Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas
Starring: Ajay Naidu | Grace Parra | Lane Moore | Leslie Silva | Masha King | Nyambi Nyambi | Rebecca De Ornelas
Michael says: “Two insomniacs. Zach, finally gives up at 3:45am, after tossing, turning, exercising… then heading down to the neighborhood bodega where he lives in Brooklyn. For Sophia, it’s a cup of tea, some old Dick Van Dyke reruns, then down
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alexis Gambis
Starring: Alexis Rasmussen | Angélica Aragón | aulina Gaitan | Electra Avellan | Noe Hernandez | Tenoch Huerta | William Mapother
Michael says: “SON OF MONARCHS is a challenging film to watch, as surely as it must have been a challenging film to make. Unfortunately, between the ambitiousness of its content, coupled with the splicing together of genetics, family trauma, and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Barbara-Marié Immelman | Connor Dowds | Emil van Niekerk | Kai Luke Brummer | Michael Kirch | Remano De Beer
Michael says; ‘What is basically a coming-of-age tale disguised as a war movie, MOFFIE is a South African film based on a popular apartheid-era memoir about a privileged, white, young man who is being sent off to this mandatory two
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Charlène Favier
Starring: Axel Auriant | Jérémie Renier | Maïra Schmitt | Marie Denarnaud | Muriel Combeau | Noée Abita
Diane says: “A 15-year-old with promise is dropped off—abandoned?—by her mother at a ski school in the Alps. As the coach’s strict methods and humiliations motivate her to win, they develop a one-to-one relationship, working and intimate. The film has
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rossana Diaz Costa
Starring: Augusto Linares | Fernando Bacilio | Fiorella de Ferrari | Liliana Alegría | Nacho Fresneda | Rodrigo Barba
Diane says: “Director Rossana Díaz Costa gets her own adaptation of this preeminent Latin American novel on screen in time for the novel’s 50th anniversary. Julius is the youngest of four children in a wealthy family living palatially in Lima, Peru
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alana Waksman
Starring: Devery Jacobs | Kate Britton | Kendra Mylnechuk | Madeleine Coghlan | Rinnan Henderson
Diane says: “In WE BURN LIKE THIS, Rae, a young woman living in Billings, MT, calls upon her heritage of survivorship to begin to face childhood trauma and present-day addictions. Filmmaker Alana Waksman packs a little too much thematically into
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Audrey Totter | Cecil Kellaway | Hume Cronyn | John Garfield | Lana Turner | Leon Ames
Michael says: “Often mentioned as one of the best examples of film noir, I thought I should check out this novel adaptation from 1946. An entertaining romp, to be sure, but it doesn’t have the charisma and appeal as those
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lauren Fash
Starring: Bethany Anne Lind | Judith Ivey | Katrina Norman | Kerry Cahill | Michael Trucco | Robyn Lively | Shanola Hampton
Michael says: “You don’t see whole lot of Southern gothic on film nowadays, but director Lauren Fash (with her co-writer/partner) actress, Susan Graham, have dived wholeheartedly into one, made all the more complicated by an unreliable narrator, and a melodramatic storyline
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Huston
Starring: Claire Trevor | Edward G. Robinson | Harry Lewis | Humphrey Bogart | John Rodney | Lauren Bacall | Lionel Barrymore | Marc Lawrence | Thomas Gomez
Michael says: “After seeing THE BIG SLEEP, I had to watch the rest of Bogie and Bacall’s oeuvre. Count me as one of the many who are smitten by their chemistry. I’m particularly taken by Lauren Bacall’s assured and powerful
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Domhnall Gleeson | Liv Hill | Oliver Zetterström | Richard Campbell | Ruth Wilson | Tipper Seifert-Cleveland | Will Poulter
Thom says: “OK UK haunted house film needs more of Rampling. 3 cats“
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