Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.3 cats
Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: Callum Turner | Emily Daglish-Laine | Francis Magee | George MacKay | Rosalind Eleazar
Cassian says: “A mysterious fishing boat reappears after 30 years. A young father and a mysterious drifter join the fishing crew in hopes of prosperity but things take an unexpected turn when they get stuck in a time loop. “What
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Rating: 4.4 cats
Director: Olivia Wilde
Starring: Ed Norton | Olivia Wilde | Penélope Cruz | Seth Rogan
Peter says: “The closing night of IFFBoston is always a bittersweet affair – it’s the official capping off of what to me is basically film nerd summer camp. My volunteer friends of 10+ years were so excited to have gotten
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Rafael Manuel
Starring: Carlos Siguion-Reyna | Carmen Castellanos | Isabel Sicat | Jorrybell Agoto | Teroy Guzman
Peter says: “Winning the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, Filipiñana is that kind of slow-moving art film you might need to pinch yourself a few times to keep from nodding off. “The film primarily
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Lorena Luciano
Peter says: “Last year, I traveled internationally for the first time, and part of my European excursion involved visiting the Vatican. It was easily a highlight of the trip due to the sheer magnitude of the art and architecture, but
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Rating: 3.25 cats
Director: Kent Jones
Starring: Clark Johnson | Greta Lee | Jake Lacy | Willem Dafoe | William Hill
Brett says: “There once was a guy from Soho Who wrote a book long forgotten, oh no A bunch of young wannabes Invite him into their coterie But is acting your age more important than FOMO? “Director Kent Jones brings
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Jeremy Workman
Brett says: “SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS is an insightful look into a single school in particular that is one of multiple schools in South Korea set up for transitioning children who have defected from North Korea. The result is a collection
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Patrick Bresnan
Peter says: “I just recently finished teaching Fahrenheit 451, and unfortunately, this documentary is proof that Bradbury’s warnings are as relevant as ever. “In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took over the ultra-liberal New College in Sarasota. It’s the sort
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Matty Wishnow
Peter says: “I had the interesting experience of seeing The Last Critic – a documentary about legendary music critic Robert Christgau – seated amongst a crowd of film critics in the audience! “Christgau, over many decades, seemed to perfect the
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rachael J. Morrison
Peter says: “Never did I realize just how equalizing the telephone is for blind people. It’s true: we’re all ‘blind’ on the phone. It’s for that reason that Joe Engressia, aka ‘Joybubbles,’ became an obsessed ‘phone phreak’ – using the
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Rating: 2.7 cats
Director: Pourya Azarbayjani
Starring: David Diaan | Jadé Porciatti | Miriam Cyr | Nicole Ansari-Cox | Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
Brett says: “AS I AM is a well-meaning narrative feature from director/writer Pourya Azerbayjani Dow in which a former solider in the Iran-Iraq War seeks to rekindle a flame from forty years in the past, with emphasis on the word
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