Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Chris says: “THE ACT OF KILLING is a tough act to follow, let alone surpass, but director Joshua Oppenheimer does just that with THE LOOK OF SILENCE. Billed as a sequel, it’s actually more of a companion piece: whereas the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ronit Elkabetz | Shlomi Elkabetz
Starring: Eli Gornstein | Menashe Noy | Ronit Elkabetz | Sasson Gabai | Simon Abkarian
Michael says: “If the colloquial definition of insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,’ then surely Vivane Amsalem is feeling pretty insane by the end of GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM. She’s probably
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Kyle says: “FUTURO BEACH is in danger of being swallowed into the niche sinkhole of gay cinema, and being dismissed for a strict, even boring tri-partite formal structure, bookended by men on motorcycles. That would be a lamentable fate for
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Bruce says: “My first note for FROM AFAR reads ‘out of focus.’ Little did I know when I wrote it how important focus would be in describing the psychological nature of the protagonist, Armando, played by Alfredo Costa (NO, TONY
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Christian Braad Thomsen
Thom says: “I received 2 free tickets to features at the current LGBT Film Festival so I was thrilled to attend. This film was decidedly difficult to rate because of my obvious subjectivity. Fassbinder is my favorite director for my
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Peter Strickland
Starring: Chiara d'Anna | Kate Bartsh | Monica Swinn | Sidse Babett Knudsen | Zita Kraszkó
Jason says: “It’s tempting to interpret the characters’ behavior in THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY in terms of closets and shame; it’s sort of the default for this period and would probably be a fascinating way to play it. Peter Strickland
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Marielle Heller
Chris says: “I’ve seen enough coming-of-age films to contribute to a Chlotrudis poll about them, but I’ve seen nothing quite like THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL: funny, intense and sexually graphic in equal measures, it’s also a period piece,
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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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