Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Gael García Bernal | Jan David G. Nicdao | Marife Necesito | Michelle Williams | Sophie Nyweide | Thomas McCarthy
Michael says: “As in JELLYFISH, my favorite film from last year, MAMMOTH finds as one of its core conflicts, a mother traveling half-way around the world to take care of other people’s children in order to make money to support
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastián Silva
Starring: Alejandro Goic | Andrea Garcia-Huidobro | Anita Reeves | Augustín Silva | Catalina Saavedra | Claudia Celedón | Mariana Loyola | Mercedes Villaneuva
Bruce says: “Sebastián Silva follows the adage that one should write about what one knows. THE MAID tells the story of his family’s maid during the time he was growing up and was filmed in the actual house where the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kôki Mitani
Starring: Eri Fukatsu | Haruka Ayase | Kôichi Satô | Satoshi Tsumabuki | Toshiyuki Nishida
Jason says: “Let’s face it: The whole deal with gangs and movies intersecting in such a way as to cause hilarious, self-referential misunderstanding is pretty darn played out. I groaned a little just reading the description for THE MAGIC HOUR,
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Director: Derick Martini
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Cynthia Nixon | Jill Hennessey | Kieran Culkin | Rory Culkin | Timothy Hutton
Diane says: “Saw LYMELIFE on the strength of the trailer, plus the appeal of two elements: Lyme disease and Long Island in the ’70s. “Variety says, ‘Startling performances, searing dialogue and an archaeologist’s sense of late ’70s period detail power
Read the review...The Loved Ones (Australia; 84 min.) directed by: Sean Byrne starring: Xavier Samuel ; Richard Wilson; Jessica McNamee; Victoria Thaine; John Brumpton Thom says: “This Australian horror entry was brief, to-the-point, gruesome, & rather fun. It’s Prom Night in
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg | Rachel Weisz | Rose McIver | Saoirse Ronan | Stanley Tucci | Susan Sarandon
Jason says: “Though I tend to think that attempting to fit a movie into a specific genre and then being frustrated when it fails to fit there nicely speaks more ill of the viewer’s inflexibility than the movie itself, I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ellen Seidler | Megan Siler
Starring: Angelyna Martinez | Ashleigh Sumner | Cathy DeBuono | Jessica Graham | Jill Bennett
Michael says: “In Provincetown for the weekend and as luck would have it, the Provincetown International Film Festival has a slate of Women’s Week Films running at the Whaler’s Wharf! Wary of catching some amateurish, lesbian film (a la BAR
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jonathan Hock
Jason says: “If THE LOST SON OF HAVANA were fictional, there’s a good chance that people would call its screenplay ridiculous. After all, it features the World Series, the Negro Leagues, multiple incredible returns from injury, baseball bringing about a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Alex Descas | Bill Murray | Gael García Bernal | Hiam Abbass | Isaach De Bankolé | Tilda Swinton
Chris says: “Few films baffle me as much as this one initially did. Jim Jarmusch has always been a particularly austere auteur: his narratives tend to unfold at a zen-like pace and the films’ structures possess as much weight as the stories
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Petr Lom
Jason says: “LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT is somewhat difficult to review as a film because it does its job so well. It is trying to give the audience a snapshot of the relationship Iran has with its populist president, and
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