Sabaya (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Hogir Hirori
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Rosalynde LeBlanc | Tom Hurwitz
What We Left Unfinished (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Mariam Ghani
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jean Cocteau | René Clément
Starring: Jean Marais | Josette Day | Marcel André | Michel Auclair | Mila Parély | Nane Germon | Raoul Marco
Michael says: “After seeing ORPHEUS, I had to finally check out BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the film that first put Jean Cocteau on the map, and his first feature length directorial narrative. Released in 1946, this French romantic fantasy film
Read the review...A New Leaf (1971)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elaine May
Starring: Doris Roberts | Elaine May | George Rose | Jack Weston | James Coco | Renée Taylor | Walter Matthau
Michael says: “I find Elaine May’s career rather fascinating, although I haven’t seen a lot of her work more of her writing, some of her acting, and little of her directing. I’m hoping to change that. A NEW LEAF, released
Read the review...Fully Realized Humans (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Joshua Leonard
Starring: Beth Grant | Erica Chidi Cohen | Janicza Bravo | Jess Weixler | Joshua Leonard | Michael Chieffo | Rom Bower
Michael says: “While not necessarily the most original idea, the execution of this film about a young couple, pregnant with their first child, and suddenly facing the terrifying reality of transitioning into parenthood, with their parent friends talking about their
Read the review...Obsession (1976)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Cliff Robertson | Geneviève Bujold | J. Patrick McNamara | John Lithgow | Stanley J. Reyes | Sylvia Kuumba Williams | Wanda Blackman
Chris says: “Interesting that Brian De Palma made this between PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and CARRIE: it feels almost beholden to reverently emulating (rather than simply paying affectionate homage to) a certain Hitchcock film (Bernard Herrmann score and all!) except
Read the review...Pink Flamingos (1972)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: John Waters
Starring: Channing Wilroy | Cookie Mueller | Danny Mills | David Lochary | Divine | Edith Massey | Mary Vivian Pearce | Mink Stole
Chris says: “Re-watched with John Waters’ commentary track (recorded for the 25th anniversary edition), which makes it far more bearable (though still not as fully realized as his next film, the glorious FEMALE TROUBLE.) Best revelation: on people walking out
Read the review...The Hot Rock (1972)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Charlotte Rae | George Segal | Moses Gunn | Paul Sand | Robert Redford | Ron Leibman | Topo Swope | William Redfield
Chris says: “Super fun heist flick where Robert Redford’s self-seriousness greatly benefits from playing off the quirkier likes of George Segal, Ron Leibman and the ever-underrated Paul Sand. It has neither the grit nor the gravitas of director Peter Yates’
Read the review...12 Angry Men (1957)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: E. G. Marshall | Ed Begley | Edward Binns | George Voskovec | Henry Fonda | Jack Klugman | Jack Warden | John Fiedler | Joseph Sweeney | Lee J. Cobb | Martin Balsam | Robert Webber
Chris says: “I don’t know why it took me so long to watch this. Sure, you can adequately summarize it in one or two sentences, but how it gets from point A to point B conveys Sidney Lumet’s mastery of
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