Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David McMahon | Ken Burns | Sarah Burns
Jason says: “THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE states the reason for its existence plainly toward the end: To in some small way close the gap between how loudly its subjects’ guilt was proclaimed twenty-odd years ago and the attention paid to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Karl Markovics
Starring: Georg Friedrich | Karin Lischka | Thomas Schubert
Bruce says: “When we first see Roman Kolger he is being taken to task because he has botched his first day on the job as a metal worker. Apparently a pattern has formed; this is not his first failure. Back
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jordan Galland
Starring: Brooke Nevin | Christine Evangelista | Danny Masterson | Joey Kern | John Ventimaglia | Kris Lemche
Jason says: “It would have been really easy to make ALTER EGOS little more than a feature-length series of jokes made at the expense of comic book clichés loosely connected by a standard story template. And there’s a lot of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Pablo Stoll
Starring: Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy | Humberto De Vargas | Sara Bessio
Thom says: “Director Stoll had impressed me with WHISKEY (2004) & I liked this dysfunctional family drama even more. Usually with such a sad sack trio (mother, moved-out dad, & obstreperous teen girl) I’d have lost interest shortly into the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Jim Broadbent | Lesley Manville | Oliver Maltman | Peter Wight | Ruth Sheen
Ibad says: “ANOTHER YEAR is the latest offering from Mike Leigh and among the most emotionally affecting films of the year. The film, among other things, studies age and its various consequences and connotations. Among his illustrious string of performance
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Chris New | Tom Cullen
Chris says: “In Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE, two people meet and form a deep bond despite only having a limited window of time to spend with each other. Initially, Andrew Haigh’s film acts as a gay male take on that
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: André Øvredal
Starring: Glenn Erland Tosterud | Johanna Mørck | Otto Jespersen | Tomas Alf Larsen | Urmila Berg-Domaas
Scot says: “TROLL HUNTER, released in 2010 in Norway but 2011 in the US, represents a fine evolution of the ‘found footage’ fictional narrative style most famously exploited by THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. It’s not a new
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch | Colin Firth | Gary Oldman | John Hurt | Kathy Burke | Tom Hardy
Chris says: “Many book-to-film adaptations fail because they aren’t faithful enough, but just as often they’re too literal to succeed as cinema. In struggling to capture a book’s essence, they adhere closely to what the prose dictates but subsequently feel
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Bonnie Dennison | Connor Paolo | Danielle Harris | Kelly McGillis | Michael Cerveris
Jason says:v”Jim Mickle’s first feature (also with co-writer/star Nick Damici), MULBERRY STREET, was a low-budget and do-it-yourself as you’re going to see, and pretty impressive even when not grading on that sort of curve. STAKE LAND doesn’t quite represent a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennilyn Merten | Tyler Measom
Jason says: “Most of the time, when the modern westerner encounters or hears of polygamy, it’s an individual case, and thus he or she thinks about the individual psychology involved. Make it more commonplace, though, and a numbers issue emerges:
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