Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Arabella Weir | Dominic West | Fiona Shaw | Keira Knightley | Mรกtรฉ Haumann | Robert Pugh | Sloan Thompson
Chris says: “Colette was such a fascinating figure for her time it would take a concerted effort to make a boring film about her. Typically, Keira Knighly is neither miscast…
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Chlotrudis Awards has compiled a list of 200 movies from the twentieth century that have had the most influence on its Nominating Committee members. As we enter the twenty-first century,…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kristina Grozeva | Petar Valchanov
Starring: Ivan Barnev | Ivan Savov | Ivanka Bratoeva | Margita Gosheva | Stefan Denolyubov
…to remedy the situation over the coming days. Alarmingly her ne’er-do-well husband hasn’t paid the family loan over the past few months and they are about to be evicted from…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Won-chan
…hook has Kim Byung-guk (Bae Sung-woo), a manager at the Cheil Company in Seoul, getting a drink after work, heading home, passing a completely normal evening with his family, and…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dave Boyle
Jason says: “There’s a moment at the end of a lot of the really good ‘Coen-like’ movies (a description unfair to everyone involved, but one people use) where someone sits…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kim Seong-hun
Jason says: “’Chekhov’s _____’ is an extremely easy joke to make when watching and reviewing thrillers and the like, and like most trope-related comments, folks often say that in terms…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ifa Isfansyah
…female guru reaching retirement after decades as an undisputed master who chose peace by raising the children of her sworn enemies as a family – with Christine Hakim commanding authority…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson | Emory Cohen | Fiona Glascott | Jane Brennan | Julie Walters | Saoirse Ronan
…made – a visa, a job, a room in the boarding house run by Mrs. Kehoe (Julie Walters). Despite there being a sizable Irish community there, she still misses home,…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Morgan Matthews
Starring: Asa Butterfield | Jo Yang | Michael McCann | Rafe Spall | Sally Hawkins
Jason says: “This winter, when someone made a comment on there being two biographies of mathematical geniuses up for awards, I responded that after an eternity of movies about poets…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asif Kapadia
…biz. Director has interviews–or perhaps borrowed sound–from a good range of people associated with the singer. (I question the ethics of her doctors commenting on their former patient’s health and…
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