Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cooper Raiff
Starring: Abby Quinn | Amy Landecker | Ashley Padilla | Cooper Raiff | Dylan Gelula | Joy Sunday | Logan Miller | Olivia Welch
Michael says: “You may be wondering how I ended up watching a movie about college students called SHITHOUSE. It’s a good question. As I wrap up my viewing before it’s time to nominate, I’m intentionally moving away from serious dramas
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Adiz Rajabov | Atsuko Maeda | Ryo Kase | Shôta Sometani | Tokio Emoto
Michael says: “Yoko is the host of a popular travel show produced in Japan. While filming at various cultural landmarks in Uzbekistan, we see Yoko shooting hip deep in a lake supposedly filled with large, mysterious fish, repeatedly riding a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Philip Ridley
Starring: Clémence Poésy | Fraser Ayres | Jim Sturgess | Justin Salinger | Luke Treadaway | Noel Clarke | Ruth Sheen
Jason says: “Midway through HEARTLESS, one may feel that it has lost its considerable edge; that a movie which starts out so grim and despairing has no business becoming quirky and even occasionally light-hearted. But deals with the devil must
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Danny DeVito | David Strathairn | Guy Pearce | James Cromwell | Kevin Spacey | Kim Basinger | Russell Crowe
Michael says: “This complex, film was based on the novel by James Ellroy. It takes a look at the Los Angeles police department in the 1950’s. Corruption and glitz with a Hollywood backdrop provide the framework for an intense study
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Al Ernest Garcia | Charlie Chaplin | George Davis | Harry Crocker | Merna Kennedy | Tiny Sandford
Thom says: “I’m happy to see an intellectual shift in my comic essence. For whatever reason I never was much of a Chaplin fan for the majority of my life although in the past 5 years I quite liked LIMELIGHT
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Adolphe Menjou | Barbara Stanwyck | Charlotte Henry | Dorothy Peterson | Ralph Bellamy | Thomas Jefferson
Thom says: “Here’s an early film from Hollywood legendary director Frank Capra (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, LOST HORIZON, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, MEET JOHN DOE, ARSENIC & OLD
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Anne Ratte-Polle | Franz Rogowski | Jacob Matschenz | Maryam Zaree | Paula Beer
Michael says: “Apparently German director Petzold, has built up quite a following with his last three films (TRANSIT, PHOENIX, BARBARA) and his latest, UNDINE, is a bit of a change of style for him. An undine is a mythical water
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Starring: Ana Martin | Carmen Sa linas | Fernando Soler | Gonzalo Vega | Lucha Villa | Roberto Cobo
Thom says: “My brother has a dear friend in Seattle who’s a great film scholar and aficionado and he recently recommended Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein with some 60 films credited to him. In fact, he’s still working. His films have
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Rating: 4.5 cats | 5 cats
Director: Darius Marder
Starring: Mathieu Amalric | Olivia Cooke | Paul Raci | Riz Ahmed
Michael says: “I have taken to watching films without really finding out too much about them first. Usually it’s one or two sentences from the synopsis, and I’ll make up my mind. SOUND OF METAL came as a big surprise,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David Freyne
Starring: Barry Ward | Fionn O'Shea | Lola Petticrew | Sharon Horgan | Simone Kirby
Michael says: “This delightful Irish film is another version for a high school rom-com, that follows a lot of the standard framework, but the main difference here is that Eddie is gay (and deeply closeted) and he’s dating Amber, a
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