Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alex Craig | Corey Adama
Starring: Anthony Amerdori | James Faulkner | Jeff Halliday | John Mackey | Lukács Bicskeyr | Vanessa Guide
Jason says: “It seems like a ridiculous thing to say, after having seen the movie, but I initially thought MaACHOTAILDROP was a documentary. Skim the description, and the bits about a company with a colorful head recruiting skateboarders looking to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher | Diane Fleri | Edoardo Gabbriellini | Flavio Parenti | Marisa Berenson | Pippo Delbono | Tilda Swinton
Thom says: “This might well end-up as my TOP FILM for TIFF. Of course, must-see Tilda Swinton is a great help and here she totally shines as a Russian émigré married to an extremely wealthy Italian industrialist, whose company is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff | Christopher Plummer | Helen Mirren | James McAvoy | Kerry Condon | Paul Giamatti
Jason says: “THE LAST STATION is a perfectly adequate sort of historical drama. Nice cast in Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, and Helen Mirren. Nice production values. Interesting subjects. You may learn something while watching it, whether in terms of history,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lixin Fan
Jason says: “LAST TRAIN HOME starts by presenting the audience with large numbers – the 130 million Chinese workers who return home for the New Year’s holiday annually (the world’s largest human migration), and the 2100 kilometers that separate the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jamin Winans
Starring: Christopher Soren Kelly | Jennifer Batter | Jeremy Make | Jessica Duffy | Quinn Hunchar
Jason says: “The makers and marketers of INK are a little bit too ready to call it a cult classic, although given time, I could see it getting there. It’s got a better-than-decent urban fantasy set-up, a few extremely impressive
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: André Dussolier | Anne Consigny | Emanuelle Devos | Mathieu Amalric | Sabine Azéma
Bruce says: “You have to be a devotee of absurdist comedy to appreciate a film like LES HERBES FOLLES (now re-titled WILD GRASS for English audiences.) Similar in theme to HAPPENSTANCE, the Audrey Tatou vehicle prior to her success with
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aaron Schneider
Starring: Bill Murray | Lucas Black | Robert Duvall | Sissy Spacek
Thom says: “This period piece about a hermit in Tennessee in the 1930s has its plusses, especially with pretty horses, good photography and editing, finally ends up disappointing. The truculent hermit has a big secret that separates him from the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jeff Reichert
Jason says: “Disdain for the technique of redrawing voting districts in strange ways for political gain (‘gerrymandering’) doesn’t unite America’s political parties, so much as alternate between them as convenient. Because of this, GRRYMANDERING-the-movie actually has a better chance than
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Katie Aselton
Starring: Joshua Leonard | Katie Aselton | Ken Kennedy | Leonora Gershman | Sean Nelson
Jason says: “THE FREEBIE is one of those DIY-style movies (it’s too well-spoken and clean-looking to be referred to as ‘mumblecore’) where no writing credits appears; the cast is working from producer/director/star Katie Aselton’s outline. Everyone’s got their own process,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert Pulcini | Shari Springer Berman
Starring: Alicia Goranson | Dan Hedaya | John C. Reilly | Katie Holmes | Kevin Kline | Paul Dano
Jason says: “In general, it’s a bad sign when the main character of a movie isn’t the first name you see in the credits. That’s not a rule you can really rely on, since that sort of thing is often
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