Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Ann Savage | Cory Cassidy | Darcy Fehr | Louis Negin
Michael says: “What a delightful evening in the Wintergarden theatre spent enjoying the world premiere of Guy Maddin’s pseudo-documentary MY WINNIPEG. Maddin was challenged by the Documentary channel to make a doc on his hometown of Winnipeg, and Maddin being
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Cédric Anger
Starring: Gilbert Melki | Grégoire Colin | Mélanie Laurent | Sophie Cattani | Xavier Beauvois
Jason says: “LE TUEUR is the very image of what the phrase ‘French film’ often brings to mind. It’s alternatively talkative and quiet, casually sexual, and deals with matters of life and death with what seems like emotionless detachment. What
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Margaret Brown
Bruce says: “THE ORDER OF MYTHS was recommend to me by fellow Chlotrudis member Rob Jerome, an award-winning photographer whose specialty is photographing festivals and carnivals around the world. The dual Mobile, Alabama Mardi Gras celebrations – one black (MAMGA),
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: James Marsh
Chris says: “In 1974, Philippe Petit, an impish, excitable young Frenchman did an impossible thing—he managed to string a tightrope across the roofs of the World Trade Center twin towers and walk on it (although ‘dancing’ seems a more fitting
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Christophe Honoré
Starring: Chiara Mastrioanni | Clothilde Hesme | GrégoireLeprince-Ringuet | LouisGarrel | Ludivine Sagnier
Bruce says: “This film is the type that haunts one’s memory long after seeing it. Audacious and totally unconventional, LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR is an UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG without Michel Legrand. Almost half of the film is sung; at the most
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daniel A. Miller | Jeremy Newberger | Seth Kramer
Jason says: “The situation laid out at the start of THE LINGUISTS sounds familiar from tales of the Amazon rain forest being despoiled; the difference is that instead of unknown animal species being lost, it is ways to communicate. There
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