Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Curt May | Dennis Franz | John Aquino | John Lithgow | John McMartin | John Travolta | Nancy Allen | Peter Boyden
Michael says: “After enjoying Antonioni’s BLOW-UP, I thought it might be fun to check out BLOW OUT, Brian De Palma’s nod to that classic. In the 1966 film about a photographer who inadvertently captures a possible murder while king pictures of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Cliff Robertson | Geneviève Bujold | J. Patrick McNamara | John Lithgow | Stanley J. Reyes | Sylvia Kuumba Williams | Wanda Blackman
Chris says: “Interesting that Brian De Palma made this between PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and CARRIE: it feels almost beholden to reverently emulating (rather than simply paying affectionate homage to) a certain Hitchcock film (Bernard Herrmann score and all!) except
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Starring: Emma Thompson | Hugh Dancy | John Lithgow | Mindy Kaling
Thom says: “I had rather high expecta tions for this film, but still was thrilled at how much I enjoyed it. Director Ganatra has had lots of television experience, but previously her features were lackluster. But a great (if cookie-cutter)
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Director: Noble Jones
Starring: Blythe Danner | Derek Cecil | John Lithgow | Katie Aselton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: Alfred Molina | Charlie Tahan | Cheyenne Jackson | John Lithgow | Marisa Tomei | Olya Zueva
Diane says: “Alfred Molina and John Lithgow make a sweet pair–married after 39 years together and then thrown into a financial and household crisis. Can you believe those two big men can fit in a bunk bed together? “Lithgow did
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Starring: David Dencik | Grace Gummer | Hailee Steinfeld | Hilary Swank | James Spader | John Lithgow | Meryl Streep | Miranda Otto | Sonja Richter | Tommy Lee Jones | William Ficthner
Jason says: “I can’t recall Tommy Lee Jones ever working with Werner Herzog at any point, and that’s probably for the best. THE HOMESMAN suggest they may be too much on the same page about how the untamed wilderness not
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