Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kyu-Dong Min
Starring: Ah-in Yu | Jae-wook Kim | Ji-ho Choi | Ji-hun Ju
Jason says: “Part of what makes seeing foreign popular cinema fun is that the genre barriers often aren’t quite in the same place, so while what you see is mostly familiar, it can quickly go to unexpected places. Seldom has
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ahmad Mehranfar | Golshifteh Farahani | Mani Haghighi | Marila Zare’I | Peyman Moaadi | Rana Azadvar | Saber Abbar | Shahab Hosseini | Taraneh Alidoosti
Bruce says: “ABOUT ELLY is gathering laurels on more the one continent. Director Asghar Farhadi won directorial award at the Berlin Film Festival earlier in 2009 and the film recently won the Best Picture award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tatia Rosenthal
Starring: Joel Edgerton | Josef Ber | Leon Ford | Tom Budge
Jason says: “Movies made up of a group of intersecting stories often get downright peculiar. After all, one of the basic ideas is that the people passing in and out of our lives that we think of as background lead
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jia Zhangke
Starring: Jianbin Chen | Joan Chen | Liping Lu | Tao Zhao
Bruce says: “Years from now there is no doubt in my mind that Jia ZhangKe will be considered one of the great documentarians of the great Chinese migration from a planned economy to a market-driven economy. 24 CITY is a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tim McCanlies
Starring: Cody Kasch | Devin Ratray | Leonardo Nam | Mika Boorem | Tyler Francavilla
Jason says: “Writer/Director Tim McCanlies described THE 2 BOBS as his attempt to do a Kevin Smith movie, which is funny since Smith most recently released his attempt at a Judd Apatow movie. Depending how you define that, he’s either
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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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