Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.6
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Adrien Brody | Brandon McGibbon | Delphine Chanéac | Sarah Polley | Simona Maicanescu
Jason says: “SPLICE is an independent film that has been cleverly disguised as a big-studio summer movie, so a fair portion of the audience may feel uneasy as they watch it. More uneasy, that is; writer-director Vincenzo Natali isn’t just
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Götz Spielmann
Starring: Andreas Lust | Irina Potapenko | Johannes Krisch | Johannes Thanheiser | Ursula Strauss
Jason says: “The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar often drives film nuts crazy. The countries’ film boards don’t submit the movie we consider their nation’s masterpiece for the year, and then at every cut (short list, nominees, winner) we get
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Anna Chlumsky | Chris Addison | Gina McKee | James Gandolfini | Peter Capaldi | Steve Coogan | Tom Hollander
Jason says: “The film opens with the Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi), flipping his lid because a government minister said that a situation in the Middle East escalating to war was ‘unforeseeable,’ a dangerously absolute phrase
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Michel Ocelot
Starring: Cyril Mourali | Hiam Abbass | Karim M'Riba | Patrick Timsit | Rayan Mahjoub
Thom says: “AZUR & ASMAR was the 1st of the new screeners that I watched and it’s always cool to start off with a winner. God bless Jeff Pike for being responsible for this fabulous service! “While I had to
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Reginald Harkema
Starring: Don McKellar | Nadia Litz | Tracy Wright
Beth says: “This film is among other things, an ode to Toronto by Torontonians – and it’s a small world in Canadian cinema circles! Don McKellar, Tracy Wright and Nadia Litz play revolutionaries past and present living on the edge
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Martina Gedeck | Sebastian Koch | Ulrich Mühe
Michael says: “The first few months of every year are usually pretty dry when it comes to quality independent film, and even when you do see good movies, it still feels like you’re playing catch up with the previous year.
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Starring: Carolina Politi | Daniel Miranda | Danny Perea | Diego Cataño | Enrique Arreola
Chris says: “Here’s an early candidate for next year’s Buried Treasure award: this engaging black-and-white Mexican indie is about two fourteen-year-old best friends, Flama (Daniel Miranda) and Moko (Diego Catano). On one Sunday afternoon, they have Flama’s mother’s apartment to
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Michelle Williams | Patricia Clarkson | Peter Dinklage | Raven Goodwin
Bob G. says: “As Finbar McBride, Peter Dinkledge emotes a quiet storm usually reserved for icons of the ’30s and ’40s such as Bogart or Cagney. His performance is so understated, it draws attention to itself precisely through its unobtrusiveness.
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Allan Miller
Diane says: “5 cats for this docu about the production of Puccini’s opera ‘Turandot,’ which is set in ancient China. It’s the kind of docu I love: filmmaker Allen Miller doesn’t insert himself, but uses editing to highlight the conflict
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Rating: 4.5 cats | 4.6
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Sun Honglei | Zhang Ziyi | Zhao Yeulin | Zheng Hao
Diane says: “I really didn’t like this movie. I thought I had a good handle on the Chinese way of seeing things, but I found this meaningless. Maybe what wasn’t there was meant to be more meaningful than what was:
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