Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joanna Arnow
Starring: Babak Tafti | David Arnow | Joanna Arnow | Rushi Birudala | Scott Cohen
Brett says: “Joanna Arnow’s feature film debut comprises a series of threads, crossing and weaving, but never quite seamless from scene to scene. The film employs a fragmented editing approach, almost as if audiences are picking up pieces here and
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Starring: Abhishek Chauhan | Ashish Vidyarthi | Lakshya | Raghav Juyal | Tanya Maniktala
Brett says: “Keys–check. Ticket–check. Popcorn–check. One hour into a film called KILL and there is still no killing–wait, what? Such is the case with this title out of India in what might be described as an ambitious effort, at best.
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Aaron Jackson | Bowen Yang | Josh Sharp | Megan Mullally | Nathan Lane
Brett says: “The title DICKS: THE MUSICAL may actually be the least profanity-laced part of this film. That alone might be the benchmark by which a person could determine whether the film is to one’s liking or not. The film
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Eita Nagayama | Hinata Hiiragi | Mitsuki Takahata | Sakura Andô | Soya Kurokawa
Chris says: “This is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film set in his native Japan since SHOPLIFTERS and also his first that he hasn’t written himself since MABOROSI, his 1995 feature debut. Rest assured, MONSTER is completely in the director’s wheelhouse of
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Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Don McKellar | Nicolas Bro | Pål Sverre Hagen | Paul Gross | Trond Fausa
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: M.H. Murray
Starring: Anthony Diaz | Deragh Campbell | Mark Clennon | Nat Patricia Manuel | Victoria Long
Diane says: “There’s a game going on here at Chlotrudis North: ‘What else didn’t you like about I DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE?’ “Some sample answers: 1. It was like a public service announcement about HIV 2. Scenes that went
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Rating: 4.4 cats
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Aoi Yamada | Arisa Nakano | Koji Yakusho | Tokio Emoto | Yumi Asô
Brett says: “Wim Wenders’ PERFECT DAYS is a depiction of the ordinary, transforming it into a feeling of extraordinary through the power of cinematic language. It is a film with very limited dialogue from the protagonist Hirayama, a janitor who
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Caolina Marcowicz
Starring: Erom Cordeiro | Isac Graça | Kauan Alvarenga | Maeve Jinkings | Thomas Aquino
Brett says: “Director Carolina Markowicz follows 2022’s genre-bending plot from CHARCOAL with yet another single-word title film. Similar to that first feature, this film allows audiences to interpret the ominous title to apply to quite a few different plot circumstances. The
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Starring: Carrie Coon | Elizabeth Olsen | Jay O. Sanders | Jovan Adepo | Natsha Lyonne
Diane says: “HIS THREE DAUGHTERS is a study in the distance between who we want to be and how we appear to others. “I was drawn to this at TIFF because I’m one of three daughters who, like the three
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: DK Welchman | Hugh Welchman
Starring: Ewa Kasprzyk | Kamila Urzedowska | Miroslaw Baka | Robert Gulaczyk | Sonia Mietielica
Diane says: “THE PEASANTS is by the creators of the award-winning LOVING VINCENT. Directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (a married couple) adapted a 4-volume, 1,000-page Polish novel—a story of 19th century rural life: farm, mill, church, tavern. “Like VINCENT,
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