Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Matthew Ya-Hsiung Balzer
Starring: Bill Sage | Emy Coligado | Gianna Capri | James McMenamin | Jere Burns | Katia Winter | Kyle Gallner
Toni says: “THE CATCH also explored a fishing (or lobstering) community in Maine, but is more of a family drama mixed with crime thriller, only hinting at the economic struggles, spending more time on ‘failure to launch’ and drug dealing tropes,
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Director: Mike P. Nelson
Starring: Adain Bradley | Bill Sage | Charlotte Vega | Daisy Head | Dylan McTee | Emma Dumont | Matthew Modine | Vardaan Arora
By Michael Colford
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Ally Sheedy | Bill Sage | Gabriel Mann | Patricia Clarkson | Radha Mitchell | Tammy Grimes
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Ambyr Childers | Bill Sage | Jack Gore | Julia Garner | Kassie DePaiva | Michael Parks
Jason says: “WE ARE WHAT WE ARE makes a heck of a case for the much-maligned idea of remaking a foreign film in English. Though the original Mexican version was much-beloved by many (I thought it had a great opening
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Bill Sage | Brady Corbett | Elisabeth Shue | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michelle Trachtenberg
Bruce says: “We all bring our own baggage into every experience. It is hardly surprising that the effect of any common experience and the baggage we carry away from it will vary for each of us. Most of the time,
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Bill Sage | Sabrina Lloyd | Tatiana Abracos
Michael says: “I attended Hal Hartley’s THE GIRL FROM MONDAY with much anticipation, being such a fan of the director’s deadpan wit, and wry observations on relationships. Hartley goes the science fiction route in MONDAY to tell the story of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Baltasar Kormákur | Bill Sage | Helen Mirren | James Urbaniak | Julie Christie | Robert John Burke | Sarah Polley
Michael says: “I have been eagerly anticipating this film because it featured three of my favorite movie types… Hal Hartley, Sarah Polley and Helen Mirren. “Buzz around this new film had been rather negative… largely, I think, due to the
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