Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Dagur Kári
Starring: Brian Cox | Isild Le Besco | Paul Dano
Bruce says: “Who would have guessed that the two stars of the 2001 film L.I.E., one a Scotsman and the other an American teenager, would end up eight years later working together in Iceland? Although Paul Dano (2008 Chlotrudis Award
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Starring: Lena Endre | Michael Nyqvist | Noomi Rapace | Peter Andersson | Peter Haber | Sven-Bertil Taube
Jason says: “Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ novels – all three published posthumously, and given names that begin The Girl Who… in the United States – are kind of a big deal. How can you tell? Well, the three movies with high
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Starring: Byung-hun Lee | Kang-ho Song | Woo-sung Jung
Jason says: “A few years ago, I saw a movie called A BITTERSWEET LIFE AT FANTASIA and loved it, saying it was the sort of action movie John Woo and Chow Yun-fat used to make before they came to Hollywood
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Ewan McGregor | James Belushi | John Bernthal | Kim Cattral | Olivia Williams | Pierce Brosnan
Thom says: “Polanski, perhaps because of his continuing legal problems, is not the most prolific of world-class directors, but I’ve still managed to see 17 of his films. I loved his early oeuvre of KNIFE IN THE WATER, REPULSION, &
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aaron Schneider
Starring: Bill Murray | Lucas Black | Robert Duvall | Sissy Spacek
Thom says: “This period piece about a hermit in Tennessee in the 1930s has its plusses, especially with pretty horses, good photography and editing, finally ends up disappointing. The truculent hermit has a big secret that separates him from the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Adam Green
Starring: Ed Ackerman | Emma Bell | Kane Hodder | Kevin Zegers | Rileah Vanderbilt | Shawn Ashmore
Jason says: “FROZEN is straightforward, at times almost to a fault. In short order, we get friends with a certain amount of tension between them, a situation we really wouldn’t want to be in, and things getting worse. Fortunately, this
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jeff Reichert
Jason says: “Disdain for the technique of redrawing voting districts in strange ways for political gain (‘gerrymandering’) doesn’t unite America’s political parties, so much as alternate between them as convenient. Because of this, GRRYMANDERING-the-movie actually has a better chance than
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gorman Bechard
Starring: Alex Brown | Anne Petersen | Jake Alexander | Lynn Mancinelli | Margaret Laney
Jason says: “A funny thing happened while I sat in the theater, watching the BUFF screening of FRIENDS (WITH BENEFITS): I realized that it was, all told, a pretty conventional romantic comedy – which is probably the last thing I
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Katie Aselton
Starring: Joshua Leonard | Katie Aselton | Ken Kennedy | Leonora Gershman | Sean Nelson
Jason says: “THE FREEBIE is one of those DIY-style movies (it’s too well-spoken and clean-looking to be referred to as ‘mumblecore’) where no writing credits appears; the cast is working from producer/director/star Katie Aselton’s outline. Everyone’s got their own process,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney | Eugene Jarecki | Heidi Ewing | Morgan Spurlock | Rachel Grady | Seth Gordon
TC says: “FREAKONOMICS is based on the best-selling book of the same name by economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner. It basically looks at how random chance, or causality, affects various parts of the everyday economy. “Having been fan
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