Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Director: Josh Mond
Starring: Christopher Abbott | Cynthia Nixon | David Call | Kid Cudi | Laura Johnston | Makenzie Leigh | Ron Livingston | Scott Cohen
Vicki says: “James White is not an easy character to portray. He is basically a self-destructive distraught train wreck of a young man who is called upon to take care of his dying mother, played wonderfully by Cynthia Nixon. As
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Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Bobby Bunungurr | David Guptill | John Brumpton | Lizzie Durrurrnga | Luke Ford | Michael Dawa | Paul Blackwell | Peter Djigrr | Peter Minygululu
Ivy says: “Adeptly shot and directed, CHARLIE’S COUNTRY follows the daily life of Charlie as he tries to navigate the confusing and frustrating rules enforced on Australia’s aboriginal residents. David Gulpilil not only stars at Charlie but co-wrote the film
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Director: Brandy Burre | Michael Tomlinson
Vicki says: “ACTRESS is the raw portrait of Brandy Burre who had a recurring role on ‘The Wire’ and then left acting to start a family. The documentary is about her attempt to reenter the acting world and it is
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Director: Jennifer Phang
Starring: Freya Adams | Jacqueline Kim | James Urbaniak | Jennifer Ehle | Jennifer Ikeda | Ken Jeong | Olivia Horton | Samantha Kim | Troi Zee
Toni says: “Director Jennifer Phang describes ADVANTAGEOUS as ‘an anti-cynicism movie…an attempt to re-engage moviegoers who’ve lost hope.’ The film’s lead actress, Jacqueline Kim, co-wrote the film with Jennifer, based on the short by the same name about a middle-aged
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Director: Elyse Steinberg | Josh Kriegman
Bruce says: “WEINER profiles the former New York Congressman who resigned in the wake of a sex scandal involving his posting online pictures of his genitalia. His career sidelined, Anthony Weiner regrouped and promised his wife, an aide to Hillary
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Director: David Farrier | Dylan Reeve
Chris says: “TICKLED begins with a wink and a nod—a feature-length documentary about competitive tickling online? Still, few can fathom what its co-director, New Zealand-based pop culture journalist David Farrier uncovers as he investigates this initially innocuous-seeming niche/fetish subculture. He
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Director: Barbara Kopple
Vicki says: “It is inspiring to watch Barbara Kopple’s honest and intimate portrait of Miss Sharon Jones, the dynamo of a soul singer. The well-crafted documentary chronicles the singer’s brave fight against pancreatic cancer in a brilliant way that gives
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Director: Laura Gabbert
Kim says: “Focusing on Los Angeles food writer Jonathan Gold, this wonderful tour of the cuisine in the little hidden places in LA makes you hungry (ok, the hagfish almost make me yarp) and makes you wish you had a
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Director: Ava DuVernay
Kate says: “The facts delivered in the first few moments of the documentary are painful to accept — informing the audience that the US is home to 5% of the population of the globe, and American prisons hold 25% of
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Director: Mike Birbiglia
Starring: Brandon Scott Jones | Chris Gethard | Emily Skeggs | Gillian Jacobs | Kate Micucci | Keegan-Michael Key | Mike Birbiglia | Tami Sagher
Beth says: “Improv-comedy teams, in order to be successful, find the way to take a group of different individuals and create a cohesive story to tell. DON’T THINK TWICE, a film about such a team, had find that balance, twice.
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