Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shannon Triplett
Starring: Beau Bridges | Edwin Garcia II | Frances Fisher | Kristine Froseth | Ryan Hurst
Aaron says: “This tightly constructed sci-fi thriller from first-time writer-director Shannon Triplett is the discovery of the fest. Kristine Froseth stars as the nameless (for a while) woman who crashes her car in the Mojave desert and can’t find her
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Director: Christian Sparkes
Starring: Alix West Lefler | Clayne Crawford | Frances Fisher | Lara Jean Chorostecki | Michael Greyeyes
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Josh Tickell | Joshua Tickell | Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Starring: Amy Smart | David Arquette | Frances Fisher | Mariel Hemingway | William Mapother
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sebastian Siegel
Starring: Frances Fisher | Mariel Hemingway | Mena Suvari | Nick Stahl | Rebekah Graf | Stuart Townsend
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Abigail Breslin | Alessandro Nivola | Brittany Snow | Elisabeth Shue | Frances Fisher | Frank Whaley | Joel David Moore | Peter Stormare
Scott says: “In a brief but pivotal scene, Frances Fisher provides the missing piece of the puzzle to the character of her estranged son, a rock and roll musician in the midst of a career meltdown and a surprising personal
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Travis Fine
Starring: Alan Cumming | Don Franklin | Frances Fisher | Garret Dillahunt | Gregg Lambert | Issac Leyva
Bruce says: “ANY DAY NOW won the Audience Award for best feature at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. Already I have heard snide comments about its deservedness. How does it happen that every film dealing with disabilities is tagged as
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Rating: 2.125 cats
Director: Tommy Stovall
Starring: Beth Grant | Christopher Atkins | Frances Fisher | Matthew J. Williamson | Seth Peterson
Michael says: “Some strong performances and a naturally mystical setting can’t quite rise above a screenplay that is a little too new agey and coincidental to fully work as a film. Tammy (Fisher) is on her way to Phoenix to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Vadim Perelman
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Frances Fisher | Jennifer Connelly | Jonathon Ahdout | Ron Eldard | Shohreh Aghdashloo
Diane says: “I’m on a mainstream roll! HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG is a five-cat book, and here not reduced too awfully much in its film version. Ben Kingsley is perfect as Colonel Behrani, the exiled Iranian trying to recoup
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Rating: 2.9 cats
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Starring: Agnes Bruckner | David Straithairn | Frances Fisher | Margaret Colin
Esmé says: “I really liked this movie a lot. The main character’s pathos was palpable (it was about poetry, I can alliterate, can’t I?) I was really moved by the story, and having just watched LILJA 4-EVER, I was suspicious
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