Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jaclyn Bethany
Starring: Alex Sarrigeorgiou | Corey Wells | François Arnaud | Jennifer Ehle | Theodore Bouloukos
Michael says: “Lucy, a young woman content to spend her life bartending in her recently deceased dad’s bar, meets Ilse, an eccentric woman dealing with a mid-life career crisis as an artist. When Ilse asks Lucy to pose for her,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Geneviève Bujold | John Larroquette | Keith Carradine | Lesley Ann Warren | Rae Dwn Chong
Michael says: “While we look around at today’s world and still see so much inequity and bigotry in the world, it is amazing to look back at films from 40 years ago which are fine films and quite entertaining, but
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Divine | Geneviève Bujold | Joe Morton | Keith Carradine | Kris Kristofferson | Lori Singer
Michael says: “A little dated watching this film 40 years after its release, but still a great vibe, and nice slice of futuristic neo-noir starring Kris Kristofferson, Genvieve Bujold, Keith Carradine and Lori Singer. Dripping with mood and attitude, the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Giselle Bonilla
Starring: Billian Jacobs | Lili Alice | Nevada Jose | Rob Lowe | Will Brill
Michael says: “Giselle Bonella’s feature film debut, THE MUSICAL, is a bold, audacious swing into the blackest satire. When middle school drama teacher, Doug, finds out that his fellow teacher, Abigail, with whom had had been dating the previous year,
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