Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Patricio Valladares
Starring: Carolina Escobar | Daniel Antivilio | Jose Hernandez | Serge Francois | Siboney Lo
Jason says: “The original Chilean version of HIDDEN IN THE WOODS (an English-language remake featuring Michael Biehn from the same director is already in pre-production) certainly lives up to its introduction as a nasty, violent piece of work, and filmmaker
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Todd Louiso
Starring: Blythe Danner | Christopher Abbott | Dan Futterman | John Rubinstein | Julie White | Melanie Lynskey
Michael says: “Fans of TAKE THIS WALTZ should check out Todd Louiso’s HELLO, I MUST BE GOING, about a young woman, recently divorced, who moves back in with her wealthy parents in suburban Connecticut and finds herself unable to move
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring: Apisit Opasaimlikit | Chanakporn Sayoungkul | Kiat Punpiputt | Nopachai Chaiyanam | Sirin Horwang
Bruce says: “***SPOILERS*** “Pen-ek Ratanaurang‘s HEADSHOT, a film about a cop turned hit man, is a huge disappointment. It is well-made and well-acted and the premise is better-than-average; but the script adds little to what is an hour and one
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Su-yeon Gu
Starring: Atsoro Watabe | Kento Nagayama | Sei Ashina | Shido Nakamura | Sota Matsuda | Tokio Emoto
Jason says: “Su-yeon Gu’s HARD ROMANTICKER is one of those movies that feels like it was cobbled together from a bunch of anecdotes that don’t necessarily add up to a story, but is able to more or less able to
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Aksel Hennie | Elvind Sandler | Julie R. Ølgaard | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Synnøve Macody Lund
Jason says: “What makes for a good thriller? There are many recipes, but it’s the results that matter; the audience should spend as much time as possible excited by what’s about to happen, in addition to what’s going on in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Ebizo Ichikawa | Eita | Hikari Mitsushima | Koji Yakusho | Munetaka Aoki
Jason says: “HARA-KIRI seems like an odd choice for a 3D remake – it features far more sitting around and dueling with subtle turns of phrase than it does swordplay – but with Takashi Miike in the director’s chair, one
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kat Cliro
Starring: Andrea Savage | Fallon Goodson | Geoff Stults | Jason Biggs | Justin Kirk | Kate Bosworth | Krysten Ritter | Rachel Bilson | Seymour Cassel
Jason says: “Krysten Ritter tends to make everything she’s in better, and as a result she’s been a go-to girl for best friends and sidekicks in romantic comedies and the like. It’s steady work, but if an actress doesn’t take
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Starring: Daniel P. Jones | Jerome Velinsky | Leanne Letch | Tony Markulin
Jason says: “The word ‘hail’ can mean a number of things, and for some reason I kept thinking of the wrong ones until about halfway through the movie, when some bad weather follows a bad event, and the sound as
Read the review...Hannah Arendt (Germany/Luxembourg/France; 113 min.) directed by: Margarethe von Trotta starring: Barbara Sukowa; Axel Milberg; Janet McTeer; Julia Jentsch; Nicholas Woodeson Thom says: “Attended with Bruce, Scott, and Beth. Beth asked a really intriguing question about the use of live
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel Algrant
Starring: Ben Rosenfield | Frank Wood | Ilana Levine | Imogen Poots | Norbert Leo Butz | Penn Badgley | William Sadler
Bruce says: “Folk rock artist Tim Buckley died in 1975 from an accidental drug overdose. His only child was Jeff Buckley who he saw only twice in his life, as an infant and as a seven year old when Jeff
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