, this Czech retelling of the beloved fairytale is unlike any adaptation before or since.
This screening includes The Christophers
1 pm
A sly caper carried off with director Steven Soderbergh's characteristic panache, The Christophers is a superb two-hander and a return to form for the stalwart indie director.
This screening includes How to Marry a Millionaire
4 pm
What’s better: love or money? Money, duh! At least that’s what best friends Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable convince themselves of in this delightful escapist romp.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Palestine 36
7 pm
A sweeping yet intimate historical epic, Palestine 36 intricately unfolds the story of British colonialism, rewarding viewers with a humanist, clear-eyed act of remembrance. A prerecorded conversation with filmmaker Annemarie Jacir will follow.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes In Conversation: Doug Jones + Hellboy II: The Golden Army
6 pm
IU Cinema welcomes Indiana's own Doug Jones, one of the most versatile actors working in film and television today, for an intimate conversation and film screening.
This screening includes Pillion
7 pm
A remarkable directorial debut, Pillion is an unconventional rom-com (dom-com?) that soars on the strengths of its knockout lead performances and loving core.
This screening includes The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
7 pm
An actress, three months postpartum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.
This screening includes Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the Homecoming King?
10 pm
A gonzo blend of John Waters and David Lynch, this rarely screened DIY send-up of Twin Peaks is just waiting to be claimed as a gem of underground queer cinema.
This screening includes The Plague
7 pm
A stunning debut that mixes body horror, Lord of the Flies, and the twinned empathy and power of being a teenage boy.
This screening includes The Duke of Burgundy
7 pm
Sensual and smart, Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy is an alchemical combination of cinephilic homage, substantive erotics, and overwhelming style.
This screening includes Tokyo Godfathers/Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
7 pm
In modern-day Tokyo, three people living on the streets have their lives changed forever when they discover an abandoned baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve.
This screening includes Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
7 pm
Scooby and the gang are back on the case in this hilariously absurd, campy slice of early-aughts nostalgia.
Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Niagara
4 pm
Touted as "a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control," this fascinating film noir stuns with its ravishing Technicolor, twisty plot, and Marilyn Monroe’s unforgettable performance as a scheming femme fatale.
This screening includes Benedetta
7 pm
Walking a tightrope of genres, conflicting ideas, and tones like only he can, Paul Verhoeven tackles sex, power, and faith in this intimate and uncompromising film.
This screening includes The Great Arch/L'inconnu de la Grande Arche
7 pm
The fictionalized story of a real-life architecture teacher from Copenhagen who surprised the world when he won a French open-call competition to build Paris' next landmark wonder.
This screening includes The Stranger/L'Étranger
4 pm
Rethinking Camus' classic existentialist text through a modern political lens, François Ozon's The Stranger is equal parts intriguing and aesthetically beautiful.
This screening includes A Cure for Wellness
7 pm
When a Wall Street stockbroker travels to a mysterious wellness center, he begins to suspect not all is what it seems in this visually resplendent thriller.
This screening includes Stand By Me
12 pm
Wanna see the greatest film about childhood friendship ever made? 40th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The Shawshank Redemption
1:30 pm
A deeply poignant tale of the human spirit, told through the unlikely friendship of two men incarcerated together, discovering hope is the ultimate means of survival—with a little help from Rita Hayworth.
This screening includes The Life of Chuck
4 pm
This unforgettable, genre-bending tale celebrates the life of Chuck Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us—in reverse.
This screening includes Misery
6 pm
Annie Wilkes has one simple request of famed novelist Paul Sheldon: re-write it, or else!
This screening includes The Running Man
7:45 pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop in the totalitarian America of 2019, framed for massacring rioting civilians during a famine and fighting for his life on reality TV.
9:30 pm
Stephen King's horror masterpiece brought to life for a new generation. If clowns don't freak you out yet ... just wait—after all, Pennywise has been waiting for you!
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