Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Kurt Fuller | Michael Sheen | Mimi Kennedy | Owen Wilson | Rachel McAdams
Thom says: “I was all prepared to like this brilliant film from all the rave reviews but I had no idea I’d love it this much. The story: a successful but frustrated Hollywood screenwriter (Gil, Owen Wilson) travels to his
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Durkin
Starring: Brady Corbet | Elizabeth Olsen | Hugh Dancy | John Hawkes | Sarah Paulson
Michael says: “To kick off this season’s CineCache co-presentation with the Brattle Theatre, we got a sneak preview of the Sundance hit, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. This is one impressive debut film… heck, it’s a pretty impressive film all around.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Greg Araki
Starring: Chris Zylka | Haley Bennett | James Duval | Juno Temple | Roxane Mesquida | Thomas Dekker
Michael says: “Secret Societies. Gay sex. Psychic powers. Roxanne Mesquida. Straight sex. A surfer dude. Witchcraft. Sexual awakenings. Incest. Threesome. Thor. Masturbation. Voodoo dolls. Hallucinogenic drugs. Kelly Lynch. Possession. Prophetic dreams. Animal-masked men. A fabulous lesbian in a mint-green pantsuit.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas
Starring: Ana Wagener | Dritan Biba | Fernando Cayo | Guillermo Barrientos | Manuela Vellés
Jason says: “I’ll say this for Miguel Ángel Vivas: He is committed. He knows exactly what he wants to do with this movie – what sort of terror he wants to put the characters and audience through – and he
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Jamie Bell | Judi Dench | Mia Wasikowska | Michael Fassbender | Sally Hawkins | Tamzin Merchant
Thom says: “This had all the ingredients to be a perfect ‘classic’ film and it very nearly succeeded but for a nagging problem that wouldn’t go away for me. Director Fukunaga had brought us the impressive SIN NOMBRE and he
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Wexler
Diane says: “Documentarian Mark Wexler, affected by the death of his mother, considers mortality and aging. Wexler is unassuming and sympathetic, with a good sense of humor. I laughed a lot. He consults geriatricians, quacks, old people in California nursing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Wingard
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Brandon Carroll | Joe Swanberg | Lane Hughes
Jason says: “I don’t want genre filmmaking to become a paint-by-numbers affair, where we as an audience rejoice at basic competence and filmmakers strive to replicate a winning formula. Crime, horror, and the like can be innovative and done with
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
Starring: Eihi Shiina | Kazuki Namioka | Minoru Torihada | Yumiko Hara | Yûrei Yanagi
Jason says: “Yoshihiro Nishimura’s HELLDRIVER is a Yoshihiro Nishimura film, and he doesn’t do things halfway. So how a person reacts to the opening scene (and, I presume, any preview they make for the movie) will likely serve as a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mona Achache
Starring: Anne Brochet | Garance Le Guillermic | Josiane Balasko | Togo Igawa
Michael says: “Somehow I missed hearing about this film until it showed up last week at the Kendall Square Cinema, even though it played at the Boston French Film Festival. Not that I was surprised. THE HEDGEHOG is based on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sophia Takal
Starring: Alex Ross Perry | Kate Lyn Sheil | Lawrence Michael Levine | Louis Cancelmi | Sophia Takal
Jason says: “Ignore the first scene of this movie; it sets a tone and a theme that winds up being a relatively minor part of what follows. The remaining hour or so turns into something much more interesting than the
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