Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Michael Colford
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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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alice Winocour
Starring: Aleksey Fateev | Eva Green | Lars Eidinger | Matt Dillon | Sandra Hüller | Zélie Boulant
Diane says: “What’s more difficult—training to be an astronaut or beIng a single mother with a demanding job? Combine the two and you get something as tense as FORD V FERRARI but as intimate as HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD. “PROXIMA, which
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Rating: 4.5 cats | 4.6
Director: Bas Devos
Starring: Guy Dermul | Maaike Neuville | Nora Dari | Saadia Bentaïeb | Stefan Gota
Michael says: “This beautiful little film about a Maghrebi woman in Brussels sparked quite a bit of discussion among Chlotrudis members. For example, the only reason why I know that the Khadija, the woman in question, is from the Maghreb region
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Lars Ranthe | Mads Mikkelsen | Thomas Bo Larsen
Chris says: “Pleasantly buzzed while celebrating a birthday at a fancy restaurant, history teacher Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and his three male colleagues decide to test an obscure theory as to whether one’s life is enhanced if a 0.05% alcohol level
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chi-Kin Kwok | Clement Sze-Kit Cheng
Starring: Kuan Tai Chen | Siu-Lung Leung | Teddy Robin Kwan | You-Nam Wong
Jason says: “According to the director, GALLANTS took about ten years to get financing, so one has to wonder – if it had been made then, would it have been giving late-career tributes to different old-school actors, or would Bruce
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | Christopher Abbott | Sarah Gadon
Michael says: “When I perused the listings for this year’s festival, BLACK BEAR jumped out immediately because of lead actor, and two time Chlotrudis nominee, Aubrey Plaza. In fact, I had the privilege of presenting Aubrey with PIFF’s first ever
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shalini Kantayya
Michael says: “This film couldn’t have been released at a better time as it explores the problematic uses and misuses of facial recognition, applied algorithms, artificial intelligence, and bias. But best of all it introduced me to Joy Buolamwini, a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Amanda McBaine | Jesse Moss
Chris says: “I’m often drawn to documentaries that focus on a subculture or an event that I personally would never, ever want to participate in, like this conference of a thousand teenage boys from Texas who come together in state
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