Teaching audiences to view films actively
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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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Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Alberto Dinache | Luminita Gheorghiu | Mihai Comanoiu | Teodor Corban | Toma Cuzinm Alexandru Dabija | Victor Rebengiuc
Kate says: “Marius Panduru’s high-contrast B&W photography provides the audience with a crisp and caustic lens through which to view the slapstick adventures of a bureaucratic flunky and his son, as they chase down a Romany slave running from his
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Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Agata Buzek | Agata Kulesza | Anna Próchniak | Eliza Rycembel | Joanna Kulig | Katarzyna Dabrowska | Lou de Laâge | Vincent Macaigne
Beth C. says: “The best films utilize cinematography for aesthetic value and to convey meaningful information about the film’s unexplored plot, themes, and moods. The outdoor scenes in The Innocents are stunning and demonstrate Champetier’s superior skills and perspective. It
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Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Adriana Ugarte | Daniel Grao | Dario Grandinetti | Emma Suárez | Inma Cuesta | Michelle Jenner | Nathalie Poza | Pilar Castrop | Rossy de Palma
Beth says: “The challenge for Jose Salcedo, Pedro Almodovar’s longtime editor, was how to harness two strong, distinct voices (Almodovar’s and writer Alice Munro, whose short stories were adapted for the screen) into a cohesive blend, while at the same
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Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Blake Jenner | Juston Street | Ryan Guzman | Temple Baker | Tyler Hoechlin | Wyatt Russellm Glen Powell
Hilary says: “The soundtrack of EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! ambles between genres as it follows the teammates of the 1980 Texas State University baseball team over the last long weekend before the Fall semester. Music blasts from car radios, nightclub sound
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Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Arielle Holmes | Crystal Ice | McCaul Lombardi | Riley Keough | Sasha Lane | Shia LaBeouf
Chris says: “The soundtrack to Andrea Arnold’s one-of-a-kind road trip film suitably plays like an eclectic but not random mixtape, even if its teenaged characters likely no longer make them. It features plenty of hip-hop that we often see the
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Director: Hannes Holm
Starring: Bahar Pars | Börje Lundberg | Chatarina Larsson | Filip Berg | Ida Engvoll | Klas Wiljergård | Rolf Lassgård | Tobias Almborg
Paul says: “A MAN CALLED OVE is the story of a lonely and curmudgeonly retiree who spends his time harassing his neighbors for petty HOA violations before ultimately planning to kill himself. However, Ove, who at the film’s beginning is
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