Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: David Duchovny | Ed Harris | Johnathon Schaech | Lance Henriksen | William Fichtner
Jason says: “Many elements of PHANTOM are almost certain to remind audiences of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, and it actually draws heavily on one of the incidents that inspired Tom Clancy’s novel and the later film adaptation – or
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Walter Salles
Starring: Alice Braga | Amy Adams | Elisabeth Moss | Garrett Hedlund | Kristen Stewart | Sam Riley | Tom Sturridge
Chris says: “The best one can say about this, the first filmed version of Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1957 novel is that it’s not embarrassing. If that sounds like faint praise, it aptly mirrors the film’s modest ambitions. Rather than transform
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nobuteru Uchida
Starring: Kiki Sugino | Maho Yamada | Makiko Watanabe | Takeshi Yamamoto | Yû Koyanagi | Yûki Shinohara
Bruce says: “ODAYAKA is a psychological study regarding how people react to disaster. Inspiration for the film was drawn from real life events, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which caused over fifteen thousand deaths, many injuries and three level 7
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dennie Gordon
Starring: Ruby Lin Xin-ru | Wang Lee-Hom | Yao Chen | Zhang Ziyi
Jason says: “I’ve said before that making sequels to romantic comedies is a tempting but dangerous idea, but MY LUCKY STAR (FEICHANG XINGYUN in Mandarin) may just have hit upon the best way to follow up such a hit: It’s
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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: 3.5 cats
Director: Yves Montmayeur
Bruce says: “Michael Haneke does not like to discuss his personal life – he prefers to concentrate on the man behind the camera. Those wishes are granted by director Yves Montmayeur. It is likely those wishes were conditional in making
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Stobe Harju
Starring: Anette Olzon | Francis-Xavier McCarthy | Joanna Noyes | Marianne Farley | Quinn Lord | Tuomas Holopainen
Jason says: “This fantasy movie is kind of a peculiar thing: Based on the band Nightwish’s concept album of the same name but not seeming to have that many songs from it – I think two are performed and another
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lee Won-seok
Starring: Kim Jeong-tae | Kim Joon-seong | Lee Si-yeong | Lee Won-jong | Oh Jeong-se | Park Yeong-gyoo
Kyle says: “The title, seen at the New York Asian FIlm Festival in its North American premiere, refers to a series of idiotic but highly successful self-help videotapes on how to meet, influence and win over guys. It is a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Christian Vincent
Starring: Arthur Dupont | Catherine Frot | Hervé Pierre | Hippolyte Girardot | Jean d’Romesson | Jean-Marc Roulot | Laurent Poitrenaux | Philippe Uchan
Bruce says: “Catherine Frot (AN AMAZING COUPLE, ON THE RUN, AFTER THE LIFE, THE DINNER GAME, THE PAGE TURNER) has been around a long time. Chlotrudis members may recall her in the Lucas Belvaux Trilogy consisting of the first three
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ryan White
Chris says: “A half-century on, there’s not much about The Beatles that hasn’t already been revealed, explored or analyzed to death. The idea of a documentary centered on the band’s secretary and fan club president initially smacks of clutching at
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