Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Carlos Jaureguialzo
Starring: Cecilia Roth | Dario Grandinetti | Manuel Vicente | Marcelo Melingo | Rafael Spregelburd | Susans Lanteri
Bruce says: “Loosely based on the characters of Leopold and Molly Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, MARRIAGE is a dawn-to-dusk examination of a marriage from within the minds of both husband and wife. It is a day in which both
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cate Shortland
Starring: André Frid | Hans-Jochen Wagner | Mika Seidel | Nele Trebs | Saskia Rosendahl | Ursina Lardi
Jason says: “Set LORE in almost any other time and place, and it’s an impressive adventure story of a certain type, with fine young actors playing kids who must make an impossible-seeming journey against incredible odds. But it’s not set
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Till Schauder
Thom says: “Here’s a fine offering from ever-reliable Film Movement, this one a documentary. I was thrilled to see the production collaboration between Iran & the US although the nature of the story most probably accounts for that. Kevin Sheppard
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Anne Louise Hassing | Annika Wedderkopp | Lasse Fogelstrøm | Mads Mikkelsen | Susse Wold | Thomas Bo Larsen
Bruce says: “Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 for his portrayal of Lucas, a man falsely accused of child molestation. Mikkelsen’s performance is a textbook case in underplaying a role to achieve
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yan Yan Mak
Kyle says: “The World Premiere of THE GREAT WAR at the New York Asian Film Festival was for many of us one of the festival highlights. A documentary on the dozen November 2012 concerts by two major groups from the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Cung Le | Qingxiang Wang | Tony Chiu-Wai Leung | Ziyi Zhang
Jason says: “Wong Kar-wai is a notoriously slow worker in a movie industry that can turn things over with ruthless efficiency, and as evidence I present the four movies about martial-arts master Ip Man (by two different directors and starring
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sebastián Cordero
Starring: Anamaria Marinca | Christian Camargo | Daniel Wu | Embeth Davidtz | Karolina Wydra | Michael Nyqvist | Sharlto Copley
Jason says: “I have likely mentioned this a few dozen times, but my favorite subset of science fiction is that which takes place during the ‘interplanetary era’, as humanity expands from Earth but is still confined to the solar system
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Ben Falcone | Catherine Keener | James Gandolfini | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Toni Collette
Chris says: “As dependable as Rohmer or Ozu, Nicole Holofcener could be their modern American equivalent as an auteur director. In terms of style and sensibility, she arguably makes the same film over and over again, but touches on a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Boris Rodriguez
Starring: Alain Goulem | Dylan Smith | Georgina Reilly | Paul Braunstein | Stephen McHattie | Thure Lindhardt
Jason says: “We’ve all heard (or used) some variation on ‘my art comes from a dark place’ before; there’s also its close relative ‘suffering for one’s art’. Not exactly the inspiration you’d expect for a movie named ‘EDDIE: THE SLEEPWALKING
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Eddie Mullins
Starring: Brain Charles Johnson | Heidi K Eklund | Jason Downs | Justin Rice | Laura Campbell | Leo Fitzpatrick
Jason says: “DOOMSDAYS has gags. Lots and lots of gags about a pair of guys who, figuring that the world is going to hell anyway, just walk around taking what they want as they go through a vacation town in
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