Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Blaine Thurier
Starring: Ali Liebert | Ben Cotton | Benjamin Ayres | Craig Anderson | Paul Anthony | Sarah Edmondson | Sarah Lind
Thom says: “This was far and away the best Canadian film I saw at TIFF. A very black comedy featuring extraordinarily peculiar characters, I was hooked on this from the get-go. Thurier made quite the impression with his earlier film
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Hasegawa-Overacker | Tom Donahue
Bruce says: “Having the pleasure of seeing slick documentaries such as MAN ON WIRE, PROTAGONIST, and SHUT UP AND SING one tends to be somewhat spoiled by their detailed scripting and/or high production values. It is important to keep in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Demián Bichir | Franka Potente | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “As Part One did, CHE: PART TWO opens with a geography lesson, this time showing us the landlocked nation of Bolivia. We’re also given a text scroll telling us that Che Guevera suddenly disappeared from Cuba in the
Read the review...Secret of the Grain (Czech Republic / France / Germany; 103 min.) directed by: Abdel Kechiche starring: Habib Boufares; Hafsia Herzi; Farida Benkhetache; Abdelhamide Aktouche; Bouraouïa Marzouk Beth Caldwell says: “Great film. Slow, quiet sequences of scenes, but this technique
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ryûichi Honda
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama | Kenti Kashiwabara | Massao Kigawa | Muneo Okochi | Shun Masamiya
Jason says: “One of the signs of a particularly good comedy – or any sort of movie, really – is when there are funny or interesting things happening in the corners; stuff that the movie doesn’t need but which make
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Solet
Starring: Gabrielle Rose | Jordan Ladd | Malcolm Stewart | Samantha Ferris | Stephen Park
Jason says: “When a child is born in a fantastical serial, whether it be television, comics, or movie sequels, there is almost inevitably some plot twist that ages him/her rapidly, or jumps the audience forward in time, or otherwise presents
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ramen Bahrani
Starring: Diana Franco Galindo | Lane 'Roc' Williams | Mamadou Lam | Red West | Souleymane Sy Savane
Diane says: “I’m not as crazy about GOODBYE SOLO as the reviewers have been. Let’s call it THE VISITOR meets A TASTE OF CHERRY–a suicidal middle-aged white American man is thrown into the lively world of a Senegalese cab driver.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jeff Stilson
Michael says: “The best documentaries entertain and educate. It’s always great fun to watch an entertaining movie, but it’s even better to have fun and learn something too! Chris Rock knows this and he does a terrific job spinning a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ho Choi
Starring: Kwang-ho Hong | Min-a Shin | Min-cheol Choi | Seung-woo Cho | Seung-wu Cha
Jason says: “What does a classic rock & roll movie need? A new sound. Rebellion against authority. Strife within the band. A girl. Clubs. Maybe a writer. And, of course, music that rocks, even if a generation has passed since
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Gianfelice Imparato | Italo Renda | Marco Macor | Salvatore Abruzzese | Salvatore Cantalupo | Salvatore Ruocco | Simone Sacchettino | Siro Petrone | Vincenzo Altamura | Vincenzo Fabricino
Bruce says: “With all the hype over GOMORRAH, I expected one extreme or another. To my surprise it was a decent, slice-of-life film that provides some insight into the Cammora, Naples’ equivalent of the Mafia. Naples has become a world
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