Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lois Patiño
Starring: Ana Marra | Carmen Martínez | Pilar Rodlos | Rubio de Camelle
Michael says: “I caught up with one of Bruce’s favorite film festivals virtually this year, as Lincoln Center presented New Directors/New Films. Here is the first of several films I managed to watch. “The Galacian coast featured in RED MOON
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Johnny Mills | Kevin Collins | Pete Lee-Wilson | Philip MacDonald | Spencer Leigh | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Of my three most influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock taught me that beauty, complexity, and suspense can have a place in a mass-marketed film. Pedro Almodóvar taught me the importance of family, absurdity in story, and the strength
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Debbie Morgan | Diahann Carroll | Ethel Ayler | Jake Smollett | Jurnee Smollett | Lynn Whitfield | Meagan Good | Samuel L. Jackson | Vondie Curtis-Hall
Philip says: “Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson star in this Kasi Lemmons melodrama based in Louisiana during the 1950’s. This film would be a perfect double feature paired with LAKAWANNA BLUES. Lemmons channels a bit of Tennessee Williams as she
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Andrew Tiernan | Dudley Sutton | Jerome Flynn | Jody Graber | John Lynch | Kevin Collins | Nigel Terry | Steven Waddington | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Derek Jarman is a revolutionary filmmaker. I hate to think of him in the past tense. If you don’t understand the enormous vacuum that was left from the devastation of AIDS, watch Jarman’s EDWARD II, nearly 20 years
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Brenda Fricker | Kristin Booth | Mary-Colin Chisholm | Michael McPhee | Olympia Dukakis | Ryan Doucette
Philip says: “CLOUDBURST literally bursts on the screen with a powerhouse career-defining performance from 80 year-old Olympia Dukakis. Dukakis and Brenda Flicker (both Academy Award winning actors) play a lesbian couple who’ve been together for 31 years. Fricker’s character, Dot
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Danièle Thompson
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christopher Thompson | Claude Rich | Emmanuelle Béart | Françoise Fabian | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Sabine Azéma
Philip says: “Over the past ten years, LA BÛCHE has become a perennial holiday favorite of mine. A score by Michel Legrand containing classic Christmas songs from the 50’s and 60’s, family dysfunction, honesty, anger, and of course a lot
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Carroll Lynch
Starring: Barry Shabaka Henley | Beth Grant | David Lynch | Ed Begley Jr. | Harry Dean Stanton | James Darren | Ron Livingston | Tom Skerritt | Yvonne Huff
Chris says: “No denying that the late Harry Dean Stanton was a rare breed of actor or that few nonagenarians are as deserving of an end-of-life vehicle than him. And this is full of unforgettable images and moments, from Stanton’s around-the-house
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Beanie Feldstein | Laurie Metcalf | Lois Smith | Lucas Hedges | Saoirse Ronan | Timothée Chalamet | Tracy Letts
Philip says: “Someone once commented to me on what I believe is one of the best gay male films ever produced, WEEKEND. The friend (who is straight) told me he just didn’t get the hype. To him it was just
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Aiden Malik | Bria Vinaite | Brooklynn Prince | Christopher Rivera | Valeria Cotto | Willem Dafoe
Philip says: “I wish I had seen Sean Baker’s (TANGERINE) film, THE FLORIDA PROJECT before the Oscars. I would have cheered it on. Baker’s gritty realism witnessed in his stunning Tangerine turns out not to be a flash in the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Catherine O'Hara | Christopher Guest | Eugene Levy | Fred Willard | Jane Lynch | Jennifer Coolidge | John Michael Higgins | Michael McKean | Parker Posey
Philip says: “Revisited the hysterical mockumentary classic, Christopher Guest’s BEST IN SHOW this past weekend. ‘Pine nut… cashew nut… macadamia nut.’ The laughs never end. Jane Lynch had her breakout performance as dog handler Christy Cummings. I’m sure the Glee
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Alex Sharp | Eddie Redmayne | Frank Langella | Jeremy Strong | John Carroll Lynch | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mark Rylance | Sacha Baron Cohen | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Philip says: “Aaron Sorkin’s (The West Wing) THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 fictionalizes the ‘1969 trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Alicia Silverstone | Barry Keoghan | Colin Farrell | Nicole Kidman | Raffey Cassidy
Chris says: “Probably the weakest of Yorgos Lanthimos’ last four features but still worth a look. I winced at the make-or-break opening shot but I also kind of admired it, especially once I fully understood its context. Surely a more
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Amira Casar | Esther Garrel | Michael Stuhlbarg | rmie Hammer | Timothée Chalamet | Victoire Du Bois
Chris says: “Reining in the excess that sometimes cheapened his earlier work while retaining his passion and drive, director Luca Guadagnino crafts almost an embarrassment of riches, from a monologue for the ages for the great character actor Michael Stuhlbarg
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Abbie Cornish | Caleb Landry Jones | Frances McDormand | Kerry Condon | Martin McDonagh | Sam Rockwell | Woody Harrelson
Brett says: “If Martin McDonagh hadn’t etched his legacy in cinema with previous films IN BRUGES and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, well, he has now. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI brings dark humor to a contemporary set of issues that keep escalating
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Merawi Gerima
Starring: Dennis Lindsey | Derron Scott | JaCari Dye | Jamal Graham | Julian Selman | Melody A. Tally | Obinna Nwachukwu | Ramon Thompson | Taline Stewart
Chris says: “Shows ample promise but ends up squandering a lot of it, unfortunately. Gentrification’s a tricky subject to address from all angles; while this one is not without nuance, it ends up a rather arty way of saying ‘You
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Director: Unjoo Moon
Starring: Chris Parnell | Danielle Macdonald | Dusty Sorg | Evan Peters | Jordan Raskopoulos | Matty Cardarople | Tilda Cobham-Hervey
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Max Winkler
Starring: Charlie Hunnam | Fran Kanz | Jack O'Connell | Jessica Barden | Jonathan Majors | Katie Duncan | Naheem Garcia | Patrick M. Walsh
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Dimitri Logothetis
Starring: Alain Moussi | Eddie Steeples | John D. Hickman | Mary Makariou | Nicolas Cage | Raymond Pinharry | Tommy Walker
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Anthony DiMaria
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Adib Alkhalidey | Anne Dorval | Antoine Pilon | Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas | Micheline Bernard | Pier-Luc Funk | Samuel Gauthier | Xavier Dolan
