Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Julia Reichert | Steven Bognar
Starring: Junming 'Jimmy' Wang | Robert Allen | Sherrod Brown
Diane says: “I guess I was mistaken that AMERICAN FACTORY was eligible, but anyway… This documentary played me like a pinball. It brought out my prejudices, made me question my values, and gave me a lot of angst. Directors Bognar
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Alfonso Mejía | Estela Inda | Miguel Inclan | Roberto Cobo
Thom says: “Expect these further lapses as age rears its ugly head, but I was perusing new offerings on Prime Video and ran across THE YOUNG & THE DAMNED. From the 1950 date I recognized it to be from Bunuel’s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Danny Mulheron | Donna Ackersten | Mark Hadlow | Peter Vere-Jones | Ross Jolly | Stuart Devenie
Thom says: “This film was so over-the-top in so many delicious ways and it was totally unexpected. It’s currently unavailable on NetFlix but I came across it at my DVD store and since I’ve had such great luck in the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Eliza Scanlen | Emma Watson | Florence Pugh | Laura Dern | Saiorse Ronan
Thom says: “LITTLE WOMEN has been somewhat of a Hollywood staple over the years with adaptations of the Louisa May Alcott classic coming out in 1918, 1933, 1949, 1994, & 2018, not to mention the innumerable television versions. I’ve seen
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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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