Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Starring: Boris Isakovic | Boris Ler | Dino Bajrovic | Emir Hadzihafizbegovic | Izudin Bajrovic | Jasna Djuricic | Johan Heldenbergh | Raymond Thiry
Bob says: “In 1995, during the Bosnian war, the UN has declared the town of Srebrenica a safe haven and set up a base of Dutch peacekeepers. The Serbs, despite an ultimatum from the UN, continue to advance on the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Angela Bassett | David Strathairn | Mary McDonnell | Nancy Mette | Nora Dunn | Sheila Kelley | Vondie Curtis-Hall
Michael says: “I can’t believe that it’s been nearly 30 years since John Sayles directed his eighth feature, the glorious PASSION FISH. Sayles was a top independent writer/director at the time, already having produced such work as MATEWAN, EIGHT MEN
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Roseanne Liang
Starring: Benedict Wall | Beulah Koale | Callan Mulvey | Chloë Grace Moretz | Nick Robinson | Taylor John Smith
Jeff says: “My 10-year-old Mom could have watched SHADOW IN THE CLOUD serialized on the screen at the Billings movie theater where she spent many of her Saturday afternoons. The cliffhangers, the edge-of-the-seat thrills, the non-stop action, the heroism and
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kogonada
Starring: Erin Allegretti | Haley Lu Richardson | John Cho | Michelle Forbes | Parker Posey | Rory Culkin | Shani Salyers Stiles
Michael says: “Jin, a Korean book translator, is called to Columbus, Indiana, where his father, a famous scholar of architecture on a speaking tour, has suffered a stroke, or some other debilitating ailment. He resents that he needs to stay
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Johnny Mills | Kevin Collins | Pete Lee-Wilson | Philip MacDonald | Spencer Leigh | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Of my three most influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock taught me that beauty, complexity, and suspense can have a place in a mass-marketed film. Pedro Almodóvar taught me the importance of family, absurdity in story, and the strength
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Debbie Morgan | Diahann Carroll | Ethel Ayler | Jake Smollett | Jurnee Smollett | Lynn Whitfield | Meagan Good | Samuel L. Jackson | Vondie Curtis-Hall
Philip says: “Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson star in this Kasi Lemmons melodrama based in Louisiana during the 1950’s. This film would be a perfect double feature paired with LAKAWANNA BLUES. Lemmons channels a bit of Tennessee Williams as she
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Andrew Tiernan | Dudley Sutton | Jerome Flynn | Jody Graber | John Lynch | Kevin Collins | Nigel Terry | Steven Waddington | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Derek Jarman is a revolutionary filmmaker. I hate to think of him in the past tense. If you don’t understand the enormous vacuum that was left from the devastation of AIDS, watch Jarman’s EDWARD II, nearly 20 years
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Brenda Fricker | Kristin Booth | Mary-Colin Chisholm | Michael McPhee | Olympia Dukakis | Ryan Doucette
Philip says: “CLOUDBURST literally bursts on the screen with a powerhouse career-defining performance from 80 year-old Olympia Dukakis. Dukakis and Brenda Flicker (both Academy Award winning actors) play a lesbian couple who’ve been together for 31 years. Fricker’s character, Dot
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Danièle Thompson
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christopher Thompson | Claude Rich | Emmanuelle Béart | Françoise Fabian | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Sabine Azéma
Philip says: “Over the past ten years, LA BÛCHE has become a perennial holiday favorite of mine. A score by Michel Legrand containing classic Christmas songs from the 50’s and 60’s, family dysfunction, honesty, anger, and of course a lot
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Aiden Malik | Bria Vinaite | Brooklynn Prince | Christopher Rivera | Valeria Cotto | Willem Dafoe
Philip says: “I wish I had seen Sean Baker’s (TANGERINE) film, THE FLORIDA PROJECT before the Oscars. I would have cheered it on. Baker’s gritty realism witnessed in his stunning Tangerine turns out not to be a flash in the
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