Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alana Waksman
Starring: Devery Jacobs | Kate Britton | Kendra Mylnechuk | Madeleine Coghlan | Rinnan Henderson
Diane says: “In WE BURN LIKE THIS, Rae, a young woman living in Billings, MT, calls upon her heritage of survivorship to begin to face childhood trauma and present-day addictions. Filmmaker Alana Waksman packs a little too much thematically into
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Gabrielle Sanz | Joséphine Sanz | Margot Abascal | Nina Meurisse | Stéphane Varupenne
Diane says: “Director Celine Sciamma (GIRLHOOD, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) disappoints with a slight take on a mother-daughter relationship. Eight-year-old Nelly tries to understand her mother’s depression, especially now after the death of her grandmother. On the long
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Kuei-Mei Yang | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi Cheng Lee. Yi Chieh Lee | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “After seeing the great director Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, DAYS, I decided to go back and watch his previous film, and the only of his features that I hadn’t seen, STRAY DOGS. Interestingly enough, while I was braced
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sterlin Harjo
Starring: Casey Camp-Horinek | Jon Proudstar | Julian Ballentyne | Laura Spencer | Richard Way Whitman | Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Michael says: “After hearing some praise about the new streaming television series, RESERVATION DOGS, which director Harjo executive produced as well as wrote and directed for, I decided to dip into his 2009 film, BARKING WATER, before starting in on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Audrey Totter | Cecil Kellaway | Hume Cronyn | John Garfield | Lana Turner | Leon Ames
Michael says: “Often mentioned as one of the best examples of film noir, I thought I should check out this novel adaptation from 1946. An entertaining romp, to be sure, but it doesn’t have the charisma and appeal as those
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Director: John Hsu
Starring: Cecilia Choi | Hung Chang Chu | ingle Wang | Jing-Hua Tseng | Meng-Po Fu | Yue-Ti Liu
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kier-La Janisse
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Jimmy Chin
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Clara Strauch | Grace Delrue | Hempus Nordenson | Mia Wasikowska | Tim Roth | Vicky Krieps
Julie says: “Even with Tim Roth and Vicki Krieps, who were both excellent, the story was just so-so and story within story ughh. There was one interesting element near the end that if one blinks they might miss and sort
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Starring: Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson | Ester Bibi | Hilmir Snær Guðnason | Ingvar Sigurdsson | Noomi Rapace
Brett says: “All’s fair in love and wool. The film LAMB works as a film that’s more about the journey rather than the meaning. Even the most subtle explanation here would involve potential spoilers for the film, so it is
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