Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Tom McCarthy
Starring: Adam Sandler | Dan Stevens | Kim Cloutier | Lynn Cohen | Melonie Diaz | Sondra James | Steve Buscemi
Kyle says: “Lower East Side New York cobbler Max Simkin (Adam Sandler) struggles to make ends meet, supporting himself and his aged mother. He rediscovers a stitching machine that has been in his family for many generations and starts using
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hue Rhodes
Starring: John Cho | Peter Dinklage | Romany Malco | Sarah Silverman | Steve Buscemi | Tim Blake Nelson
Jason says: “This one had a short run on the plex’s smallest screen, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a pretty decent movie, with a good cast, but it’s also a weird one, with gambling addict John encountering
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bette Gordon
Starring: Aidan Quinn | Campbell Scott | Jamey Sheridan | John Savage | Karen Young | Mariann Mayberry | Steve Buscemi
Bruce says: “In 1983 Bette Gordon was an underground artist who decided she could make as good a film as the next guy (let’s face it, there were few female filmmakers in 1983.) The result was the stunning VARIETY which
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Erik Knudsen | Jean Smart | Michael Cera | Portia Doubleday | Steve Buscemi | Zach Galifanakis
Jason says: “The night I saw this, I tweeted that I wasn’t sure whether Youth in Revolt was more amusingly or annoyingly mannered, and I still haven’t decided. It is, frequently, very funny, with great combinations of slapstick, wordplay, situations
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Ben Foster | Eamonn Walker | Jena Malone | Samantha Morton | Steve Buscemi | Woody Harrelson | Yaya DaCosta
Jason says: “THE MESSENGER has no problem with making the audience a little uncomfortable. What might, in another movie, have been a bittersweet romance between Ben Foster’s Will Montgomery (a wounded soldier serving the end of his hitch informing next
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Rating: 1.75
Director: John Turturro
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | James Gandolfini | Kate Winslet | Mandy Moore | Steve Buscemi | Susan Sarandon
Diane says: “Zany beginning fades to a ragged story in John Turturro’s third outing as director. James Gandolfini opens with an all-out singing and dancing number on the street of his Brooklyn neighborhood, supported by garbagemen et al. His wife,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne | Alfonso Cuarón | Christopher Doyle | Ethan Coen | Gus Van Sant | Isabel Coixet | Joel Coen | Olivier Assayas | Tom Tykwer | Walter Salles | Wes Craven
Starring: Fanny Ardant | Gerard Depardieu | Julie Bataille | Juliette Binoche | Leïla Bekhti | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Margo Martindale | Melchior Derouet | Seydou Boro | Steve Buscemi | Willem Dafoe
Bruce says: “Twenty two directors join together for twenty short stories about love, each set in a different arrondissmont in Paris. The directors approach love from different angles. Some are dead serious, some bittersweet and others, quite amusing. By the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Starring: Allan Corduner | David Arquette | Harvey Keitel | Mira Sorvino | Natasha Lyonne | Steve Buscemi
Laura says: “The Nazis devised a horrific way of getting their dirty work done – in exchange for privileges which included a four month stay of execution, Jewish prisoners could volunteer for Sonderkommando units, responsible for herding Jews to their
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Scarlett Johansson | Steve Buscemi | ThoraBirch
Bob says: “It seems to me that this film is much too heavily reliant on marketing some committee got together and decided which segment of the population they were going after, and how they were going to get them.
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