Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Anders Østergaard
Thom says: “When this started, not having any prior knowledge of the film, I sort of went Ho Hum, & settled in for a dull political polemic. I am thrilled to tell you that my prognosis was totally wrong. Burma
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Adrien Brody | Mark Ruffalo | Maximilian Schell | Rachel Weisz | Rinko Kikuchi | Robbie Coltrane
Jason says: “THE BROTHERS BLOOM is a magic trick of a movie, done close-up by a magician who has not only shown that there is nothing up his sleeves, but who is in fact only wearing a vest so as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yang Ik-Joon
Starring: Hee-soo Kim | Hwan Lee | Jeong-soon Park | Jin-sook Lee | Kkobbi Kim | Kot-bi Kim | Man-shik Jeong | Seung-Yun Lee | Yang Ik-Joon
Jason says: “BREATHLESS is about the parts of South Korea that you typically don’t see in the cinema. For all that the nation has a fine and varied film industry, even the gangsters often appear to be at least middle-class;
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Agnès Varda
Bruce says: “THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS is most likely Agnès Varda’s final film. Now in her eighties, she remains an active photographer and is continually involved in shows featuring her photographic installations. It seems that directing is not specifically what
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