Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Enrique Rivero
Starring: Nancy Orozco | Nolberto Coria | Tesalia Huerta
Bruce says: “PARQUE VÍA is a beautiful character study about a servant whose services, due to events circumstantial, are no longer required. We first glimpse Beto as he walks through…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Dave Gargani
…rather than Gargani trying to build a case via widely separated data points. The ideas involved aren’t especially complicated, but the voiced articulate them fairly well, although they do have…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastián Silva
Starring: Alejandro Goic | Andrea Garcia-Huidobro | Anita Reeves | Augustín Silva | Catalina Saavedra | Claudia Celedón | Mariana Loyola | Mercedes Villaneuva
…“Which is responsible for making this Chilean maid so miserable–the system or herself? At times a horror film, at other times a psychological study or a critique of the bourgeouisie,…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Erick Zonca
Starring: Aidan Gould | Bruno Bichir | Jude Ciccolella | Kate del Castillo | Saul Rubinek | Tilda Swinton
…farce, part comedy (although I’m not 100% certain the last two are intentional…) and boasts a rather remarkable performance by Tilda Swinton. Julia is an alcoholic spiraling out of control….
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Pascal-Alex Vincent
Starring: Alexandre Carril | Anaïs Demoustier | Patrick Hauthier | Victor Carril
…tackle the issue. “Director Pascal-Alex Vincent is very insistent that his film is merely an atmospheric film not a psychological study. Reaching that goal may have been possible had he…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Gerald Peary
…fairly comprehensive look at the study of movies; while also, amazingly, manages to be the first film on the subject. FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES certainly provides an excellent history…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Starring: Arnaldo André | Carlos Bardem | Inés Efron | Julián Doregger | Mariela Vitale | Pep Munné | Sandra Guida
…of time, creating a jigsaw effect. The storyline is complex and hard to follow at first. The editing is clever in the way it places demands on the viewer to…
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood | Marisa Tomei | Mark Margolis | Mickey Rourke | Todd Barry
…wire match), Aronofsky brings a complete character study of a man who doesn’t know how to function out of the limelight. Introduction by Darren Aronofsky, no Q&A. 4.5 cats” …
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Margaret Brown
…belonging to one’s specific community rather than to the larger society as a whole.’ “The subject of THE ORDER OF MYTHS is race. The film examines the racial tensions that…
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Henrik Dahl | Kåre Hedebrant | Karin Bergquist | Lina Leandersson | Per Ragnar
…then. SPOILERS AHOY! “A couple years ago, FROSTBITE got a little hype as the first vampire movie to come out of Sweden. It was a wild teen comedy, perhaps not…
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