Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Richard Harrah
Starring: Andrea Marcellus | Christopher Sweeney | Eion Bailey | Wendy Worthington | Will Patton | Yvonne Strahovski
Jason says: “I skipped THE CANYON at a festival this summer; it was only playing once and I figured its cast and story gave it a better chance of hitting American theaters and video than the sort-of-French, sort-of-sci-fi film also
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ester Rots
Starring: Chris Borowski | Rifka Lodeizen | Wim Opbrouck
Bruce says: “Ester Rots has accomplished the rarity of making a film that is not altogether likable but strangely satisfying. The conflict lies with her protagonist. Marieke (Rifka Lodeizen) is a woman in crisis. Her long term relationship (whether lover,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alejandro Adams
Starring: Carla Pauli | Eli Kramer | Galen Howard | Jennifer Latch | Larissa Kasian
Jason says: “CANARY is not for everyone. I know this because despite sitting in the fourth row of the auditorium, I saw a dozen or so people in front of me up and leave; I assume there were others behind
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Cristian Nemescu
Starring: Armand Assante | Jamie Elman | Razvan Vasilescu
Bruce says: “At a glance it seems that director Cristian Nemescu was influenced by American pop culture. While that may be true to a certain extent it also appears that Nemescu’s filmmaking owes a larger debt to Emir Kusturica whose
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Bruce Dern | Elizabeth Ashley | Jayce Bartok | Kristen Stewart | Melissa Leo | Miriam Shor
Jeff says: “Mary Stuart Masterson, in her directorial debut, tells the story of a patriarch (the increasingly crusty Bruce Dern) and his two sons, coming to terms with the death of the family’s mother. Features a pre-Bella Kristen Stewart as
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
Starring: Charlize Theron | Jennifer Lawrence | Joaquim de Almeida | José María Yazpik | Kim Basinger | Tessa Ia
Beth C says: “Definitely the worst film I’ve seen all year. Don’t waste your time and money. 1 cat.“
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Anders Østergaard
Thom says: “When this started, not having any prior knowledge of the film, I sort of went Ho Hum, & settled in for a dull political polemic. I am thrilled to tell you that my prognosis was totally wrong. Burma
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul King
Starring: Edward Hogg | Simon Farnaby | Verónica Echegui
Thom says: “This collage of a film has tremendous parts that raise the stakes of success. An agoraphobic man goes off on a fantasy search for the meaning of life from inside his domicile with his best friend (what an
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Adrien Brody | Mark Ruffalo | Maximilian Schell | Rachel Weisz | Rinko Kikuchi | Robbie Coltrane
Jason says: “THE BROTHERS BLOOM is a magic trick of a movie, done close-up by a magician who has not only shown that there is nothing up his sleeves, but who is in fact only wearing a vest so as
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Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Edward Bennett-Coles | June Bladon | Katy Barker | Kelly Adams | Matt King | Tom Hardy
Diane says: “Biopic of a violent criminal who’s spent a couple dozen years in solitary. FIGHT CLUB meets BEING THERE meets CABARET. When Bronson isn’t derangedly attacking someone or himself, he’s the epitome of quiet and stillness. It’s not the
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