Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Clara Bindi | Isabelle Huppert | Jean-Hughes Anglade | Maya Sansa | Xavier Beauvois
Bruce says: “Isabelle Huppert is an actress I would pay money to hear read the phone book; any city – Paris, New York, Tokyo – will do. Huppert elevates every film in which she appears and that fortunately is the
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Tim Disney
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Michael O'Keefe | Nicole Beharie | Tim Blake Nelson | Will Patton
Julie says: “Docudrama of a young mother’s fight after being unfairly accused in drug raid of a predominantly black housing project in Arlington Texas. Will Patton was excellent. Nicole Beharie did do a good job as of course did Alfre
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Pierre Schöller
Starring: Aure Atika | Brigitte Sy | Guillame Depardieu | Judith Chemla | Max Baissette de Malglaive | Patrick Descamps
Bruce says: “For a woman at the end of her ropes, caring for a child is not easy. Nina (Judith Chemla) is first seen navigating the backstreets of Paris trying to find a construction site where she and her five
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Bruce says: “There are several things many people might not know about Valentino. The first that comes to mind is that Valentino is his first name not his surname, which is Garavani. Another thing is that Valentino is basically a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hajime Kadoi
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima | Kaoru Kobayashi | Nene Otsuka | Ren Ôsugi
Jason says: “Toru Hirai (Kaoru Kobayashi) is dragging. He falls asleep while riding the train with his fiancée Mika (Nene Otsuka) and her son Tatsuya (Shusei Uto), but you don’t need that to see it. He’s middle aged, but it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Amy Morton | Anna Kendrick | George Clooney | J.K. Simmons | Jason Bateman | Melanie Lynskey | Vera Farmiga
Thom says: “Reitman has done a few seriously lauded films including JUNO and THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. & yes I’m thrilled to see him using must-see Simmons once again, albeit, in a small role. For many reasons, I suppose, it’s
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bob Peterson | Pete Docter
Starring: Bob Peterson | Christopher Plummer | Delroy Lindo | Edward Asner | Jordan Nagai
Diane says: “Latest Pixar is bedeviled by a MacGuffin chase that makes it generic. It’s the first half hour of the film, the beautifully moving story of a couple passing from youth to old age and relinquished dreams, that makes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Parker
Starring: Adam Goldberg | Eion Bailey | Lucy Punch | Marley Shelton | Vinnie Jones | Zak Orth
Jason says: “It is easy to make fun of the art world, especially those on the edge (or fringe, depending on how you feel about it). It’s a little harder to do it well; just because something is mockable doesn’t
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nati Baratz
Jason says: “UNMISTAKEN CHILD is an example of my favorite sort of documentary, the fly-on-the-wall film that looks and feels like a narrative feature. It tells its story by marshaling extraordinary access and patience, rather than cutting cutting away to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Toback
Barbara says: “Watching TYSON and LAGERFELD CONFIDENTIAL within a day of each other was an interesting experience. The one attribute that the two subjects seem to share is self awareness although Tyson came by his after just about ruining his
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