Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Andrea Frankle | Charles Melton | Chris Tenzis | Cory Michael Smith | Julianne Moore | Natalie Portman
Chris says: I suppose Todd Haynes’ latest does for Lifetime TV movies what his 2002 film FAR FROM HEAVEN did for Douglas Sirk, recreating an aesthetic and carefully tweaking it for postmodern consumption, but it’s also so much more. It
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Todd Haynes
Michael says: “I loved this documentary. It took a subject I new relatively little about, and structured it like an indie, art-house film with talking heads, clips past performances, still images, and more to create a collage of a band,
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Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Cory Michael Smith | Damian Young | James Urbaniak | Julianne Moore | Millicent Simmonds
By Michael Colford
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Beth Grant | Dean Norris | Jodie Markell | Julianne Moore | Susan Norman | Xander Berkeley
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Todd Haynes
Bruce says: “CAROL, based on the autobiographically inspired Sapphic novel, The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith, is terrific. That said, it should be noted that here form triumphs magnificently over content, rarely the case for me. The story is
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Ben Whishaw | Bruce Greenwood | Cate Blanchett | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christian Bale | Heath Ledger | Julianne Moore | Marcus Carl Franklin | Michelle Williams | Richard Gere
Michael says: “There’s been a lot of buzz about Todd Hayne’s Bob Dylan biopic, especially after it’s debut in Venice. Those who know me know that I am not a fan of the biopic, but ever the experimenter, Haynes turns
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Celia Weston | Dennis Haysbert | Dennis Quaid | Julianne Moore | Patricia Clarkson | Viola Davis
Diane says: “Well, after 400 miles of driving I got to see FAR FROM HEAVEN! This is my second real movie in Montana. Both times I was completely disoriented when I came out of the theater–where am I? “The only
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