Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.9 cats
Director: Giovanni Zelko
Starring: Ben Youcef | Candice Coke | Harry Lennix | Josh Pence | Said Faraj | Tara Holt | Zuhair Hadad
…to study for a graduate degree in engineering twenty years later. Well, that’s his cover – two years ago, he was recruited by a man known as ‘Father’ (Said Faraj)…
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Terry Gilliam
…his team to study the work of current German painter Neo Rauch which apparently influenced the final look of the film. Waltz gives another sensational permanent performance as computer hacker…
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
…how Jiro views it, but how the intricacy fascinates him. Airplanes are beautiful things to both character and director, and even if the viewer comes away questioning Jiro’s legacy, they…
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Teller
…that makes up a considerable part of the painting’s composition. Here, the film is less about its thesis and more a character study of a man determined to prove said…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Josephine Decker
…with backstory that justifies her actions. Swanberg, meanwhile, gives a fine study of repression and perhaps guilt couched in respectful comments, averted gazes, and surprising outbursts, a performance that doesn’t…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Christopher Menaul
Starring: Dan Stevens | Daphne Neville | Dominic Cooper | Jane Cussons
…community that make the love triangle at the center of the movie seem kind of generic by comparison. “That main story has Florence Carter Wood (Emily Browning) coming to Cornwall…
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Starring: Chris Evans | Jamie Bell | John Hurt | Ko Ah-sung | Octavia Spencer | Song Kang-ho | Tilda Swinton
…which I presume will be wildly successful, since its appeal to the lowest common denominator is unavoidable, is a spectacular CGI train crash, which fortunately ends Wilford’s life of crime…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Cate Shortland
Starring: Alice McConnell | Emily Barclay | Essie Davis | Richard Roxburgh
…the curator of the Police Musuem, a big comedown for a guy who liked lots of action. Treloar’s first duty is to curate an exhibit of old crime scene photos…
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: Amy Lloyd | Christopher Baker | Kate Fahy | Lydia Leonard | Tom Hiddleston
…but her constant complaining and manipulating of situations belie that thought. Rarely has such a despicable character been conceived more deliciously, a credit to both Hogg and Ms. Leonard. “Edward…
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Alex Karpovsky
Starring: Alex Karpovsky | Amanda Good Hennessey | Dakota Shepard | Dennis Staroselsky | Jaime Ray Newman
Jason says: “It doesn’t happen very often, but RUBBERNECK is almost too simple to classify. It’s got characteristics of both a thriller and an indie drama of the character-study variety,…
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