Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Ali Larter | Holland Taylor | Jennifer Coolidge | Luke Wilson | Matthew Davis | Reese Witherspoon | Selma Blair | Victor Garber
Philip says: “LEGALLY BLONDE is my pass. It’s my one ridiculously pulpy Hollywood comedy I get to swoon over without any flack from friends or family. We all deserve one pass and LEGALLY BLONDE is mine. What starts out as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mariem Pérez Riera
Philip says: “Rita fought racism, sexism, and typecasting to become an icon, a legend – someone for young Hispanic people to look up to. She continues to provide a roadmap of what is possible. And she did it by making
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Bokuzen Hidari | Haruo Tanaka | Miki Odagiri | Minoru Chiaki | Shin'ichi Himori | Takashi Shimura
Michael says: “I’m on a bit of a movie binge, partly due to the Brattle Theatre’s most excellent podcast, which I should have started listening to over a year ago. But it is inspiring me to catch up on a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Starring: Attilia Boschetti | Cristian Mercado | Haydeé Cáceres | Humberto Cavero | José Chacaltana | Manolo Cardona | Maria Edelmira Palomino | Tatiana Astengo
Michael says: “Gentle and understated, but with real emotion that resonates, Javier Fuentes-León’s debut feature UNDERTOW touches upon love, death, and what it means to be a man in South America. Set in a visually stunning village on the coast
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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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