Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jang Joon-hwan
Starring: Baek Yoon-shik | Hwang Jung-min | Lee Jae-yong | Lee Ju-hyeon | Shin Ha-kyun
Laks says: “I had only just seen the trailer (regrettably, because it gave faaaarrr to much away) for BUGONIA last night and was very grateful for your review soon after. I jumped straight of bed this morning and went straight
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Amy K. Jenkins
Michael says: “Nice positive story about growing up trans with a supportive family. Co-written and directed by Amy K. Jenkins the family’s mother, there is an intimacy that might otherwise have been lacking. Still, I felt the overall film was
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ross McElwee
Chris says: “Given our current tendency to document just about everything (especially ourselves) with our smartphones, will younger and future generations retain a seemingly infinite treasure trove of recorded media to reference, look back on and cultivate into living histories?
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Rating: 3.4 cats
Director: Carla Simón
Starring: Celine Tyll | León Romagosa | Llúcia Garcia | Mitch Martín | Tristán Ulloa
Michael says: “A young woman orphaned as a child, seeks information about her birth parents off the coast of Spain in order to apply for educational grants. She discovers a large family on her father’s side, with dark secrets that
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Rating: 3.25 cats
Director: Sam Oldmeadow | Tim O'Donnell
Julie says: “THE LAST YZTARI tells the story of Mary Dague, a woman who lost both arms while diffusing bombs in Iraq (to protect a school), and her struggle to heal and redefine herself. She tried for many years to
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Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Charlie XCX | Chase Sui Wonders | Cooper Hoffman | Daveed Diggs | Olivia Wilde
Peter says: “Standing outside in the long film festival line for Gregg Araki’s latest film, inevitably, passersby would ask those in line, ‘What is this line for?’ And you could feel the immediate discomfort on their face when “I Want
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Early
Starring: Harris Mayersohn | John Early | Kate Berlant | Kip Reynolds | Neil Wachs
Eliza says: “From the beginning, I wasn’t sure what the audience was supposed to feel. I first thought it was solely a think-piece on gender. A sort of glimpse into life if one’s gender identity simply wasn’t questioned by others,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Kahlil | Zack Kahlil
Cassian says: “The Khalil brothers take us through a deeply emotional decades-long journey of reburying the remains of their ancestors through the process of indigenous repatriation. This documentary follows MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance), a unified group
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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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