Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Steven Shainberg
Starring: James Spader | Jeremy Davies | Maggie Gyllenhaal
Clinton says: “A charming and quirky comedy about dominant/submissive relationships, and how they can lead to profound emotional connections. Gyllenhaal completely steals the film as Lee Holloway, a young woman…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jay Duplass
Starring: Kathryn Asleton | Mark Duplass | Rhett Wilkins
…not always comic) misadventure after another. However, the film is really a tight character study about how messy relationships (both romantic and fraternal) often are, and a smart, nuanced one…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Kurt Russell | Michael Michele | Scott Speedman
…upon him. “DARK BLUE is a character study of a man so used to using ends to justify means that he’s lost his way entirely. It takes the death of…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dylan Kidd
Starring: Campbell Scott | Elizabeth Berkley | Isabella Rossellini | Jesse Eisenberg
…tyro writer/director Dylan Kidd’s ROGER DODGER. “This terrific American independent character study arrives adorned with three awards, including the Luigi De Laurentiis award for first film, from the Venice Film…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Bård Owe | Espen Skjønberg | Henny Moan
…Hamer I shall refer to his films as ‘droll dramas’ rather than comedies; I hope that will suffice. “O’HORTEN is a small gem, a bittersweet character study. As the film…
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Martina Kudlácek
…Yawkese is a surprise coming from the petite, exotic immigrant. “Second husband Alexander Hammid, the codirector of Maya’s most famous work MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, reflects on her exotic beauty…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Anthony Mackie | Brian Geraghty | David Morse | Evangeline Lilly | Guy Pearce | Jeremy Renner | Ralph Fiennes
…genre, Bigelow offers some compelling insights.” Michael responds: “Both your points are well taken, and I really shouldn’t have been so glib with my comments about Bigelow. I’m actually quite…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mark Wexler
…through TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE one of the talking heads comments that you have to love your subject to make a good film. It is debatable whether Mark Wexler…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodrigo Moerno
Starring: Cristina Villamor | Julio Chávez | Osmar Núñez
…and little or no dialogue. Writer/director Rodrigo Moreno has created a truly memorable character study plus EL CUSTODIO has a lot to say about social status as well. A study…
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Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Andrea Frankle | Charles Melton | Chris Tenzis | Cory Michael Smith | Julianne Moore | Natalie Portman
…to study her in preparation for playing her in a movie based on her scandalous relationship with Joe (Charles Melton), whom she met when she was 36 and he was…
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