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Moonage Daydream (2022)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Brett Morgen

Cheryl says: “I had high hopes for this documentary and was really looking forward to seeing it when I finally made it to the Arlington Capitol for the last night of its 3-plus week run. “The promo promised never-before-seen live

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Fire of Love (2022)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sara Dosa

Diane says: “I had shied away from this doc earlier, about a French vulcanologist couple who died in the line of work. But it is fantastic! Of course there are the mesmerizing shots of lava flow and eruptions, but also

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Starring: Ariela Barer | Forrest Goodluck | Kristine Froseth | Lukas Gage | Sasha Lane

Brett says: “In what promises to be one of the most distinctive films of the year, director Daniel Goldhaber follows up his uniquely effective thriller CAM with another one-of-a-kind thriller, this one affiliated with the cause of environmental activism. The

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Benediction (2022)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Calam Lynch | Jack Lowden | Jeremy Irvine | Kate Phillips | Tom Blyth

Chris says: “Along with his other poet biopic A QUIET PASSION, Terence Davies is clearly on a late-career high; also his most deliciously bitchy film to date, and it doesn’t even have Laura Linney in it. (I’ll have more to

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Memoria (2022)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Agnes Brekke | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Jerónimo Barón | Juan Pablo Urrego | Tilda Swinton

Brett says: “Otherworldly, yet firmly planted in our current existence. Mystical, yet earthy. These are a few of the paradoxes during a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEMORIA. It might be better to describe this one as a dreamscape rather than

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Girl Picture (2022)

Chris says: “If the English title sounds a bit generic (the original Finnish one translates as GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS), rest assured, the film is not. Mostly set over three consecutive Fridays, it’s about three teenagers: Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö

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The Falls (2022)

Michael says: “It’s exhilarating, yet also quite frustrating, when the last eligible film you see before you decide to nominate ends up being one of your favorite films of the year. The Taiwanese film, THE FALLS came to may attention

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The Lost Daughter (2021)

Michael says: “Bravo to Maggie Gyllenhaal for adapting a complex novel into a visually arresting, and thematically engrossing film in her first time out as a screenwriter and director. Leda is a middle-aged woman visiting a resort in Greece for

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An Old Lady (2021)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sun-ae Lim
Starring: Joon-Kyung Kim | Ju-bong Gi | Soo-jung Ye

Michael says: “It was a bold move for South Korean writer director Lim Sun-ae to tackle elder abuse and rape as the subject of her first film, but after working on storyboards for director’s such as Lee Chang-dong, she was

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The Power of the Dog (2021)

Chris says: “Following a decade working mostly in television (TOP OF THE LAKE), Jane Campion returns to feature filmmaking at the top of her game. This adaptation of a Thomas Savage novel set in 1925 Montana (but filmed in New Zealand,

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