Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Henry Joost | Jody Lee Lipes
Starring: Adam Hendrickson | Amar Ramasar | Brittany Pollack | Rebecca Krohn | Tiler Peck
Jason says: “Is ballet the least-appreciated major art form in America? To perform it demands the physical fitness and training of a professional athlete and the skills a professional actor. The music is often lively, and the choreography is intricate,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dan Eckman
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | D.C. Pierson | Dominic Dierkes | Donald Glover | Matt Walsh
Jason says: “Aw, nuts. Granted, it’s not as if I’m likely to ever actually be able to produce Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators movies, but it’s on my list of things that I would like to do if I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Glenn Ficarra | John Requa
Starring: Antoni Corone | Brennan Brown | Ewan McGregor | Jim Carrey | Leslie Mann | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS opens with a playful variant on the standard disclaimer, something along the lines of ‘This all happened. It really did!’ It’s the sort of movie that might get dismissed as ridiculous or improbable
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-François Richet
Starring: Cécile de France | Elena Anaya | Gerard Depardieu | Gilles Lellouche | Roy Dupuis | Vincent Cassel
Jason says: “The story of French outlaw Jacques Mesrine is a grand, sprawling one, so large that Jean-François Richet felt the need to split it into two films in order to do it justice. Watching the first one, covering Mesrine’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matthew Avant
Starring: Arte Richard | Dave Potter | Jed Himel | Matt Romagosa | Nathan Avant | Sarah Avant
Jason says: “Fair warning: I was part of the group screening potential entries for this festival, and LUNOPOLIS was one of the ones I watched and commented on. That’s not just a warning that this could potentially be viewed as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Starring: Annette Bening | Josh Hutcherson | Julianne Moore | Mark Ruffalo | Mia Wasikowska | Yaya DaCosta
Michael says: “Lisa Cholodenko’s fourth feature (following HIGH ART, LAUREL CANYON and CAVEDWELLER) THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, is getting a tremendous amount of critical acclaim, and even early Oscar buzz. I was very excited to see this film after
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ursula Meier
Starring: Adélaïde Leroux | Isabelle Huppert | Kacey Mottet Klein | Madeleine Budd | Olivier Gourmet
Michael says: “As we near the final quarter of 2010, I’ve started to catch up on some movies I’ve missed in the theater (and there are a lot of them!) HOME is a French film starring Isabelle Huppert, the first
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: César Bordón | Claudia Cantero | Daniel Genoud | Guillermo Arengo | Inés Efron | Maria Onetto
Jeff says: “In the end, how you will have come through this movie will depend on what you saw in a brief shot towards the beginning of the picture. Vero, a successful dentist in a rural Argentine town, fumbles for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bob Byington
Starring: Alex Karpovsky | Justin Rice | Kevin Corrigan | Kristen Tucker | Pat Healy
Diane says: “Caught this at International Film Festival of Boston. A very funny, rambling story of one guy’s heartbreak, and the response of those around him. (Could he be compared to the Job of A SERIOUS MAN?) Justin Rice is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney | Eugene Jarecki | Heidi Ewing | Morgan Spurlock | Rachel Grady | Seth Gordon
TC says: “FREAKONOMICS is based on the best-selling book of the same name by economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner. It basically looks at how random chance, or causality, affects various parts of the everyday economy. “Having been fan
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