Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jodi Whillle | Maria Demopoulos
Chris says: “A popular health food restaurant on the Sunset Strip… an experiment in spiritual communal living at the dawn of the 1970s… a cult overseen by Father Yod, a charismatic, excessively-bearded ex-Marine who eventually proclaimed he was God Himself…
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Daisy von Sherler Mayer
Starring: Adam Brody | Emily Watson | Jennifer Morrison | Kristen Bell | Mia Maestro | Zoe Kazan
Jason says: “Based upon Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s film version, SOME GIRL (S) is a play with a rather tortured premise, and I suspect that actors who like a challenge are drawn to it for that. Sure, Neil LaBute gives
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Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Carol Combes | Clément Métayer | Felix Armand | Hugo Conzelmann | Lola Créton
Thom says: “I was to learn before the screening that Assayas had won the best script at the Venice Film Festival. If truly that is the case I’d hate to know what the other choices were as this autobiographical film
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Nathan Silver
Starring: Carl Kranz | Ed Ryan | Melanie J. Sheiner | Moshe Kessler | Sheila Etxeberria | Theodore Bouloukos
Jason says: “I don’t feel bad about not particularly liking SOFT IN THE HEAD, but one of the reasons I don’t like it bugs me. I look down on its characters, which means I probably look down on their real-life
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Edward James Olmos | Harold Perrineau | Hector Elizondo | Isaiah Washington | LisaGay Hamilton | Mahershala Ali | Yolanda Ross
Jason says: “John Sayles is perhaps the most notable independent filmmaker who falls through the cracks despite being quite accessible. Why is that? After all, he’s got LONE STAR and EIGHT MEN OUT to his name! There are a number
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jonathan Gurfinkel
Starring: Eviatar Mor | Roy Nik | Sivan Levy
Bruce says: “This disturbing Israeli film S#X ACTS examines the effects of sexual bullying, a most disquieting albeit extremely important issue among teenagers. Gili (Sivan Levy) has switched schools midway through high school. Her mother is a single parent and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Jason Isaacs | Jeffrey Wright | Joe Anderson | Kelly Reilly | Sam Rockwell | Ted Levine | William H. Macy
Jason says: “There are two general ways a ‘bag of money’ movie can go: Navigating the intricate set-up that is revealed through a constant series of revelations and double-crosses that the anti-hero must navigate in order to keep the cash
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Richie Mitchell
Starring: Allison Dawn Doiron | Farid Yazdani | Jeremy Larter | Richard Guppy | Stephen Jacob Hogan
Jason says: “If the initials in S.I.N. THEORY stand for anything specific, I don’t believe it is revealed in the movie, which is too bad. They imply material that’s more salacious and exciting than what’s on screen, and the movie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lian Lunson
Kyle says: “SING ME THE SONGS THAT SAY I LOVE YOU is a documentary of the May 2011 Town Hall concert in New York in loving memory of Kate McGarrigle by Rufus and Martha Wainwright, her children with singer/songwriter Loudon
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Alice Lowe | Eileen Davies | Kenneth Hadley | Richard Lumsden | Steve Oram
Jason says: “Ben Wheatley’s previous two films weren’t everyone’s cup of tea, and he hasn’t exactly gone conventional with SIGHTSEERS. It’s quite often as funny as it is twisted (or, perhaps, vice versa), overflowing with strange, messy, disturbing romantic comedy.
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