Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Durkin
Starring: Brady Corbet | Elizabeth Olsen | Hugh Dancy | John Hawkes | Sarah Paulson
Michael says: “To kick off this season’s CineCache co-presentation with the Brattle Theatre, we got a sneak preview of the Sundance hit, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. This is one impressive debut film… heck, it’s a pretty impressive film all around.
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ash Christian
Starring: Charles Solomon Jr. | Heather Matarazzo | Jennifer Coolidge | Ryan Boggus
Chris says: “Ash Christian’s debut feature FAT GIRLS wasn’t a great film, but it wasn’t bad for being written, directed and produced by a 21-year-old (he starred in it, too). A tad slapdash but often hilarious, it positioned him as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Demi Moore | Jeremy Irons | Kevin Spacey | Mary McDonnell | Paul Bettany | Penn Badgley | Simon Baker | Stanley Tucci | Susan Blackwell | Zachary Quinto
Julie says: “Writer/Director J.C. Chandor outdid himself in his first feature debut, MARGIN CALL. The movie (billed as a drama / thriller) while fictional tells a story very close to the truth. It follows the key people at an investment
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Rating: 2.3
Director: Alex Gibney | Allison Ellwood
Chris says: “If nothing else, see MAGIC TRIP for its amazing archival footage of Ken Kesey and his ‘Merry Band of Pranksters’ on their infamous 1964 cross-country bus trip. They filmed hours and hours of footage along the way, but
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Carl Colby
Diane says: “CIA director William Colby’s son gets on the filial doc bandwagon. But there are drawbacks to a film intended to show the opacity of its subject. E.g., you feel like you’ve wasted your time. The only parts I
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mark Hartley
Jason says: “I wonder where Mark Hartley’s next stop will be. Hong Kong? Thailand? Indonesia? After spotlighting the exploitation cinema of Australia in Not Quite Hollywood and the Philippine Islands in MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED!, there must be other spots on
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Adam Mason
Starring: Andrew Howard | Ian Duncan | Matthew Rhys | Tess Panzer | Xander Berkeley
Jason says: “I’m not saying that it should be an ironclad rule that a movie by the name of LUSTER, with a sort of Jekyll-and Hyde theme, should go a little more heavy on the sex, but that would have
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Julian Gilbey
Starring: Alec Newman | Eamonn Walker | Ed Speleers | Garry Sweeney | Holly Boyd | Kate Magowan | Melissa George | Sean Harris
Jason says: “There is a certain joy to a move that takes the word ‘cliffhanger’ literally, as A LONELY PLACE TO DIE does in its very first scene. Director Julian Gilbey will go back to this well another time or
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mike Ott
Starring: Atsuko Okatsuka | Cory Zacharia | Rintaro Sawamoto | Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez
Jason says: “I wonder and worry a bit about how LITTLEROCK will play outside the festival circuit. It’s a wonderful little film, but it would be easy for a well-meaning distributor to drastically change the experience. Of course, I’m also
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Drake Doremus
Starring: AlexKingston | Anton Yelchin | Charlie Bewley | Felicity Jones | Jennifer Lawrence | Oliver Muirhead
Jason says: “First love can burn very bright but not be that complicated, and since that’s what LIKE CRAZY is about, it makes a bit of sense for it to have a certain shallowness about it as well. The question
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