Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Deagol Brothers
Starring: Brett Miller | Cody DeVos | Eric Lehning | Leah High
Jason says: “MAKE-OUT WITH VIOLENCE isn’t quite so good as LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, but that’s the film it brings to my mind. Both take horror-movie tropes and twist them into service of a strange story of young love,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alex Craig | Corey Adama
Starring: Anthony Amerdori | James Faulkner | Jeff Halliday | John Mackey | Lukács Bicskeyr | Vanessa Guide
Jason says: “It seems like a ridiculous thing to say, after having seen the movie, but I initially thought MaACHOTAILDROP was a documentary. Skim the description, and the bits about a company with a colorful head recruiting skateboarders looking to
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Anna Chazelle | Desiree Garcia | Eli Gerstenlauer | Jason Palmer | Karen Adelman | Sandha Khin
Jason says: “First impressions can be a heck of a thing to shake. Even before talking to the other people at the screening, I knew there were a lot of things that rookie filmmaker Damien Chazelle did well in GUY
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matthew Avant
Starring: Arte Richard | Dave Potter | Jed Himel | Matt Romagosa | Nathan Avant | Sarah Avant
Jason says: “Fair warning: I was part of the group screening potential entries for this festival, and LUNOPOLIS was one of the ones I watched and commented on. That’s not just a warning that this could potentially be viewed as
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher | Diane Fleri | Edoardo Gabbriellini | Flavio Parenti | Marisa Berenson | Pippo Delbono | Tilda Swinton
Thom says: “This might well end-up as my TOP FILM for TIFF. Of course, must-see Tilda Swinton is a great help and here she totally shines as a Russian émigré married to an extremely wealthy Italian industrialist, whose company is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Dan Pritzker
Starring: Anthony Coleman | Anthony Mackie | Jackie Earle Haley | Michael Rooker | Shanti Lowry | Vilmos Zsigmond
Jason says: “When I mentioned to a friend that I was planning a trip to New York to see a new movie inspired by the early life of Louis Armstrong, I asked him to guess what sort of movie it
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Suri Kirshnamma
Starring: Ben Barnes | Clarke Peters | Eliza Dushku | Johnny Whitworth | Sarah Roember
Jason says: “LOCKED IN is a pretty terrible movie, although one where the audience might be willing to make allowances for budget, or at least give some of its off-seeming moments a conditional pass, just in case the all-but-inevitable twist
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Starring: Anita Linda | Benjie Filomen | Jhong Hilario | Kethcup Eusebio | Rustica Carpio | Tanya Gomez
Bruce says: “Ever since I first saw THE MASSEUR, a rough but auspicious directorial debut, I’ve been a huge Brillante Mendoza fan. This prolific director, a winner of the 2009 director’s award at Cannes for his prior film – the sensation stirring
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mladen Djordjevic
Starring: Ana Acimovic | Mihajlo Jovanovic | Predrag Damnjanovic | Radivoj Knezevic | Srdjan Jovanovic
Jason says: “Well, I can’t say that I got anything less than could be expected from that title, can I? It’s right there – life, death, people making porn, far more direct than its somewhat more infamous cousin, A SERBIAN
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Reginald Harkema
Starring: Anjelica Scannura | Don McKellar | Gregory Smith | Kaniehtiio Horn | Kristen Hager | Kristin Adams | Ryan Robbins | Tracy Wright | Travis Milne
Bruce says: “In 1970-71 Charles Manson along with a trio of his followers – Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten, and Patricia ‘Katie’ Krenwinkel – were tried for killing five people at the home of Sharon Tate on August 9, 1969,
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