Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marçal Forés
Starring: Augustus Prew | Dimitri Leonidas | Javier Beltrán | Maria Rodríguez | Oriol Pla | Roser Tapias
Jason says: “ANIMALS is a coming-of-age story that perches right on the border between an impressive level of ambition and complexity on the one side and trying to do too much on the other. There’s a whole movie just in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Gary Maitland | John Henshaw | Paul Brannigan | Scott Kyle | Siobhan Reilly | William Ruane
Jeff says: “Ken Loach takes a page from the Bill Forsyth playbook in this small story of redemption. “We first meet Robbie (Paul Brannigan) in a Glasgow courtroom listening to a solicitor argue before the judge that despite his thuggish
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jen Soska | Sylvia Soska
Starring: Antonio Cupo | David Lovgren | Katharine Isabelle | Paula Lindberg | Tristan Risk
Jason says: “I’m not sure what its Canadian filmmakers figure is so specifically American about AMERICAN MARY but, hey, whatever. Jen & Sylvia Soska have made an impressive little movie that may not exactly be horror but can certainly make
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Alexandre Tharaud | Emmanuelle Riva | Isabelle Huppert | Jean-Louis Trintignant | William Shimell
Thom says: “AMOUR has already won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and has gotten raves from critics as well as Chlotrudis stalwarts so I feel a bit of a shnerd not giving this a better ranking.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Robert Redford
Jason says: “At times, ALL IS LOST presents itself as pure problem-solving porn: No speaking, no backstory, not necessarily even much of a sense that filmmaker J.C. Chandor has anything else on his mind besides just showing what’s happening to
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Nicolás López
Starring: Andrea Osvart | Ariel Levy | Eli Roth | Lorenza Izzo | Natasha Yarovenko | Nicolás Martinez
Thom says: “The film was superbly made with extraordinary effects that made for a real thrill ride. It’s the first time I’ve seen what I would call a disaster/horror film with instead of a pack of zombies after such cataclysmic
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lorenzo Bianchini
Starring: Lidia Zabrieszach | Marco Marchese | Renzo Gariup
Jason says: “I had the feeling when I saw ACROSS THE RIVER (OLTRE IL GAUDO in Italian) that when the time came to expand the capsule I wrote for my blog to a full entry, I would not have a
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Kyle says: “THE ACT OF KILLING is the improbable must-see hit of the 2013 New Directors/New Films roster. This is a powerful documentary on the aftermath of the 1965-66 military overthrow of the Indonesian government and consequent mass killings by
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Starring: Chamila Rodriguez | Christian Vadim | Pedro Villagra | Santiago Figueroa | Sergio Hernández | Sergio Schmied | Valentina Vargas
Bruce says: “Some films should come with their own primer. Certain people might find that concept quite insulting. For me, having background information before viewing NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET would have been very helpful. Raul Ruiz, who died last year
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Christian Linahan
Starring: Iwa Moto | Mercedes Cabral | Nicholas Varela | Will Devaughn
Kyle says: “The international premiere of ABERYA (meaning ‘malfunction’ in Tagalog) was one of five offerings of the New York Asian Film Festival in a series labeled ‘Manila Chronicles: The New Filipino Cinema.’ It is more interesting for its aims
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