Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Dan Bakkedahl | Jillian Bell | Jon Bass | Lynn Shelton | Marc Maron | Michaela Watkins | Toby Huss
Chris says: “Lynn Shelton’s first feature in five years (she’s directed a lot of TV in the interim) might be her best. Cynthia (Jillian Bell) and her partner Mary (Michaela Watkins) return to the former’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama to
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Starring: Andrzej Konopka | Jakub Gierszal | Kinga Preis | Marta Mazurek | Michalina Olszanska
Lorraine says:”I saw THE LURE at the Nashville Film Festival. What a fun and wild ride. A retelling of the mermaid story. On the one hand, it might feel like a lot of everything — it is mermaids and vampires
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Adam Driver | Golshifteh Farahani | Method Man | Nellie | Rizwan Manji | TrevParham | William Jackson Harper
Thom says: “Jim Jarmusch has had a long, storied, varied, nearly historic career with few missteps. PERMANENT VACATION (1980) (2 cats), STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984) (4.5 cats), DOWN BY LAW (1986) (5 cats), MYSTERY TRAIN (1989) (5 cats), NIGHT ON
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Julien Faraut
Starring: documentary
Beth Ca says: “I saw this film at the Provincetown Film Festival this summer and loved it. It’s a spectacular film, especially with the editing and visual design (it is winning awards for editing, and other categories). The film uses
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Agnès Varda | JR
Starring: documentary
Chris says: “Given that 2008’s THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS was supposed to be Agnès Varda’s swan song, we’re just lucky at all to get one more film from the now 89-year-old Godmother of the French New Wave. And while this
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Carolyn Saint-Pé | Emma Stone | James Smith | Mark Gatiss | Nicholas Hoult | Olivia Colman | Rachel Weisz | William Dalby
Thom says: “In nine short years Greek director Lanthimos has vaulted to my TOP 10 Living Directors. I’ve been unable to find his first two features MY BEST FRIEND and KINETTA, but his five films that followed have all received
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ian Bonhôte | Peter Ettedgui
Starring: documentary
Julie says: “This was a very well done doc. I recommend it. I think it painted a very clear, honest, intriguing and endearing portrait of Susanne Bartsch’s life and those around her as well as the important times in which
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Kirin Kiki | Lily Franky | Mayu Matsuoka | Sakura Andô
Chris says: “Naming a favorite film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is like doing the same for his closest progenitor, Yasujiro Ozu–nearly impossible, given their tendencies to revisit and refine themes of domesticity and humanism while maintaining a higher-than-average consistency.
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Carlose Peralta | Daniela Demes | Diego Cortina Autrey | Marco Graf | Marina de Tavira | Yalitza Aparicio
Brett says: “Jaw-dropping cinematography perfectly fits a form-follows-function approach in which the audience eavesdrops and hovers around the tale, which is a sort of ominous love letter or thank-you note to the voiceless. Clearly a personal film for director Alfonso
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: David Lowery
Starring: Casey Affleck | Kesha | Rooney Mara
Brett says: “The films that stand the test of time are the ones we take home with us long after we’ve had the pleasure of experiencing them. A GHOST STORY is a visual narrative that explores the very concept of
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