Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeffrey Friedman | Ron Epstein
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Bob Balaban | David Strathairn | James Franco | Jeff Daniels | Jon Hamm | Mary-Louise Parker
Thom says: “There wasn’t any reason to suppose that this wouldn’t be a great film but since this was Epstein & Friedman’s first dramatic film (although based on recorded events) I only plunged in because they have made quite a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bette Gordon
Starring: Aidan Quinn | Campbell Scott | Jamey Sheridan | John Savage | Karen Young | Mariann Mayberry | Steve Buscemi
Bruce says: “In 1983 Bette Gordon was an underground artist who decided she could make as good a film as the next guy (let’s face it, there were few female filmmakers in 1983.) The result was the stunning VARIETY which
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Dagur Kári
Starring: Brian Cox | Isild Le Besco | Paul Dano
Bruce says: “Who would have guessed that the two stars of the 2001 film L.I.E., one a Scotsman and the other an American teenager, would end up eight years later working together in Iceland? Although Paul Dano (2008 Chlotrudis Award
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Starring: Byung-hun Lee | Kang-ho Song | Woo-sung Jung
Jason says: “A few years ago, I saw a movie called A BITTERSWEET LIFE AT FANTASIA and loved it, saying it was the sort of action movie John Woo and Chow Yun-fat used to make before they came to Hollywood
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yael Hersonski
TC says: “I can’t describe what an amazing, powerful movie this is. The film focuses on four reels of film shot in 1942 in the Warsaw ghetto by Nazi filmmakers who were making a propaganda film. But for some reason,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aggeliki Papoulia | Christos Stergioglou | Hristos Passalis | Mary Tsoni | Michelle Valley
Bruce says: “Dark comedy either grabs you or keeps you at arm’s length. Fortunately DOGTOOTH is the type of film that is intriguing from the get go. In an early scene a mother (Michelle Valley) is giving her three children
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Raymond De Felitta
Starring: Andy Garcia | Dominik García-Lorido | Emily Mortimer | Ezra Miller | Julianna Margulies | Steven Strait
TC says: “The title locale is a fishing village on an island in the middle of the Bronx, where corrections officer Vince Rizzo has lived almost all his life. Now Vince is the head of a family including a bored
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