Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tomas Villum Jensen
Starring: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen | Birthe Neumann | Nicolas Bro | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Jason says: “It’s a little bit amazing, when you come to think of it, how quirky action/adventure films made outside the Hollywood system can be. Maybe it’s just because I am used to the conservative thinking that is typical here
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elijah Drenner
Jason says: “Cinema lovers: Have you spent your time in theaters and at the video store working your way through the Criterion Collection, absorbing the work of international masters, and seeing the most acclaimed films of a century of motion
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Starring: Chen Li | Daoming Chen | Fan Xu | Guoqiang Zhang | Jin Chen | Jingchu Zhang | Yi Lu
Jason says: “It’s not hard to get the wrong impression of AFTERSHOCK; the poster in the theater lobby notes that it was released in IMAX (interestingly, though showing the North American release date, the text on that one-sheet is almost
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Amber Tamblyn | Coleman Stinger | James Franco | Kate Mara | Sean Bott | Treat Williams
Jason says: “There is not a whole heck of a lot to 127 HOURS, story-wise: Guy goes climbing on his own, gets pinned by a falling boulder, and has to figure out a way to get out of a thoroughly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Emily Blunt | Jim Broadbent | Miranda Richardson | Paul Bettany | Rupert Friend | Thomas Krestschmann
Jason says: “A quality, old-fashioned costume drama, well-done enough that there’s really not a whole lot to say about it. Emily Blunt is fairly impressive in the title role, humanizing a figure often thought of as little but stern and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Björn Englund | Briggita Persson | Elisabeth Helander | Jessika Lundberg | Leif Larsson | Olle Olson
Michael says: “It’s nearly impossible to describe the absurdist films of Roy Andersson, whose SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR was a minor Chlotrudis hit several years ago. Andersson’s films examine the human condition, with sly, deadpan humor, and static shots
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Allen Hughes | Brett Ratner | Fatih Akin | Joshua Marston | Mira Niar | Natalie Portman | Randall Balsmeyer | Shekhar Kapur | Shunji Iwai | Wen Jiang | Yvan Attal
Starring: Blake Lively | Bradley Cooper | Christina Ricci | Ethan Hawke | Natalie Portman | Orlando Bloom | Shia LaBeouf
Thom says: “This companion piece to PARIS JE T’AIME isn’t quite as good as the Paris version. The former concentrated on all different districts of the ‘City of Light,’ each with its own yarn, and was quite a bit more
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Julian Netizberg
Jason says: “I sympathize with the Boone County D.A. who, in the opening reel of THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA, asks why the White family should get so much attention. There’s a boy in the county from
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Barrymore
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Drew Barrymore | Elliot Page (as Ellen Page) | Juliette Lewis | Kristen Wiig | Marcia Gay Harden
Thom says: “For all the world I thought this was going to be a box office smash due to the general nature of the story and the great big “Hollywood” presence of the production. But the public reception to the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Chan | Wai Man Yip
Starring: Andy Lau | Jet Li | Jinglei Xu | Takeshi Kaneshiro
Jason says: “At certain points, the fact that Warlords licked around for a while without a U.S. distributor despite being an epic with high production values and a star in Jet Li who is still relatively bankable was taken as
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