Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jay Duplass
Starring: Cooper Raiff | David Duchovny | Hope Davis | Kaitlyn Dever | Lucy Boynton
Michael says: “Jay Duplass follows up THE BALTIMORONS with a film vaguely related in theme (dealing with grief and suicide) but completely different in tone. This is family trauma at its most intense — and that is my jam. A
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ross McElwee
Chris says: “Given our current tendency to document just about everything (especially ourselves) with our smartphones, will younger and future generations retain a seemingly infinite treasure trove of recorded media to reference, look back on and cultivate into living histories?
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Kahlil | Zack Kahlil
Cassian says: “The Khalil brothers take us through a deeply emotional decades-long journey of reburying the remains of their ancestors through the process of indigenous repatriation. This documentary follows MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance), a unified group
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Rehmeier
Starring: Juan Silva | Kyle Gallner | Kyra Sedgwick | P.J. Sosko | Samara Wearving
Brett says: “It may be fitting for this film to have two words in its title with the second word mimicking the first since the premise contained within is nothing new in itself either. A con man rolls up into
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