Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rob Garver
Chris says: “Although never a celebrity like Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael was arguably the most influential film critic of her time and easily one of the more outspoken ones. Her unique career trajectory, from running a Berkeley moviehouse to landing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jennifer Trainer
Chris says: “North Adams, a depressed former mill town in far Northwestern Massachusetts is as unlikely a place for a contemporary art museum as one could imagine; MUSEUM TOWN is an in-depth study of how MassMOCA came to inhabit former
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrew Slater
Chris says: “ECHO IN THE CANYON POWER RANKINGS: Tom Petty’s last interview and his infectious fandom for the subject at hand. Man, what a loss. Any vintage recording studio footage, esp. The Mamas and The Papas’ immense choral sound. Elderly
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Adam Driver | Bill Murray | Carol Kane | Chloe Sevigny | Danny Glover | Steve Buscemi | Tilda Swinton | Tom Waits
Thom says: “It would be presumptuous of me to call myself a huge Jim Jarmusch fan but he certainly has had a large number of top-rated films with me including PATERSON, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, BROKEN FLOWERS, COFFEE & CIGARETTES,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Holmes
Chris says: “A genuinely inspiring story on its own, MAIDEN is further enhanced by its subject, Tracy Edwards, whom through considerable determination, chutzpah and luck managed to conceive of and lead the first all-female team to participate in the Whitbread
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Rating: 4.4
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Callie Hernandez | Riley Keough | Topher Grace
Chris says: “Given the copious bodily fluids on display throughout, I can see why A24 was sheepish to give this a wider release. David Robert Mitchell’s (IT FOLLOWS) only real flaw here is that he made a film that simply
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Starring: Brad Garrett | Caren Pistorius | Holland Taylor | Jeanne Tripplehorn | John Turturro | Julianne Moore | Michael Cera | Rita Wilson
Thom says: “This is exactly the type of film I look for in these troubled times. It is honest, compelling, and a true slice-of-life experience, but, that being said, it totally relies on Julianne Moore’s mind-boggling performance to carry it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tom Harper
Starring: Craig Parkinson | James Harkness | Jessie Buckley | Julie Walters
Chris says: “Jessie Buckley is so damn good she altogether shreds and transcends this film’s standard “I wanna be a star” trajectory; almost as impressive is how the film itself nearly does the same with its not-entirely-expected, somewhat corny but
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Ljubomir Stefanov | Tamara Kotevska
Michael says: “HONEYLAND was a remarkable documentary; I think it was my top film of the festival. Remarkably shot, incredibly edits, a real gem of a story that was somehow gifted to the filmmaker, HONEYLAND also illuminates a culture I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dava Whisenant
Starring: Chita Rivera | David Letterman | Florence Henderson | Martin Short | Sheldon Harnick | Steve Young | Susan Stroman
Chris says: “If a deep dive into the obscure world of 1960s industrial musicals doesn’t at least pique your interest, then this is not a documentary for you. If it at all does, however, you won’t mind spending ninety minutes
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