Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Thibault Emin
Starring: Edith Proust | Lika Minamoto | Matthieu Sampeur
Brett says: “From director Thibault Emin, ELSE is a rather strange entry into the body horror genre, even for a genre that is usually rife with weirdness as is. The narrative begins a bit conventionally at first as a couple—Anx
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Niclas Larsson
Starring: Ellen Burstyn | Ewan McGregor | Lara Flynn Boyle | Rhys Ifans | Taylor Russell
Diane says: “Mother (Ellen Burstyn) has plunked herself down on a couch in a furniture store and refuses to get up. Her youngest son David (Ewan McGregor) is torn between tending to his mother and trying to get to his daughter’s birthday
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kit Zauhar
Starring: Ian Edlund | Jessie Pinnick | Kit Zauhar | Zane Pais
Michael says: “A couple who probably shouldn’t be together, travel from NYC to Philly for Ben’s high school reunion. He and girlfriend Tessa, are sharing an Airbnb with host, Adam, who’s socially awkward that just adds to the discomfort of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fred G. Sullivan
Starring: Don Samuels | James Hogue | Jan Jalenak | Jon Granik | Judith Mayes
Brett says: “It’s not often a film appears out of nowhere that feels almost completely lost to time and actually makes one rethink film-making structure. A BEER DRINKER’S GUIDE is largely a comedy, part autobiography, part documentary, part avant garde,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ali Kalthami
Starring: Abo Salu | Hajar Alshammari | Mohamad Aldokhei | Mohammed Altawyan | Morouj
Michael says: “After making a dozen or more short films, writer/director Ali Kalthami has made his first feature film, where desperation meets opportunity, embodied by a man who spends long hours in his car, delivering a variety of products after
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christopher Wilcha
Chris says: “Chris Wilcha, who worked as a producer on the TV version of THIS AMERICAN LIFE has numerous unfinished projects scattered throughout his career. This documentary, ostensibly about the still-hanging-on, small-town New Jersey record store he worked in as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dominic Savage
Starring: Elliot Page | Hillary Baack | Janet Porter | Peter Outerbridge | Wendy Crewson
Chris says: “When Elliot Page announced his transition, I was curious as to how this might change his acting career; his first major film role since then does suggest a new phase, returning to the small-scale, nuanced indie dramas that showcased his
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ninna Pálmadóttir
Starring: Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir | Hermann Samúelsson | Jóel Sæmundsson | Jóhann Jónsson | Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson
Michael says: “It’s not an international film festival without a moody, introspective Icelandic film, and Pálmadóttir’s debut feature, SOLITUDE fits the bill beautiful, but as is often the case, such as in 2019’s riveting tale of grief, A WHITE, WHITE DAY,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Thea Hvistendahl
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Bahar Pars | Bjørn Sundquist | Denise Trankalis | Renate Reinsve
Julie says: “It had been a long day, having arrived at the Coolidge at 4:30 pm for MY OWN NORMAL, then seeing the heart string tugging SING SING and most of the Q&A for that. As I was almost exiting
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daina Oniunas-Pusic
Starring: Arinzé Kene | Ellie James | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Leah Harvey | Lola Petticrew
Val says: “The anthropomorphizing of death is not a new storytelling concept. But Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s story isn’t called ‘Death,’ it’s called ‘TUESDAY and in this film the talking death-parrot is a foil to her. It felt like a new take
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