Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Alice Dubois | Evelyne Brochu | Hélène Florent | Kevin Parent | Marin Gerrier | Vaness Paradis
Thom says: “Director Vallée made a splash a few years back with C.R.A.Z.Y. & I quite liked his THE YOUNG VICTORIA (2009) (another entry that was denied me at TIFF 2009) so I went into the film with my eyes
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daniel Burman
Starring: Gabriel Schultz | Jorge Drexler | Luis Brandoni | Norma Aleandro | Valeria Bertuccelli
Bruce says: “Argentina is famous for taking in what is believed to be hundreds of Nazi war criminals during the Peron years. What many people don’t know is that Buenos Aires has one of the largest Jewish populations outside of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alison Klayman
Jason says: “Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is an odd duck, even by installation-artist standards. That it’s often an affable, upbeat eccentricity may help explain why a government not known for free expression let the outspoken Ai be for so long
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Alex Shaffer | Amy Ryan | Bobby Cannavale | Jeffrey Tambor | Melanie Lynskey | Paul Giamatti
Michael says: “Paul Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, an attorney in a New Jersey town who is struggling to make ends meet. When an opportunity presents itself for him to become the guardian of one of his elderly clients and make
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Starring: David Strathairn | Monica Bellucci | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Rachel Weisz | Vanessa Redgrave
Jason says: “THE WHISTLEBLOWER has a good cast and a topic that provokes a strong emotional reaction, and when a project starts with that, making a memorable film can often come down to not screwing up. Co-writer/director Larysa Kondracki doesn’t
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Benny Chan
Starring: Andy Lau | Bing Bai | Bingbing Fan | Jackie Chan | Nicholas Tse | Yu Xing
Jason says: “Benny Chan’s SHAOLIN is not a remake of any of the Shaw Brothers films that focused on that legendary temple and its monks (though only fifty-odd years gone at the time, Gordon Liu-starring movies like THE 36TH CHAMBER
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