Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Bastien Ughetto | Emmanuelle Seigner | Ernst Umhauer | Fabrice Luchini | Kristin Scott Thomas
Bruce says: “I’ve said it before – François Ozon is one of those filmmakers whose skills are immense but has yet to produce the masterpiece showcasing his talent. IN THE HOUSE is an expository film, one that centers on the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Eric Toledano | Olivier Nakache
Starring: Anne Le Ny | Audrey Fleurot | Christian Ameri | Clotide Mollet | Dorothée Brière | François Cluzet | Omar Sy
Bruce says: “THE INTOUCHABLES has been a box office sensation in France. It also has received high enough ratings to currently rank #78 on IMDb’s top 250 films. Fortunately I knew very little about the film beforehand so I arrived
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mia Donovan
Jason says: “Hey, festivals, I know all I really want to know about the porn industry. Really, you can stop screening docs about it and films that are set there; folks give me funny looks after I tell them what
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ti West
Starring: Alison Bartlett | Jake Ryan | Kelly McGillis | Lena Dunham | Pat Healy | Sara Paxton
Jason says: “Ti West knows how to make his audience jump, which isn’t necessarily as easy as it sounds. Harder, though, is leading up to those jumps with light comedy and deep shivers, and West pulls that off, too. The
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Agnieszka Grochowska | Benno Fürmann | Herbert Knaup | Maria Schrader | Robert Wieckiewicz
Bruce says: “Agnieszka Holland’s most acclaimed film – EUROPA, EUROPA – featured a young Jewish man who posed as a Hitler Youth to avoid his inevitable annihilation. With IN DARKNESS she returns to the holocaust once again. Nominated for a
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Bart Layton
Jason says: “The very title of THE IMPOSTER seems like it might be giving the game away, but it’s not hard to argue that this is entirely appropriate. Director Bart Layton opts to make the film a mystery only after
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robert Pulcini | Shari Springer Berman
Starring: Annette Bening | Darren Criss | June Diane Raphael | Kristen Wiig | Matt Dillon | Natasha Lyonne
Thom says: “Directors Berman & Pulcini have a good track record with AMERICAN SPLENDOR, THE NANNIE DIARIES, & THE EXTRA MAN all worth checking out and while this film registers more of a sit-com script it still offers a bellyful
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ariel Vroman
Starring: Chris Evans | David Schwimmer | James Franco | Michael Shannon | Ray Liotta | Stephen Dorff | Winona Ryder
Thom says: “This is a nasty little film that certainly knows how to entertain once you get past the content. I’ve never seen any of Vroman’s previous output but I can say he’s done a very professional job here. Shannon
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Elizabeth Banks | Jennifer Lawrence | Liam Hemsworth | Stanley Tucci | Wes Bentley | Willow Shields
Thom says: “No real reason to review this but I had nothing to do one afternoon in Seattle. I’m not a fan of the TWILIGHT series and this is even worse. 12 boys and 12 girls are chosen from the
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David France
Bruce says: “HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE serves as a textbook for the pros and cons of various mechanisms surrounding a social movement responding to a crisis. ACT UP was founded in 1987 by a group of people who felt
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