Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lance Oppenheim
Chris says: “This deadpan look at The Villages, a massive retirement community in central Florida that’s also a town in itself (home to more than *130,000* residents) is one of the more entertaining documentaries I’ve watched in some time. Whereas filmmaker
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Antonia Thomas | John Boyega | Joy Richardson | Liam Garrigan | Seroca Davis | Steve Toussaint | Tyrone Huntley
Part of the Small Axe Amazon Prime series Michael says: “Steve McQueen’s mid-point in his collection of films about the West African experience in London is the high point in terms of films in my eyes. RED, WHITE AND BLUE
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Agata Kulesza | Alec Utgoff | Katarzyna Figura | Krzysztof Czeczot | Lukasz Simlat | Maja Ostaszewska | Weronika Rosati
Michael says: “Polish director Szumowska has been a regular on the festival circuit with such films as ELLES (starring Juliette Binoche) and THE OTHER LAMB, released in the U.S. this year, but hasn’t quite broken through to the art-house circuit.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Anca Damian
Starring: Bruno Salomone | izzie Brocheré | Maïra Schmitt | Nathalie Boutefeu | Shirelle Mai-Yvart | Thierry Hancisse
Toni says: “This is a haunting, animated, surreal take on a dog’s life, with the backdrop of sometimes loving, sometimes abusive homes over the years. This would be great for Buried Treasure, as it was a bit more obscure but
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn | Daniel Francis-Swaby | Ellis George | Francis Lovehall | Kedar Williams-Stirling | Micheal Ward | Shaniqua Okwok
Part of the SMALL AXE Amazon Prime series. Diane says: “I’ve been wanting to see Steve McQueen’s set of SMALL AXE movies (on Amazon Prime), so natch I picked a short one—only an hour long. LOVERS ROCK is the title,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Matthew Rankin
Starring: Brent Skagford | Catherine St-Laurent | Dan Beirne | Kee Chan | Louis Negin | Matthew Rankin | Mikhaïl Ahooja | Sarianne Cormier | Seán Cullen
Michael says: “You know you’re watching something perversely special when it features an ejaculating cactus. Paying liberal homage to the strangers films of Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin’s first feature film is a wildly inventive, biopic (in the loosest sense of
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Hong Khaou
Starring: David Tran | Henry Golding | Molly Harris | Parker Sawyers
Michael says: “There’s a bit of a thread between COMING HOME AGAIN and MONSOON. Both deal with Asian families, and particularly sons dealing with the death of parents, and difficulty of accessing emotions. But where COMING HOME AGAIN was more
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Hao Wu | Weixi Chen
Chris says: “Verité doc clandestinely filmed inside an ICU unit in Wuhan, China during the 76-day lockdown earlier this year. Expectedly difficult to watch (especially the heightened panic of the early days) but also genuinely life-affirming. This is an invaluable
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ben Sharrock
Starring: Amir El-Masry | Grace Chilton | Kwabena Ansah | Vikash Bhai
Chris says: “A group of Middle-Eastern and African men are stranded in a refugee camp off the coast of Scotland. Our protagonist, Omar, is a musician from Syria and carries his oud wherever he goes. The refugees spend their time
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Sasie Sealy
Starring: Hsiao-Yuan Ha | Michael Tow | Tsai Chin | Woody Fu | Yan Xi
Diane says: “Chinatown crime caper LUCKY GRANDMA features 85-year-old actress Tsai Chin playing a gruff, stubborn widow whose trip to the casino lands her in hot water. Chin (JOY LUCK CLUB) deserves an acting nom, playing all of five years
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