Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Brendan McFadden | Chris Lankenau | Jeb Pearson | Raúl Castillo | Trieste Kelly Dunn
Jason says: “COLD WEATHER looks like a detective story, but to an extent that’s just camouflage. Though it’s got more of a definite plot than many of the movies that rightly or wrongly are placed under the ‘mumblecore’ umbrella, the
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Director: Ian Cheney
Jason says: “Every few weeks, Space.com will mention a meteor shower or comet, and I’ll stay up late and eagerly make my way out to my back porch before remembering that I live right across the river from Boston, and
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Jason says: “Pundits declaiming the use of 3D in recent years often act like it was gone for a generation between the mid-eighties and late-naughts, but that’s not really the case; it was used extensively for documentaries that played at
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Evan Glodell
Starring: Evan Glodell | Jessie Wiseman | Rebekah Brandes | Tyler Dawson | Vincent Grashaw
Jason says: “The end of a relationship can certainly seem like the end of the world, and while BELLFLOWER is not explicitly post-apocalyptic, it takes a number of its cues from that direction. It’s not the first love story to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Bérénice Bejo | Beth Grant | James Cromwell | Jean Dujardin | John Goodman | Penelope Ann Miller
Thom says: “This delightful black & white silent film is an out-and-out winner. Silent film superstar George Valentin (Dujardin, Best Actor at Cannes 2011) is worried that with the advent of talkies he will lose his stardom. His marriage is
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Allison Janney | Ally Sheedy | Charlotte Rampling | Michael K. Williams | Michael Lerner | Shirley Henderson
Diane says: “Sequel to Todd Solondz’s HAPPINESS (1998), which I loved. New actors play the characters some years on (although I was convinced that some of the women were the original actors–wrong!). Once again, the almost-laughable discomfort of inappropriate remarks,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Johnny Hallyday | Ka Tung Lam | Suet Lam | Sylvie Testud
Thom says: “Johnnie To is another of my FAVORITE TOP 10 LIVING DIRECTORS so excitement reigned here as well. All the crime, action, shoot-outs, and general mayhem are represented here but To adds a European feel to his latest film in
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Emilie Dequenne | Mathieu Demy | Michel Blanc | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Ronit Elkabetz
Jason says: “THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is based upon an incident that drew a fair amount of attention in its native France, but makes an unusual choice or two in telling the story. Director André Téchiné and co-writer Jean-Marie
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Bruce says: “Films about artists often fall short because the filmmaker does not know how to balance the personal life of the artist with the product he or she has created. The two united several years ago I was in
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Christian Friedel | Ernst Jadobi | Fion Mutert | Leonie Benesch | Ulrich Tukur | Ursina Lardi
Bruce says: “Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER, CACHÉ, BENNY’S VIDEO, FUNNY GAMES, THE TIME OF THE WOLF) finally gets his well deserved recognition. Not that his films are always satisfying. I cannot think
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