Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Gibson
Starring: Andrew Yackel | Geoff Van Wyck | Hannah Mosqueda | Justin Pietropaolo | Leigh Lanocha | Mary Hronicek | Paul Kandarian
Diane says: “Highly recommended. GUTTERBUG was made by longtime Allston roomies and shot mostly in Allston (a section of Boston). It’s an original story of street life, addiction, and the strong pull of family. Reminded me of REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lois Patiño
Starring: Ana Marra | Carmen Martínez | Pilar Rodlos | Rubio de Camelle
Michael says: “I caught up with one of Bruce’s favorite film festivals virtually this year, as Lincoln Center presented New Directors/New Films. Here is the first of several films I managed to watch. “The Galacian coast featured in RED MOON
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Johnny Mills | Kevin Collins | Pete Lee-Wilson | Philip MacDonald | Spencer Leigh | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Of my three most influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock taught me that beauty, complexity, and suspense can have a place in a mass-marketed film. Pedro Almodóvar taught me the importance of family, absurdity in story, and the strength
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Debbie Morgan | Diahann Carroll | Ethel Ayler | Jake Smollett | Jurnee Smollett | Lynn Whitfield | Meagan Good | Samuel L. Jackson | Vondie Curtis-Hall
Philip says: “Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson star in this Kasi Lemmons melodrama based in Louisiana during the 1950’s. This film would be a perfect double feature paired with LAKAWANNA BLUES. Lemmons channels a bit of Tennessee Williams as she
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Andrew Tiernan | Dudley Sutton | Jerome Flynn | Jody Graber | John Lynch | Kevin Collins | Nigel Terry | Steven Waddington | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Derek Jarman is a revolutionary filmmaker. I hate to think of him in the past tense. If you don’t understand the enormous vacuum that was left from the devastation of AIDS, watch Jarman’s EDWARD II, nearly 20 years
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Brenda Fricker | Kristin Booth | Mary-Colin Chisholm | Michael McPhee | Olympia Dukakis | Ryan Doucette
Philip says: “CLOUDBURST literally bursts on the screen with a powerhouse career-defining performance from 80 year-old Olympia Dukakis. Dukakis and Brenda Flicker (both Academy Award winning actors) play a lesbian couple who’ve been together for 31 years. Fricker’s character, Dot
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Danièle Thompson
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christopher Thompson | Claude Rich | Emmanuelle Béart | Françoise Fabian | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Sabine Azéma
Philip says: “Over the past ten years, LA BÛCHE has become a perennial holiday favorite of mine. A score by Michel Legrand containing classic Christmas songs from the 50’s and 60’s, family dysfunction, honesty, anger, and of course a lot
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Carroll Lynch
Starring: Barry Shabaka Henley | Beth Grant | David Lynch | Ed Begley Jr. | Harry Dean Stanton | James Darren | Ron Livingston | Tom Skerritt | Yvonne Huff
Chris says: “No denying that the late Harry Dean Stanton was a rare breed of actor or that few nonagenarians are as deserving of an end-of-life vehicle than him. And this is full of unforgettable images and moments, from Stanton’s around-the-house
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Greta Gerwig
Starring: Beanie Feldstein | Laurie Metcalf | Lois Smith | Lucas Hedges | Saoirse Ronan | Timothée Chalamet | Tracy Letts
Philip says: “Someone once commented to me on what I believe is one of the best gay male films ever produced, WEEKEND. The friend (who is straight) told me he just didn’t get the hype. To him it was just
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Aiden Malik | Bria Vinaite | Brooklynn Prince | Christopher Rivera | Valeria Cotto | Willem Dafoe
Philip says: “I wish I had seen Sean Baker’s (TANGERINE) film, THE FLORIDA PROJECT before the Oscars. I would have cheered it on. Baker’s gritty realism witnessed in his stunning Tangerine turns out not to be a flash in the
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