Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Agnieszka Grochowska | Benno Fürmann | Herbert Knaup | Maria Schrader | Robert Wieckiewicz
Bruce says: “Agnieszka Holland’s most acclaimed film – EUROPA, EUROPA – featured a young Jewish man who posed as a Hitler Youth to avoid his inevitable annihilation. With IN DARKNESS she returns to the holocaust once again. Nominated for a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robert Pulcini | Shari Springer Berman
Starring: Annette Bening | Darren Criss | June Diane Raphael | Kristen Wiig | Matt Dillon | Natasha Lyonne
Thom says: “Directors Berman & Pulcini have a good track record with AMERICAN SPLENDOR, THE NANNIE DIARIES, & THE EXTRA MAN all worth checking out and while this film registers more of a sit-com script it still offers a bellyful
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Ebizo Ichikawa | Eita | Hikari Mitsushima | Koji Yakusho | Munetaka Aoki
Jason says: “HARA-KIRI seems like an odd choice for a 3D remake – it features far more sitting around and dueling with subtle turns of phrase than it does swordplay – but with Takashi Miike in the director’s chair, one
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Zézé Gamboa
Starring: Adriana Rebello | Hermila Guedes | Joäo Lagarto | Lázaro Ramos | Patricia Bull | Pedro Hossi
Bruce says: “As any good Canadian friend – not to mention those further away from American soil – will tell you, we Americans know little or nothing about world geography. Bet you didn’t know that both Angola and Mozambique were
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ela Thier
Starring: Dalena Le | Laura Camien | Noa Rotstein | Udi Razzin | Virginia Hastings
Thom says: “The essence of this Film Movement experience is a beautiful one but the awkward interpretation brought it down a peg for me. Ellie. a young girl from Israel, has moved to the United States in the 1980s because
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jorge Torregrossa
Starring: Antonio Garrido | Blanco Romero | Carmen Ruiz | Clara Lago | Daniel Grao | Maribel Verdú | Miquel Fernández
Thom says: “This apocalyptic thriller has a lot going on its behalf like a professional, attractive cast, a lovely well-structured feel, and a riveting plot. A group of college pals have reunion years later with a mysterious secret that needs
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Starring: Aleksey Rozin | Andrey Smirnov | Elena Lyadova | Nadezhda Markina
Jason says: “There’s a certain type of story that appears in magazines devoted to mystery and suspense which doesn’t really present much of either, but instead strips all the plot away and focuses tightly on what the pressures on one
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Ann Mitchell | Jolyon Coy | Karl Johnson | Rachel Weisz | Simon Russell Beale | Tom Hiddleston
Thom says: “I’ve been an assiduous fan of Terence Davies ever since his 1st feature film DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES back in 1988. Since then I found all of his films brilliant: THE LONG DAY CLOSES (1992), THE NEON BIBLE
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Fernando Trueba | Javier Mariscal | Tono Errando
Starring: Blanca Rosa Blanco | Eman Xor Oña | Jon Adams | Limara Meneses | Mario Guerra | Renny Arozarena
Jason says: “For all the elements in CHICO & RITA that seem like they should make it more exciting (animation! jazz! passion! globetrotting! jealousy! revolution!), it turns out to be a strangely inert movie. It’s fairly unique – non-fantastical period
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dori Berinstein
Chris says: “You may argue that the world wasn’t waiting for a Carol Channing documentary, to which I respond, ‘Yes, but can anyone name another performer remotely like her?’ That instantly recognizable voice alone could inspire its own Broadway musical.
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