My Rembrandt (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Oeke Hoogendijk
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lili Horvát
Starring: Andor Lukáts | Attila Mokos | Benett Vilmányi | Natasa Stork | Péter Tóth | Viktor Bodó | Zsolt Nagy
Chris says: “Marta (Natasa Stork), a Hungarian neurosurgeon practicing in America returns to her home country to meet up with Janos (Viktor Bodo), another doctor in her field. Claiming she met him at a conference and it was love at
Read the review...Through the Night (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Loira Limbal
Some Kind of Heaven (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lance Oppenheim
Chris says: “This deadpan look at The Villages, a massive retirement community in central Florida that’s also a town in itself (home to more than *130,000* residents) is one of the more entertaining documentaries I’ve watched in some time. Whereas filmmaker
Read the review...Spoor (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Kasia Adamik
Starring: Agnieszka Mandat | Borys Szyc | Jakub Gierszal | Miroslav Krobot | Patricia Volny | Tomasz Kot | Wiktor Zborowski
Acasa, My Home (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Chris says: “After awhile, I couldn’t tell whether or not this was a documentary, which I guess is a good thing? That is, unless it was manipulated to get preferred results. Either way, it’s a fascinating story that mostly plays out
Read the review...Psycho Goreman (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Steven Kostanski
Starring: Conor Sweeney | Kristen MacCulloch | Matthew Ninaber | Nita-Josee Hanna | Owen Myre | Reece Presley | Rick Amsbury
Gutterbug (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Gibson
Starring: Andrew Yackel | Geoff Van Wyck | Hannah Mosqueda | Justin Pietropaolo | Leigh Lanocha | Mary Hronicek | Paul Kandarian
Diane says: “Highly recommended. GUTTERBUG was made by longtime Allston roomies and shot mostly in Allston (a section of Boston). It’s an original story of street life, addiction, and the strong pull of family. Reminded me of REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Read the review...Red Moon Tide (2021)
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
Read the review...The Garden (1990)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Eve’s Bayou (1997)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Edward II (1991)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Cloudburst (2013)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...La Bûche (2000)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Lucky (2017)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Lady Bird (2017)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...The Florida Project (2017)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Best in Show (2000)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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