Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Ben Whishaw | Claire Foy | Frances McDormand | Jessie Buckley | Judith Ivey | Rooney Mara | Sheila McCarthy
Brett says: “WOMEN TALKING re-molds a world of an isolated religious community that is at least somewhat familiar to most North American audiences. It is a reshaping, reimagining of Mennonite society, even though the film is careful never to utter that
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Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Alex Hassell | Bertie Carvel | Brendan Gleeson | Corey Hawkins | Denzel Washington | Frances McDormand
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Anson Mount | Eliza Dushku | Frances McDormand | James Franco | Patty LuPone | Robert DeNiro | William Forsythe
Laura says: “DeNiro finally returns to form in his best dramatic outing since 1995 while up and comer James Franco proves his Golden Globe win for last year’s James Dean TV biopic was no fluke. Screenwriter Ken Hixon (INVENTING THE ABBOTTS)
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Frances McDormand | John Carroll Lynch | Kristin Rudrüd | Peter Stormare | Steve Buscemi | William H. Macy
Michael says: “I could say a lot of things about FARGO, all of them good, but what I most need to say is that Marge Gunderson is one of our all-time great cinematic heroes! Practical, unflappable, determined, and optimistic are
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Chloé Zhao
Starring: David Straithairn | Frances McDormand | Gay DeForest | Linda May | Patricia Grier | Swankie
Chris says: “Already a lot of hype for this one and much of it is justified—if anything, it’s an advance on Chloe Zhao’s last film, THE RIDER, and not necessarily because she’s now working with an Oscar-winning actress (though McDormand
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Frances McDormand | George Clooney | Josh Brolin | RalphFiennes | Scarlett Johansson | Tilda Swinton
Thom says: “The Coen Brothers have had a long, steady run of super-loved films that they have directed and they very rarely fail to hit my highest rating so that this palpably fun film didn’t achieve that fantastic distinction is
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bill Murray | Bruce Willis | Ed Norton | Frances McDormand | Jared Gilman | Jason Schwartzman | Kara Heywood | Tilda Swinton
Chris says: “Back when I first saw THE DARJEELING LIMITED, I detected the promise of a mature, career-defining work lurking deep within, and suggested that Wes Anderson shed some of his baggage in order to locate it. I didn’t specify
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Catherine Keener | Frances McDormand | Jennifer Anniston | Joan Cusack
Michael says: “I really enjoy Nicole Holofcener’s films. Beginning with the brilliant WALKING & TALKING, and LOVELY & AMAZING I find it so delightfully refreshing to see smart films written and directed by a woman, focusing on women, and with
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Christian Bale | Frances McDormand | Kate Beckinsale
Laura says: “Writer/director Lisa Cholodenko, who looked at a community of drug and alcohol-addled artists in New York and their effect on a naive neighbor moves to the West Coast to take a look at a bunch of pot-smoking, boozing
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Adam Alexi-Malle | Billy Bob Thornton | Frances McDormand | Scarlett Johnansson
Bob says: “I think it’s fair to say that the Coens are brilliant, and they have a great understanding of the cinema. The problem is that they know it, and they have a tendency to be intellectual snobs. Their films
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