Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Martin Provost
Starring: Anne Bennent | Geneviève Mnich | Nico Rogner | Ulrich Tukur | Yolande Moreau
Bruce says: “Martin Provost’s SÉRAPHINE is an elegiac reflection on the life of a working class woman who was a gifted art naïf painter. Séraphine Louis is her full name although in the art world she is known as Séraphine
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Anna Tsuchiya | Ayaka Wilson | Koji Yakusho | Sadao Abe | Satoshi Tsumabuki
Jason says: “You could probably cut quite the deceptive trailer for PACO AND THE MAGICAL BOOK, if you chose, by concentrating on the fast-paced, animation-heavy last act. It wouldn’t be a complete misrepresentation, but it sure wouldn’t give a true
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Crayton Robey
Bruce says: “MAKING THE BOYS, a documentary about the creative process in developing The Boys in the Band and the resulting impact it has had on the gay community, was entered in the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival as a work-in-progress.
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Blaine Thurier
Starring: Ali Liebert | Ben Cotton | Benjamin Ayres | Craig Anderson | Paul Anthony | Sarah Edmondson | Sarah Lind
Thom says: “This was far and away the best Canadian film I saw at TIFF. A very black comedy featuring extraordinarily peculiar characters, I was hooked on this from the get-go. Thurier made quite the impression with his earlier film
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: Brian Cox | Damian Lewis | Dominic Cooper | Joseph Fiennes | Liam Cunningham | Seu Jorge
Jason says: “It’s a terrible pun with which to lead off a review of a jailbreak movie, but in this case it is literally true: THE ESCAPIST hits the ground running. “The movie kicks off with the sound of alarms
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Luis Ortega
Starring: Alejandro Urdapilleta | Luis Ortega | Martina Juncadella
Thom says: “This is an unusual film of power, rage, and grace. It’s an apocalyptic vision of a bleak & deserted world. A couple is wandering through a dreary landscape ostensibly looking for a way to a river that if
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Gadi Harel | Marcel Sarmiento
Starring: Andrew DiPalma | Candice Accola | Eric Podnar | Michael Bowen | Noah Segan | Shiloh Fernandez
Jason says: “The zombie film, when you get right down to it, is really not that malleable a form. The plots are more or less the same, just differing in setting, detail, and tone. So it’s not exactly surprising that
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Beth Caldwell says: “LA DANSE is a beautiful, beautiful film. Frankly this is what the category ‘best cinematography’ was made to represent. I’m particularly impressed that the cinematography was so rich and diverse in a place where the camera needed
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo
Starring: Brandon Routh | Carly Pope | Desmond Harrington | Lara Flynn Boyle | Shannyn Sossamon
Jason says: “There’s a line in Buddy Giovinazzo’s adaptation of his 1993 book of short stories that encapsulates the lives of its characters to a tragic extent; it’s a man berating his girlfriend on her priorities: Food, then fix, then
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Cristian Nemescu
Starring: Armand Assante | Jamie Elman | Razvan Vasilescu
Bruce says: “At a glance it seems that director Cristian Nemescu was influenced by American pop culture. While that may be true to a certain extent it also appears that Nemescu’s filmmaking owes a larger debt to Emir Kusturica whose
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