Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Travis Betz
Starring: Dustin Fasching | Rose McKinnon | Sarah Lassez
Jason says: “Films like Travis Betz’s THE DEAD INSIDE are some of my favorites to write about. Not so much the genre – although, let’s face it, you don’t pass up a chance to write up singing zombies – but
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Eduard Fernández | Guillermo Estrella | Hanaa Bouchaib | Javier Bardem | Maricel Álvarez
Thom says: “I have no idea why it took me so long to see this cinematic gem. The film was nominated for best Foreign Film in the 2010 Oscar race, Javier Bardem is always a mesmerizing actor, & I’ve become
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Press
Diane says: “A killer! Bill Cunningham is a New York Times fashion photographer, now 82, whose humility and modest lifestyle belie a single-minded passion. A great study of a man and his unceasing search for beauty. You will fall in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Starring: Alev Uçarer | Ayse Altay | Bora Altas | Erdal Besikçioglu | Tülin Özen
Ibad says: “The Turkish film BAL in English, HONEY is infused with a quiet power. The film’s rich and hauntingly soulful imagery makes it nearly impossible to do the material justice in a single review. BAL is the third film
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Clio Barnard
Chris says: “Outside of England and perhaps a few modern drama departments, playwright Andrea Dunbar remains obscure, a status this unusual documentary hopes to obliterate. Raised on a notoriously tough council estate, she wrote a play (which gives this film
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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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