Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tallulah Schwab
Starring: Bjørn Sundquist | Crispin Glover | Dearbhla Molloy | Fionnula Flanagan | Sunnyi Melles
Brett says: “Finally, a movie for those of us trapped in our own respective minds! But wait, surely there have been others featuring this concept, right? Did I just make a fool of myself? How do I get out of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Gabrielle Brady
Brett says: “In THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT, Director Gabrielle Brady offers a documentary-fiction hybrid that is sure to appeal to fans of the unique genre. The subjects are members of a family of herders in rural Mongolia who
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Levan Akin
Starring: Deniz Dumanli | Levan Bochorishvili | Lucas Kankava | Mzia Arabuli | Nino Karchava
Michael says: “As a follow-up to his beautiful film, AND THEN WE DANCED, Levan Akin creates another powerful, humanistic drama in CROSSING. Again focusing on the Georgian community, this time Akin follows his cast to Istanbul and a retired teacher looking
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Chris says: “Sifting through and reminiscing about one’s own past is easy; contextualizing these memories and enabling them to resonate with an audience is trickier, as one has likely experienced in many an autobiographical narrative or essay film (Chris Marker
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeremy Workman
Brett says: “The title of the documentary SECRET MALL APARTMENT might appear to tell a person everything one needs to know, as four creative adults find an anomaly in the architecture of a local Providence mega-mall in the early 2000s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Starring: Durian Lollobrigida | Hio Miyazawa | Iori Wada | Ryohei Suzuki | Yûko Nakamura
Michael says: “I’m always happy when PIFF keeps the ‘I’ for international in mind during programming. This powerful Japanese film, EGOIST, turned out to be one of my top films of the festival, and one that I felt confident in recommending
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Deniz Celiloglu | Ece Bagci | Erdem Senocak | Merve Dizdar | Musab Ekici
Michael says: “I wavered between 4 and 4 1/2 cats for this 3 hour+ examination of misanthropy, truth, and isolation from master filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, before leaning to the near perfect. Could be because I have a penchant for
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ondi Timoner
Diane says: “For viewers interested in death and dying, LAST FLIGHT HOME is a powerful film. Documentarian Ondi Timoner wasn’t expecting to make a movie—she just habitually films everything in her family’s life. But when she began to create a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ruben Öslund
Starring: Charlbi Dean | Dolly De Leon | Harris Dickinson | Jorma Björkman | Vicki Berlin | Woody Harrelson | Zlatko Buric
Brett says: “A follow-up from director Ruben Öslund’s FORCE MAJEURE, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is a dark satire that some will call ingenious layering and build, while others will leave scratching their heads with doubt as to how anyone could praise
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Adam Driver | Ben Affleck | Harriet Walter | Jodie Comer | Matt Damon
Thom says: “I certainly did not go into this film with any extraordinary expectations other than the presence of Adam Driver (and he is, as usual, impeccably brilliant). Director Ridley Scott has had a remarkably diverse career of such varied
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