Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Scott Monahan
Starring: Christopher Corey Smith | Dakota Loesch | Scott Monahan
Diane says: “First film from collaborators Scott Monahan and Dakota Loesch, ANCHORAGE was shot in five days with a crew of ten. The director and writer also play the two leads, brothers who hit the road to sell a huge
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martyn Robertson
Diane says: “RIDE THE WAVE (Martyn Robertson directs his debut doc) had something for both me and my sweetheart!: Scotland and surfing. WAVE hits highlights and lowlights of three years with Ben Larg, a young Scottish surfer who competes on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Kuei-Mei Yang | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi Cheng Lee. Yi Chieh Lee | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “After seeing the great director Tsai Ming-liang’s latest film, DAYS, I decided to go back and watch his previous film, and the only of his features that I hadn’t seen, STRAY DOGS. Interestingly enough, while I was braced
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ebs Burnough
Philip says: “Truman blazed a trail with his genius all the while figuring out how to overcompensate for the differences in his persona – his size, his sexuality, his speech. I commend him for being out without any attempt at
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andreas Fontana
Starring: Alexandre Trocki | Carmen Iriondo | Elli Medeiros | Fabrizio Rongione | Pablo Torre Nilson | Stéphanie Cléau
Chris says: “Nearly as dry as Bresson, Andreas Fontana’s Buenos Aires, 1980-set film implores one to put in the work into figuring out what it’s all about. Shots of a boat traveling down a foreboding stretch of river reminded me
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Chang-Bin Jen | Chao-jung Chen | Kang-sheng Lee | Tien Miao | Yi-ching Lu | Yu-Wen Wang
Michael says: “When Chris mentioned recently that he caught Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD, I realized that I too had never gone back to watch this film from one of my favorite directors. What I perhaps
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elaine May
Starring: Aharon Ipalé | Carol Kane | Charles Grodin | Dustin Hoffman | Isabelle Adjani | Jack Weston | Tess Harper | Warren Beatty
Michael says: “Notorious as one of moviedom’s biggest flops, Elaine May’s comedy of errors that puts two befuddled wanna-be songwriters wandering the desert outside of Morocco entangled in a complicated political plot involving the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Brandon De Wilde | Crahan Denton | John Ashley | Melvyn Douglas | Patricia Neal | Paul Newman | Whit Bissell
Michael says: “This pseudo-Western from the early 60’s is very reminiscent of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, from 8 years later. Both are based in Texas, and both focus on the end of an era. While PICTURE SHOW shows the decline
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Monica Zanetti
Starring: Bridie Connell | Julia Billington | Marta Dusseldorp | Rachel House | Sophie Hawkshaw | Zoe Terakes
Michael says: “No one blends silly comedy and heart-rending tragedy like the Australians. In the great tradition of MURIEL’S WEDDING, ELLIE & ABBIE (& ELLIE’S DEAD AUNT) surprises when it’s slight, somewhat innocent comedy takes a sharp turn into a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fran Kranz
Starring: Ann Dowd | Jason Isaacs | Martha Plimpton | Reed Birney
Michael says: “Right from the very beginning there’s something vaguely stilted and manipulative about MASS. Maybe it’s the way they try to build up so much tension using extraneous characters just to make the film more than just four people
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