Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.6
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Alice Lowe | Eileen Davies | Kenneth Hadley | Richard Lumsden | Steve Oram
Jason says: “Ben Wheatley’s previous two films weren’t everyone’s cup of tea, and he hasn’t exactly gone conventional with SIGHTSEERS. It’s quite often as funny as it is twisted (or, perhaps, vice versa), overflowing with strange, messy, disturbing romantic comedy.
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Axel Milberg | Barbara Sukowa | Janet McTeer | Julia Jentsch | Michael Degen | Ulrich Noethen
Bruce says: “In 2009 Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa collaborated on VISION, the story of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th century nun who was a musician, a poet, a scientist, and a practitioner of herbal medicine. Their extraordinary collaboration
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Stacie Passon
Starring: Funda Duval | Janet Moloney | Johnathan Tchaikovsky | Julie Fain Lawrence | Robin Weigert
Michael says: “No one has mentioned CONCUSSION in all this, and I have to say, I was quite surprised when Brian pitched it so hard at the Nominating Committee meeting, and even more surprised at how much I enjoyed it.
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Frank Langella | James Marsden | Jeremy Strong | Liv Tyler | Peter Sarsgaard | Susan Sarandon
Chris says: “The premise sounds precariously iffy: in the ‘near future’, Frank (Frank Langella), a retired old coot suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s, is given a robot caretaker from his son. Although it looks rather cheap (resembling EVE
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Starring: Émilien Néron | Marie-Ève Beauregard | Mohamed Fellag | Sophie Nélisse | Vincent Millard
Jason says: “MONSIEUR LAZHAR, Canada/Quebec’s nominee for best foreign language feature at the recent Oscars, is a quite remarkable piece of work, and all the more so for how quietly and efficiently it goes about its business. It is amazingly
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Emma Fryer | Harry Simpson | Michael Smiley | MyAnna Buring | Neil Maskell | Struan Rodger
Thom says: “This is the final TIFF 2011 film that I review, excepting others I will most likely see after this date. Quite a few are already playing in theaters including LE HAVRE, THE DESCENDANTS, MONEY PIT, & others. Wheatley
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Ashley Sabin | David Redmon
Jason says: “When one sees a documentary with a title like GIRL MODEL on a festival schedule, it’s probably not a bad idea to schedule a little time between it and the next film to wash a bit of the
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Bess Kargman
Diane says: “How long is it now that we’ve been watching docs about kids in competitions? Is there no end? FIRST POSITION follows half a dozen kids, aged 11 to 17, in their quest to score in the Youth America
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Tony Kaye
Starring: Adrien Brodie | Betty Kaye | Blythe Danner | Christina Hendricks | James Caan | Lucy Liu | Marcia Gay Harden
Bruce says: “When AMERICAN HISTORY X made a big splash nearly fifteen years ago it seemed there might be a new director entering the master ranks. Then along came SNOWBLIND, LOBBY LOBSTER and BLACK WATER TRANSIT. Remember them? Of course
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ali-Asghar Shahbazi | Babak Karimi | Kimia Hosseini | Leila Hatami | Merila Zare'i | Payman Maadi | Sareh Bayat | Sarina Farhadi | Shahab Hosseini | Shirin Yazdanbakhsh | Sohibanoo Zolqadr
Ibad says: “I’m fully aware that when someone like myself has been really hyping up a certain picture for a while…and they finally see it…and it turns out, surprise!, they’re in love with it, it almost seems forced if not
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