Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Gerald Peary
Michael says: “FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES: THE STORY OF AMERICAN FILM CRITICISM – What a joy to attend the New England premiere of friend and long-time Chlotrudis supporters Gerry Peary and Amy Geller’s film, FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES:
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen | Stine Stengade | Thure Lindhardt
Beth Curran says: “Set in Denmark during its WWII occupation, the film tells the story of two famous Danish resistance fighters, Flame and Citron, and tells it with eyes open and no holds barred, which has made it quite a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Leonid Prudovsky
Starring: Dana Glozman | Dror Keren | Efim Gelman | Helena Yaralova | Ohad Gil | Vladimir Friedman | Yoram Toledano
Michael says: “A well-acted, mature romantic comedy is hard to come by in this day and age, and this Israeli film by a Russian director fits the bill very well. Yigal drives a taxi, and remains good friends with his
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Astra Taylor
Bruce says: “Inspired by Plato’s statement ‘The unexamined life is not worth living…,’ Astra Taylor has made an intellectually challenging film that is a joy while at the same time not completely satisfying. Through the course of EXAMINED LIFE she
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Alfred Molina | Cara Seymour | Carey Mulligan | Dominic Cooper | Emma Thompson | Olivia Williams | Peter Sarsgaard | Rosamund Pike
Michael says: “Danish director Lone Scherfig’s latest film (after scoring big with Chlotrudis with ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS and WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF), is an adaptation of a British memoir about a young girl preparing for University at a private
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Starring: Kazuko Yoshiyuki | Kimiko Yo | Masahiro Motoki | Ryoko Hirosue | Tsutomu Yamazaki
Jason says: “DEPARTURES feels like the sort of film that wins the Academy Award for best foreign language feature. It’s a good movie, just Japan-specific enough that the voters can feel like they’re awarding another culture, but accessible and mainstream
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Joe Berlinger
Thom says: “Berlinger (BROTHERS KEEPER, METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER) does a credible job here on the Ecuadorian land tragedy and the $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron (Texaco) brought by a group of indigenous people from the contaminated region of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Beth Grant | Colin Farrell | Jeff Bridges | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Robert Duvall
Jason says: “There are some fantastic scenes in CRAZY HEART. Pretty much any where you have Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall together, for instance. Not much of great import happens during those, but you’ve got two great pros who seem
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Starring: Ammara Siripong | Hiroshi Abe | JeeJa Yanin | Pongpat Wachirabunjong | Taphon Phopwandee
Jeff says: “Entertaining little Thai martial arts movie with a spunky, autistic (!), teenage heroine who learns all her fighting moves just by watching them on TV and goes to bat for her mom against a bunch of usurous gangsters.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alejandro Adams
Starring: Carla Pauli | Eli Kramer | Galen Howard | Jennifer Latch | Larissa Kasian
Jason says: “CANARY is not for everyone. I know this because despite sitting in the fourth row of the auditorium, I saw a dozen or so people in front of me up and leave; I assume there were others behind
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