Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Thom says: “I knew exactly what I was getting and was genuinely amazed from start to finish. Gorgeous to look at like a Jacques Demy fever dream & if you are completely ready to fall sway to a most faithful
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joel Potrykus
Kyle says: “BUZZARD is the story of a slacker and scam artist who does not get his comeuppance. I propose it as the first in an offshoot of the Slacker Genre called the Quadruple A Scam Artist Sub-Genre: Amoral, Asocial,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Starring: Abraham Attah | Anna K. Abebrese | Emmanual Affadzi | Idris Elba | Kobina Amissah-Weddey
Jason says: “Horror is assumed going into a film like BEASTS OF NO NATION; the audience knows about child soldiers and African chaos on a factual level and has perhaps steeled itself for that. Filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga never missteps
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jody Lee Lipes
Kyle says: “The title BALLET 422 references its creation as the 422nd new ballet for New York City Ballet, that number seeming to overwhelm choreographer Justin Peck’s youth, experience, and amount of time allotted to create said ballet. The brilliance
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Adam Nagaitis | Barry Keoghan | Jack Lowden | Jack O'Connell | Joshua Hill | Paul Popplewell
Kyle says: “Recipient of various international film festival awards as well as BAFTA nominations for Best British Film and Outstanding Debut, Yann Demange’s ’71 is a superlative U.K. political thriller about ‘the troubles’ in Belfast prior to Bloody Sunday in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | David Sibley | Dolly Wells | Geraldine James | Sam Alexander | Tom Courtenay
Bruce says: “Haigh’s feature follow-up to the critically acclaimed WEEKEND (not counting the ill-fated TV series, LOOKING), demonstrates his artistic consistency. Charlotte Rampling is nothing short of sensational as a wife whose 45th wedding anniversary celebration is skewered by ghosts
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Carlos Marques-Marquet
Starring: David Verdaguer | Natalia Tena
Kyle says: “10,000 KM is a film I do not want to belittle with faint praise, especially since there are so few titles out there worth seeing at all. So I apologize in advance if I write that this is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Gaby Hoffman | Keene McRae | Laura Dern | Michiel Huisman | Reese Witherspoon | Thomas Sadoski
Thom says: “I’d noticed the Cheryl Strayed account of her 1,100 mile solo hike on the Pacific Coast Trail in 1995 atop or near the top of national Best Seller lists (It’s still #4 on the New York Times Paperback
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sion Sono
Jason says: “So it’s come to this: The festival program describes Sion Sono’s latest as an ode to 35mm cinema, and while ‘ode’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘requiem’, it’s often not far off. Fortunately, even if this is a eulogy for
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Bruce says: “Joanna Hogg in an early interview talks freely about her first film, UNRELATED, winner of the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize at the 2007 London Film Festival. Trained as a photographer, Hogg worked in British television
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