Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho | Mansaku Fuwa | Misa Shimizu | Mitsuko Baisho
…by Shinichiro Ikebe reflects a playful nature with its cartoonish bells and whistles.” 3 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/warmwaterunderaredbridge.htm” Michael says: “How delightful it was to get such…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Amy Seimetz | Charlie Plummer | Chloe Sevigny | Steve Buscemi | Travis Fimmel
…I wasn’t a fan of Haigh’s first film, rent-boy drama GREEK PETE (2009), his WEEKEND (2011) was an award-winning success, & 45 YEARS was rightfully critically praised. His work on…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stevan Riley
…23 article suggesting that readers should ‘free yourself from the cult of Marlon Brando’, we may add the informative documentary LISTEN TO ME MARLON, which director Stevan Riley has based…
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Magalie LΓ©pine Blondeau | Melvil Poupaud | Nathalie Baye | Suzanne ClΓ©ment | Yves Jacques
…a confident directorial hand, and a complex screenplay that just comes across as so authentic and powerful that it’s easy to overlook the length of the film. 4 1/2 cats“…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
…his all-time favorite movie. Beginning with MACABRE (1958), Castle was on a roll. Audience members who cared to fill out the forms could get $1,000 free insurance against death by…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
…it indirectly affects our lives. The relationships among the global business communities are elusive, often unknown to the general public. MONDOVINO is Globalization for Dummies. The film examines the mechanisms…
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Jared Hess
Starring: Aaron Ruell | Efren Ramirez | Jon Gries | Jon Heder | Tina Marjorino
…compared it to although WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE was really well done. One word comes to mind when I think about this movie….contrived. Did any of you who are closer…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: John Dullaghan
…the act of writing came early for Bukowski but success took its sweet time. At the age of 13 he felt he was a writer; he found a pencil, started…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter | Olivia Williams | Paul Bettany
…the reserved, socially responsible Madeline and the bohemian, free-spirited Dinah. Their mother, Mrs. Burkett (Eleanor Bron, A LITTLE PRINCESS), ironically tells Madeline’s husband Rickie that her husband had always been…
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