a-ha: The Movie (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aslaug Holm | Thomas Robsahm
After Yang (2022)
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,
Read the review...Drive My Car (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...A Hero (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...The Estate (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Bel Canto (2018)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...The Big Sleep (1946)
By Michael Colford
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
Read the review...The Seventh Seal (1957)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bengt Ekerot | Bibi Andersson | Gunnar Björnstrand | Inga Gill | Max von Sydow | Nils Poppe
Michael says: “It was the 17th film Bergman directed, but it was his breakout. Based on his play, ‘Transitions’ THE SEVENTH SEAL follows a knight, Antonious Block, returning from the Crusades with his squire, to find his homeland ravaged by
Read the review...The Cremator (1969)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Juraj Herz
Starring: Eduard Kohout | Helena Anýzová | Ilja Prachar | Jirí Lír | Jirí Menzel | Míla Myslíková | Milos Vognic | Rudolf Hrusínský | Václav Stekl | Vladimír Mensík | Vlasta Chramostová
Thom says: “Out-of-hand I see all Criterion releases that come out if previously not watched by me. Most of their releases are anywhere from good to extraordinary (although very occasionally they are poor) and this one is an outright masterpiece.
Read the review...12 Angry Men (1957)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: E. G. Marshall | Ed Begley | Edward Binns | George Voskovec | Henry Fonda | Jack Klugman | Jack Warden | John Fiedler | Joseph Sweeney | Lee J. Cobb | Martin Balsam | Robert Webber
Chris says: “I don’t know why it took me so long to watch this. Sure, you can adequately summarize it in one or two sentences, but how it gets from point A to point B conveys Sidney Lumet’s mastery of
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