Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alan Polsky | Gabe Polsky
Starring: Dalota Fanning | Emile Hirsch | Kris Kristofferson | Stephen Dorff
Jason says: “THE MOTEL LIFE isn’t quite a lot of filler packed around one great moment – it is, really, a watchable indie drama, so when the scene the audience will remember comes, they aren’t likely to weigh that bit
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Markus Imhoof
Jason says: “Many potential audience members will see a preview for Markus Imhoof’s documentary MORE THAN HONEY and perhaps wonder if it has anything particularly new to tell them; we learn about bees and their symbiotic relationship with the local
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Whoopi Goldberg
Chris says: “A half-forgotten pop culture figure you probably never thought the world needed a documentary feature about, mid-century black comedienne Moms Mabley actually proves ideal for the format. Her career trajectory (playing to mostly black audiences until finding mainstream
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Starring: Connor Christie | Dawn Olivieri | J LaRose | Jordan Woods-Robinson | Kip Pardue | Mitch Ryan | Randy Molnar
Jason says: “Put its Mormon trappings aside, and MISSIONARY is the sort of basic ‘woman with a stalker’ movie that hits all its marks well enough that the audience doesn’t necessarily care that it’s working from a standard list. It
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yves Montmayeur
Bruce says: “Michael Haneke does not like to discuss his personal life – he prefers to concentrate on the man behind the camera. Those wishes are granted by director Yves Montmayeur. It is likely those wishes were conditional in making
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Lee Hwan-Kyung
Starring: Jeong Man-Sik | Kal So-Won | Kim Ki-Cheon | Oh Dal-Su | Park Won-Sang | Ryoo Seung-Ryong
Kyle says: “MIRACLE IN CELL NO. 7 is a despicable patriarchal fantasy presented as a comedic tearjerker about a wrongfully imprisoned intellectually impaired but adoring father Young-Goo (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) of a precious little girl Je-Seung (Kal So-Won), who is smuggled
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: P.J. Hogan
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Liev Schreiber | Rebecca Gibney | Toni Collette
Kyle says: “Whether you are a potential viewer of this latest work by the director best known for MURIEL’S WEDDING depends on how open you are to a comedy about mental illness. The title refers not only to the wildly
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: Demetrius Grosse | Kristin Slaysman | Paul Eenhoorn | Richmond Arquette | Tom Plunkett
Chris says: “Deceptively simple and effortlessly graceful, this character study is the type of American indie you wish would receive the release and promotional heft of something like THE WAY WAY BACK. Martin Bonner, a divorced, sixty-ish man of Australian
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: D.J. Mendel | Danielle Meyer | George Feaster | James Rich | Miho Nikaido | Penelope Lagos
Thom says: “I’ve followed Hal Hartley’s career quite closely & had seen all his feature-length films sans FLIRT (1995) & SURVIVING DESIRE (1993) & have loved some of them including TRUST, AMATEUR, HENRY FOOL, & FAY GRIM. Others haven’t been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martin Villeneuve
Starring: Catherine Dhavernas | Jacques Languirand | Paul Ahmarani | Robert Lepagee
Jason says: “As much as I’m glad the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival is getting a better class of movies, I kind of wish that the timing of MARS ET AVRIL hitting the festival circuit and then having its regular release
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