Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes | Calum Heath | Hannah Hoekstra | Kelly Byrne | Rupert Evans | Steve Oram
Jason says: “THE CANAL opens with a bit that’s almost too clever for its own good, with film archivist David Williams (Rupert Evans) standing on stage and asking an audience full of unruly children if any want to see some
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: AJ Edwards
Starring: Braydon Denney | Brit Marling | Cameron Mitchell Williams | Diane Kruger | Jason Clarke | Wes Bentley
Thom says: “This is the debut film from director Edwards and his love for the project is evident throughout this pastoral work. It takes place in 1817 in Indiana where the young Abe Lincoln is growing up over a 3-year
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alex Orr
Starring: Alex Orr | Dan Triandiflou | John Curran | Juduth Beasly | Katie Rowlett
Jason says: “Someday, Alex & Katie Orr’s first-born child is going to see this movie, and in my head it’s running fifty-fifty on whether they’ll have some explaining to do our whether they’ll just be the sort of weird parents
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Iain Forsyth | Jane Pollard
Kyle says: “The closing night screening of the 43rd New Directors/New Films fittingly offered the feature film debut of British directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard — a documentary on Australian musician/composer/screenwriter/novelist/actor Nick Cave. Many fans admire him for his
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ahmad Alyaseer
Starring: Najwan Baqaeen | Zaid Baqaeen
Jason says: “I’m guessing that there’s not a whole lot of money for science fiction filmmaking in Jordan, which is why WHEN TIME BECOMES A WOMAN not only feels less like a movie than a one-act play, but also has
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Aurélien Recoing | Catherine Salée | Léa Seydoux | Salim Kechiche
Diane says: “Or, by its more appropriate international title ADELE: CHAPTERS 1 AND 2. A.k.a. the three-hour lesbian sex movie. “I had expected a happy movie: girl discovers her sexuality, finds a thrilling blue-haired partner who opens her eyes to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Roh Deok
Starring: Ha Yeon-Soo | Kim Min-hee | Lee Min-ki
Kyle says: “According to the New York Asian Film Festival program booklet, VERY ORDINARY COUPLE, seen in its North American Premiere screening, out-grossed both A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD and GI JOE 2 at the Korean box office. Relief
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shannon Plumb
Starring: Alexandra Hennrikson | Cody Cianfrance | Derek Cianfrance | Jason Quarle | Lora Lee Gayer | Shannon Plumb | Walker Cianfrance
Bruce says: “New York filmmaker Shannon Plumb draws on her own experiences of motherhood for the vignettes in TOWHEADS. In the film her name is Penelope and her real live husband, Derek Cianfrance (THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES and BLUE
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jodi Whillle | Maria Demopoulos
Chris says: “A popular health food restaurant on the Sunset Strip… an experiment in spiritual communal living at the dawn of the 1970s… a cult overseen by Father Yod, a charismatic, excessively-bearded ex-Marine who eventually proclaimed he was God Himself…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Jason Isaacs | Jeffrey Wright | Joe Anderson | Kelly Reilly | Sam Rockwell | Ted Levine | William H. Macy
Jason says: “There are two general ways a ‘bag of money’ movie can go: Navigating the intricate set-up that is revealed through a constant series of revelations and double-crosses that the anti-hero must navigate in order to keep the cash
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