Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeremy Workman
Brett says: “The title of the documentary SECRET MALL APARTMENT might appear to tell a person everything one needs to know, as four creative adults find an anomaly in the architecture of a local Providence mega-mall in the early 2000s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Starring: Durian Lollobrigida | Hio Miyazawa | Iori Wada | Ryohei Suzuki | Yûko Nakamura
Michael says: “I’m always happy when PIFF keeps the ‘I’ for international in mind during programming. This powerful Japanese film, EGOIST, turned out to be one of my top films of the festival, and one that I felt confident in recommending
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Deniz Celiloglu | Ece Bagci | Erdem Senocak | Merve Dizdar | Musab Ekici
Michael says: “I wavered between 4 and 4 1/2 cats for this 3 hour+ examination of misanthropy, truth, and isolation from master filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, before leaning to the near perfect. Could be because I have a penchant for
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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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