Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9 cats
Director: Cody Fern
Starring: Dianne Weist | Naomi Watts | Odessa A'zion | Sarah Paulson | Toby Wallace
Michael says: “Fern Cody’s CLOSING NIGHT is a difficult film. It’s also a tear-jerker, and a laugh-out-loud experience. When celebrated stage and film actress Sandra Vale (a tightly wound Sarah Paulson), takes the Broadway stage in ‘Mother Courage and her
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Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Starring: Bradley Sawatzky | Erik Athavale | Kiera Allen | Onalee Ames | Pat Healy | Sara Sohn | Sarah Paulson
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Jacob Lofland | Matthew McConaughey | Michael Shannon | Reese Witherspoon | Sam Shepard | Sarah Paulson | Tye Sheridan
Chris says: “As a follow-up to TAKE SHELTER, a film with shifting ambiguities and an awesome performance from Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichol’s MUD can’t help but almost feel a bit of a letdown. The titular figure, an on-the-run hobo of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tom O'Brien
Starring: Alexie Gilmore | Chris Messina | Natalie Gold | Rich Sommer | Sarah Paulson | Tom O'Brien
Jason says: “If you’re going to go through a time of self-doubt or regret, you could find worse surroundings than Fairhaven, Mass. It’s got the kind of snow dirt and smoke don’t seem to stick to, there are good friends
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Durkin
Starring: Brady Corbet | Elizabeth Olsen | Hugh Dancy | John Hawkes | Sarah Paulson
Michael says: “To kick off this season’s CineCache co-presentation with the Brattle Theatre, we got a sneak preview of the Sundance hit, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. This is one impressive debut film… heck, it’s a pretty impressive film all around.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Cara Seymour | Chris Bauer | David Strathairn | Gretchen Mol | Jared Harris | John Cullum | Jonathan M. Woodward | Lili Taylor | Norman Reedus | Sarah Paulson
Michael says: “In theory, the life of Bettie Page seems like a perfect basis for a biopic. A young girl growing up in the 40’s and 50’s, Page travels from Nashville to New York to pursue her dreams of acting.
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Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: David Hyde Pierce | Ewan McGregor | Renée Zellweger | Sarah Paulson
Peg says: “In what might have been a suave, swinging homage to the Rock Hudson/Doris Day cat-and-mouse romances of the 1960s, director Peyton Reed (BRING IT ON) serves up a pastel-colored ice-cream soda of a movie: sweet and bubbly at
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