Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Beatrice Gibson
Starring: Adam Christensen | Denna Cartamkhoob | Diocouda Diaoune | Kátia Belo Cardoso | Pauline Curnier-Jardin
Michael says: “‘Don’t Dream, Just Fight’ “Experimental films can be challenging. We are so used to narrative and structure, that is can be difficult to absorb. With Beatrice Gibson’s narrative feature debut, AT NIGHT, the setting, night in Paris, matches
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Frencesca Gregorini
Starring: A Martinez | Holly Hunter | Mark Duplass | Michael Nouri | Sylvia Hoeks
Michael says: “Nicely done film about the last couple of days in Anna Nicole Smith’s life. Very tragic story, well executed. Holly Hunter gave a really great performance as Anna’s psychiatrist. Mark Duplass does a good job as Anna’s partner/lawyer.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Leah Nelson
Starring: Abbi Jacobson | Beanie Feldstein | Bryan Cranston | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Seth Rogen
Michael says: “Films like this are difficult to review because you’ll come across as heartless if you critique it. Fortunately, there’s not a lot to critique in this deeply sad and affecting animated film based on a graphic novel about a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich | Eduardo Xavier De Silva | Helen Mirren | Norbert Ortner | Olivia Cooke
Michael says: “See this one for the gorgeous filmmaking by Anton Corbijn, and to see the great Helen Mirren chewing put the scenery. I just wish there was more of her. Apparently Alden Ehrenreich is somebody, but even though I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Anna Madeley | August Diehl | Devid Striesow | Hanns Zischler | Sandra Hüller
Michael says: “Beautifully shot film with terrific acting, but the story of Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika returning to Germany in 1949 after living in America for 10 years was underwhelming. Glorious closing scene. 3 1/2 cats”
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miwa Nishikawa
Starring: Ami Koyae | Fumi Nikaido | Kaito Sakurai | Kotone Hanase | Yutaka Takenouchi
Beth Cu says: “Film was a period piece, set in Japan the last year of WWII and a few beyond, and followed a girl who had been evacuated out of Tokyo, then brought back when the program ended, to find
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Marie Clements
Starring: Alyssa Wapanatâhk | Amber Midthunder | Cara Jade Myers | Evan Adams | Gary Farmer | Gil Bellows
Michael says: “This strong tale of racial injustice takes place in the 1970’s, following the lives of three young women, sisters are were separated as children, each following different paths in Los Angeles after a relocation program in the 50’s
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Omar E. Ospina Giraldo
Starring: Amanda Maldonado | Carlos Fernández | Jesus David Reyes | José David Sierra | Jose Sandoval
Val says: “Giraldo’s debut film is a quiet meditation on a series of horrific massacres precipitated by political unrest in Colombia in the 1990s. The horror and violence occurs offscreen, and the audience is left to sit with the children
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Eva Jin
Starring: Bingbing Fan | Chen Yao | Peter Ho | So Ji-sub | Zhang Ziyi
Jason says: “Take heart, people of the world; the west and the east aren’t necessarily so different after all. Sure, we may not see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but if both cultures churn out romantic comedies where the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Starring: Léa Seydoux | Nicole Garcia | Pierre Perrier | Théo Frilet | Yannick Renier
Thom says: “It’s a bit of a stretch to include this in an LGBT film festival, although one of the characters (maybe two?) is certainly homosexual. But, then again, director Lifshitz did make the rather confusing COME UNDONE, as well
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