Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aslaug Holm | Thomas Robsahm
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kogonada
Starring: Colin Farrell | Haley Lu Richardson | Jodie Turner-Smith | Justin H. Min | Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja | Sarita Choudhury
Michael says: “After the gorgeous simplicity of Kogonada’s Chlotrudis Awards-nominated previous film, COLUMBUS, I’m not sure what I was expecting with this follow-up, starring a big name star like Colin Farrell. Of course, Farrell was so powerful in THE LOBSTER,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Starring: Dae-Young Jin | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Masaki Okada | Reika Kirishima | Satoko Abe | Sonia Yuan | Tôko Miura | Yoo-Rim Park
Michael says: “Sometimes a film receives so much critical praise because it just that good. DRIVE MY CAR, which writer/director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami with co-screenwriter Takamasa Oe is one such film. My experience
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Amir Jadidi | Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy | Mohsen Tanabandeh | Sahar Goldoust
Michael says: “Asghar Farhadi is the master of the ethical quandary. His complex stories put people in situations where they just can’t win, whether they are trying to do good, or acting in their own self-interest. And that’s the real
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mélanie Delloye
Starring: Antoine Chain | Julie Judd | Samantha Markowic | Sébastien Drouet
Diane says: “Debut feature by French-Colombian filmmaker Melanie Delloye. Siblings return home to their 80-year-old father’s mansion in Reims to persuade him to sell the house–for his own good, of course! The family members are leery of each other, and
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Bobby Daniel Rodriguez | Christopher Lambert | Ethan Simpson | Joe Hernandez | Julianne Moore | Ken Watanabe | Noe Hernandez | Olek Krupa | Ryo Kase | Sebastian Koch | Tenoch Huerta
Thom says: “Adapted from the Ann Patchett international best-seller this film is a powerful drama with tragic implications. A world famous opera diva (always great Moore) is hired to perform for a wealthy South American industrialist when in the midst
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Chalres D. Brown | Charles Waldron | Dorothy Malone | John Ridgely | Lauren Bacall | Martha Vickers | Peggy Knudsen | Regis Toomey | umphrey Bogart
Michael says: “Not the first, but perhaps the most famous (despite the 1980’s pop song) of the Bogie and Bacall films, I have a vague recollection that I may have seen all or part of THE BIG SLEEP over twenty
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