Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day Lewis | David Strathairn | Hal Holbrook | James Spader | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Sally Field
Diane says: “I am in love with Abraham Lincoln! At least as played by the superlative Daniel Day-Lewis. I feared the Spielbergization of what is already mythic, but Day-Lewis makes the hero of LINCOLN specific, odd, and complicated. The movie
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Brandon Trost | Jason Trost
Starring: Art Hu | Brandon Barrera | Caitlyn Folley | James DeBello | Jason Trost | Lee Valmassy | Nick Principe
Jason says: “THE FP is the sort of flick that is precisely built to appeal to a certain category of movie fans, who are often surprised when it doesn’t do much for others. I have no doubt that it will
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Lee Hirsch
Thom says: “Here’s another film I had high expectations for that ended up being disappointing. I’m all for the purpose of the film as I loathe bullies. I’ve been rather lucky as I never was much bothered by bullies until
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Victor Vu
Starring: Huynh Dong | Khuong Ngoc | Kim Hien | Mi Du | Minh Thuan | Van Trang
Jason says: “If nothing else, the English title of BLOOD LETTER is a neat play on words, even if it won’t stand out on a DVD shelf of imported action movies. That’s not the best thing about it – it
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Azazael Jacobs
Starring: Bridger Zadina | Creed Bratton | Jacob Wysocki | John C. Reilly | Olivia Crocicchia
Jason says: “Earlier in this festival (and on many other occasions), I saw a movie about an eccentric kid growing up, and it was kind of annoying; even if inspired by actual people, the characters seemed like adult screenwriters. So
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Lech Majewski
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Michael York | Rutger Hauer
Diane says: “RUSSIAN ARK meets Mel Gibson’s PASSION. This gorgeous, soporific Polish film turns Bruegel’s painting, ‘The Way to Calvary,’ into a mostly wordless narrative. Concept is great (digitized background of the painting’s landscape with live actors in middle- and
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Miranda July
Starring: David Warshofsky | Hamish Linklater | Isabella Acres | Joe Putterlik | Miranda July
Jason says: “THE FUTURE is kind of amazing, in its annoying little way. It finds the shortest possible path from its characters doing something nice to them being ridiculous and insufferable, and then spends the next hour or so finding
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki
Starring: Kentarô Itô | Ryuji Aigase | Satomi Ishihara | Sôsuke Komori | Yasuyuki Kase
Jason says: “The craftsmanship of LEGEND OF THE MILLENNIUM DRAGON is remarkable; it’s the sort of animated feature where every cel is frame-worthy and the assembly into a moving picture is wonderfully fluid. Like many animated films of its type,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Starring: Bruce Greenwood | Minnie Driver | Paul Giamatti | Rachelle LaFevre | Rosamund Pike | Scott Speedman
Thom says: “Adapted from the Mordechai Richler (who sadly passed before this film was released) novel this film does have loads of charm that tried very hard to overcome the basically obnoxious protagonist. Barney Panofsky is a very successful Canadian
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Scoot McNairy | Whitney Able
Jason says: “Movies like MONSTERS often get graded on a curve because of how much they do with relatively little. Gareth Edwards shot it guerilla-style and had to cram a fair amount of effects shots into a five or six-figure
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