Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Eva Green | Helena Bonham Carter | Jackie Earle Haley | Johnny Depp | Jonny Lee Miller | Michelle Pfeiffer
Chris says: “Not exactly a return to form for Tim Burton, but easily the best remake/adaptation he’s done since his BATMAN films. Junk culture like a cheesy horror-laced soap opera seems closer to his heart than Lewis Carroll or Roald
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni | Éric Caravaca | Golshifteh Farahani | Isabella Rossellini | Maria de Maderios | Mathieu Almaric
Bruce says: “After their huge success with PERSEPOLIS, filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were surprised to find that money for their second feature was so difficult to raise. It’s not that investors were down on the filmmaking duo, rather
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Starring: Conor Leslie | Eamonn Faren | Evan Bird | Gina Philips | Jake Weber | Julia Ormond | Vincent D'Onofrio
Thom says: “I don’t have much experience with avant-garde Lynch (daughter of illustrious David) other than her 2008 good drama/mystery SURVEILLANCE, but who can forget the Kim Basinger/BOXING HELENA stink? So, basically I wanted to see this disturbing effort due
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
Starring: Carlos Leal | Fejria Deliba | Jean-Pierre Andreani | Julie Gayet | Sami Bouajila | Valerie Bodson
Jason says: “So you’ve created a dystopic future based on existing brutalist architecture and creative cruelty. Now what? That’s a question that one can easily spend a lot of time asking during CARRE BLANC before it ultimately offers an answer.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Christoph Waltz | Eliot Berger | Elvis Polanski | Jodie Foster | John C. Reilly | Kate Winslet
Thom says: “I went to see this film at a theatre only 4 blocks from where I live. My brother is a huge Roman Polanski fan and I do admire his work greatly so off we went. Then a dear
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Goddard
Starring: Anna Hutchison | Chris Hemsworth | Fran Kranz | Jesse Williams | Kristen Connolly | Richard Jenkins
Thom says: “Being a huge Josh Whedon fan (I’ve loved ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, ‘Dollhouse’, ‘Firefly’, ‘Angel’, SERENITY, & hopefully THE AVENGERS I naturally had to see this with his participation in this horror film. First rate production and clever
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brenna Sanchez | Tom Putnam
Jason says: “It’s sad to say but true – Detroit has been known for its fires for a long time, and the recent economic tumult which has hit the Motor City especially hard has not slowed that activity down in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chi-Leung Law
Starring: Jing Boran | Lau Ching-wan | Li Kai-chi | Nicholas Tse | Wu Gang | Yang Min | Yumiko Cheng
Jason says: “A friend of mine recently lamented on Twitter about the demise of the mystery movie in Hollywood, and the best thing I could point him to was a Chinese movie that will likely be more considered a martial
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Katie Dellamaggiore
Diane says: “How nice that I didn’t need to know anything about chess to enjoy this film. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even learn anything about chess from it. “Another ‘let’s root for the school kids’ doc, BROOKLYN
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Ruskin
Starring: Adam DuPaul | Brian McGrail | Kristin Dougherty | Megan Hart | Nico Stone | Seymour Cassel
Jason says: “BOOSTER doesn’t do a whole lot; it could almost survive with its plot removed. It’s the sort of independent film that comes across as authentic to those from its neighborhood and has a sharp enough read on its
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