Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mads Brügger
Jason says: “More than with most documentaries, I find myself in a bind when watching something like THE AMBASSADOR. The part of me that goes to the movies for a good story winds up in conflict with the part that
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Giorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Aggeliki Papoulia | Ariane Labed | Aris Servetalis | Johnny Vekris
Thom says: “Lanthimos was the director of my TOP 2010 FILM DOGTOOTH so you can imagine how excited I was to see his latest contribution to world cinema. Thrillingly, I loved the film and even flirted with the idea of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jordan Galland
Starring: Brooke Nevin | Christine Evangelista | Danny Masterson | Joey Kern | John Ventimaglia | Kris Lemche
Jason says: “It would have been really easy to make ALTER EGOS little more than a feature-length series of jokes made at the expense of comic book clichés loosely connected by a standard story template. And there’s a lot of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Sara Johnsen
Starring: David Dencik | Kristoffer Joner | Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Maria Bonnevie | Maria Heiskanen
Thom says: “This desultory film was much more appreciated by filmgoer Beth but I just didn’t get it. We learn first off that two brothers lie dead in a remote forest with a woman barely alive lying beside them. William
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daniel Burman
Starring: Gabriel Schultz | Jorge Drexler | Luis Brandoni | Norma Aleandro | Valeria Bertuccelli
Bruce says: “Argentina is famous for taking in what is believed to be hundreds of Nazi war criminals during the Peron years. What many people don’t know is that Buenos Aires has one of the largest Jewish populations outside of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodrigo García
Starring: Aaron Johnson | Brendan Gleeson | Glen Close | Janet McTeer | Mia Wasikowska
Thom says: “There’s already serious Oscar talk for Glenn Close as Best Actress of 2011 & I wouldn’t make a big stink if she won. I’ve always like Glenn Close and she’s quite good here. But the problem with her
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alison Klayman
Jason says: “Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is an odd duck, even by installation-artist standards. That it’s often an affable, upbeat eccentricity may help explain why a government not known for free expression let the outspoken Ai be for so long
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Starring: Bassem Samra | Menna Shalabi | Nahed El Sebaï | Salah Abdallah
Bruce says: “Having seen Yousry Nasrallah’s earlier films THE AQUARIUM and SCHEHERAZADE: TELL ME A STORY, I now know what to expect. His films tell multiple stories, usually involving clashes between classes, religious groups and the old and new Egypt.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Akiyoshi Naako | Hiroki Narimiya | Mirei Kiritani | Rei Dan | Ryo Ishibashi | Takumi Saito
Jason says: “I’ve never played the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney video game, but I gather it’s just as deeply silly as Takashi Miike’s adaptation, which I submit must be a good thing. I also suggest that it’s quite possible that
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Fernando Merirelles
Starring: Anthony Hopkins | Ben Foster | Jude Law | Lucia Siposova | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Rachel Weisz
Thom says: “Director Meirelles has really been on a tear with such successes as CITY OF GOD, THE CONSTANT GARDNER, & BLINDNESS so with the first rate cast here I had high expectations, but maybe I’ve seen one too many
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