Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Andrew Jarecki
…Jarecki maintains almost complete objectivity in his portrayal of the Friedmans. He allows them such complete latitude that they can’t help doing on camera what they do best in real…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Eli Roth
Starring: Cerina Vincent | James DeBello | Joey Kern | Jordan Ladd | Rider Strong
…search of a wholesome drinking binge, they instead encounter a flesh-eating virus that seems to be rapidly and inexplicably spreading. The horror at the heart of Fever lies not in…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rosanna Arquette
…much about Arquette, and although the film is as much about her search… her journey as an actress in the entertainment industry as it was about actresses in general, she…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anne-Sophie Birot
Starring: Isild Les Besco | Karen Alyx | Pascal Elso | Pascale Bussières
Michael says: “Like the film RAIN, which I saw earlier this week, France’s GIRLS CAN’T SWIM is a coming-of-age story fraught with tragedy. Gwen and Lise have been spending summers…
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Whenever Diane comes to Toronto, we like to celebrate her birthday which falls on September 10. After a cursory search of some good place to enjoy a Sunday brunch, we…
Read the review...…hideous robot son to elementary school to learn to play with real kids, this year’s festival offers a varied program featuring drama, comedy, foreign-language, documentary, and animated films. A sub-committee…
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Director: Àlex Pastor | David Pastor
Starring: Jose Coronado | Leticia Dolera | Marta Etura | Quim Gutiérrez
…Marc Delgado (Quim Gutiérrez), a computer program who noted some odd behavior but didn’t initially think much of it until it became clear what was happening, and he was one…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Ben Gazzara | Blair Brown | Chloe Sevigny | Harriet Andersson | James Caan | Lauren Bacall | Nicole Kidman | Patricia Clarkson | Paul Bettany | Philip Baker Hall | Stellan Skarsgård
…them blow up [from the latest Left Behind installment]. “It’s a terribly Christological film. Grace comes to town, seeking refuge. The residents cannot accept Grace. Instead, they shackle her with…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Starring: Chulpan Khamatova | Daniel Brühl | Katrin Saß
…her husband defected to the West while on a business trip. She was a devoted Party (Communist Party) member, believing that socialist/communist ideals were the key to a better world….
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Michael Smiley | Peter Ferdinando | Reece Shearsmith | Richard Glover | Ryan Pope
…rag-tag group of confederates fleeing for their very lives coming across a field with overgrown vegetation. They are waylaid by two scary men and forced to search the field for…
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