Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Craven
Starring: Bruce Dern | Geneviève Bujold | Jacqueline Hennessey | Jessica Hecht | Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Jason says: “Having lived in New England my entire life, I’m mildly curious as to whether Jay Craven’s ‘Northern Kingdom’ films were ever particularly visible outside the region. They’re local and low budget, but fairly well made, and usually have
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kung-Lok Lee
Jason says: “I wonder how many of the critics who regularly make sure to include something along the lines of ‘don’t pay the extra for 3D, there’s nothing that merits it’ for seemingly every movie released in the format will
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Talya Lavie
Jason says: “Having a crappy job or two is often a rite of passage for folks in their late teens and early twenties, and if you live in a country like Israel with mandatory military service, having that turn out
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liv Ullman
Starring: Colin Farrell | Jessica Chastain | Nora McMenamy | Samantha Morton
Jason says: “One often talks of ‘opening up’ plays when adapting them to film, doing things to obscure the fact that they were originally created to take place in a limited number of limited spaces, all viewed from a single
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Andre Gregory | Emily Cass McDonnell | Jeff Biehl | Julie Hagerty | Larry Pine | Lisa Joyce | Wallace Shawn
Jason says: “Like a lot of people, I tend to have this vague knowledge that Wallace Shawn is more than the guy with the funny voice and the odd face, that he’s a playwright and an actor who has been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pacho Velez | Stephanie Spray
Diane says: “Chlotrudis crunch time is not the time to indulge in this amazing and amazingly simple doc. When nothing had happened after 20 minutes, I had to look up a review to see what I was looking at. (I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chuck Workman
TC says: “Having become a major Welles fan after seeing CITIZEN KANE for the first time (I’m embarrassed to admit that was only seven years ago), this look at the man, the myth, and the legend that is, was, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Starring: Ethan Embry | Lance Guest | Nick Damici | Rutanya Alda | Tina Louise | Tom Noonan
Jason says: “As soon as he or she sees Nick Damici in this movie, blind but still a gruff former soldier, about to be placed in a retirement community, even the jaded moviegoer may smile a bit. It’s not the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Gina McKee | Mathieu Amalric | Michelle Thrush | Misty Upham
Jason says: “Early on in JIMMY P., a character apologizes for the way he tells, and it’s a bit of an odd moment, as he’s not the one whose manner of speech is likely to give a modern audience pause.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Riad Sattouf
Jason says: “The fact that the satire in JACKY IN THE KINGDOM OF WOMEN so often seems silly rather than particularly cutting might just be the most damning indictment of entrenched gender roles that there is; the whole thing seems
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