Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Arab Nasser | Tarzan Nasser
Starring: Hiam Abbass | Ibrahim Altoubat | Maisa Abd Elhadi | Namil Alraee
Chris says: “Ostensibly a romance between Issa (Salim Dau), a lifelong bachelor who announces, ‘I’ve decided to get married’ and Siham (Hiam Abbass), a seamstress with an adult daughter, this plays out with a slight surreal twinge, almost like a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Christina July Kim | Jackie Chung | John Lie | Justin Chon
Michael says: “This gentle film about losing a parent was based on an autobiographical ‘New Yorker’ essay written by Chang-Rae Lee, who then co-wrote the screenplay with director Wayne Wang, best known for his adaptation of Amy Tan’s THE JOY LUCK
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Costa
Starring: Manuel Tavares Almeida | Ventura | Vitalina Varela
Chris says: “On the basis of this (I haven’t seen his other work), Pedro Costa makes slow cinema like Tsai Ming-liang, only without his playfulness or, in fact, any trace of humor. This is not a negative critique, for this
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nathan Grossman
Starring: António Guterres | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Greta Thunberg
Chris says: “It’s one thing to think of Greta Thunberg as a sound bite or a headline—the outspoken, determined, teenaged Swedish climate change activist; this doc presents her as something more by recording her journey from lone striker sitting on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Cathy Brady
Starring: Kate Dickie | Martin McCann | Nora-Jane Noone
Chris says: “Kelly (Nika McGuigan) returns home to her Northern Ireland border town after running away the year before, to both the relief and consternation of her family, including her close sister Lauren (Nora-Jane Boone). What Kelly ran away from
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Anthony Rapp | Debra Monk | Lauren Ambrose | Lisa Kudrow | Natalie Portman | Scott Cohen
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman. This didn’t really win me over but perhaps it was a matter of relating to it. Emilia Greenleaf (Portman) a young lawyer sets
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Ansel Elgort | Jeffrey Wright | Nicole Kidman | Oakes Fegley
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the gigantic best-seller of the same name by Donna Tartt. When my brother Chuk and I had taken our previous cat Mandy in for a check-up I remember the lady veterinarian and Chuk
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chris Weitz | Paul Weitz
Starring: Alyson Hannigan Chris Klein | Jason Biggs | Jennifer Coolidge | Shannon Elizabeth
Janet says: “Rented this from my library yesterday (with bonus scenes!) after years of curiosity. For a film that got so much press, it seemed quite ordinary. It has trouble getting traction between the big jokes, mostly because the lead
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chris Foggin
Starring: David Hayman | James Purefoy | Maggie Steed | Meadow Nobrega
Chris says: “Yet another variation on THE FULL MONTY formula, but a mostly likable one thanks to James Purefoy’s sturdy presence and Cornwall-as-character, which is at least striving to do for the southwestern tip of England what LOCAL HERO did
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joan Tosoni | Martha Kehoe
Chris says: “Enjoyable if average overview of the ’60s/’70s Canadian singer with an ultra-distinctive voice. Nearing 80, Lightfoot now looks like a shell of his former self, but he remains lucid and approachable about his career (and can still hit
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