The Canterville Ghost (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kim Burdon | Robert Chandler
Starring: Freddie Highmore | Hugh Laurie | Imelda Staunton | Stephen Fry | Toby Jones
Another Body (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Reuben Hamlyn | Sophie Compton
The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Errol Morris
Chris says: “Errol Morris films live and die by how engaging the interrogated subject is, and mystery writer/ex-spy John le Carré/David Cornwell is entertaining in an unassuming Gore Vidal sort of way. However, in a new twist, Morris also lets
Read the review...The Novelist’s Film (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Kim Min-hee | Lee Hye-yeong | Mi-So Park | Seo Younghwa | Yunhee Cho
Diane says: “A short but meaty film by Hong Sang-soo: in a suburb of Seoul, a novelist—whose best books may be behind her—visits an old colleague who has given up writing, and serendipitously encounters a filmmaker who’s happy to have
Read the review...Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul B. Preciado
Chris says: “With this unconventional documentary, transgender writer/philosopher/feminist Paul B. Preciado doesn’t so much take Virginia Woolf’s Orlando back from the 1992 Sally Potter film starring Tilda Swinton in the title role as he comprehensively shows how her story about
Read the review...No Bears (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Bakhtiyar Panjeei | Jafar Panahi | Mina Kavani | Narges Delaram | Vahid Mobasseri
Diane says: “NO BEARS is the latest from Jafar Panahi, the outlawed Iranian director. I’m still wondering about the tone of the film: I took much of it to be hilarious satire, but I’m not sure that it actually is.
Read the review...May December (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Andrea Frankle | Charles Melton | Chris Tenzis | Cory Michael Smith | Julianne Moore | Natalie Portman
Chris says: I suppose Todd Haynes’ latest does for Lifetime TV movies what his 2002 film FAR FROM HEAVEN did for Douglas Sirk, recreating an aesthetic and carefully tweaking it for postmodern consumption, but it’s also so much more. It
Read the review...Frybread Face and Me (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Billy Luther
Starring: Charley Hogan | Keir Tallman | Martin Sensmeier | Sarah H. Natani
Chris says: “Billy Luther, a Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo filmmaker best known for documentaries (MISS NAVAJO) makes his fiction feature debut with this gentle coming-of-age tale. 11-year-old city kid Benny (Keir Tallman) is sent to spend the summer with
Read the review...Fallen Leaves (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Aki Kurismaki
Starring: Alina Tomnikov | Alma Pöysti | Janne Hyytiäinen | Jussi Vatanen | Martti Suosalo
Michael says: “Those who appreciate Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki enjoy his incredibly dry wit and deadpan humor. His latest film, FALLEN LEAVES, doesn’t alter his formula, but perhaps takes it even further. The story revolves around two lonely people, Holappa, a
Read the review...The Delinquents (2023)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Starring: Daniel Elías | Esteban Bigliardi | Germán de Silva | Margarita Molfino | Mariana Chaud
Chris says: “The longer I sat with this Argentinian film about a bank heist (but not really a heist film per se), the more I appreciated it, even if it really did not need to be three+ hours long. Apart
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