Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Agustín Almodóvar | Dash | Miguel Almodóvar | Pablo Almodóvar | Tilda Swinton
Diane says: “THE HUMAN VOICE, stars Tilda Swinton, so you’re already feeling good. Made in 2020, it’s an adaptation of a play Jean Cocteau wrote for his actresses to show their full range of emotions. Swinton plays a ‘woman on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julio Torres
Starring: Catalina Saavedra | Isabella Rossellini | Julio Torres | RZA | Tilda Swinton
Michael says: “I was fairly underwhelmed. Tilda Swinton was her usual self, entertaining to watch, but the film struck an odd tone between zany/funny and melancholy/dour, which didn’t really work for me. Unfortunately, I saw it at the 2023 PIFF,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: August Joshi | Carly-Sophia Davies | Joseph Mydell | Louis | Tilda Swinton | Zinnia Davies-Cooke
Michael says: “Completing (perhaps?) the unplanned trilogy begun with THE SOUVENIR and THE SOUVENIR PART II, Joann Hogg’s take on the gothic ghost story, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER becomes my favorite of her films since ARCHIPELAGO. In a genius casting move,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Agnes Brekke | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Jerónimo Barón | Juan Pablo Urrego | Tilda Swinton
Brett says: “Otherworldly, yet firmly planted in our current existence. Mystical, yet earthy. These are a few of the paradoxes during a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEMORIA. It might be better to describe this one as a dreamscape rather than
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Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Starring: Tilda Swinton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: Alice McMillan | Ariane Labed | Honor Swinton Byrne | James Spencer Ashworth | Jaygann Ayeh | Oli Bauer | Tilda Swinton
Chris says: “Felt a little redundant at first until it became apparent how what initially appears as a rehash evolves into a continuation and that the whole project is really Joanna Hogg’s KILL BILL: a four-hour epic cut into halfsies.
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Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Aurore Clément | Dakota Johnson | Lily McMenamy | Matthias Schoenaerts | Ralph Fiennes | Tilda Swinton
Vicki says: “It’s a delight to watch Ralph Fiennes cavort and romp in the remake of the French film, LA PISCINE. When Fiennes pays a visit to his old flame, rock star Marianne Lane ( played by Tilda Swinton), on
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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: 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: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz | Dakota Johnson | Doris Hick | Ingrid Caven | Jessica Harper | Malgorzata Bela | Mia Goth | Sylvie Testud | Tilda Swinton
Thom says: “I was truly thrilled to recall that this received 6 Chlotrudis nominations for year-end honors in 2019. While it failed to win any of the coveted awards the recognition was noteworthy and well-deserved. Inbal Weinberg for Production Design,
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