Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alysa Nahmias
Peter says: “I’m not sure if other countries experience anything similar, but Girl Scout Cookies are a BIG DEAL in America. Hordes of wee little girls station themselves outside of grocery stores and local businesses, selling boxes upon boxes of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Boots Riley
Starring: Demi Moore | Eiza González | Keke Palmer | Naomi Ackie | Poppy Liu | Taylor Paige
Brett says: “I LOVE BOOSTERS, the latest from Boots Riley, brings many of the same stylings as his earlier film SORRY TO BOTHER YOU in that the audience is eased into what is clearly a satire in the first act
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Adonis Tanta | Alexandra Haripu | Ana Dumitrascu | Gabriel Spahiu | Oana Maria Zaharia
Chris says: “Jude’s take on the venerable Bram Stoker character is gleefully profane and maybe the best possible use of AI (i.e.–satirically.) Split into a dozen or so vignettes, at nearly three hours, it didn’t need to be longer than Do
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Rehmeier
Starring: Juan Silva | Kyle Gallner | Kyra Sedgwick | P.J. Sosko | Samara Wearving
Brett says: “It may be fitting for this film to have two words in its title with the second word mimicking the first since the premise contained within is nothing new in itself either. A con man rolls up into
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Judd Ehrlich
Peter says: “In one of the most famous social experiments in American history, primary school teacher Jane Elliott, in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, decided to teach her students about discrimination in a radical way. In her Brown
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