Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Amy Berg
Thom says: “Coming so close on the heels of my viewing of the PARADISE LOST trilogy: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS, REVELATIONS, & PURGATORY, I saw this the week it opened in San Francisco. With a big heft
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Ambyr Childers | Bill Sage | Jack Gore | Julia Garner | Kassie DePaiva | Michael Parks
Jason says: “WE ARE WHAT WE ARE makes a heck of a case for the much-maligned idea of remaking a foreign film in English. Though the original Mexican version was much-beloved by many (I thought it had a great opening
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Kyle says: “AT BERKELEY and THE LAST OF THE UNJUST share little in common aside from both being Main Slate screenings of the 51st New York Film Festival, both having very long running times, and both being sharply revealing contemporary
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Gaku Hamada | Haru | Kana Kurashina | Kei Tanaka | Kento Nagayama | Naomi Ortega | Nene Otsuko
Jason says: “I feel vaguely like we’ve been taking Yoshihiro Nakamura for granted. Though he got his start writing horror movies for the likes of Hideo Nakata, he’s spent the last few years on a string of off-beat but surprisingly
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Jason says: “THE SQUARE doesn’t necessarily look like much as it starts; just some people who happened to have a camera in the right place at the right time. Make no mistake; that is an incredibly useful thing for a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Barbara Jefford | Judi Dench | Mare Winningham | Sophie Kennedy Clarke | Steve Coogan
Thom says: ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised at how much I loved this film but until the starting credits rolled I had completely forgotten that the great Stephen Frears was the director. Over the years he’s been responsible
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Elizabeth Mims | Jason Tippet
TC says: “To outsiders, Santa Clarita, California looks like a really great place to live. It is less than an hour from Los Angeles, is ranked as #18 among the Top 100 places to live by Money magazine, and sits
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bob Odenkirk | Bruce Dern | June Squibb | Mary Louise Wilson | Stacy Keach | Will Forte
Chris says: “‘Older’ is a They Might Be Giants song whose primary lyric incessantly proclaims ‘You’re older than you’ve ever been / and now you’re getting older,’ baldly and astutely stating a fact that most of us would rather not
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: Demetrius Grosse | Kristin Slaysman | Paul Eenhoorn | Richmond Arquette | Tom Plunkett
Chris says: “Deceptively simple and effortlessly graceful, this character study is the type of American indie you wish would receive the release and promotional heft of something like THE WAY WAY BACK. Martin Bonner, a divorced, sixty-ish man of Australian
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Caradog W. James
Starring: Caity Lotz | Denis Lawson | Jade Croot | Sam Hazeldine | Toby Stevens
Jason says: “THE MACHINE is not the sort of science fiction movie that comes from someone who is, at heart, making a western, or because setting it in the future gives the FX guys a reason to make cool visuals,
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