Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Anthony Scott Burns
Starring: Carlee Ryski | Christopher Heatherington | Julia Sarah Stone | Landon Liboiron | Tedra Rogers
Bob says: “Sarah is a high school student who’s been avoiding her family. The reason isn’t specified, but it feels safe to assume there’s been abuse going on. She only goes home when she knows the house is empty, so
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Maria Sødahl
Starring: Alfred Vatne | Andrea Bræin Hovig | Daniel Storm Forthun Sandbye | Eirik Hallert | Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne | Steinar Klouman Hallert | Stellan Skarsgård
Diane says: “First, nobody warned me that my old heartthrob Stellan Skarsgård had aged so much. Second, I was put off by the elegant lifestyle of this Oslo Brady Bunch, but that’s just me. Director and writer Maria Sødahl draws from
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brian Tyree Henry | Demián Bichir | Eiza González | Julian Dennison | Kyle Chandler | Lance Reddick | Millie Bobby Brown | Rebecca Hall | Shun Oguri
Michael says: “**SPOILERS if you care about who wins.** “What I learned form watching GODZILLA VS. KONG was that I am either a) further from the mainstream than I had already thought, or b) Mothra’s appearance in a monster movie
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Al Pacino | Anna Paquin | Bobby Cannavale | Harvey Keitel | Jack Huston | Jesse Plemons | Joe Pesci | Kathrine Narducci | Ray Romano | Robert De Niro | Stephen Graham | Steven Van Zandt
Thom says: “Let me be perfectly clear, director Scorsese has had a hugely successful career both financially & artistically and while I have highly admired a lot of his material, only 2 of his films received my highest rating: THE
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Director: Sini Anderson
Beth says: “THE PUNK SINGER is a documentary that manages to be about three big topics, all of which could have stood alone as the film’s focus. Sometimes when this happens, the result is a meandering, unfocused film. Or it
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Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Carlo Buccirosso | Carlo Verdone | Iaia Forte | Sabrina Ferilli | Toni Servillo
Toni says: “THE GREAT BEAUTY in its cinematography captures the wild world of the nights and days of Rome in a love letter to the city from the world of its main character, former novelist and celebrated art critic, Jep
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Director: Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Dieter Masur | Maria Hofstätter | Nabil Saleh | Natalya Baranova | René Rupnik | Trude Masur
Beth C. says: “PARADISE: FAITH, a film by Ulrich Seidl, is shocking in its authenticity. Seidl is a rare treasure of a director, chiefly because of his approach to narrative film. Many of the actors in the film were chosen,
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Director: Daniel Geller | Dayna Goldfine
Kim says: “To edit a film can be difficult enough – to edit one based on letters left behind by people from a past event can be even harder. If you’re editing a documentary you have to balance all sides
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Director: Matthew Warchus
Starring: Andrew Scott | Ben Schnetzer | Bill Nighy | Dominic West | Faye Marsay | George MacKay | Imelda Staunton | Paddy Considine
Vicki says: “Based on true events, PRIDE tells the story of the improbable cooperation between striking Welsh miners and a group of London gay rights activists. At first the miners want nothing to do with the help being offered by
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Director: Sebastián Lelio
Starring: Alejandro Goic | Diego Fontecilla | Fabiola Zamora | Liliana García | Luz Jiménez | Paulina Garcia | Sergio Hernández
Diane says: “Gloria is a divorced woman in her late 50s who will not accept a lonely life. Actress Garcia, in oversized glasses, brings a confident sexiness to this very physical role. The camera never leaves her, as she negotiates
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