Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ivaylo Hristov
Starring: Ivan Savov | Michael Flemming | Miroslava Gogovska | Stoyan Bochev | Svetlana Yancheva
Michael says: “This Bulgarian film is a fascinating take on a story that has been very much in the film zeitgeist over the past few years. Hristov tells the story of the lives of a small town whose social and economic
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Director: Panah Panahi
Starring: Amin Simiar | Hasan Majuni | Pantea Panahiha | Rayan Sarlak
Brett says: “HIT THE ROAD is an emotional gut punch disguised as a family road trip flick. In this feature film directorial debut from Panah Panahi, the audience slips into anomaly after anomaly underneath what is presented otherwise as a
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Director: Samuel Kishi
Starring: Cici Lau | Johnson T. Lau | Kevin Medina | Leonardo Nájar Márquez | Martha Reyes Arias | Maximiliano Nájar Márquez
Michael says: “LOS LOBOS (THE WOLVES) is a semi-autobiographical story of Lucía, a young woman who emigrates to Albuquerque from Mexico with her two children, Max, age eight, and Leo, age five. After struggling to find a trashed studio to
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Director: Maria Schrader
Starring: Annika Meier | Dan Stevens | Falilou Seck | Hans Löw | Maren Eggert | Sandra Hüller | Wolfgang Hübsch
Michael says: “***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** I’m behind on my reviews, and I’m still working on my soft pandemic commitment to review all the films i see. Several weeks back, we watched I’M YOUR MAN as part of our weekly discussion. This
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Director: Joshua Leonard
Starring: Beth Grant | Erica Chidi Cohen | Janicza Bravo | Jess Weixler | Joshua Leonard | Michael Chieffo | Rom Bower
Michael says: “While not necessarily the most original idea, the execution of this film about a young couple, pregnant with their first child, and suddenly facing the terrifying reality of transitioning into parenthood, with their parent friends talking about their
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Director: Michael Sarnoski
Starring: Alex Wolff | Cassandra Violet | Elijah Ungvary | Julia Bray | Nicolas Cage
Brett says: “They had a Cook with them who stood alone For boiling chicken with a marrow-bone, Sharp flavoring-powder and a spice of savor. He could distinguish London ale by flavor, And he could roast and seethe and broil and
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bob Peterson | Pete Docter
Starring: Bob Peterson | Christopher Plummer | Delroy Lindo | Edward Asner | Jordan Nagai
Diane says: “Latest Pixar is bedeviled by a MacGuffin chase that makes it generic. It’s the first half hour of the film, the beautifully moving story of a couple passing from youth to old age and relinquished dreams, that makes this
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Director: Robert Machoian
Starring: Avery Pizzuto | Barbara Whinnery | Chris Coy | Clayne Crawford | Noah Krershisnik | Sepideh Moafi
Bob says: “David and Niki are a married couple in a small rural town in Utah. They got married right after high school, and have a teenaged daughter and three younger sons. Things are not great in the marriage. They’re
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Rutenbeck
Chris says: “This doesn’t come up with any particularly profound revelations on racial disparity in Boston, unless one is completely ignorant of how such things play out in most contemporary American cities. Filmmaker James Rutenback excels less when focused on
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Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Jason says: “There are a lot of fiction films that don’t set their main plot up as artfully as MINE does. After all, the title speaks pretty directly to what the movie is about, and yet director Geralyn Pezanoski is
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