Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Esmonde
Jason says: “As much as I enjoyed South by Southwest, I must admit that I wish I had seen more of Austin. I bought a guidebook but never cracked it open, and thus my experience with the city is more
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: R. J. Cutler
Diane says: “Leafing through the September 2007 issue of Vogue is a big job. I’m on page 208 and my arms are already tired, with 632 pages to go. The table of contents appears after 145 pages of ads. Now
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David J. Francis | Mike Masters
Starring: David J. Francis | Mike Masters | Paul Fler | Sam Hall | Stephen Papadimitriou
Jason says: “ZOMBIE NIGHT is, I’m given to understand, a terrible movie, bottom-dozen of all-time bad. Thus it has a cult following. The sequel, to hear the filmmakers tell it, was better-made to the point of mediocrity, but paradoxically less
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Cate Blanchett | Frankie Jonas | Kurt Knutsson | Matt Damon | Noah Lindsey Cyrus | Tina Fey
Thom says: “First off I’m not at all a fan of animation but I’ve long thought Miyazaki was by far the best of the lot. His SPIRITED AWAY, PRINCESS MONONOKE, HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE, & CASTLE IN THE SKY were all
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michael Keaton
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Darlene Hunt | Kelly Macdonald | Michael Keaton | Philip Earl Johnson | Tom Bastounes
Jason says: “THE MERRY GENTLEMAN is one of those movies that appears at the local boutique theater for a blink-and-miss-it one-week engagement with just about zero fanfare, and I probably would have missed it if I hadn’t noticed Michael Keaton’s
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Tracey Heggins | Wyatt Cenac
Jason says: “The ‘getting to know you’ movie is a vital part of the independent film scene. Aside from being something that can be shot on a budget – get a couple actors, some friendly locations, and a script with
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Gael García Bernal | Jan David G. Nicdao | Marife Necesito | Michelle Williams | Sophie Nyweide | Thomas McCarthy
Michael says: “As in JELLYFISH, my favorite film from last year, MAMMOTH finds as one of its core conflicts, a mother traveling half-way around the world to take care of other people’s children in order to make money to support
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg | Rachel Weisz | Rose McIver | Saoirse Ronan | Stanley Tucci | Susan Sarandon
Jason says: “Though I tend to think that attempting to fit a movie into a specific genre and then being frustrated when it fails to fit there nicely speaks more ill of the viewer’s inflexibility than the movie itself, I
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Starring: Albert Dupontel | Fabrice Luchini | François Cluzet | Juliette Binoche | Romain Duris
Bruce says: “PARIS is a kaleidoscopic film, one that tells many stories at once; it is difficult to keep the characters straight and impossible to imagine how they could be related. This statement is more observation than complaint. It is
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Erick Zonca
Starring: Aidan Gould | Bruno Bichir | Jude Ciccolella | Kate del Castillo | Saul Rubinek | Tilda Swinton
Michael says: “What do we make of JULIA, and the very unusual career of filmmaker Erick Zonca? JULIA is a difficult to categorize film, part crime thriller, part melodrama, part farce, part comedy (although I’m not 100% certain the last
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