Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Justin Kurzel
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Caleb Landry Jones | Essie Davis | Judy Davis | Phoebe Taylor | Sean Keenan
Diane says: “NITRAM is a tough film. I’m grateful that I was told hardly anything about it by the friend who recommended it. It’s the story of a misfit, a depressive young Australian man whose parents try hard to make
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Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Carol Kane | Chloe Sevigny | Elizabeth Bracco | Mark Boone Junior | Michael Buscemi | Steve Buscemi
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Bobby Roth
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Barbara Williams | Larsen Thompson | Sarah Carter
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Liev Schreiber | Rebecca Gibney | Toni Collette
Kyle says: “Whether you are a potential viewer of this latest work by the director best known for MURIEL’S WEDDING depends on how open you are to a comedy about mental illness. The title refers not only to the wildly
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Robert Connolly
Starring: Alex Williams | Anthony LaPaglia | Callan McAuliffe | Laura Wheelwright | Nick Mitchell | Rachel Griffiths
Thom says:b”This Australian television film was a real eye-opener. Connolly’s work is mostly unfamiliar to me although I did see THE BANK (2001, 3 CATS). This was a thrilling and awe-inspiring true story about the late-teen scene of one of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Allison Janney | Anthony LaPaglia | Mark Webber
Diane says: “Quel disappointment! This story of a father and two sons five years after the mother’s death is a Sundance sponsored film, written and directed by Josh Sternfeld. My guess is that Sternfeld shot three times as many scenes
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Robert Connolly
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | David Wenham | Sibylla Budd
Diane says: “Has no one commented on Robert Connolly’s THE BANK, for which we Have a screener? I was looking forward to the perf by Anthony LaPaglia (of the great LANTANA ensemble) in this purported thriller, but even he couldn’t
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ray Lawrence
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Barbara Hershey | Geoffrey Rush | Kerry Armstrong | Leah Purcell | Rachel Blake
Diane says: “An excruciating round robin of infidelities in Sydney, combined with a murder mystery. For some reason, I was expecting a lighter film, but there’s no respite to be had here. “LANTANA is striking in its manipulation of the
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