Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sarah Gavron
Starring: Bukky Bakray | D'angelou Osei Kissiedu | Kosar Ali | Ruby Stokes | Shaneigha-Monik Greyson
Michael says: “Ever since her powerful debut, the British TV Movie THIS LITTLE LIFE, and her big screen debut in 2007, BRICK LANE, I’ve been curious about director Sarah Gavron, but I hadn’t seen anything else from her until I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jayro Bustamante
Starring: Ayla-Elea Hurtado | Juan Pablo Olyslager | Julio Diaz | Margarita Kenéfic | María Mercedes Coroy | María Telón | Sabrina De La Hoz
Michael says: “Here’s a Guatemalan horror film that features the Central American legend of ‘the wailing woman’ a spirit who returns to avenge an injustice to women, but uses the the actions of a military government that resulted in the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Scott Monahan
Starring: Christopher Corey Smith | Dakota Loesch | Scott Monahan
Diane says: “First film from collaborators Scott Monahan and Dakota Loesch, ANCHORAGE was shot in five days with a crew of ten. The director and writer also play the two leads, brothers who hit the road to sell a huge
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martyn Robertson
Diane says: “RIDE THE WAVE (Martyn Robertson directs his debut doc) had something for both me and my sweetheart!: Scotland and surfing. WAVE hits highlights and lowlights of three years with Ben Larg, a young Scottish surfer who competes on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Kuei-Mei Yang | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi Cheng Lee. Yi Chieh Lee | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “After seeing the great director Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, DAYS, I decided to go back and watch his previous film, and the only of his features that I hadn’t seen, STRAY DOGS. Interestingly enough, while I was braced
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ebs Burnough
Philip says: “Truman blazed a trail with his genius all the while figuring out how to overcompensate for the differences in his persona – his size, his sexuality, his speech. I commend him for being out without any attempt at
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andreas Fontana
Starring: Alexandre Trocki | Carmen Iriondo | Elli Medeiros | Fabrizio Rongione | Pablo Torre Nilson | Stéphanie Cléau
Chris says: “Nearly as dry as Bresson, Andreas Fontana’s Buenos Aires, 1980-set film implores one to put in the work into figuring out what it’s all about. Shots of a boat traveling down a foreboding stretch of river reminded me
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Chang-Bin Jen | Chao-jung Chen | Kang-sheng Lee | Tien Miao | Yi-ching Lu | Yu-Wen Wang
Michael says: “When Chris mentioned recently that he caught Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD, I realized that I too had never gone back to watch this film from one of my favorite directors. What I perhaps
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elaine May
Starring: Aharon Ipalé | Carol Kane | Charles Grodin | Dustin Hoffman | Isabelle Adjani | Jack Weston | Tess Harper | Warren Beatty
Michael says: “Notorious as one of moviedom’s biggest flops, Elaine May’s comedy of errors that puts two befuddled wanna-be songwriters wandering the desert outside of Morocco entangled in a complicated political plot involving the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Brandon De Wilde | Crahan Denton | John Ashley | Melvyn Douglas | Patricia Neal | Paul Newman | Whit Bissell
Michael says: “This pseudo-Western from the early 60’s is very reminiscent of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, from 8 years later. Both are based in Texas, and both focus on the end of an era. While PICTURE SHOW shows the decline
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