Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.4
Director: Errol Morris
Chris says: “After watching TABLOID, you wonder why it took so long for someone to make a film about Joyce McKinney. Her fascinating, stranger-than-fiction life story aside, she just blooms in front of the camera without giving off the pretense
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Jessica Chastain | Katy Mixon | Michael Shannon | Shea Whigham | Tova Stewart
Diane says: “A film about the pervasive anxiety in our world, through the story of one man’s mental illness. On the literal level, this movie is good at showing the stigma of mental illness and the chaos of delusional disorders.
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Mark Ruffalo
Starring: Christopher Thornton | Juliette Lewis | Laura Linney | Mark Ruffalo | Noah Emmerich | Orlando Bloom
Thom says: “Oh, how I wanted to like this film a whole bunch more. I’ve long adored Mark Ruffalo and seeing as this was his initial directing credit I was hoping for a new career for the endearing actor. It
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Gunn
Starring: Ellen Page | Gregg Henry | Kevin Bacon | Liv Tyler | Michael Rooker | Rainn Wilson
Diane says: “I read conflicting reviews of SUPER. One called it ‘an unwieldy mix of juvenile jokery and attempted pathos that just doesn’t pay off’ (SF Chronicle); another ‘the second coming of the avant-garde in indie film’ and ‘occasionally brilliant’
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Filipe Vargas | Leonor Silveira | Pilar López de Ayala | Ricardo Trêpa
Jason says: “It is customary, when discussing master filmmakers still producing movies well past when people in most industries have retired, to comment on how they are still vital and what an inspiration it is that they still love their
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richards Ayoade
Starring: Craig Roberts | Noah Taylor | Paddy Considine | Sally Hawkins | Yasmin Paige
Jason says: “Watching SUBMARINE, I wondered about director Richard Ayoade’s youth, speculating that he’d spent his time in the cinema, watching French movies rather than hanging out with other kids. There’s an argument to be made that one is better
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Bonnie Dennison | Connor Paolo | Danielle Harris | Kelly McGillis | Michael Cerveris
Jason says:v”Jim Mickle’s first feature (also with co-writer/star Nick Damici), MULBERRY STREET, was a low-budget and do-it-yourself as you’re going to see, and pretty impressive even when not grading on that sort of curve. STAKE LAND doesn’t quite represent a
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Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jeffrey Wright | Michael Arden | Michelle Monaghan | Vera Farmiga
Diane says: “Oops! Why did I think this would be good?” Jason responds: “Well, because of Duncan Jones, I imagine. And because Jake Gyllenhaal is pretty good at this sort of action/adventure movie, and there’s a nice supporting cast
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennilyn Merten | Tyler Measom
Jason says: “Most of the time, when the modern westerner encounters or hears of polygamy, it’s an individual case, and thus he or she thinks about the individual psychology involved. Make it more commonplace, though, and a numbers issue emerges:
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Khavn | Michael Noer
Jason says: “Did Khavn de la Cruz and Michael Noer stumble upon a potentially fascinating movie by pure chance while walking around the streets of Manila? Or did they know about the subject and gracefully insinuate themselves? Or were things
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