Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Albert Maritz | Charlie Keegan | Deon Lotz | Michelle Scott | Roeline Daneel | Sue Diepeveen
Thom says: “This is a very disturbing entry to be included and I think it was rather brave of them to embrace it because the story is so ugly. A 40-something man lives with his Afrikaans-speaking family in Bloemfontein (yes,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: Brit Marling | Laetia Casta | Nate Parker | Richard Gere | Stuart Margolin | Susan Sarandon | Tim Roth
Chris says: “When you have a lead character whose actions are as extremely despicable as those of Robert Miller, you need an actor so rakishly charming as to avoid alienating your audience. Aging like fine cheese, silver-haired Richard Gere nearly
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kurt Norton | Paul Mariano
Toni says: “I think that THESE AMAZING SHADOWS is too much of a propaganda love story to random films selected to the National Film Registry than an even documentary about the registry. There is much one might like to learn
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richards Ayoade
Starring: Craig Roberts | Noah Taylor | Paddy Considine | Sally Hawkins | Yasmin Paige
Jason says: “Watching SUBMARINE, I wondered about director Richard Ayoade’s youth, speculating that he’d spent his time in the cinema, watching French movies rather than hanging out with other kids. There’s an argument to be made that one is better
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Alex Manette | Carey Mulligan | James Badge Dale | Michael Fassbender | Nicole Beharie
Michael says: “Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a successful businessman who lacks any meaningful relationships due to his sexual addiction. His carefully constructed life is thrown into turmoil when his sister Sissy (Mulligan) returns. Despite some high profile awards and some
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrew Traucki
Starring: Adrienne Pickering | Damian Walshe-Howling | Gyton Grantley | Kieran Darcy-Smith | Zoe Naylor
Jason says: “Early on in THE REEF, a character looking at a wall full of sharks’ jaws is told not to worry, because one is far more likely to die of a bee sting than a shark attack. A part
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marvin Kren
Starring: Anka Graczyk | Michael Fuith | Theo Trebs
Jason says: “RAMMBOCK is far enough outside what usually the parameters of what shows up on multiplex screens – a low-budget German horror movie so short that only an hour and fifteen minutes passes between the lights going down and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anne Renton
Starring: Elizabeth Peña | Emily Deschanel | Jason Ritter | Kathleen Turner | Richard Chamberlain
Chris says: “For film festivals from Cannes to Toronto, it’s usually a safe bet that the opening night film will not be the fest’s pick of the litter. Those selected for the Provincetown International Film Festival (now in its 13th
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrew Rossi
Diane says: “Had resisted seeing this one for so long, but… “The main thrust of the docu, about how the Web, social media, etc. are killing newspapers, is a stale story by now. What excited me were the stories of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
Diane says: “Doc about middle-aged punk rockers becoming ‘F’athers. Snippets of interviews about men teaching street-crossing rules to their kids after a career of being anti-authority, being accepted by other preschool parents despite all those nasty tattoos, blaming their parents
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