Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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: Kent Jones
Starring: Clark Johnson | Greta Lee | Jake Lacy | Willem Dafoe | William Hill
Brett says: “There once was a guy from Soho Who wrote a book long forgotten, oh no A bunch of young wannabes Invite him into their coterie But is acting your age more important than FOMO? “Director Kent Jones brings
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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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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Judd Ehrlich
Peter says: “In one of the most famous social experiments in American history, primary school teacher Jane Elliott, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, decided to teach her students about discrimination in a radical way. In her Brown
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Damian McCarthy
Starring: Adam Scott | Austin Amelio | David Wilmot | Mallory Adams | Peter Coonan
Peter says: “It’s a familiar story: A grieving, cynical novelist retreats to remote lodgings, only to become ensnared in a violent, supernatural spook session. With strong shades of 1408 and THE SHINING – even lifting an overhead car shot in homage to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Benjamin Voisin | Denis Lavant | Pierre Lottin | Rebecca Marder | Swann Arlaud
Michael says: “Gorgeously shot and beautifully directed, this adaptation of Camus’ The Stranger is a challenging film that grapples with a way of thinking that from some viewpoints can be sociopathic. That said, some very powerful moments were well played
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Starring: Dylan Torrell | Jack Farthing | Pep Ambròs | Sam Riley | Stacy Martin
Eliza says: “ISLANDS, directed by Jan-Ole Gerster, centers around Tom, a tennis coach working at an all inclusive resort in the Canary Islands. The entirety of the film is a course in numerology- From the name of the hotel Tres
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aidan Delbis | Alicia Silverstone | Emma Stone | J. Carmen Galindez Barrera | Jesse Plemons
Diane says: “Lanthimos’ latest, about bee colony collapse (if you believe that…), is a remake of the Korean black comedy/horror SAVE THE GREEN PLANET. And it’s very good, but not for me. I don’t like having all my muscles clenched
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