Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Andrea Frankle | Charles Melton | Chris Tenzis | Cory Michael Smith | Julianne Moore | Natalie Portman
Chris says: I suppose Todd Haynes’ latest does for Lifetime TV movies what his 2002 film FAR FROM HEAVEN did for Douglas Sirk, recreating an aesthetic and carefully tweaking it for postmodern consumption, but it’s also so much more. It
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Director: Jesse Weisenberg
Starring: Alisha Boe | Billy Bryk | Finn Wolfhard | Jack Justice | Julianne Moore
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Amandla Stenberg | Amy Adams | Ben Platt | Colton Ryan | Danny Pino | Julianne Moore | Kaitlyn Dever
Thom says: “It is difficult reviewing this film for many reasons. Certainly, there is no questioning the credentials of director Chbosky, who was responsible for the 2012 top-rated THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER. DEAR EVAN HANSEN, the film, is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Bobby Daniel Rodriguez | Christopher Lambert | Ethan Simpson | Joe Hernandez | Julianne Moore | Ken Watanabe | Noe Hernandez | Olek Krupa | Ryo Kase | Sebastian Koch | Tenoch Huerta
Thom says: “Adapted from the Ann Patchett international best-seller this film is a powerful drama with tragic implications. A world famous opera diva (always great Moore) is hired to perform for a wealthy South American industrialist when in the midst
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Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Cory Michael Smith | Damian Young | James Urbaniak | Julianne Moore | Millicent Simmonds
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Gloria Steinem | Julianne Moore | Lulu Wilson | Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Philip says: “Finally got around to watching THE GLORIAS, a biopic on Gloria Steinem from producer, director, and screenwriter (along with Sarah Ruhl) Julie Taymor. THE GLORIAS consist of four actresses playing Gloria Steinem at different points in her life,
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Director: Oliver Parker
Starring: Cate Blanchett | Jeremy Northam | John Wood | Julianne Moore | Minnie Driver | Oliver Parker | Rupert Everett
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Cyril Shaps | Deborah Findlay | Ian Hart | James Bolam | Jasoon Isaacs | Julianne Moore | Ralph Fiennes | Sam Bould | Stephen Rea
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Jason Robards | John C. Reilly | Julianne Moore | Melora Walters | Philip Baker Hall | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Tom Cruise | William H. Macy
Chlotrudis says: “MAGNOLIA is Paul Thomas Anderson’s three-hour epic of loss, loneliness, forgiveness and coincidence. Beautifully shot and engagingly acted, MAGNOLIA can alternately humor, sadden, shock and amaze as it weaves together a multitude of story lines about several people
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Director: Bart Freundlich
Starring: Blythe Danner | Hope Davis | Julianne Moore | Noah Wylie | Roy Scheider
