Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Jens Lien
Starring: Asmund Hoeg | John Lydon | Sonja Richter | Sven Nordin
Jason says: “SONS OF NORWAY does as good a job as any movie at presenting the perspective of a kid for whom the world doesn’t make sense, and where every attempt at understanding misses the point. It’s got a light
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Colin Treverrow
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | Basil Harris | Jake M. Johnson | KaranSoni | Mary Lynn Rajskub
Jason says: “The title of SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED comes from a classified ad that one character places, inspired by a real-life posting along the same lines; I’m pretty sure I recall seeing it as the hook to a science fiction
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Scott Thurman
Jason says: “It’s easy to hear a phrase like ‘culture wars’ and think that it’s over-stating the matter; most people, most of the time, stick to their own thing, grouse that there’s not more that reflects their beliefs and tastes,
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Valerie Weiss
Starring: Bitsie Tulloch | John Billingsley | Kethleen Robertson | Miranda Kent | Reid Scott | Theo Alexander
Jason says: “I try not to get too worked up about science in movies, but given that LOSING CONTROL is about a scientist trying to apply the scientific method to her personal life and the title is a pun that
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Ching Wan Lau | Courtney Wu | Denise Ho | Felix Wong | Richie Ren | Siu-Kei Lee | Terence Yin
Thom says: “Beloved Johnny To returns to TIFF with an atypical entry from the Hong Kong master. Instead of the usual shoot-‘em-up gangster film that To has refined to the finest degree we get an imperiled financial world drama, that
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Brooke Palsson | David Wontner | Isabella Rossellini | Jason Patric | Louis Negin | Udo Kier
Jason says: “Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has never been anything less than unconventional, but some of his more recent efforts have met the mainstream halfway; they were peculiar films but the audience didn’t have to take up residence in Maddin’s
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Rating: 3.9
Director: John Madden
Starring: Bill Nighy | Hugh Dickson | Judi Dench | Maggie Smith | Patrick Pearson | Penelope Wilton | Tom Wilkinson
Thom says: “Director Madden has had an interesting career without really establishing an auteur following. Certainly SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, HER MAJESTY, MRS. BROWN, PROOF, & ETHAN FROME are all well worth viewing but GOLDEN GATE, KILLSHOT, THE DEBT, & CAPTAIN
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Simon Curtis
Starring: Dominic Cooper | Eddie Redmayne | Julia Ormond | Kenneth Brannagh | Michelle Williams
Bruce says: “Brilliant, astonishing, miraculous, breathtaking….there are not enough words to describe Michelle William’s uncanny Marilyn Monroe, a role that is almost inconceivable for any actress to attempt, much less conquer. Williams has the look, the voice, the subtle wit,
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Bruce Greenwood | Michelle Wiliams | Paul Dano | Shirley Henderson | Will Patton | Zoe Kazan
Jason says: “Why don’t you want to see this movie at the end of a long day? Because it is frequently boring, and seeing it in that condition will exacerbate this. Reducing it to simply that one adjective is tremendously
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Constance Marks
Jason says: “I don’t have kids of my own, but I have a four-year-old niece, and Elmo sort of drove her parents up the wall, at least for a while. Something about the high voice, the talking in the third
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