Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Albert Birney | Kentucker Audley
Starring: Constance Shulman | Grace Glowicki | Kentucker Audley | Linas Phillips | Penny Fuller | Reed Birney
Chris says: “I knew I adored this film about ten minutes in when the title card appeared (let’s just say it involves an ice cream cone.) It’s quirky for sure, set in a near-future where dreams are taxed by the
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Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Ana de la Reguera | Dave Bautista | Ella Purnell | Garret Dillahunt | Hiroyuki Sanada | Nora Arnezeder | Omari Hardwick | Theo Rossi | Tig Notaro
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert Machoian
Starring: Avery Pizzuto | Barbara Whinnery | Chris Coy | Clayne Crawford | Noah Krershisnik | Sepideh Moafi
Bob says: “David and Niki are a married couple in a small rural town in Utah. They got married right after high school, and have a teenaged daughter and three younger sons. Things are not great in the marriage. They’re
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Director: Caroline Link
Starring: Carla Juri | Justus von Dohnányi | Marinus Hohmann | Oliver Masucci | Riva Krymalowski | Ursula Werner
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Robert Connolly
Starring: Bruce Spence | Eric Bana | Genevieve O'Reilly | John Polson | Julia Blake | Keir O'Donnell | William Zappa
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Luke Holland
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Euros Lyn
Starring: Damian Lewis | Joanna Page | Karl Johnson | Nicholas Farrell | Owen Teale | Peter Davison | Siân Phillips | Toni Collette
Chris says: “Based on a true story, this film about a middle-aged Welsh woman (Toni Collette) breeding a prize-winning race horse is thoroughly predictable but considerably engaging fluff. You’ve seen all this before: the protagonist who interrupts her everyday tedium
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Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Alex Angulo | Ariadna Gil | Doug Jones | Ivana Baquero | Manolo Solo | Maribel Verdú | Sergi Lopez
Chris says: “Anyone touched by the moment in THE WIZARD OF OZ when the film shifts from black and white into glorious color knows how effectively movies can express the startling contrast between reality and fantasy. Guillermo del Toro’s film
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Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Brad Pitt | Brooklynn Proulx | Casey Affleck | Dustin Bollinger | Jeremy Renner | Mary-Louise Parker | Sam Rockwell | Sam Shepard
Ivy says: “Casey Affleck has grown up in the shadow of his older brother Ben. And in that time he has built up an exciting filmography of varied supporting roles. With his portrayal of the Coward Robert Ford he steps
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Director: Mark Becker
Gil says: “Unlike other documentaries that address the immigration issue, Mark Becker’s film is unique in that he films his subject, musician Carmelo Muniz Sanchez, in his adopted home of San Francisco and his native home of Salvatierra, Mexico. By
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Anna Cobb | Michael J Rogers
Chris says: “I know this might make me sound like an Old Person, but I didn’t fully grasp this movie’s point. The first half maintains a good level of creativity and suspense as teenager Casey takes ‘The World’s Fair Challenge’,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christopher Makoto Yogi
Starring: Chanel Akiko Hirai | Constance Wu | Hau'oli Carr | Kanoa Goo | Nelson Lee | Steve Iwamoto | Tim Chiou
Chris says: “As Masao (Steve Iwamoto) nears the end of his life on the coast of Hawai’i, he’s visited by the ghost of his wife, Grace (Constance Wu), who died at a young age. Flashbacks to their courtship and marriage
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicole Riegel
Starring: Austin Amelio | Becky Ann Baker | Gus Halper | Jessica Barden | Pamela Adlon
Chris says: “In her promising debut feature, writer/director Nicole Reigel depicts life in a small industrial Ohio town in a way that isn’t quite documentary-like, but with enough attention-to-detail to feel pretty authentic. As Ruth, a teen from a broken
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Rutenbeck
Chris says: “This doesn’t come up with any particularly profound revelations on racial disparity in Boston, unless one is completely ignorant of how such things play out in most contemporary American cities. Filmmaker James Rutenback excels less when focused on
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Chris McKim
Michael says: “Queer 80’s artist David Wojnarowicz was a contemporary of Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, but with a decidedly different outlook and more in-your-face attitude. Documentaries about art are not really my thing, much to the disappointment for some
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Stacie Passon
Starring: Alexandra Daddario | Anna Nugent | Crispin Glover | Ian Toner | Joanne Crawford | Paula Malcomson | Peter Coonan | Sebastian Stan | Taissa Farmiga
Michael says: “I must meekly confess that I watched this curious modern gothic film adapted from a Shirley Jackson tale because I have developed a bit of a crush on Sebastian Stan (The Winter Solder from the Marvel Universe). However,
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ana Katz
Starring: Carlos Portaluppi | Daniel Katz | Julieta Zylberberg | Mirella Pascual | Raquel Bank | Valeria Lois
Chris says: “This strange, beguiling tale directly references its title in the first scene as Sebastian (Daniel Katz) is politely confronted by an accumulation of neighbors about his disruptive pooch. From there, however, it continually leaps in time, often from scene to
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Director: Tarsem Singh
Starring: Catinca Untaru | Justine Waddell | Kim Uylenbroek | Lee Pace | Leo Bill | Ronald France
Brian says: “Watching THE FALL, one is reminded of Picasso’s quote about Matisse: ‘he is only an eye, but my god, what an eye!’ Breathtakingly, staggeringly beautiful, THE FALL is the epitome of a film that can only be truly
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Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Christopher Fitzgerald | Jonathan Roumie | Kate Winslet | Leonardo DiCaprio | Marin Ireland | Neal Bledsoe
Peg says: “For a relatively young actor, Michael Shannon has, at 35, a long and respectable resume. But amid his many small roles in television and film, his most recent turn as John Givings, the emotionally troubled neighbor of the
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Director: Steven Sebring
Beth C. says: “The documentary film, PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE, Steven Sebring’s directorial debut, is designed to provide viewers with a history of the artist’s early life experiences, especially the death her husband, brother, and friend Robert Mapplethorpe, and a
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