Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brea Grant
Starring: Alex Berg | Alex Farnie | Jon Michael Davis | Stacey Storey | Tom Davies | Vera Miao
Jason says: “Brea Grant has thus far had the sort of career that leads to a movie like BEST FRIENDS FOREVER- after a few instances of being the pretty good thing in disappointing productions and not having it lead to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Daisuke Katô | Isuzu Yamada | Seizaburô Kawazu | Takashi Shimura | Tatsuya Nakadai | Toshirô Mifune | Yôko Tsukasa
Michael says: “I guess it doesn’t matter if their Japanese and directed by a master, I’m just to that much of a fan, with the exception of a handful of revisionist/feminist takes, of the western. Although in fact, YOJIMBO, which means
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Cliff Robertson | Geneviève Bujold | J. Patrick McNamara | John Lithgow | Stanley J. Reyes | Sylvia Kuumba Williams | Wanda Blackman
Chris says: “Interesting that Brian De Palma made this between PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and CARRIE: it feels almost beholden to reverently emulating (rather than simply paying affectionate homage to) a certain Hitchcock film (Bernard Herrmann score and all!) except
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julien Faraut
Michael: “I’m not really an avid sports documentary viewer, but this fascinating slice of Olympic history intrigued me greatly, and I found the film utterly fascinating to watch. In the late 50’s the Japanese women’s volleyball team began a streak
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Laura Fairrie
Vicki says: “LADY BOSS tells the real story behind Jackie Collins, the well known author and sister of actress, Joan Collins. It is very effectively layered by using interviews with friends, family and archival footage. She was quite complex. I
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert Woods
Starring: Daniel Buckle | Evan Williams | Mary Soudi | Nadia Collins | Naomi Brockwell | St John Cowcher | Tristan McInnes
Brett says: “AN IDEAL HOST is a horror-comedy feature film debut from director Robert Woods that has cult classic written all over it. As part of many raucous midnight festival screening events, I must say that the audiences at those
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Christopher Alender
Starring: AJ Bowen | Andrea Cortés | Brigitte Kali Canales | Julia Vera | Sal Lopez | Weston Meredith
Brett says: “This is a tale of possession lodged in brujeria lore in which protagonist Cristina is discovered by locals after visiting to report on local tribal customs in an isolated region of Veracruz. Immediately, she is taken into custody
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wes Hurley
Starring: Dan Lauria | Hersh Powers | Jonathan Bennett | Lea DeLaria | Marya Sea Kaminski | Sera Barbieri | Tyler Bocock
Michael says: “This stylized autobiography of a precocious gay boy growing up in Russia, his mail-order bride mother, and their escape to American is sweet and clever, with a few awkward moments, but overall and entertaining jaunt. The first half
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Emily Branham
Chris says: “BeBe Zahara Benet won the first season of RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, but that was back in 2009 when the show’s cultural footprint was comparatively microscopic to now. Although Benet has reemerged in the spotlight, thanks to a final four
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vivian Kleiman
Michael says: “Vivian Kleiman’s documentary about the emergence of queer comics as an underground force, and eventually as a mainstream pop offering, is a good introduction to the subject. It mainly focuses on some of the pioneers who started the
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