Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexandre Moors
Starring: Isaiah Washington; Tequan Richmond; Tim Blake Nelson; Joey Lauren Adams
Kyle says: “Every year in late March, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art co-sponsor a festival called New Directors/New Films. Films screen at the FSLC’s Walter Reade Theater, and at MoMA’s Ray and Niuta
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mike Mendez
Starring: Clare Kramer | Greg Grunberg | Lombardo Boyar | Patrick Bauchau | Ray Wise
Jason says: “Well, there’s certainly no denying that BIG ASS SPIDER! delivers what it promises – that is certainly one big-ass spider menacing Los Angeles from the very start. For those that want maybe a little more to their movies,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Philippe Béziat
Kyle says: “BECOMING TRAVIATA, or in its much better French title TRAVIATA ET NOUS, is a documentary on preparations and rehearsals for a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved 1853 opera ‘La Traviata’ at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, starring charismatic soprano Natalie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Olivia Silver
Starring: John Hawkes | Kendall Toole | Mary Pat Gleason | Ryan Simpkins | Ty Simpkins
Thom says: “Rarely does Film Movement introduce a film with a major actor like John Hawkes but the film did win the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and certainly deserves a wider audience. This one is a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cody Calahan
Starring: Adam Christie | Ana Alic | Cody Thompson | Michelle Mylett | Romaine Waite
Jason says: “ANTISOCIAL is an impressive little horror movie that distinguishes itself by showing how it’s not necessarily what a movie does that matters, but how it pulls it off. Sure, the initial plot is built on a foundation of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marçal Forés
Starring: Augustus Prew | Dimitri Leonidas | Javier Beltrán | Maria Rodríguez | Oriol Pla | Roser Tapias
Jason says: “ANIMALS is a coming-of-age story that perches right on the border between an impressive level of ambition and complexity on the one side and trying to do too much on the other. There’s a whole movie just in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Gary Maitland | John Henshaw | Paul Brannigan | Scott Kyle | Siobhan Reilly | William Ruane
Jeff says: “Ken Loach takes a page from the Bill Forsyth playbook in this small story of redemption. “We first meet Robbie (Paul Brannigan) in a Glasgow courtroom listening to a solicitor argue before the judge that despite his thuggish
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jen Soska | Sylvia Soska
Starring: Antonio Cupo | David Lovgren | Katharine Isabelle | Paula Lindberg | Tristan Risk
Jason says: “I’m not sure what its Canadian filmmakers figure is so specifically American about AMERICAN MARY but, hey, whatever. Jen & Sylvia Soska have made an impressive little movie that may not exactly be horror but can certainly make
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lorenzo Bianchini
Starring: Lidia Zabrieszach | Marco Marchese | Renzo Gariup
Jason says: “I had the feeling when I saw ACROSS THE RIVER (OLTRE IL GAUDO in Italian) that when the time came to expand the capsule I wrote for my blog to a full entry, I would not have a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wingard | Adrian Garcia Bogliano | Andrew Traucki | Angela Bettis | Banjong Pisanthanakun | Ben Wheatley | Bruno Forzani | Ernesto Díaz Espinoza | Hélène Cattet | Jake West | Jason Eisener | Jon Schnepp | Jorge Michel Grau | Kaare Andrews | Lee Hardcastle | Marcel Sarmiento | Mikael Wulff | Nacho Vigalondo | Noboru Iguchi | Simon Rumley | Srdjan Spasojevic | Thomas Cappelen Malling | Ti West | Timo Tjahjanto | Xavier Gens | Yoshihiro Nishimura | Yudai Yamaguchi
Starring: Darenzia | Greg De Cuir | Je$$ica | Kyra Zagorsky | Match | Peter Pedrero
Thom says: “The idea for this film is certainly clever enough and if tight enough reins had been applied it might well have been a classic but to choose 27 directors to make 26 short films, each choosing a letter
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