Tag: great movies
The NIU English Department will host film scholar James Naremore, Emeritus Chancellor’s Professor at Indiana University, who will deliver a graduate colloquium lecture titled “Orson Welles at 100.” Naremore will offer a retrospective on the career of Orson Welles, who is among Hollywood’s most famous actors, writers, directors and producers. Welles co-wrote, directed and starred...
DeKalb’s Egyptian Theatre is partnering with NIU to bring the community a film series featuring “Best Picture” films through the decades. The series begins Tuesday, Jan. 14, with 1930’s “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Starting when the theater opened in 1929, Academy Award-winning Best Picture films were chosen from each decade to create this...
Ten of the American Film Institute’s top films of all time are coming to the big screen in DeKalb, beginning Saturday, Feb. 2, with “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” DeKalb’s Egyptian Theatre is partnering with the NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming, the University Honors Program, the Department of English, the honor society of...
Musicians who are mega-celebrities. Hyped-up presidential elections. Assassination attempts against famous figures. A seemingly endless war abroad. A public largely disaffected from politics. This might sound like a characterization of the United States today, but these are features of Robert Altman’s 1975 film “Nashville,” which will be screened from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18,...