Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Harrington
Starring: Clive Russell | Jonas Armstrong | Paul Blair | Romana Abercromby | Simon Bamford | Sophie Ward
Jason says: “I am not a particular fan of the horror genre. I don’t disdain it or dismiss it; I think it gets a bad reputation at times. But I am by no means an enthusiast. Last year, THE MIDNIGHT
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Cotter
Starring: Benjamin Whitrow | Eileen Nicholas | Shane Taylor
Jason says: “BOMBER, when you get right down to it, is the sort of movie where one can see very clearly that if the characters just did what any normal, sane person would do, things would go pretty smoothly. That
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Parry
Jason says: “Robert King does not give the impression of a great war photographer when we first see him in BLOOD TRAIL. In 1990s Sarajevo, he’s walking around a war zone like a naive kid; in 2007 Tennessee, we watch
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert D. Siegel
Starring: Gino Cafarelli | Kevin Corrigan | Marcia Jean Kurtz | Matt Servitto | Michael Rapaport | Patton Oswalt
Diane says: “Hey, I thought this was going to be a nice, sweet movie, but it was very stressful! (I also had the idea that it was a documentary.) Patton Oswalt gives a fine perf as Giants fan Paul, whose
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Jen White
Starring: Anika Kunik | Brent Smiga | Kathryn MaGill | Michael D. Conway | Ryan Wickerham
Thom says: “While this is from the Chlotrudis mailer offerings I get the feeling it hasn’t been seen by many subscribers as it didn’t even have 5 votes on Imdb. (By the way I was thrilled to see that Chlotrudis
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Agnès Varda
Bruce says: “THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS is most likely Agnès Varda’s final film. Now in her eighties, she remains an active photographer and is continually involved in shows featuring her photographic installations. It seems that directing is not specifically what
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Rating: 4.8 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif | Eva Mendes | Fairuza Balk | Jennifer Coolidge | Nicolas Cage | Val Kilmer
Thom says: “This film was an absolute blast and Herzog definitely has the last laugh. For months now folks have been moaning and wailing on the Internet about the horrible crime Herzog was committing by ‘remaking’ the Abel Ferrara classic
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: James Cameron
Starring: CCH Pounder | Giovanni Ribisi | Michelle Rodriguez | Sam Worthington | Sigourney Weaver | Stephen Lang | Zoe Saldana
Diane says: “From Variety: ‘a film of universal appeal that just about everyone whoever goes to the movies will need to see.’ Who’s going to see this? If you’ve seen it, do you agree? “I watched the trailer, and found
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Michel Ocelot
Starring: Cyril Mourali | Hiam Abbass | Karim M'Riba | Patrick Timsit | Rayan Mahjoub
Thom says: “AZUR & ASMAR was the 1st of the new screeners that I watched and it’s always cool to start off with a winner. God bless Jeff Pike for being responsible for this fabulous service! “While I had to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Őzcan Alper
Starring: Megi Kobaladze | Nino Lejava | Onur Saylak | Raife Yenigül | Serkan Keskin
Bruce says: “Yusuf is one of the Hamshen Armenians of northeastern Turkey, many of whom converted to Islam to avoid being eradicated during the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that took the lives of hundreds of
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