Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ben Steinbauer
TC says: “Back in the mid 70s, Jack Rebney was a television producer hired to host a Winnebago sales video. When they finished the video, the outtakes started leaking out, and it seems Jack had a penchant for swearing. This
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robecca Richman Cohen
Jason says: “WAR DON DON was what they shouted about ten years ago in Sierra Leone to announce that a vicious civil war (one barely reported abroad) was over. The end of a war, however, is seldom accompanied by an
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Alexander Held | Barbara Sukowa | Hannah Herzsprung | Heino Ferch | Sunnyi Melles
Bruce says: “What a résumé! Margarethe von Trotta is in her fourth decade of making films although she began writing for film in the 60’s when she was in her early twenties. In the seventies she was one of the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Don Hahn
Jason says: “Watching this movie’s opening scenes, with a bunch of animators screwing around, working more or less unsupervised in Disney’s old Ink & Paint building, brought together for being college classmates and taking breaks to do skits and home
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Craig Teper
Diane says: “I caught this at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, where another patron complained justifiably that the movie wasn’t Jewish enough. We see Sassoon in a synagogue with his kippe at the start of the film, then a very
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Johnny Hallyday | Ka Tung Lam | Suet Lam | Sylvie Testud
Thom says: “Johnnie To is another of my FAVORITE TOP 10 LIVING DIRECTORS so excitement reigned here as well. All the crime, action, shoot-outs, and general mayhem are represented here but To adds a European feel to his latest film in
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Emilie Dequenne | Mathieu Demy | Michel Blanc | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Ronit Elkabetz
Jason says: “THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is based upon an incident that drew a fair amount of attention in its native France, but makes an unusual choice or two in telling the story. Director André Téchiné and co-writer Jean-Marie
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nicols Winding Refn
Starring: Alexander Morton | Callum Mitchell | Ewan Stewart | Gary Lewis | Jamie Sives | Mads Mikkelsen
Thom says: “Charming Mads Mikkelsen was present for the Q&A after the viewing and he regaled us with stories about how hard it was to work with director Refn. This existential, religious, even metaphysical film is about a group of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lena Dunham
Starring: Alex Karpovsky | Grace Dunham | Jemima Kirke | Laurie Simmons | Lena Dunham | Merritt Wever
Jason says: “I’m often not quite sure where I land on movies like TINY FURNITURE. They spend a lot of their time annoying me, quite honestly, with their characters’ awkward quirks and selfishness, and I’m never quite able to figure
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Starring: Anders Hove | Jakob Cedergren | Kim Bodnia | Lars Brygmann | Lene Maria Christensen
Jason says: “I take note of odd credits when watching movies, and maybe any (hypothetical) readers from Denmark could fill me in on a couple from the end of TERRIBLY HAPPY: Is it common for Danish films to credit the
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