Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Starring: François Arnaud | Michael Greyeyes | Pascale Bussières | Peter Outerbridge
Michael says: “Wiebke von Carolsfield takes her trademark introspective, exploration into the human psyche in a new direction with a quasi-suspense, lost in the wilderness tale starring Pascale Bussieres and Francois Arnaud. Anchored by an ethical conundrum that is left
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jennifer Alleyn
Starring: Elsa Guedj | Emmanuel Schwartz | Jennifer Alleyn | Olivia Palacci | Philippe-Audrey Larrue St-Jacques
Michael says: “This was the one! Sublime film, looking at alienation and feeling exiled from your own life. Emmanuel Schwarz does an amazing job as a theater actor losing his focus and getting the opportunity to do a 3 –
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Anthony Perkins | Berry Berenson | Geraldine Chapman | Jeff Goldblum | Moses Gunn
Michael says: “Alan Rudolph was just starting to get a handle on his unique style of filmmaking, and while the ensemble cast in this film was top strong (including first speaking roles for Jeff Goldlbum and Alfre Woodard!), the script
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Amira Casar | António Maria | Ayden Mayeri | José Condessa | Lilian T. Mehrel | Teresa Faria
Michael says: “Nice story, with good performances falls a little short with a screenplay that is a little stiff. June and her mother Lela, take a trip to the Azores in Portugal a year after their father/husband has died. It
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claudia Tuyet Scheffel
Starring: Jordis Herrmann | Nano Nguyen | Niklas Wetzel | Tri An Bui | Vy Luu
Michael says: “This one is a bit of a mind-bender. Trúc is a young Vietnamese woman going to college in a tiny town in the remote German mountains. Feeling alienated and alone, she takes a guided tour of a nearby
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jaclyn Bethany
Starring: Alex Sarrigeorgiou | Corey Wells | François Arnaud | Jennifer Ehle | Theodore Bouloukos
Michael says: “Lucy, a young woman content to spend her life bartending in her recently deceased dad’s bar, meets Ilse, an eccentric woman dealing with a mid-life career crisis as an artist. When Ilse asks Lucy to pose for her,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrius Blazevicius
Starring: Amelija Adomaitytė | Gintarė Parulytė | Indre Patkauskaite | Marius Repšys | Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė
Michael says: “Pitch-perfect film about a couple in Lithuania who enter a divorce just as the the Russia Ukraine War begins. The pair, and their young daughter, must navigate the social unrest even as their personal lives start to unravel.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Dorr | Mike Kaplan
Michael says: “A serviceable documentary about the filming of Robert Altman’s SHORT CUTS. Kaplan was a successful producer who worked with both Altman and Rudolph, as well as Kubrick. This doc features some fun and interesting interview with the cast,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Vincent Munier
Michael says: “Gorgeous documentary on so many level. Filmmaker Vincent Munier, spends time with his grandfather in a cabin in the Vosges forests in Eastern France creating extraordinary audio and video recordings of the wildlife that live there and their nighttime
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Geneviève Bujold | John Larroquette | Keith Carradine | Lesley Ann Warren | Rae Dwn Chong
Michael says: “While we look around at today’s world and still see so much inequity and bigotry in the world, it is amazing to look back at films from 40 years ago which are fine films and quite entertaining, but
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