Teaching audiences to view films actively
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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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Director: Daniel Ribeiro
Starring: Eucir de Souza | Fabio Audi | Ghilherme Lobo | Lúcia Romano | Selma Egrei | Tess Amorim
Beth says: “What makes THE WAY HE LOOKS a cut above the many other coming-of-age movies that are out there, is in its specificity. Set in a high school in Sao Paolo, the film follows shy, blind Leonardo as the
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Director: Gabe Polsky
Vicki says: “Although Gabe Polsky’s RED ARMY is a ‘sports’ documentary, it is really more than that. Its focus is the Soviet Union’s most successful Red Army ice hockey team and its controversial star, Viacheslav ‘Slava’ Fetisov, the former captain
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Director: Morgan Neville | Robert Gordon
Beth C. says: “BEST OF ENEMIES is Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville’s documentary film on the subject of the 10 televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley during the 1968 presidential race. The archival footage, the structure of the
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Director: Ben Fransham | Cori Gonzalez-Macuer | Jackie Van Beek | Jemaine Clement | Jonny Brugh | Stu Rutherford | Taika Waititi
Kate says: “Written by (as well as directed by, and starring) Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, this ‘mockumentary’ gives us an hysterical glimpse into the inane, mundane, and blood-stained lifestyle of 21st Century Vampires. Four vampires sharing a house in
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Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Starring: Ayberk Pekcan | Burak Yigit | Doga Zeynep Doguslu | Elit Iscan | Günes Sensoy | Ilayda Akdogan | Nihal G. Koldas | Tugba Sunguroglu
Bruce says: “First and foremost, the success of most films lies in the screenwriting. Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven and veteran writer Alice Winocour have crafted a fresh and moving story about five sisters whose lives take a jarring turn when
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Angela Bassett | David Strathairn | Mary McDonnell | Nancy Mette | Nora Dunn | Sheila Kelley | Vondie Curtis-Hall
Michael says: “I can’t believe that it’s been nearly 30 years since John Sayles directed his eighth feature, the glorious PASSION FISH. Sayles was a top independent writer/director at the time, already having produced such work as MATEWAN, EIGHT MEN
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Frank Hall Green
Starring: Ann Dowd | Brian Geraghty | Bruce Greenwood | Diane Farr | Ella Purnell | Joshua Leonard | Nolan Gerard Funk
Michael says: “Bruce Greenwood is one of those unique actors with leading man characteristics and character actor chops. Some of his most memorable roles are star turns in such top-notch films as THE SWEET HEREAFTER and MEEK’S CROSSING, but his
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