Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ben Rivers | Ben Russell
…the idea of humanity’s search for utopia. The first section is communal living on an Estonian island (including a totally unexpected, extended anecdote about a sauna daisy chain of male…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Antonio Piazza | Fabio Grassadonia
Starring: Giuditta Perriera | Jacopo Menicagli | Luigi Lo Cascio | Mario Pupella | Redouane Behache | Saleh Bakr | Sara Serraiocco
…Melville and LE SAMOURAÏ (1967). Its dramatic tension issues from the idea of various notions of imprisonment and differing kinds of freedom. The major successful casting choice was to engage…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Trevor White
Starring: James Woods | Mary-Louise Parker | Spencer Lofranco | Taissa Farmiga | Ving Rhames
…culture violence and momentarily transfigured by the title character’s search for redemption. That James keeps a diary in which he records his thoughts and feelings — which is dipped into…
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Charlie Siske | John Maloof
Julie says: “FINDING VIVIAN MAIER is an intriguing documentary that takes you on the film maker’s search to piece together the life of Vivian Maier, a prolific photographer who was…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Volker Schlรถndorff
Starring: Andrรฉ Dussollier | Burghart Klauรner | Johannes Klauรner | Niels Arstrup | Robert Stadlober | Thomas Arnold
…friends with a great woman named Annie who for her project was making a scene from THE TIN DRUM & I appeared as a soldier in a desperate search for…
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Director: Gabe Ibรกรฑez
Starring: Antonio Banderas | Birgitte Hjart Sรธrensen | Dylan McDermott | Melanie Griffith | Robert Forster
…of the company to attempt to avoid a payout. In what is hopefully his last case before a transfer to a seaside district with his pregnant wife Rachel (Birgitte Hjort…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ursula Long
Jason says: “9-MAN was the second film at the festival built around Chinese-American themes and it turns out to be an excellent pairing with THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO: Where…
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Sarah Polley
…shadings coming from just one person. “The story has a twist in it that you’re best coming into the film cold about. All I’ll say here is that it impeccably…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ziad Doueiri
Starring: Ali Suliman | Evgenia Dodena | Karim Saleh | Ramsi Makdessi | Reymond Amsalem | Uri Gavriel
…that’s what gives the last act of THE ATTACK (L’ATTENTAT) a fair amount of power. “The man about to come face to face with this idea is Amin Jaafari (Ali…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aaron Houston
Starring: Amatai Marmorstein | Ben Cotton | Johannah Newmarch | Kacrey Rohl | Patrick Gilmore | Peter New
…pitiable but also very funny. Amatai Marmorstein and Kacey Rohl come at the same sort of story – kids who need to find a way to communicate and have confidence…
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