Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Akin Aksu | Bennu Yildirimlar | Dogu Demirkol | Hazar Ergüçlü | Murat Cemcir | Öner Erkan | Serkan Keskin
Michael says: “I am a big fan of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, despite the dense, sometimes inscrutable films he makes with running times sometimes well over three hours. His first film, DISTANT, plays like a sober, languid, dramatic version
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: François Périer | Henri Crémieux | Jean Marais | Juliette Gréco | María Casares | Marie Déa | Roger Blin
Michael says: “Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, ORPHEUS was the sixth of only eight narrative films that Jean Cocteau directed, the most famous of which, of course, is BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Cocteau’s ORPHEUS revolves around
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Starring: Gaby Hoffman | Jon Tenney | Laura Linney | Mark Ruffalo | Matthew Broderick | Rory Culkin
Michael says: “After watching SPOTLIGHT, and ruminating on Mark Ruffalo as an actor, and how people just seem to go gaga over him, but I find him… fine, I decided to go back to the first film I saw him
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dan Chen
Vicki says: “ACCEPTED is a provocative and timely documentary. What makes it stand out is its bizarre number of unexpected turns. Chen follows four students as he begins his profile of the TM Landry Prep school where all students achieve
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kristian Petri | Kristina Lindström
Julie says: “Documentary about Bjorn Andresen and the effects of fame thrust upon him when he was cast in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film Death In Venice Story at just 15. His past and present are more interesting than one might
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christopher Amos
Philip says: “I found the new documentary HATING PETER TATCHELL fascinating. I knew who Peter was and often see his name online, but his life story surprised and impressed me. Hailing from Australia, Tatchell’s made the U.K. his home for the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francine Parker
Philip says: “This nearly lost 1972 documentary, F.T.A.focuses on the Free Theater Associates, an anti-war variety show offering up an alternative to Bob Hope’s sexist revue as F.T.A. performs at Pan Pacific U.S. military bases. The idea came to Jane Fonda and Donald
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Coe | Warwick Ross
Vicki says: “In the Q and A, the director stole my opening line, ‘This is the wine version of COOL RUNNINGS.’ An unlikely quartet of refugees from Zimbabwe end up in South Africa where they get jobs in restaurants, often
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nanfu Wang
Cheryl says: “Absolutely harrowing, very brave filmmaking from director Nanfu Wang (ONE CHILD NATION), this doc is an essential chronicle of the origins of the virus. It’s literally like reliving what happened here, just when things are finally reopening. I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicol Ruiz Benavides
Starring: Claudia Devia | Cristóbal Ruiz | Gabriela Arancibia | Raúl López Leyton | Romana Satt | Rosa Ramírez
Michael says: “When Claudina’s husband of many years dies, she soon finds herself in a challenging predicament, having to go live with her daughter and grandson in the countryside of Chile where we was raised. In this small village, everyone
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