Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tina Satter
Starring: Benny Elledge | John Way | Josh Hamilton | Marchánt Davis | Sydney Sweeney
Chris says: “If one can successfully adapt a screenplay from a Twitter thread a la ZOLA, then one can also do so from an FBI recording. This rolls out straightforwardly until it doesn’t; Sydney Sweeney also nails the (at first,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Arian Moayed | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Michaela Watkins | Owen Teague | Tobias Menzies
Chris says: “It takes some skill to get something this masterfully funny and humane from such a potentially inconsequential premise. Has a superb cast (Tobias Menzies, Owen Teague, Michaela Watkins), but can Julia Louis-Dreyfus please just star in all of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francisca Alegria
Starring: Benjamin Soto | Enzo Ferrada Rosati | Frederique Gudelj | Leonor Varela | Mia Maestro
Michael says: “This debut feature from Chile is a magical realist fable that tackles a lot of issues with a cryptic story that’s pretty indecipherable, but it’s beautiful to look at and sounds great, and the themes around rebirth, environment
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Allison Otto
Julie says: “I was engaged from beginning to end. Truth can definitely be stranger than fiction. Some things you may see coming, others (at least one) not so much! Worth a watch! “Glenn Howerton was in this who I did not
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Davina Pardo | Leah Wolchok
Julie says: “When watching this time capsule doc on Judy Blume and an interesting story of her career and life there’s a scene that it so much like a scene in THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE, I had a big
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: Edward Rowe | Flo Crowe | Joe Gray | John Woodvine | Loveday Twomlow | Mary Woodvine
Jeff says: “ENYS MEN (i.e., ‘mane’, the phrase meaning stone island in Cornish, according to the Guardian) follows a naturalist through her daily ritual, each morning observing the soil temperature around and any change in the appearance of a cluster
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Inna Sahakyan
Michael says: “A fascinating, beautifully recounted documentary about a teenaged girl who survived losing her family, enduring rape and slavery during the Armenian genocide, only to end up in the manipulative mechanisms of Hollywood. Aurora Mardiganian survived months of marching
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chie Hayakawa
Starring: Chieko Baisho | Hayato Isomura | Stefanie Arianne | Taka Takao | Yumi Kawai
Michael says: “The best speculative fiction can illuminate both flaws and beauty of the human condition,. Chie Hayakawa’s adaptation of a story by Jason Gray does this beautifully in a gentle but sobering examination of the worth of a human being
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Estefanía Contreras | Miguel Drake-McLaughlin | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños
Chris says: “Best friends Silva and Estefania (nicknamed ‘Beba’) are two teenagers in Laredo, Texas. They engage in typical activities for their age: hanging out at the convenience store parking lot, sneaking past the gates of vacant or abandoned homes, sitting
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Glorimar Marrero Sanchez
Starring: Georgina Borri | Magali Carrasquillo | Maximiliano Rivas | Modesto Lacen | sel Rodriguez
Diane says: “This is my 10th film ‘at’ Sundance. “Noelia is a native of Vieques, an island of Puerto Rico that the US Navy used as a bombing test site for decades–and left the trash behind. In early midlife, Noelia,
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