Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Clémentine Grenier | Ethan Hawke | Juliette Binoche
Michael says: “Hirokazu Koreeda goes to France and assembles an international cast including Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke, but sticks close to his favorite theme of family. In this case it’s the strained relationship between a mother, Fabienne,
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Director: Vincent D'onofrio
Starring: Chris Pratt | Dane DeHaan | Ethan Hawke | Jake Schur | Leila George
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Bill Hoag | Cedric the Entertainer | Ethan Hawke | Michael Gaston | Philip Ettinger | Victoria Hill
Chris says: “I believe any work of art has the potential to be both ridiculous and sublime, however rarely one achieves such a tricky balance is. To its credit, FIRST REFORMED is often firmly the latter—the austere opening credits sequence with
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jesse Peretz
Starring: Chris O’Dowd | Ethan Hawke | Kitty O’Beirne | Rose Byrne
Chris says: “This was my favorite Hornby novel since High Fidelity (he’s at his best writing about music), but as film adaptations go, it’s no HIGH FIDELITY. It doesn’t fall flat, exactly—how it could it with such ideal casting as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane | Ethan Hawke | Lorelei Linklater | Nick Krause | Patricia Arquette
Chris says: “When asked what BOYHOOD was about, I stumbled in finding the words for a two-sentence description; having had a few days to mull it over, my response now would be simply, ‘Everything.’ It’s the best way to sum
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Charlotte Prior | Ethan Hawke | Jennifer Prior | Julie Delpy | Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Chris says: “*Minor spoilers ahead* “Though not a flawless film, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE concluded almost perfectly: its open-endedness exuded a lovely power as it revisited all the spaces its two leads Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) inhabited
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Delphine Chuillot | Ethan Hawke | Joanna Kulig | Kristin Scott Thomas | Samir Guesmi
Bruce says: “It has been seven years since MY SUMMER OF LOVE, so to say the THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH was eagerly anticipated is an understatement. Although an entirely different type of film, comparisons to MIDNIGHT IN PARIS are
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Allen Hughes | Brett Ratner | Fatih Akin | Joshua Marston | Mira Niar | Natalie Portman | Randall Balsmeyer | Shekhar Kapur | Shunji Iwai | Wen Jiang | Yvan Attal
Starring: Blake Lively | Bradley Cooper | Christina Ricci | Ethan Hawke | Natalie Portman | Orlando Bloom | Shia LaBeouf
Thom says: “This companion piece to PARIS JE T’AIME isn’t quite as good as the Paris version. The former concentrated on all different districts of the ‘City of Light,’ each with its own yarn, and was quite a bit more
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney | Brian F. O’Byrne | Ethan Hawke | Marisa Tomei | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Rosemary Harris
Bruce says: “A few weeks ago the producer of BELLA, an independent film that opened at the same time as BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD, sent out an email chain letter that was a rant against Lumet’s film, a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Avril Lavigne | Bobby Cannavale | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Ethan Hawke | Greg Kinnear | Paul Dano | Wilmer Valderrama
Bruce says: “Being a fan of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, I was looking forward to Richard Linklater’s fictionalized version of Schlosser’s multiple exposés of the fast food industry, the Colorado meat packing industry, and the US immigration policies (or
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