Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Alexander Held | Barbara Sukowa | Hannah Herzsprung | Heino Ferch | Sunnyi Melles
Bruce says: “What a résumé! Margarethe von Trotta is in her fourth decade of making films although she began writing for film in the 60’s when she was in her early twenties. In the seventies she was one of the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Starring: Anders Hove | Jakob Cedergren | Kim Bodnia | Lars Brygmann | Lene Maria Christensen
Jason says: “I take note of odd credits when watching movies, and maybe any (hypothetical) readers from Denmark could fill me in on a couple from the end of TERRIBLY HAPPY: Is it common for Danish films to credit the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Michael Lander
Starring: Bill Pullman | Cillian Murphy | Elliot Page | Graham Beckel | Josh Lucas | Susan Sarandon
Thom says: “For shame on the movie’s producers inability to get this released in theaters, especially because super-talented Cillian Murphy deserves all sorts of awards for his spectacular work here. Yes, it’s reminiscent of Jeremy Iron’s work in David Cronenberg’s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Carey Mulligan | Charlie Rowe | Ella Purnell | Isobel Meikle-Small | Keira Knightley
Jason says: “NEVER LET ME GO is the sort of science fiction that tends to hide its genre or go by another name – ‘speculative fiction’ or ‘slipstream’ – because it wants to associate itself with a different audience. Science
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: André Dussollier | Dany Boon | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Nicolas Marié | Yolande Moreau
Thom says: “This film is absolute perfection, defining the art of film, frame-by-frame, scene-by-scene, with so many of the delightful excesses that Jeunet is known for. And don’t count me as a Jeunet Pollyanna, by any means. While I’m a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeffrey Malmberg
Jason says: “Documentaries about artists and art are frequently disappointing. Filmmakers try their best, but as artists themselves they can make intuitive leaps between their subject and his or her work that is not obvious to a general audience, who
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Deagol Brothers
Starring: Brett Miller | Cody DeVos | Eric Lehning | Leah High
Jason says: “MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE isn’t quite so good as LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, but that’s the film it brings to my mind. Both take horror-movie tropes and twist them into service of a strange story of young love,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Dan Pritzker
Starring: Anthony Coleman | Anthony Mackie | Jackie Earle Haley | Michael Rooker | Shanti Lowry | Vilmos Zsigmond
Jason says: “When I mentioned to a friend that I was planning a trip to New York to see a new movie inspired by the early life of Louis Armstrong, I asked him to guess what sort of movie it
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Starring: Anita Linda | Benjie Filomen | Jhong Hilario | Kethcup Eusebio | Rustica Carpio | Tanya Gomez
Bruce says: “Ever since I first saw THE MASSEUR, a rough but auspicious directorial debut, I’ve been a huge Brillante Mendoza fan. This prolific director, a winner of the 2009 director’s award at Cannes for his prior film – the sensation stirring
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Starring: Amy Ryan | Daphne Rubin-Vega | John Ortiz | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Michael says: “Hats off to Philip Seymour Hoffman! Not only is his directorial debut a warm, funny, brilliantly acted, gorgeously written romance, it’s also the most adept depiction of the internal lives of people I’ve seen on screen. It’s a
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