Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ella Lemhagen
Starring: Gustaf Skarsgård | Thomas Ljungman | Torkel Petersson
Bruce says: “Considering that gay marriage is one of the burning issues in this country it is good to see that it is not an issue in Sweden. Adoption, on the other hand seems on equal footing in both countries.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Enrique Rivero
Starring: Nancy Orozco | Nolberto Coria | Tesalia Huerta
Bruce says: “PARQUE VÍA is a beautiful character study about a servant whose services, due to events circumstantial, are no longer required. We first glimpse Beto as he walks through the empty rooms of the large, modern house that he
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Christophe Barrtier
Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | Clovis Cornillac | Gérard Jugnot | Kad Merad | Nora Amezeder | Pierre Richard
Michael says: “Clearly I have a much lower tolerance for schmaltz when it’s from another country. I couldn’t help think of such films as IL POSTINO, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, and yes, even CINEMA PARADISO while wading through the saccharine, unoriginal,
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Oren Peli
Starring: Amber Armstrong | atie Featherstone | Mark Fredrichs | Micah Sloat
Scot says: “This is one of those *borderline* Chlotrudis films. It did release slowly enough to qualify, but in its fifth week, it went to 1,945 screens. So… do we penalize a film because it was distributed to win big?
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Aleksei German MI
Starring: Anastasyia Sheveleva | Chulpan Khamatova | Merab Ninidze
Bruce says: “This strange film is haunting me in spite of my not particularly enjoying the viewing experience. I do not doubt the filmmaker’s talent; he appears one to watch. The problem is the story which is off-putting mostly because
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicholas Jasenovec
Starring: Charlene Yi | Jake M. Johnson | Michael Cera
Diane says: “(That’s funny: they wore paper hearts in last night’s movie, JULIE AND JULIA) Charlyne Yi and friend-of-Chlotrudis Michael Cera are the guinea pigs in this faux-doc about the search for real love. Like ‘J&J,’ it’s completely enjoyable. But
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kirby Dick
Bruce says: “Being a huge fan of Kirby Dick’s Chlotrudis award winning documentary THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, I was rather excited about Dick’s latest film OUTRAGE whose subject is the hypocrisy of gay politicians who routinely vote against
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Anna Tsuchiya | Ayaka Wilson | Koji Yakusho | Sadao Abe | Satoshi Tsumabuki
Jason says: “You could probably cut quite the deceptive trailer for PACO AND THE MAGICAL BOOK, if you chose, by concentrating on the fast-paced, animation-heavy last act. It wouldn’t be a complete misrepresentation, but it sure wouldn’t give a true
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Panna Rittikrai | Tony Jaa
Starring: Dan Chupong | Nirut Sirichanya | Sariunyu Wongkrachang | Sorapong Chatree | Tony Jaa
Jason says: “I haven’t actually run the numbers, but I suspect that martial arts action has an unusually high number of movies titled as though they were sequels but only vague connections to each other, and that’s even before considering
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Beth says: “This was Terence Davies’ commission for the Liverpool Cultural Group, and it’s a wonderful homage to his hometown city – in a sense it’s his MY WINNIPEG, the story of a city via the life of one of
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