Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Eugène Green
Starring: Arianna Nastro | Christelle Prot Landman | Fabrizio Rongione | Ludovico Succio
…top of a building – ‘Life’s Good’. But we know it isn’t, not for Schmidt nor his sad wife Aliénor (Christelle Prot Landman), a distinguished scholar dedicated to enervating community…
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Alexandre Bustillo | Julien Maury
Starring: Bakary Diombera | Mathilde Lamusse | Mériem Sarolie | Nassim Lyes | Sandor Funtek | Walid Afker
…gall to detail some of the remedy for this creature of the night via a simple internet search, as if Kandisha is a regular phenomenon that everyone knows about, except…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Barrett Burgin
Starring: Curt Doussett | Emily Marie Palmer | Jyllian Petrie | Mason D. Davis | Michael Flynn | Morgan Gunter
…considerations are effective as ideas and setting components that accompany the unique conflict at hand rather than a reliance on spectacle like so many big budget sci-fi movies undertake. “The…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Don McKellar | Kristen Stewart | Léa Seydoux | Lihi Kornowski | Nadia Litz | Scott Speedman | Viggo Mortensen
…of performance art with her cohort Mortenson. Through the act of public surgeries, body modification, and cultivated ‘evolution,’ the film takes a bleak look at the search for inner beauty…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Margaret Brown
…Africatown in Mobile, AL after they earned their freedom — but the ones featured in the film are so engaging, so compelling, and have such powerful stories to tell. Both…
Read the review...…differences, fitting in, and embracing change. The heartwarming story navigates the complexities of identity, stereotypes, and the bonds that strengthen a family through laughter, tears, and the shared experience of…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kasia Smutniak
Diane says: “Katia Smutniak, an award-winning Polish-Italian actor, said at the TIFF Q&A that her documentary was ‘not made out of a desire to make a movie.’ Compelled by the…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Brigette Lundy-Paine | Helena Howard | Ian Foreman | Justice Smith | Lindsey Jordan
Michael says: “After making a splash with their debut film, WE ARE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR, writer/director Jane Schoenbrun follows-up with a creative, thought-provoking, and devastating examination of…
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Bill Weber | David Weissman
…cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thecockettes.htm” Michael says: “This colorful documentary charts the brief career of a group of free-thinking performers living in San Francisco in the late-60’s and…
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Daniel Auteuil | Emir Kusturica | Juliette Binoche
…threat from Madame Guillotine never leaves as the island’s administrators plead with the French government to provide the deadly machine.” 4 cats “For Robin’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thewidowofsaintpierre.htm” …
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