Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yosuke Fujita
Jason says: “Huh. I missed something about this movie when reading the program description, although on a certain level it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that this is a big-hearted, charming movie that pays off in some unexpected
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Benjamin Renner | Stéphane Aubier | Vincent Patar
Starring: Anne-Marie Loop | Brigitte Virtudes | Lambert Wilson | Patrice Melennec | Pauline Brunner
Jason says: “You can’t decide a whole lot about the quality of one movie from the others it references, but it still has to be considered a pretty good sign when that a poster for A TOWN CALLED PANIC hangs
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Frank Pavich
Kyle says: “Beloved of stoners and consumers of various mind-altering substances in the 1970s and beyond (full disclosure: myself included), Alejandro Jodorowsky is remembered as much for the paucity of his oeuvres, as for such classics as EL TOPO (1970)
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis | Gary Oldman | Jason Clarke | Judy Greer | Keri Russell | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Toby Kebbell
Thom says: “Yes, I’ve seen them all: PLANET OF THE APES (1968, 4 CATS), BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970, 4 CATS), ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971, 4.5 CATS), CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jan Ole Gerster
Starring: Andreas Schröders | Justus von Dohnányi | Katharina Hauck | Katharina Schüttler | Tom Schilling
Bruce says: “Some films resonate so profoundly with me that I can feel myself embodied in one of the characters. For me, Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) is one of those characters. Niko transports me back to my twenties. Each move,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Dustin Hoffman | Emjay Anthony | John Leguizamo | Jon Favreau | Oliver Platt | Scarlett Johansson | Sofia Vergara
Jason says: “Jon Favreau’s CHEF has a line in the credits about being based on actual events, and I kind of suspect that those events may involve ‘fans’ putting a lot of personal invective into their assessments of IRON MAN
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ben Cotner | Ryan White
Kyle says: “We seem to be living in a golden age of documentaries, perhaps because reality continually proves to be more surprising than fiction, and also perhaps because much of the public finds reality television shows irresistible, including politicians. Recently
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane | Ethan Hawke | Lorelei Linklater | Nick Krause | Patricia Arquette
Chris says: “When asked what BOYHOOD was about, I stumbled in finding the words for a two-sentence description; having had a few days to mull it over, my response now would be simply, ‘Everything.’ It’s the best way to sum
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Amy Hargreaves | Brent Werzner | Devin Ratray | Eve Plumb | Kevin Kolack | Macon Blair | Stacy Rock
Jason says: “Say this for BLUE RUIN: It starts from a different place that many movies of its type, and that starting point means that even when it doesn’t necessarily go in a unique direction, it still winds up in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aharon Keshales | Navot Papushado
Starring: Doval’e Glickman | Dvir Benedek | Lior Ashkenzai | Menashe Noy | Rotem Keinan | Tzahi Grad
Jason says: “Even if Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado were just one filmmaking team out of many people making this sort of movie in Israel, BIG BAD WOLVES would be a pretty terrific movie, a step up from their already
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