Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Uros Stojanovic
Starring: Katarina Radivojevic | Nenad Jezdic | Olivera Katarina | Sonja Kolacaric | Stefan Kapicic
Jason says: “The hackneyed phrase that is often used to describe this movie is ‘a Serbian AMELIE,’ which I think does it a disservice because, well, I didn’t like AMELIE much at all. Gilliam might be a better comparison; after
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Alan Cumming | Amber Tamblyn | David Straithairn | Helen Mirren | James Franco | Kate Mara | Treat Williams
Jason says: “As THE TEMPEST opens in cinemas after a certain amount of delay (the Walt Disney Company spent much of the past year or so trying to figure out what to do with Miramax Pictures, holding it in limbo),
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Omar Majeed
Jason says: “So, if you’re making a movie about the birth of Muslim punk rock, who do you put at the center? Even if you know the players, that might not be as obvious as it seems: The word ‘taqwacore’
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Bill Camp | Dominic Cooper | Gemma Arterton | Luke Evans | Roger Allam | Tamsin Greig
Jason says: “TAMARA DREWE is an odd film, able to defy expectations even if all the audience knows going into it is its name. After all, one would expect this movie to be a showcase for Gemma Arterton as the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Charlotte Collins | Harry Treadaway | Jason Maza | Katie Jarvis | Kierston Wearing | Michael Fassbender
Michael says: “After her triumphant first feature, RED ROAD, which won lead actress Kate Dickie a Chlotrudis Best Actress Award, writer/director Andrea Arnold returns with another powerful drama about a young woman’s desire this time in blue-collar Britain. Mia doesn’t
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Director: lisa Barbash | Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Jeff says: “If you’re going to make a terrific cinematic work of cultural anthropology, you have to slow it way, way down, give the viewer lots of long, long, often static shots that convey the feel and the rhythms of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rob Stefaniuk
Starring: Alice Cooper | Dave Foley | Henry Rollins | Iggy Pop | Jessica Paré | Malcolm McDowell | Moby | Nicole de Boer
Thom says: “Another lackluster Canadian entry this one about a touring rock ‘n roll band will do anything to get ahead, yes, even become vampires. You can tell a film like this is crappy when a quality talent (McDowell) walks
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gail O'Hara | Kerthy Fix
Chris says: “An adequate documentary about an extraordinary subject, this decade-in-the-making labor of love profiles Stephin Merritt, cult musician and head of The Magnetic Fields (and many other side projects). As a songwriter, Merritt seems out-of-time, his lyrics and melodies
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Steve Balderson
Starring: Jane Wiedlin | Karen Black | Mink Stole | Stacy Cunningham | Starina Johnson | Susan Traylor
Jason says: “The thing to realize about STUCK! is that, despite the exclamation point in the title and the meticulous recreation of a genre and style that has fallen out of favor, it is not a parody. Or at least,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Danny Pang | Oxide Pang Chun
Starring: Aaron Kwok | Charlene Choi | Ekin Cheng | Kenny Ho | Nicholas Tse | Simon Yam | Suet Lam
Jason says: “My monthly pull at the comic shop is pretty international: North American, British, French, Korean, Japanese. No Chinese, though; not much of that has made it to America in translation. Which means I can’t say for sure whether
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