Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Damián Szifrón
Starring: Dario Grandinetti | Erica Rivas | Germán de Silva | Julieta Zylberberg | Oscar Martinez | Osmar Núñez
Kyle says: “WILD TALES is Argentina’s entry into Academy Award contention for Best Foreign Language Film of 2014. I am always amused when the same people who usually dismiss Oscar-bait talk out of hand suddenly invoke it with the sanctimonious
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Rating: 0 cats
Director: Tim McCann
Starring: Britt Robertson | Dodie Brown | Nick Krause | Ryan Lee | Sam Trammell | Todd McLaren
Kyle says: “As someone who believes that right-wing America’s idiotic misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution is one of the fatal flaws of a system that is mistakenly referred to as a democracy (see any recent interview with
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Patrick Forbes
Kyle says: “After survivors tell heartrending tales of losing loved ones to sudden heart attacks, and medical professionals argue about scans versus stents, there comes a telling moment near the end of THE WIDOWMAKER, when Wendell Potter, former Director of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Starring: Gergely Bánki | Lili Horváth | Lili Monori | Sándor Zsótér | Szabolcs Thuróczy | Zsófia Psotta
Bruce says: “One of the great things about watching AMORES PERROS on DVD was the accompanying special feature that explained how dogs were trained so that no harm was actually done to them during the filming. While such technological detail
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liz Garbus
Diane says: “Multi-Grammy-winning jazz musician Nina Simone wanted nothing but to be the first female black concert pianist. This doc draws on a wealth of concert videos and interviews to tell her story: playing in her mother’s church at age
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Starring: Kasumi Arimura | Nanako Matsushima | Sara Takatsuki | Susumu Terajima | Toshie Negishi
Jason says: “Toward the end of WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, I found myself feeling a delightfully paradoxical appreciation for how it was put together: It somehow feels simultaneously surprising and inevitable, with the symbolic and the literal overlapping in ways
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Andrew Sensenig | Barbara Crampton | Larry Fessenden | Lisa Marie | Monte Markham
Jason says: “It’s funny which little details will make a movie really work for someone. Take WE ARE STILL HERE, for instance; it’s quite a well-executed ghost story with a nifty cast, good for a decent star rating even if
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Madsen
Jason says: “THE VISIT is apparently meant to be the second in a thematic trilogy of documentaries by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen, and I’m curious what grand-scaled idea will round them out. I hope it’s something a little more like
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Starring: André Hennicke | Burak Yigit | Franz Rogowski | Frederick Lau | Laia Costa | Max Mauff
Jason says: “In certain hands, VICTORIA might just have been an impressive achievement in logistics for hitting an ambitious set of marks as a single-shot, real-time thriller. It winds up being a fair bit better than that, even if there
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Starring: David Clayton Rogers | Lucy Griffiths | Mark Webber | Rainn Wilson
Jason says: “UNCANNY jokes about the Turing Test casually enough to make even longtime science fiction fans marvel a bit at how the phrase has started to enter the general lexicon in the last few years. The go-to reference for
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