Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jeremy Workman
Brett says: “SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS is an insightful look into a single school in particular that is one of multiple schools in South Korea set up for transitioning children who have defected from North Korea. The result is a collection
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Clint Bentley
Starring: Clifton Collins Jr. | David Paul Olsen | Felicity Jones | Joel Edgerton | Kerry Condon | William H. Macy
Diane says: “As a fan of the novel, I was disappointed in TRAIN DREAMS. Where is the laugh-out loud humor (read the vignette about the man who was shot by his dog), the guilt that plagues Robert for things he’s
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lo
Val says: “A wife discovers her husband is having an affair, and hires a specialist to get rid of the mistress, but not in the way you might think. “This documentary watches like a narrative, with gorgeous shot composition, characters,
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Maotao Hu | Tao Zhao | You Zhou | Zhou Lan | Zhubin Li
Michael says: “Zhangke Jia’s twelfth, full-length feature narrative, CAUGHT IN THE TIDES, is a challenging yet fascinating construction of his own past and present work to tell the tale of a woman searching for her beloved over decades. The film
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: India Donaldson
Starring: Danny McCarthy | James Le Gros | Lily Collias | Peter McNally | Sumaya Bouhbal
Michael says: “We first meet Sam, hanging with her best friend, Jessie the night before she will head off on a weekend camping trip with her dad, her dad’s longtime buddy and his teenaged son. When her counterpart teen traveler
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Rating: 4.2 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Cord Jefferson
Starring: Erika Alexander | Jeffrey Wright | John Ortiz | Leslie Uggams | Tracee Ellis Ross
Michael says: “Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison, a distinguished academic and writer of literary fiction who decries the popular trend of best-selling books about the black experience – usually involving single moms, gangs, and police shootings – in Cord
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Colin West
Starring: Amy Hargreaves | Gabriel Rush | Jim Gaffigan | Katelyn Nacon | Michael Ian Black | Rhea Seehorn | Tony Shaloub
Diane says: “LINOLEUM is a film with some tricks, like certain other films greatly loved by Chlotrudis. I won’t tell you which ones so as not to give any hints or spoilers. Cameron, aspirational astronaut and actual astronomer, faces a
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Questlove
Michael says: “Questlove’s documentary about a summer long music festival in Harlem, during 1969 — happening concurrently with Woodstock, but that very few people are aware of today, benefitted by my recent viewing of the film PASSING. and my reading
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Tyler Taormina
Starring: Adam Torres | Audrey Boos | Gabriella Herrera | Haley Bodell
Diane says: “If you’ve ever gone from childhood to adulthood, I think you will like this film. It’s Tyler Taormina’s first, and looks at rituals of growing up in a really weird, delightful way. It’s beautifully shot—I particularly liked how
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Andrew Patterson
Starring: Bruce Davis | Gail Cronauer | Jake Horowitz | Sierra McCormick
Brett says: “THE VAST OF NIGHT, under the direction of debut feature film wizard Andrew Patterson, is a film that takes genre film-making to a whole new level. Premiering at Sundance back in 2019, the film is now set for release
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