Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Kim Albright
Starring: Anna Maguire | Arghavan Jenati | Donna Benedicto | Hamza Haq | Veena Sood
Michael says: “I love when a quiet little film sneaks up on me then blows me away. I first heard about Kim Albright’s allegorical, speculative piece on the BrattleTheatre’s podcast earlier this year covering BUFF, the Boston Underground Film Festival.
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jordan Tetewsky | Joshua Pikovsky
Starring: Avram Tetewsky | Betsey Brown | Hannah Lee Thompson | Peter Cole | Roger Mancusi
Julie says: “Possible buried treasure nomination and possible best actress (breakthrough) nom as well. “Hannah lives a content, hard-working life in the small town where she grew up. To her visiting older brother, she’s just wasting her time. As you
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Albert Serra
Starring: Alexandre Melo | Benoît Magimel | Marc Susini | Matahi Pambrun | Pahoa Mahagafanau | Sergi Lopez
Jeff says: “PACIFICTION is billed as a thriller, but at 2.75 hours, it’s a leisurely thriller. The most thrilling sequence comes when a mob of boats, jet skis, and surfers carom down the sides of crashing, 20-foot waves off the
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Aleem Khan
Starring: Joanna Scanlan | Nasser Memarzia | Nathalie Richard | Sudha Bhuchar | Talid Ariss
Julie says: “‘Set in the port town of Dover, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Shaunak Sen
Michael says: “Someone was describing this exquisitely beautiful film as more than just about birds in Delhi, and while I do think the film masterfully incorporates the crumbling world climate, the baffling ecosystem of the city in question, and just
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats | 4.8 cats
Director: Sion Sono
Starring: Canon Nawata | Mala Morgan | Matsuri Kohira | Roku Kurokouchi | Sen Fujimaru | Tatsuhiro Yamaoka
Michael says: It’s been a while since I’ve seen a film that just grabbed me by the lapels and shook me, taking me completely by surprise, making me cry and laugh simultaneously with the ballsy abandon of the batshit crazy, but
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Todd Haynes
Michael says: “I loved this documentary. It took a subject I new relatively little about, and structured it like an indie, art-house film with talking heads, clips past performances, still images, and more to create a collage of a band,
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Agathe Rousselle | Diong-Kéba Tacu | Garance Marillier | Laïs Salameh | Mara Cisse | Marin Judas | Vincent Lindon
Brett says: “Julia Ducournau is doing what no one else in cinema is doing. This does not always translate to automatically being good, but this director is inventive and finding ways to give legs to outlandish and logic-defying cinema, so
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Gregory La Cava
Starring: Adolphe Menjou | Andrea Leeds | Constance Collier | Gail Patrick | Ginger Rogers | Katharine Hepburn | Lucille Ball | Samuel S. Hinds
Philip says: “Edna Ferber’s adaptation of the stage play she wrote with George S. Kaufman won Best Picture from the NY Film Critics Circle and was nominated for four Oscars. STAGE DOOR is the kind of old film (1937 is
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Morgan Neville
Vicki says: “ROADRUNNER is Morgan Neville’s slightly long, but otherwise raw and superb documentary about the late chef/writer, Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain tragically committed suicide in 2018 at age 61. Luckily, the film does not dwell on this at all, except
Read the review...