Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Denis Arqueros | Nicolás Klein | Sergio Allard
Starring: Camilia Stuardo | Eusebio Arenas | Florencia Astrorga | Sergio Allard
Jason says: “Alone in the world’ movies offer the independent science fiction filmmaker a fair amount of bang for their buck – you can get by with a very small cast, some unusually still establishing shots taken at the right
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring: Chase Williamson | Clancy Brown | Doug Jones | Glynn Turman | Paul Giamatti | Rob Mayes
Jason says: “According to the post-film Q&A (and others I’ve talked to), John Dies at the End is a cult novel that barely had time to gain a reputation as unfilmable before going before the cameras. Director and screenwriter Don
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chris James Thompson
Chris says: “As a teenaged Milwaukee native/resident, the Jeffrey Dahmer case obviously hit close to home for me, as it would for anyone to have something so high profile and extremely grotesque occur in your backyard. This documentary is both
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Andrew Dice Clay | Bobby Cannavale | Cate Blanchett | Peter Sarsgaard | Sally Hawkins | Tammy Blanchard
Thom says: “I feel so lucky to be still living during Woody Allen’s marvelous renaissance and this latest effort is truly one of his best that totally transforms his usually recognizable dialogue into an entirely new aura of intelligence. Most
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daniele Cipri
Starring: Alfredo Castro | Aurora Quattrocchi | Giselda Volodi | Guiseppe Vitale | Toni Servillo
Bruce says: “The film opens with Busu, a disheveled man in an institutional waiting room, talking to anyone who will listen. It seems he has a story to tell and at first it is impossible to know how he fits
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Satoshi Miki
Jason says: “There’s clear intent to make a clever movie in IT’S ME, IT’S ME from the opening shots of identical buildings, insistent posters about a rat infestation, and other bits that tie into the high concept of a young
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Till Schauder
Thom says: “Here’s a fine offering from ever-reliable Film Movement, this one a documentary. I was thrilled to see the production collaboration between Iran & the US although the nature of the story most probably accounts for that. Kevin Sheppard
Read the review...In the House (France; 105 min.) directed by: François Ozon starring: Fabrice Luchini; Ernst Umhauer; Kristin Scott Thomas;; Emmanuelle Seigner; Denis Ménochet Chris says: “That old adage, ‘Write what you know’ receives an ironic, cautionary spin in Francois Ozon’s latest,
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Eugenio Derbez
Starring: Alessandra Rosaldo | Daniel Raymont | Eugenio Derbez | Jessica Lindsey | Loreto Peralta
Jason says: “INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED has proven surprisingly successful at the American box office over the past few weekends, and it’s not hard to see why: It’s got an appealing cast, it’s unpretentiously funny, and it makes a naked but
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Rating: 4.8 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Adam Driver | Carey Mulligan | Garrett Hedlund | John Goodman | Justin Timberlake | Oscar Isaac
Lorraine says: “Coen Brothers’ newest. About a folk musician trying to make it in 1961. Fabulous cast and musicians. Traditional songs and ones written for the film. Music performed live on set. Strong performances. “Loved that we are allowed to
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