Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Walker
Carolyn says: “I don’t recall if there was a motive behind teaching these older people to sing fun songs. But it was enjoyable to see them struggle with new songs and then hear them perform when they have mastered the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Celia Maysles
Bruce says: “Albert and David Maysles were trailblazers in documentary filmmaking. Their cinema verité style has been adopted by countless filmmakers laboring in their wake. GREY GARDENS, voted as the #1 Documentary Film among Chlotrudis members, is one of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Balthasar Kormákur
Starring: Hilmir Snær Guðnason | Laufey Elíasdóttir | Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir | Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Bruce says: “WHITE NIGHT WEDDING is loosely based on Chekhov’s little-known, first full length play, Ivanov. Jon (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) is a local professor who bought a house on Flatey Island, Iceland’s northernmost island, when his wife Anna was still
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Danai Jekesai Gurira | Haaz Sleiman | Hiam Abbass | Marian Seldes | Richard Jenkins
Michael says: “THE STATION AGENT was no fluke. Thomas McCarthy has delivered a sophomore effort that holds the possibly fleeting distinction of my favorite film of the festival so far. THE VISITOR is a ’cause’ film, focusing on the tragic
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Bruce says: “Rosa von Praunheim (his real name is Holger Mischwitzky) is now 65. When he was 57 his mother Gertrud, then 94 revealed a dark family secret, his parents were not his natural parents – he was adopted. He
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brad Anderson
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Eduardo Noriega | Emily Mortimer | Kate Mara | Thomas Kretschmann | Woody Harrelson
Jason says: “The train thriller is almost a genre in itself: You get a group of people on a train, something bad happens, and the characters have to figure out who can’t be trusted by the rest, and the impending
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guillame Canet
Starring: François Cluzet | Kristen Scott Thomas | Marie-Josée Croze | Nathalie Baye
Bruce says: “TELL NO ONE is the first of Harlan Coben’s novels to be adapted for the screen. This novel is not from Coben’s famous mystery series featuring sports agent Myron Bolitar. A film version of DEAL BREAKER, which is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Bruce says: “TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE would have been an entirely different experience had I not already seen Rory Kennedy’s superior GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB and Michael Winterbottom’s more experimental ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, two films which made it to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Hideaki Ito | Kaori Momoi | Kôichi Satô | Masanobu Andô | Yusuke Iseya
Jason says: “As much as I love Takashi Miike for being an outrageous filmmaker who does unpredictable things, I sometimes wonder if that can be a double-edged sword. SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO is unabashedly a gimmick movie; if you’ve heard about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Mena Suvari | Rukiya Bernard | Russell Hornsby | Stephen Rea
Jason says: “STUCK is based on a true story that made headlines a few years back, although much-beloved cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon has changed almost all the details to make a feature-length film out of it. That’s fine, though; the
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