Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Keith Maitland
Chris says: “Michael Brody Jr. proved Warhol’s 15 Minutes of Fame theory to be spot-on, give or take a week. As a 21-year-old margarine company heir, he made a big splash in January 1970 by appearing on THE ED SULLIVAN
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Sian Heder
Starring: Ann Forsyth | Daniel Durant | Emilia Jones | John Fiore | Kevin Chapman | Lonnie Farmer | Troy Kotsur
Chris says: “Ruby (Emilia Jones) is a CODA, or a Child of Deaf Adults. Actually, she’s the only hearing member of her family. She often accompanies her father (Troy Kotsur) and older brother (Daniel Durant), both of them fishermen in
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: John Benjamin Hickey | Lihi Kornowski | Miki Kam | Niv Nissim | Peter Spears
Cheryl says: “This film is simply melodramatic, filled to the brim with silent sequences where the protagonist, Michael, attempts to use a myriad of facial expressions to convey his feelings, and often spews dialogue that is frankly on-the nose and
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Todd Stephens
Starring: Ira Hawkins | Jennifer Coolidge | Linda Evans | Michael Urie | Roshon Thomas | Udo Kier
Chris says: “‘Veteran cult actor Udo Kier in a rare starring role as a flamboyant retired hairdresser in Sandusky, Ohio’ is all you need to know about this film. It doesn’t matter that he breaks out of his nursing home
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Pacho Velez
Chris says: “Internet dating in New York City during the COVID age is a compelling enough subject for a documentary, but it’s the way director Pacho Velez approaches it that renders it an essential one. For the most part, he
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Malia Scharf | Max Basch
Cheryl says: “This documentary is a love letter written and directed by Scharf’s daughter and as such, while thoroughly documenting the artist’s life and work, it rarely goes below the surface to show any of his flaws or critics who
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Jamila Wignot
Chris says: “Dancer/choreographer Alvin Ailey pretty much gets the standard docu-portrait treatment here, as archival performance footage and interviews are blended in with modern day reminisces (often most satisfying when it contrasts performers from a half-century ago with how they
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: James Crump
Chris says: “Architectural students and Mid-Century Modern devotees will find much to like in this study of Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian emigre, Bauhaus student and champion of Brutalism. Although he’s best known for works like the Whitney Museum and UNESCO
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Tracey Deer
Starring: D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | Joel Montgrand | Kiawentiio | Paulina Alexis | Rainbow Dickerson | Violah Beauvais
Chris says: “An account of the 1990 land crisis between the Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, BEANS is told through the perspective of its 12-year-old protagonist (whose nickname is the film’s title.) Based on filmmaker Tracey
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Rating: 3.7 cats
Director: Joe Denardo | Paul Felten
Starring: Catherine Cohen | Chloe Sevigny | Christian Parenti | Eleanor Friedberger | Emily Tremaine | Scott Shepherd | Stephanie Hayes
Bob says: “Imagine what we’d get if David Lynch tried his hand at Mumblecore. I think it might be similar to SLOW MACHINE, which thematically seems to be playing with questions of identity and performance. “Stephanie, a Swedish actor living in
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