Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Charlotte Prior | Ethan Hawke | Jennifer Prior | Julie Delpy | Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Chris says: “*Minor spoilers ahead* “Though not a flawless film, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE concluded almost perfectly: its open-endedness exuded a lovely power as it revisited all the spaces its two leads Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) inhabited
Read the review...The Great Beauty (Italy/France; 142 min.) directed by: Paolo Sorrentino starring: Toni Servillo; Sabrina Ferilli; Carlo Buccirosso; Georgio Pasotti; Massimo Popolizio Peter says: “This is a film loaded with Fellini style imagery, characters, and abrupt scene transitions that make its
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Philippe Béziat
Kyle says: “BECOMING TRAVIATA, or in its much better French title TRAVIATA ET NOUS, is a documentary on preparations and rehearsals for a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved 1853 opera ‘La Traviata’ at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, starring charismatic soprano Natalie
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jeremy Gardner
Starring: Adam Cronheim | Alana O'Brien | Jamie Pantanella | Jeremy Gardner | Larry Fessenden | Niels Bolle
Jason says: “There’s a case to be made for THE BATTERY although it involves an premise that I’m not hugely fond of – that the filmmakers aren’t really making a zombie movie, but exploring the bond and antagonism that form
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Starring: Kota Mori | Kunifumi Yoshida | Sion Sono | Takeshi Itô | Tokyo GAGAGA | Yoshihiro Nishimura
Jason says: “The question has probably been answered in some interview or festival Q&A with Sion Sono, but if he had been able to spend the time and money to edit this movie and get it released back in 1995,
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jeff Howlett | Mark Christopher Covino
Jason says: “You can say what you want about Detroit – that its main industry needs propping up, that its population is collapsing, that arson seems to be the most popular local activity – but you have to admit, hope
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jacob Vaughn
Starring: Gillian Jacobs | Ken Marino | Kumail Nanjiani | Mary Kay Place | Patrick Warburton | Peter Stormare | Toby Huss
Jason says: “You see enough horror movies, and eventually ‘ridiculous puppet monster ‘ can seem like a genre. You can break it down further and make the distinction between whether it’s a movie based upon puppets being creepy or one
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lynn-Maree Milburn | Richard Lowenstein
Jason says: “I strongly suspect that I have complained about documentaries that seem to argue that someone wrecking his life and those of the people around him is more tragic because he could play the guitar enough for it to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ziad Doueiri
Starring: Ali Suliman | Evgenia Dodena | Karim Saleh | Ramsi Makdessi | Reymond Amsalem | Uri Gavriel
Jason says: “There have been a fair number of movies, books, and the like about terrorism over the years, but many, in their perfectly reasonable attempt to illuminate the phenomenon, ignore a simple truth: Most people just can’t understand. This
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Olivia Silver
Starring: John Hawkes | Kendall Toole | Mary Pat Gleason | Ryan Simpkins | Ty Simpkins
Thom says: “Rarely does Film Movement introduce a film with a major actor like John Hawkes but the film did win the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and certainly deserves a wider audience. This one is a
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