Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Anthony Mackie | Brian Geraghty | David Morse | Evangeline Lilly | Guy Pearce | Jeremy Renner | Ralph Fiennes
Diane says: “My stomach was in knots during the whole of THE HURT LOCKER a fine-grained study of a three-man American bomb squad unit in Iraq. Camera stays so close to the characters that you think what they think. The
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Brian Milligan | Liam Cunningham | Liam McMahon | Michael Fassbender | Stuart Graham
Bruce says: “Award winning video artist Steve McQueen makes a stunning directorial debut with his evocative film documenting the conditions leading up to the 1981 hunger strike led by Bobby Sands at Her Majesty’s Maze prison nine miles from Belfast.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Alycia Delmore | Joshua Leonard | Mark Duplass
Jason says: “I haven’t seen Lynn Shelton’s first feature, but MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE and HUMPDAYT form an interesting pattern, and not just in how both are kicked off by an old friend visiting unannounced. Unlike many female independent filmmakers who
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Bruce Dern | Chris Massoglia | Haley Bennett | Nathan Gamble | Quinn Lord | Teri Polo
Thom says: “Dante seems to be stuck in a child/scary mode with most of his feature films (GREMLINS is a good example) and while does have a fun quotient it’s not very special. Two brothers who have moved to a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Starring: Alejandra Yañez | Clemira Aguayo | Cornelio Villagrán | Manuel Hernández
Thom says: “If sincerity was the byword of film art this would have been best-in-show. In this case though, the film simply lacks interest. A country family is followed as they try to get by in a changing world. Prices
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Megumi Sasaki
Jason says: “Herbert and Dorothy Vogel are a treasure, and most people will likely decide that’s the case just from hearing about the couple, without the need for a movie to convince them. They’re a working-class couple that managed to
Read the review...The Headless Woman (Argentina/France/Italy/Spain; 87 min.) directed by: Lucrecia Martel starring: Maria Onetto; César Bordón; Claudia Cantero; Daniel Genoud; Guillermo Arengo; Inés Efron Bruce says: “THE HEADLESS WOMAN is a state-of-mind study. Vero (Maria Onetto), a successful dentist, climbs
Read the review...Harry Brown (UK; 97 min.) directed by: Daniel Barber starring: Michael Caine; Emily Mortimer; Iain Glen; Liam Cunningham; Amy Steel; Ben Drew Thom says: “Thrill of thrills Michael Caine was at the Q&A session & I basked in his
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Starring: Haruka Ayase | Kazue Fukiishi | Saburô Tokitô | Seiichi Tanabe | Shinobu Terajima
Jason says: “Commercial air travel has become common enough that even those of us who do not fly very often take it for granted. We should and we shouldn’t: Life in the 21st century demands relying on complex systems that
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Rob Zombie
Starring: Brad Dourif | Chase Wright Vanek | Malcolm McDowell | Margot Kidder | Mary Birdsong | Scout Taylor-Comptona | Sheri Moon Zombie
Thom says: “More than idle curiosity begs me to ask the question: why in the name of all that’s Holy is Rob Zombie continuing to make this done-to-death story. I had a healthy respect for Zombie’s rock group White Zombie,
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