Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: Aaron Eckhart | Dianne Wiest | Miles Teller | Nicole Kidman | Sandra Oh | Tammy Blanchard
Ibad says: “I managed to catch this in theaters the other night before going home for the holidays. I don’t have a full length review or anything, but I figured a few scattered thoughts might be of interest to people
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Rebecca Miller
Starring: Alan Arkin | Blake Lively | Julianne Moore | Keanu Reaves | Maria Bello | Robin Weigert | Robin Wright Penn | Winona Ryder
Michael says: “Rebecca Miller’s THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE came and went in theatres with barely a notice, which is unfortunate, because it’s a beautifully crafted film with sharp writing and terrific performances from the likes of Robin Wright
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Meghan Eckman
Jason says: “Most documentary features that get any sort of play beyond local public television do because not only are they generally well-made, but they have important subject matter; someone programming a film festival or a boutique movie house decides
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Jason says: “NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS doesn’t initially look remarkable; indeed, midway through it, it appears slight of frame but bloated by music videos; interesting, but trying to be two things and doing neither well. But it eventually
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Christopher Lambert | Isaach De Bankolé | Isabelle Huppert | Nicolas Duvauchelle | William Nadylam
Thom says: “With 3 musts-see involved with this project I was really excited about this world premiere. Denis was there for the Q&A but unfortunately Huppert & De Bankolé were not. I had considered Denis one of my TOP 10
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mladen Djordjevic
Starring: Ana Acimovic | Mihajlo Jovanovic | Predrag Damnjanovic | Radivoj Knezevic | Srdjan Jovanovic
Jason says: “Well, I can’t say that I got anything less than could be expected from that title, can I? It’s right there – life, death, people making porn, far more direct than its somewhat more infamous cousin, A SERBIAN
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Casey Affleck | Elias Koteas | Jessica Alba | Kate Hudson | Ned Beatty | Tom Bower
Jason says: “THE KILLER INSIDE ME is getting a certain amount of notice for its violence, which is a little surprising to me, in a strict ‘well, I’ve seen worse’ sense. But I suspect the filmmakers will be fine with
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Clovis Cornillac | Gerard Depardieu | Jacques Gamblin | Marie Bunel | Marie Matheron | Vahina Giocante
Jason says: “The opening scene of Claude Chabrol’s final theatrical film gives a hint to why he was often compared to Alfred Hitchcock, though with a French sensibility: His camera threads its way through a graveyard until it finds corpse
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Starring: Lena Endre | Michael Nyqvist | Noomi Rapace | Peter Andersson | Peter Haber | Sven-Bertil Taube
Jason says: “Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ novels – all three published posthumously, and given names that begin The Girl Who… in the United States – are kind of a big deal. How can you tell? Well, the three movies with high
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gorman Bechard
Starring: Alex Brown | Anne Petersen | Jake Alexander | Lynn Mancinelli | Margaret Laney
Jason says: “A funny thing happened while I sat in the theater, watching the BUFF screening of FRIENDS (WITH BENEFITS): I realized that it was, all told, a pretty conventional romantic comedy – which is probably the last thing I
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