Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Starring: Dan Lauria | Eric McCormack | Jenni Baird | Jody Thompson | Robert Patrick
Jason says: “If you go to enough genre-oriented film festivals or keep an eye out for would-be cult films, you will probably feel like you see a new movie like ALIEN TRESPASS every month or two – a fifties sci-fi
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Cao Hamburger
Starring: Caio Blat | Daniela Piepszyk | Eduardo Moreira | Germano Haiut | Michel Joelsas | Simone Spoladore
Bruce says: “Three ideas for a story converge in THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION: the 1970 World Cup Games in which Pele led his country to their third world championship; the insularity of the Jewish community in Sao
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rodger Grossman
Starring: Ashton Holmes | Bijou Phillips | Noah Segan | Rick Gonzalez | Shane West | Tina Majorino
Jason says: “Music doesn’t interest me nearly as much as movies do, and I grew up on the East Coast besides, so it’s not exactly surprising that I’d never heard of short-lived (but apparently influential) Los Angeles punk band The
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bruce McDonald
Starring: Ellen Page | Julian Richings | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Michael says: “This was surely the year of Ellen Page at the Toronto International Film Festival. After receiving well-deserved accolades for her fine comedic work in JUNO, she turns around a floors audiences in Bruce McDonald’s (‘Twitch City’; HIGHWAY 61)
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Boyle | Loveleen Tanden
Starring: Anil Kapoor | DevPatel | Freida Pinto | Saurabh Shukla
Gil and Amanda say: “Winner of the Cadillac People’s Choice Award! A young Indian man, who grew up in the slums of Mumbai, becomes a finalist on the TV show, ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.’ Due to his background
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama | inko Kikuchi | Shosuke Tanihara
Beth says: “Japanese anime, based on a novel about a war that’s been wholly privatized by two companies who are at endless war, and the Kildren, genetically mutated humans who cannot age. Yuichi is a new pilot at one of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Luc Dardenne
Starring: ArtaDobroshi | Fabrizio Rongione | Jérémie Renier
Beth says: “Directed by the Dardennes brothers, we follow Lorna, a naturalized Albanian using her Belgian status in a scheme that marries her to others immigrating from Eastern Europe. Imagine if 4 MONTHS 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS had followed the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jessica Yu
Starring: Elizabeth Sung | Jim Lau | Jimmy Tsai | Roger Fan | Shelley Malil
Michael says: “Who would have thought that the first feature narrative by filmmaker Jessica Yu, the brilliant documentarian responsible for IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL and PROTAGONIST, would be a wacky comedy in the vein of THE BAD NEWS
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Guido Sommer | Jey Crisfar | Katharina Klewinghaus | Marcel Shlutt | Susanne Sachße
Scot says: “Yeah, that’s the title, semicolon and all. It’s writer/director (sometimes actor) Bruce LaBruce’s latest effort and it’s not entirely terrible. I quite liked some of it, in fact, but overall, I think it’s a ‘meh.’ “The premise is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belén Rueda | Fernando Cayo | Mabel Rivera | Montserrat Carulla | Roger Príncep
Jason says: “This was going to be a negative review; I came out deflated, and if I’d written this right away, that probably would have been the theme. There is a great deal about this film that’s good, though, and
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