Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julia Dyer
Starring: Cody Linley | John Hawkes | Jonathon McClendon | Lydia MacKay | Molly Parker
Bruce says: “THE PLAYROOM’s sin is one of omission. There is just not enough substance. One scene in particular is revisited time after time. A voiceover is also repetitious. No doubt Julia Dyer believed repetition would reinforce the moment. That
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Starring: Heo Joon-seok | Jo Jae-ryong | Jo Min-soo | Kang Eun-jin | Lee Jeong-jin | Woo Gi-hong
Thom says: “I’m still trying to figure out what happened to the career of director Kim. After SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER…AND SPRING (2003) won numerous world awards, including an award from Chlotrudis as well & I when I finally saw
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Barbara Jefford | Judi Dench | Mare Winningham | Sophie Kennedy Clarke | Steve Coogan
Thom says: ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised at how much I loved this film but until the starting credits rolled I had completely forgotten that the great Stephen Frears was the director. Over the years he’s been responsible
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: David Duchovny | Ed Harris | Johnathon Schaech | Lance Henriksen | William Fichtner
Jason says: “Many elements of PHANTOM are almost certain to remind audiences of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, and it actually draws heavily on one of the incidents that inspired Tom Clancy’s novel and the later film adaptation – or
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kevin Schreck
Chris says: “Best known for his creative 1960s opening credit sequences (WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?) and truly innovative work on WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?, Canadian-born, British-based animator Richard Williams would have preferred universal recognition for THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, a
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Anthony Geffen | Sias Wilson
Jason says: “Going by what I find on IMDB (which is not always the safest thing to do), PENGUINS 3D appears to be what you get when you cut a British nature documentary, THE PENGUIN KING 3D, down to half
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ali Mosaffa | Bérénice Bejo | Elyes Aguis | Jeanne Jestin | Pauline Burlet | Sabrina Ouazani | Tahar Rahim
Michael says: “It may be a little too early to start saying that Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is one of my favorite filmmakers, but he’s batting two for two with A SEPARATION and now the emotionally wrenching THE PAST, actually
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian DePalma
Starring: Benjamin Sadler | Dominic Raacke | Karoline Herfurth | Noomi Rapace | Paul Anderson | Rachel McAdams | Rainer Bock
Thom says: “It’s been 36 years since director De Palma was in his hey-day as he captured my FILM-OF-THE-YEAR with CARRIE (1976). Since then he’s not been reliable although certainly he’s had such huge successes as SCARFACE and DRESSED TO
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Starring: Gabriel Mwarua | Helen Brugat | Inge Maux | Margarete Teisel | Peter Kazungu
Bruce says: “Ulrich Seidl has stirred up a controversy or two with his films IMPORT/EXPORT and PARADISE: LOVE. To understand the fuss it is important to see the film, at least that is the case for PARADISE: LOVE that begins
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marcus Markou
Starring: Cosima Shaw | Frank Dillane | Georges Corraface | Georgia Groome | Stephan Dillane | Thomas Underhill
Jason says: “I was recently reminded that my grandmother reads what I write here, which may be why one of my first reactions to PAPADOPOULOS & SONS was that it would be a good movie to bring parents or grandparents
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