Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alexander Olch
Diane says: “Lacking the directorial genius of Jonathan Caouette (TARNATION) and the painfully fascinating subjects of GREY GARDENS, deceased Harvard film prof Richard Rogers tried for twenty-five years to create an autobiographical documentary. He failed. In fact, Rogers called himself
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Emily Kunstler | Sarah Kunstler
Jason says: “For most documentaries, the narrator is relatively anonymous – a reassuringly familiar celebrity voice, perhaps with some connection to the subject matter. For WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE, it is Kunstler’s youngest daughter, Emily, who made the film
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Christian Friedel | Ernst Jadobi | Fion Mutert | Leonie Benesch | Ulrich Tukur | Ursina Lardi
Bruce says: “Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER, CACHÉ, BENNY’S VIDEO, FUNNY GAMES, THE TIME OF THE WOLF) finally gets his well deserved recognition. Not that his films are always satisfying. I cannot think
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Julian Netizberg
Jason says: “I sympathize with the Boone County D.A. who, in the opening reel of THE WILD AND WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA, asks why the White family should get so much attention. There’s a boy in the county from
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Barrymore
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Drew Barrymore | Elliot Page (as Ellen Page) | Juliette Lewis | Kristen Wiig | Marcia Gay Harden
Thom says: “For all the world I thought this was going to be a box office smash due to the general nature of the story and the great big “Hollywood” presence of the production. But the public reception to the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Adam Brooks | Ed Begley Jr. | Evan Rachel Wood | Larry David | Lyle Kanouse | Michael McKean | Patricia Clarkson
Thom says: “After being a minor Woody Allen fan for years I turned very sour on him for a span. After returning to his films with the witty MELINDA AND MELINDA (due to the presence of must-see Chloë Sevigny) all
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ondi Timoner
Michael says: “I was a big fan of Ondi Timoner’s documentary DiG! from a few years ago, so I was intrigued to see what her next project was like. WE LIVE IN PUBLIC explores the increasingly blurry line between public
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Chan | Wai Man Yip
Starring: Andy Lau | Jet Li | Jinglei Xu | Takeshi Kaneshiro
Jason says: “At certain points, the fact that Warlords licked around for a while without a U.S. distributor despite being an epic with high production values and a star in Jet Li who is still relatively bankable was taken as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aron Gaudet
Jason says: “I was, perhaps, a little hard on THE WAY WE GET BY when I first got out of it. It’s like that, sometimes, when you’re at a festival and really want to see one movie, can’t get in,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Starring: Fanny Ardant | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Jeanne Moreau | Laetitia Casta | Lee Kang-Sheng | Lu Yi-Ching | Mathieu Amalric | Natalie Baye
Michael says: “Drawing parallels between the chaos of making a film and that same unpredictability in life, Tsai Ming-liang has made his most far out and in many ways exciting movie to date. Kang, who we have come to know
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