Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cassie Keet
Starring: Jordan Lane Shappell | Molly Jackson | Olivia Taylor Dudley | Riley Dandy | Shayn Herndon
Brett says: “Real-life-based horror doesn’t always need to check the box of the horror genre to send a chill down one’s spine. Sometimes, it’s the weight of memory, trauma, and belief that proves more unsettling. ABIGAIL BEFORE BEATRICE is such
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sophie Hyde
Starring: Aud Mason-Hyde | Daniel Henshall | Eamon Farren | John Lithgow | Olivia Colman
Michael says: “My brief Letterboxd review states: “Highly personal intergenerational queer story that is intimate and moving. Some really nice touches.” That pretty much sums it up, but I’ll go a little further here. First, I hadn’t realized going in that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kim A. Snyder
Michael says: “Who knew that the changing political climate of the last several years would fid librarians on the front lines of the battle for intellectual freedom? I guess librarians did, but not to the extent that many school and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lindsay Utz | Michelle Walshe
Diane says: :Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is on a book tour for her memoir -and- is hitting movie screens in a just-released doc. Much of PRIME MINISTER’s footage was shot by her partner Clarke, who couldn’t keep
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joshua Erkman
Starring: Ashley Smith | David Yow | Kai Lennox | Ray Sherman | Sarah Lind
Jeff says: “Alex Clark (Kai Lennox) is a formerly renowned documentary photographer. He produced, long ago, a handsome coffee table book featuring stark, black and white portraits of derelict military bases, abandoned subdivisions, crumbling warehouses, and seedy motels set amid
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Constance Tsang
Starring: Damien Brown | Haipeng Xu | Kang-sheng Lee | Ke-Xi Wu | Yvonne YF Chan
Michael says: “Low-key and understated, but writer/director Constance Tsang’s debut feature, packs a strong emotional punch. The film features a lengthy prologue that leads you to believe that one character is the lead, then switches after a surprising turn of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Minh Quy Truong
Starring: Duy Bao Dinh Dao | Ho Lan Le | Thanh Hai Pham | Thi Nga Nguyen | Viet Tung Le
Chris says: “Almost a tone poem in its slower-than-Tsai Ming-liang pace, it’s often as if viewing a familiar world through foreign eyes with its arresting but rarely “pretty” imagery. Requires a second watch but one I’ll be eager to make.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Braverman
Diane says: “‘Is this for real?’ That’s the most common response to any of Andy Kaufman’s acts. And that’s one of the questions that the doc THANK YOU VERY MUCH wants to answer. The other is, who was Andy Kaufman
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fleur Fortune
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Charlotte Ritchie | Elizabeth Olsen | Himesh Patel | Indira Varma
Adam says: “Extremely GATTACA-coded (complimentary). 4 cats“
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Rating: 3.625 cats | 4 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Chris says: “Where to begin with PAVEMENTS? Is it a vehicle meant to document the famed 1990s indie-rock quintet Pavement as they reunite and rehearse for a 2022 tour? A biopic of the band casting the likes of Joe Keery
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