Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Cary Grant | Doris Nolan | Edward Everett Horton | Katherine Hepburn | Lew Ayers
Thom says: “Maybe it was my effusive mood but this pure professional comedy romance entranced me. While not a gigantic fan of neither Cary Grant nor Katherine Hepburn they click together with such an authentic force (BRINGING UP BABY, THE
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Elena Rufanova | Eva Mattes | Leonid Mozgovoy | Peter Fitz
Thom says: “After having found FATHER & SON so provocative I decided to delve further into the Sokurov cannon. Hopefully this film will be a great companion piece to DOWNFALL, which I hope to see in the next two weeks.
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Jacques Perrin | Jean Marais | Micheline Presle
Hilary says: “I encourage the local membership to go see DONKEY SKIN (Peau d’âne) at the Brattle this week — it’s a trippy good time! “Stylistically, Jacques Demy’s adaptation of a 17th-century fairy tale is somewhere between CAMELOT and WILLY WONKA
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Rick Sebac
Rob says: “Children’s show host and bastion of goodness Fred Rogers, the Presbyterian minister who became an American institution, is the subject of this wonderfully thorough and thoroughly wonderful tribute, made shortly after his death in February 2003. Hosted by
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Starring: Emma Thompson | Hugh Dancy | John Lithgow | Mindy Kaling
Thom says: “I had rather high expecta tions for this film, but still was thrilled at how much I enjoyed it. Director Ganatra has had lots of television experience, but previously her features were lackluster. But a great (if cookie-cutter)
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sébastien Marnier
Starring: Emmanuelle Bercot | Laurent Lafitte | Luàna Bajrami | Pascal Greggory | Victor Bonnel
Thom says: “Director Marnier has made only one previous unseen feature FAULTLESS (2016) so I had no idea what to expect here & I was enthralled with this dark surprise. The film largely takes place within the confines of a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jan Komasa
Starring: Aleksandra Konieczna | Bartosz Bielenia | Eliza Rycembel | Tomasz Zietek
Diane says: “I saw CORPUS CHRISTI, a Polish film from Film Movement, online via my local theater. Nom’ed for Best International Film for the Oscars, it’s about a young man who leaves juvenile prison and takes on a new identity
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Liz Garbus
Starring: Amy Ryan | Gabriel Byrne | Lola Kirke | Thomasin McKenzie
Michael says: “LOST GIRLS is based on true events surrounding the Long Island serial killer investigation in 2010. Mari Gilbert, a single mother, embarks on her own investigation when her eldest daughter goes missing and the police prove to be
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ladj Ly
Starring: Alexis Manenti | Damien Bonnard | Djebril Zonga | Issa Perica
Thom says: “Over the many years of my life I have seen a few classic films about disenfranchised children trying to exist in the cruel inner cities of the world. How can one ever forget LOS OLVIDADOS, PIXOTE, LA HAINE,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Adele Haenel | Luàna Bajrami | Noémie Merlant | Valeria Golino
Chris says: “Celine Sciamma’s exquisite 18th century romance between two women, an artist (Noémie Merlant) and her subject (Adèle Haenel) gains so much power from the barest essentials. Rather than pile on stylistic cues to lead the audience in a certain
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