Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: David Webber | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Michele Austin | Sophia Brown | Tuwaine Barrett
Brett says: “HARD TRUTHS is a intimate character study, but who would expect anything less from a Mike Leigh film? Marianne Jean-Baptiste rejoins the director after previously collaborating on SECRETS AND LIES, as she brings perpetually disgruntled Pansy to the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Durga Chew-Bose
Starring: Aliocha Scheider | Chloe Sevigny | Claes Bang | Lily McInerny | Nailia Harzoune
Brett says: “In this feature film debut, director Durga Chew-Bose adapts a novel from the 1950s for the screen, but the setting reflects an otherworldliness rather than feeling trapped in time. One can perceive a sense of modernity that seems predominant
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josh Greenbaum
Diane says: “Will Farrell and his longtime friend Harper Steele, writer for SNL, cook up a cross-country trip so that Harper, recently transitioned to a woman, can become comfortable anew with all the bro places she used to hang out
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael McDermit | Schon Duncan
Michael says: “This is one of those documentaries that tells in important, and powerful story, one that I’m so glad I am aware of, that might have been better experienced as a book. Of the 430,000 citizens in the Cherokee
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt
Starring: Caitlin Reilly | Chelsea Peretti | Heather Elizabeth Morris | Manny Jacinto | Megan Stalter
Michael says: “PIFFs opening night film was a crowd-pleaser; a zany comedy starring Next Wave Award winner, Megan Statler. A fun festival opener to be sure, and fortunately, a film that proved to be better than it seemed on paper,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ángeles Cruz
Starring: Alexander Gadiel Mendoza Sanchéz | Danae Ahuja Aparicio | Myriam Bravo
Chris says: “A big draw of TIFF for me is an opportunity to see films from remote corners of the world that might not otherwise be available or on my radar. Sometimes they’re excellent and occasionally they’re atrocious, but this
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kei Chika-ura
Starring: Hideko Hara | Mirai Moriyama | Tatsuya Fuji | Yoko Maki
Chris says: “Shot by Yutaka Yamazaki, who has served as cinematographer on Hirokazu Kore-eda films from AFTER LIFE to AFTER THE STORM, this second feature from director Kei Chika-ura is often Kore-eda Lite, although what’s missing is the supple touch
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Agustín Almodóvar | Dash | Miguel Almodóvar | Pablo Almodóvar | Tilda Swinton
Diane says: “THE HUMAN VOICE, stars Tilda Swinton, so you’re already feeling good. Made in 2020, it’s an adaptation of a play Jean Cocteau wrote for his actresses to show their full range of emotions. Swinton plays a ‘woman on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Ethan Hawke | George Steane | Manu Ríos | Pedro Casablanc | Pedro Pascal
Diane says: “STRANGE WAY OF LIFE opens on a typical Old West set, as the title song is sung, in Spanish, by what sounds like a female voice but turns out to be a man singing falsetto—intimations of unconventional elements
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Amy Nicholson
Chris says: “Amy Nicholson’s documentary tries to be the low-rent trailer park equivalent of Errol Morris’ GATES OF HEAVEN, offering a deadpan look at the last summer of one said establishment off the Virginia coast before it closes for redevelopment.
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