Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Laura Poitras
Chris says: “Maybe my favorite new documentary since the one on David Wojnarowicz, and even his brief presence here doesn’t distract from Nan Goldin, whose work and life personifies that blur between the two, not to mention the personal and the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Starring: Candelaria Quispe | Félix Ticona | José Calcina | Luisa Quispe | Placide Ali
Michael says: “When I learned that Utama is translated in English to Our Home, it resonated so much more with me. I found UTAMA to be a powerful, effective film that, while fairly straightforward, successfully blended several themes, most notably
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Berkun Oya
Starring: Artun Can Salman | Funda Eryigit | Nur Sürer | Okan Yalabik | Yilmaz Erdogan
Michael says: “If you’re in the mood for a leisurely paced, two-and-a-half hour Turkish family drama where secrets are discovered thirty years after the fact, CICI is for you. I have to say, I’ve got a thing for lengthy, Turkish
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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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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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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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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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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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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Starring: Aamu Milonoff | Cécile Orblin | Eleonoora Kauhanen | Linnea Leino | Oona Airola | Sonya Lindfors
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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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Starring: Alyssa Chia | Gingle Wang | Kuan-Ting Liu | Lee-zen Lee | Li-Yin Yang | Wei-Ning Hsu
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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