Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alon Schwarz
Diane says: “Were hundreds of Palestinians massacred in their village of Tantura in 1948? Director Alon Schwarz has created an investigation into a prior scholarly investigation into an incident in Israel’s War of Independence. His ‘star’ is Teddy Katz, whose graduate
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Barry Koeghan | Brendan Gleeson | Colin Farrell | Gary Lydon | Kerry Condon
Brett says: “Martin McDonagh paradoxically blasts the audience with deadpan in another highly ironic and character-driven film that adds to an already near-pristine catalog of acclaimed hits from the director. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN fits snugly into what might be
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Machoian
Starring: Carl Kennedy | Clayne Crawford | Colt Crawford | Hix Crawford | Jordana Brewster
Brett says: “Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting toxic masculinity. “Following up a powerful success of THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS, director Robert Machoian returns with THE INTEGRITY OF JOSEPH CHAMBERS, which tangles itself up into several knots of frustration,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Denis Ménochet | Hanna Schygulla | Isabelle Adjani | Khalil Ben Gharbia | Stefan Crepon
Chris says: “This is how you remake Fassbinder, gender-switched (or not): cast a boisterous lead (Denis Menochet) who could play him in a biopic and include a glorious running sight gag like poor, dear silent slave-twink Karl (Stefan Crepon). 4
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Amber Midthunder | Bethany Anne Lind | Carly Nykanen | Nelson Lee | Taylor Gray
Michael says: “I watched THE WHEEL for one reason: the female lead is played by Amber Midthunder, who captivated me in her role as Kerry, who shares a body with her brother Cary, played by Bill Irwin, in the Marvel
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lena Dunham
Starring: Andrew Scott | Bella Ramsey | Billie Piper | Dean-Charles Chapman | Isis Hainsworth | Joe Alwyn | Sophie Okonedo
Brett says: “Writer/Director Lena Dunham returns to the big screen with CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY, a witty adaptation of the book of the same name by Karen Cushman. In this work, a 14-year old girl in medieval England undergoes the challenges
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zachary Wigon
Starring: Christopher Abbott | Margaret Qualley
Brett says: “SANCTUARY explores power, identity, and trauma through a peculiar sexual relationship with a unique cinematic reality-bender format. There are only two featured characters, a dominant female sex worker and submissive male executive who finds himself struggling to find
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Aimee Lou Wood | Alex Sharp | Bill Nighy | Lia Williams | Tom Burke | Zoe Boyle
Brett says: “Bill Nighy plays Mr. Williams in an English adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s IKIRU. Mr. Williams has been a proper gentleman bureaucrat during his many years employed at the County Hall office. The tradeoff is that it has been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Bedwani
Thom says: “This is certainly going to be one of the most fun reviews to write ever (or so I thought). When my brother Chuk and I moved from Fell Street to our wonderful new apartment on Laguna Street, the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hlynur Palmason
Starring: Birta Gunnarsdóttir | Friðrik Friðriksson | Hilmar Guðjónsson | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Ísar Svan Gautason
Brett says: “A very ambitious and breathtaking film, director Hlynur Pálmason’s third (and best) feature film to date goes for a full blown epic on the topic of colonialism, setting the film GODLAND in the 19th century during the dawn of photography.
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