Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Starring: Etsushi Toyokawa | Takako Tokiwa | Teruyuki Kagawa | Toshiaki Karasawa
Jason says: “I considered skipping the 20TH CENTURY BOYS double feature at Fantasia, not out of disinterest or fear that it wouldn’t be any good, but because the weeks that translations of Naoki Urusawa’s manga are released are the ones
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: James Gray
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow | Joaquin Phoenix | Vinessa Shaw
Peg says: “This odd, often bleak little film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow stumbles as it starts but eventually settles into an absorbing character driven drama. Not quite a love story, this is more a narrative of surviving a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring: Askhat Kuchencherekov | Bereke Turganbayev | Ondas Besikbasov | Samal Esljamova | Tolepbergen Baisakalov
Jeff says: “A young Kazakh man returns to the steppe after serving as a diver in the Russian navy, dreaming of his own yurt, a pretty wife, and a prosperous flock of sheep under a starry sky. Alas, the only
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Mottern
Starring: Benjamin Bratt | Jimmy Bennett | Joey Lauren Adams | Michelle Monaghan | Nathan Fillion
Jason says: “TRUCKER is a working-class drama, and that may be a factor in why it didn’t get released on more screens. Dig into it a little, and it’s similar to Up in the Air – a story about a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Bret Loehr | Carr Thompson | Mark Duplass | Melissa Leo
Jason says: “TRUE ADOLESCENTS is a small-budgeted independent film that’s just a swift kick or two from the mainstream. Yes, the execution is mostly what one would expect from the recent wave of chatty, self-examining indie filmmakers, but the basic
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Esmonde
Jason says: “As much as I enjoyed South by Southwest, I must admit that I wish I had seen more of Austin. I bought a guidebook but never cracked it open, and thus my experience with the city is more
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