Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Noah Buschel
Starring: Amy Ryan | Frank Wood | Linda Emond | Margaret Colin | Michael Shannon | Paul Sparks
Jason says: “THE MISSING PERSON suffers from a bit of an identity crisis, which is only fitting, as it parallels that of the main character. Its jumps between mystery and parody don’t do it many favors, even if it has
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Simon Ennis
Starring: Dov Tiefenbach | Joshua Peace | Kristen Hager | Michael Madsen | Stephen McHattie
Jason says: “YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE is a solid moron movie – the type where the lead character’s quite astounding stupidity is just balanced with his innocence in such a way that we can laugh at him while still
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Ben Foster | Eamonn Walker | Jena Malone | Samantha Morton | Steve Buscemi | Woody Harrelson | Yaya DaCosta
Jason says: “THE MESSENGER has no problem with making the audience a little uncomfortable. What might, in another movie, have been a bittersweet romance between Ben Foster’s Will Montgomery (a wounded soldier serving the end of his hitch informing next
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michael Keaton
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Darlene Hunt | Kelly Macdonald | Michael Keaton | Philip Earl Johnson | Tom Bastounes
Jason says: “THE MERRY GENTLEMAN is one of those movies that appears at the local boutique theater for a blink-and-miss-it one-week engagement with just about zero fanfare, and I probably would have missed it if I hadn’t noticed Michael Keaton’s
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Tracey Heggins | Wyatt Cenac
Jason says: “The ‘getting to know you’ movie is a vital part of the independent film scene. Aside from being something that can be shot on a budget – get a couple actors, some friendly locations, and a script with
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Cheol-hie Park
Starring: Ha-kyun Shin | Ji-hye Yun | Min-jun Kim
Jason says: “NO MERCY FOR THE RUDE isn’t exactly the movie its English-language title would imply. The name implies some sort of satire or that the rudeness is important, and that’s not really where this movie’s going. It’s a much
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ben Chaplin | Christian McKay | Claire Danes | Eddie Marsan | Kelly Reilly | Zac Efron | Zoe Kazan
Jason says: “At times, it’s a bit hard to grasp that Orson Welles was a sex symbol, once upon a time. Forget the way he ballooned to a size that matched his ego and personality later in life; he did
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lyes Salem
Starring: Lyes Salem | Merouane Zmirli | Mohamed Boucharïb | Mourad Khen | Rym Takoucht | Sarah Reguieg
Bruce says: “MASQUERADES is one of those films that take me by surprise and win me over easily. The story is a small one and perhaps not that original. Three old men sit in the village square when a group
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Elliot
Starring: Barry Humphries | Bethany Whitmore | Eric Bana | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Toni Collette
Jason says: “It’s interesting how certain things seem to arrive in clusters. Stop-motion animation never seemed to disappear quite so completely as the traditional cel-based form, but what has appeared over the last year or so has been an unexpected
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Crayton Robey
Bruce says: “MAKING THE BOYS, a documentary about the creative process in developing The Boys in the Band and the resulting impact it has had on the gay community, was entered in the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival as a work-in-progress.
Read the review...