Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brett Story | Stephen Maing
Diane says: “”With the Teamsters calling for Amazon to finally come to the table by December 15, this is a good time to watch UNION, a doc about the two-year struggle by union organizers at Staten Island’s Amazon warehouse. Related
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tyler Taormina
Starring: Ben Shenkman | Francesca Scorsese | Maria Dizzia | Matilda Fleming | Michael Cera
Diane says: “Is this a bigger budget remake of HAM ON RYE? And why is it playing in my multiplex? (Four people in the audience, three walked out.) “Director Tyler Taormina revisits suburban ritual and the end of adolescence. A
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liam Gavin
Starring: Catherine Walker | Mark Huberman | Nathan Vos | Steve Oram | Susan Loughnane
Laks says: “After years and years of delaying, I finally got round to watching DARK SONG. In essence, all the horrors of the film melted away and I came away feeling absolved of the terror and uplifted by the surreal
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Buxton
Starring: Ben Foster | Cobie Smulders | Dan Lett | Gavin Drea | Reid Price
Brett says: “Director Jason Buxton (BLACKBIRD) brings his second feature film SHARP CORNER to life with a unique tone that enriches the entire project. The film is led by a terrific (as always) performance by Ben Foster, who portrays a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Lisa Bonet | Mickey Rourke | Robert De Niro | Stocker Fontelieu
Laks says: “It was to my surprise that Hillary Mantel (Wolf Hall) wrote film reviews and even further more so that she reviewed ANGEL HEART. I never would have imagined De Niro taking on the role of the devil and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shannon Triplett
Starring: Beau Bridges | Edwin Garcia II | Frances Fisher | Kristine Froseth | Ryan Hurst
Aaron says: “This tightly constructed sci-fi thriller from first-time writer-director Shannon Triplett is the discovery of the fest. Kristine Froseth stars as the nameless (for a while) woman who crashes her car in the Mojave desert and can’t find her
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brady Corbet
Starring: Adrien Brody | Felicity Jones | Guy Pearce | Joe Alwyn | Raffey Cassidy
Brett says: “The phrase ‘where do we begin?’ is sometimes an overused line to set up what all is too often an underwhelming account for such a grandiose introduction, but in reflecting on the film THE BRUTALIST, ‘where do we
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Elliot
Starring: Dominique Pinon | Eric Bana | Jacki Weaver | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Sarah Snook
Diane says: “Ten years after MARY AND MAX, Australian stop-motion filmmaker Adam Elliot presents another tragicomedy in the form of biography. The film proper starts deep in the mouth of a dying old woman (who, when the camera is pulled
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Cory Michael Smith | Dylan O'Brien | Ella Hunt | Gabriel LaBelle | Rachel Sennott
Diane says: “What chutzpah Lorne Michaels had to think he could revolutionize television with ‘Saturday Night Live’! SATURDAY NIGHT is a paean to the cast and crew of SNL, based on memories of the first show in 1975. It’s a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kazik Radwanski
Starring: Alejandra Zapico | Deragh Campbell | Georgia Tannis | Matt Johnson | Simon Reynolds
Brett says: “The film MATT AND MARA is the latest from director Kazik Radwanski (ANNE AT 13,000 FT.) and, like his previous feature film, is a character study from start to finish. Co-title-character Matt is one who takes things as
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