Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kitty Green
Starring: Julia Garner | Kristine Froseth | Makenzie Leigh | Matthew Macfadyen
Chris says: “I guess making a movie with a Harvey Weinstein stand-in who is never shown and only depicted via email and phone is a cautious, effective way to avoid getting sued (and who wants to actually see a Harvey
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Kantemir Balagov
Starring: Andrey Bykov | Igor Shirokov | Vasilisa Perelygina | Viktoria Miroshnichenko
Jeffrey says: “BEANPOLE tells the fraught story of Iya, AKA Beanpole (Viktoria Miroshnichenko), and Masha (Vasilisa Perelygina) living in Leningrad just at the end of World War II. They had served together on the Western front as anti-aircraft gunners before
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Director: Hernan Jimenez
Starring: Aden Young | Beau Bridges | Ken Jeong | Parker Posey
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Starring: Katiana Milfort | Louise Labeque | Mackenson Bijou | Wislanda Louimat
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Michael Thomas Daniel
Starring: Lin Shaye | Rico E. Anderson | Robert Miano | Weston Cage Coppola
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richard Stanley
Starring: Elliot Knight | Joely Richardson | Madeleine Arthur | Nicholas Cage
Jeffrey says: “I wouldn’t nominate this for anything, but if you’re in the mood for a cheesy slice of Lovecraft-inspired horror, this will fill the bill. Nicolas Cage plays Nathan, a typically dotty Cage character. He’s moved his family out
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Director: Elena Beuca
Starring: Billy Howerdel | Dave Rogers | Ditlev Darmakaya | Elena Beuca
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jack Henry Robbins
Starring: Courtney Pauroso | Kerri Kenney | Mark Proksch | Thomas Lennon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Andy Newberry
Starring: Dougie Poynter | Maryam Hassouni | Mike Beckingham | Nigel Barber
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Starring: Kotaro Daigo | Nana Mori | Sei Hiraizumi | Shun Oguri
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Gille Klabin
Starring: Donald Faison | Justin Long | Sheila Vand | Tommy Flanagan
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Ofra Bloch
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Anthony Jerjen
Starring: Brad William Henke | Bruce Dern | Josh Hartnett | Margarita Levieva
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: James Monroe Iglehart | Julian Acosta | Julianna Margulies | Peter Dinklage | Richard Gere
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ladj Ly
Starring: Alexis Manenti | Damien Bonnard | Djebril Zonga | Issa Perica
Thom says: “Over the many years of my life I have seen a few classic films about disenfranchised children trying to exist in the cruel inner cities of the world. How can one ever forget LOS OLVIDADOS, PIXOTE, LA HAINE,
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Director: Ron Scalpello
Starring: Hugh Bonneville | Noel Clarke | Sam Claflin | Timothy Spall
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jesse Sweet
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Adele Haenel | Luàna Bajrami | Noémie Merlant | Valeria Golino
Chris says: “Celine Sciamma’s exquisite 18th century romance between two women, an artist (Noémie Merlant) and her subject (Adèle Haenel) gains so much power from the barest essentials. Rather than pile on stylistic cues to lead the audience in a certain
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Director: Tim Travers Hawkins
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky
