Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Stephen Kessler
…obscurity in part due to substance abuse are so common that festivals might as well list them as their own program. This one, at least, finds a couple of ways…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Starring: Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy | Leyla Zareh | Roya Taymourian | Shahab Hosseini
…compelled to follow the story as Noora moves through her life. There is a mild background undercurrent of tension, that slowly rises until just after the midpoint of the film,…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Jasna Fritzi Bauer | Mark Waschke | Nina Hoss | Rainer Bock | Ronald Zehrfeld
…in a new situation. Writer/director Christian Petzold goes a different way, and it makes for a frequently compelling bit of drama. “As Barbara (Nina Hoss) starts her first day working…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch | Colin Firth | Gary Oldman | John Hurt | Kathy Burke | Tom Hardy
…haven’t read the John le Carré novel (or seen the 1979 BBC miniseries with Alec Guinness), I can assuredly say that TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY is a successful adaptation primarily…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Starring: Adamina Kerr | Frank Qutuq Irelan | John Miller | Josiah Patkotak
…something seems off to Qalli’s father Egasak (Teddy Kyle Smith), head of the local search & rescue team. “ON THE ICE is not an extraordinarily complicated movie; writer/director Andrew Okpeaha…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ben Steinbauer
…circles. One of those collectors was director Ben Steinbauer, and he decided to try and track Rebney down. “The resulting documentary is a hilarious pastiche of his search for Jack…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Flora Sigismondi
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Dakota Fanning | Kristen Stewart | Michael Shannon | Scout Taylor-Compton | Stella Maeve
…all about Cherie and Joan with three backing musicians. Which is too bad, because Stella Maeve makes drummer Sandy West fascinating, and Scout Taylor-Compton makes you want much more of…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kimberly Reed
…to search for someone else (Paul in Kim’s case, Orson in Marc’s) that we might not have seen otherwise. Even when Ms. Reed doesn’t spell things out – perhaps especially…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Irving Schwartz
Starring: Dawn Noel Pignuola | icole LaLiberte | Naama Kates | Ty Jones
Jason says: “MY NORMALl is thoroughly enjoyable, but I’ve got to be honest: It might come off as just another talky indie/mumblecore film if half the cast of characters were…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Benoรฎt Jacquot
Starring: Clara Bindi | Isabelle Huppert | Jean-Hughes Anglade | Maya Sansa | Xavier Beauvois
…search of life’s meaning. The corollary here is that people with money can afford to be a self-indulgent as their imagination will allow. To set things straight, this is the…
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