Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Alexandre Goyette | Anne Dorval | Antoine-Olivier Pilon | Patrick Huard | Suzanne Clément
Chris says: “Those familiar with Quebecois wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s small, extraordinary oeuvre may notice the title and remember that his first feature was called I KILLED MY MOTHER. This, his fifth, is not a sequel, but it occasionally scans as
Read the review...The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (Japan; 130 min.) directed by: Takashi Miikestarring: Toma Ikuta; Mitsuru Fukikoshi; Kenichi Endo; Shinichi Tsutsumi; Riisa Naka Jason says: “A few weeks ago, someone recommended a comedy to me by saying ‘it’s great –
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liv Ullman
Starring: Colin Farrell | Jessica Chastain | Nora McMenamy | Samantha Morton
Jason says: “One often talks of ‘opening up’ plays when adapting them to film, doing things to obscure the fact that they were originally created to take place in a limited number of limited spaces, all viewed from a single
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rithy Panh
Jason says: “I passed on seeing THE MISSING PICTURE one night this week, overstating in my head how tight a squeeze it would be to get to the theater on time because I wasn’t in the mood for it that
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sarah Adina Smith
Jason says: “Sarah Adina Smith’s THE MIDNIGHT SWIM is one sort of movie in the sometimes ill-fitting skin of another, and I wonder if shedding that skin would allow it to be seen more clearly as a sharp tale of
Read the review...Mea Culpa (France; 90 min.) directed by: Fred Cavayéstarring: Vincent Lindon; Gilles Lellouche; Nadine Labaki; Max Baissette de Malglaive Jason says: “A couple years ago, French director Fred Cavayé garnered some attention from international action-movie fans with POINT BLANK (/review/index)
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Omung Kumar
Starring: Darshan Kumaar | Mridul Satam | Priyanka Chopra | Robin Das | Shakti Sinha | Sunil Thapa
Jason says: “MARY KOM opens with the title character going into labor in the middle of an armed rebellion in 2007, and that’s the sort of thing that one might think would have been a bit of a bigger factor
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Andre Gregory | Emily Cass McDonnell | Jeff Biehl | Julie Hagerty | Larry Pine | Lisa Joyce | Wallace Shawn
Jason says: “Like a lot of people, I tend to have this vague knowledge that Wallace Shawn is more than the guy with the funny voice and the odd face, that he’s a playwright and an actor who has been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pacho Velez | Stephanie Spray
Diane says: “Chlotrudis crunch time is not the time to indulge in this amazing and amazingly simple doc. When nothing had happened after 20 minutes, I had to look up a review to see what I was looking at. (I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chuck Workman
TC says: “Having become a major Welles fan after seeing CITIZEN KANE for the first time (I’m embarrassed to admit that was only seven years ago), this look at the man, the myth, and the legend that is, was, and
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