Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Starring: Léa Drucker | Mathieu Amalric | Stéphanie Cléau
Jason says: “Georges Simenon wrote La Chambre Bleue (The Blue Room in English) about sixty years ago, and it appears to be the sort of elemental crime story where only small details need be changed to bring it into the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Amy Hargreaves | Brent Werzner | Devin Ratray | Eve Plumb | Kevin Kolack | Macon Blair | Stacy Rock
Jason says: “Say this for BLUE RUIN: It starts from a different place that many movies of its type, and that starting point means that even when it doesn’t necessarily go in a unique direction, it still winds up in
Read the review...Blind Detective (Hong Kong/China; 138 min.) directed by: Johnnie Tostarring: Andy Lau Tak-wah; Guo Tao; Sammi Cheng Sau-man; Lam Suet; Gao Yuan-Yuan Jason says: “I know that I have made comments about how it’s a shame that we’ll likely only
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kei’ichi Sato | Kentarô Ohtani
Starring: Ayame Gôriki | Hiro Mizushimal | Mizuki Yamamoto | Yûka
Jason says: “One of the women in front of me was throwing her hands up roughly every ten minutes or so during this movie, and I wondered off the top of my head whether she was just having a general
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robert Lemelson
Jason says: “BITTER HONEY opens with a bit of informative text, including the fact that it was filmed over a seven-year period. It’s an odd bit of information to include, because while director Robert Lemelson does a fair job of
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Director: Pascale Ferran
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier | Geoffrey Cantor | Josh Charles | Radha Mitchell | Roschdy Zem | Taklyt Vongdara
Michael says: “I caught this unusual French film at the Toronto International Film Festival, and while the film overall is very good, it is most notable for a terrific performance by Josh Charles (most recently seen in ‘The Good Wife’)
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Amy Ryan | Damian Young | Ed Norton | Emma Stone | Merrit Wever | Michael Keaton | Susan Blackwell | Zach Galifianakis
Diane says: “Too bad I didn’t get it, before seeing BIRDMAN, that the real-life career of its star, Michael Keaton, peaked with the BATMAN movies. But the story of an actor trying to make a comeback–this time by writing, directing,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Eric Slade | Stephen Silha
Thom says: “It’s a rare film where I have a personal connection with the protagonist, no matter how small, which is the exact case here where for one semester on my way to my B.A. in Film from San Francisco
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aharon Keshales | Navot Papushado
Starring: Doval’e Glickman | Dvir Benedek | Lior Ashkenzai | Menashe Noy | Rotem Keinan | Tzahi Grad
Jason says: “Even if Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado were just one filmmaking team out of many people making this sort of movie in Israel, BIG BAD WOLVES would be a pretty terrific movie, a step up from their already
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Starring: Camille Japy | Fabrice Luchini | Lambert Wilson | Maya Sansa
Bruce says: “Several years back, dogged director Phillippe Le Guay travelled to the Île de Ré near La Rochelle to deliver a script to actor Fabrice Luchini who was not returning his calls. Luchini, a well-known stage actor, had a
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