Teaching audiences to view films actively
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
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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
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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
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Director: Heidi Ewing
Starring: Ángeles Cruz | Arcelia Ramirez | Armando Espitia | Christian Vazquez | Michelle Rodriguez | Raúl Briones
Michael says: “About two-thirds of the way through I CARRY YOU WITH ME, the gorgeously saturated, lush romantic drama shifts from Mexico to the U.S. and along with that shift comes a remarkable change in tone to a very documentary
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Director: Chris McKim
Michael says: “Queer 80’s artist David Wojnarowicz was a contemporary of Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, but with a decidedly different outlook and more in-your-face attitude. Documentaries about art are not really my thing, much to the disappointment for some
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Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Starring: Andriy Rymaruk | Lily Hyde | Liudmyla Bileka | Vasyl Antoniak
Michael says: “ATLANTIS is the Ukraine’s 2021 entry to the Oscars. A simple, straight-forward story that tells a grim tale set four years in the future with glimmer of hope in the form of love. While efforts are underway to
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Director: Melina León
Starring: Lucio Rojas | Maykol Hernández | Pamela Mendoza | Ruth Armas | Tommy Párraga
Beth C. said: “SONG WITHOUT A NAME, by Melina León is a Spanish language film from Peru about an indigenous Andean woman whose baby is stolen at birth via an underground trafficking ring. The story is based on real events,
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Director: Mina Mileva | Vesela Kazakova
Starring: Angel Genov | Chinwe Nwokolo | Gilda Waugh | Irina Atanasova | Jon-Jo Inkpen | Kadisha Gee Kamara | Orlin Asenov
Bob says: “A look at immigrant life in a gentrifying area of London, with Brexit hanging over everything. A Bulgarian woman, her brother (both well educated) and her son are eking out a life in a former council flat in Peckham.
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Director: Fernanda Valadez
Starring: David Illescas | Juan Jesús Varela | Mercedes Hernández
Michael says: “This Mexican feature is a slow burn as a mother travels from her tiny village in Guanajuato to the Mexican/US border to find out what happened to her son. Along the way she encounter resistance, danger and mounting
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Director: Eliza Hittman
Starring: David Buneta | Eliazar Jimenez | Sam Dugger | Sharon van Etten | Sidney Flanagan | Talia Ryder | Theodore Pellerin
Michael says: “Autumn is a 17-year-old girl who’s most likely considered an outsider may her peers, has a fractious relationship with her stepfather, and escapes into her songwriting and guitar-playing as possibly her only solace. She works as a grocery
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