Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Margaret Brown
Bruce says: “THE ORDER OF MYTHS was recommend to me by fellow Chlotrudis member Rob Jerome, an award-winning photographer whose specialty is photographing festivals and carnivals around the world. The dual Mobile, Alabama Mardi Gras celebrations – one black (MAMGA),
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belén Rueda | Fernando Cayo | Mabel Rivera | Montserrat Carulla | Roger Príncep
Jason says: “This was going to be a negative review; I came out deflated, and if I’d written this right away, that probably would have been the theme. There is a great deal about this film that’s good, though, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nina Davenport
Michael says: “When Liev Schreiber saw an MTV profile shortly after the fall of Baghdad about Muthana, a young Iraqi who yearned to be a filmmaker, he was touched by the challenges the charismatic young man faced. Schreiber was about
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Director: Thomas Mignone
Starring: Brittany Snow | Clayne Crawford | Josh Janowicz | Shanna Collins | Stephen Sowan
Michael says: “Chlotrudis member and filmmaker Thomas Mignone tackles some pretty tough subject matter in his debut feature, ON THE DOLL. His multi-storylined film features young people working in the sex trade in L.A. and Mignone manages to develop the
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Director: Martin McGowan
Starring: Campbell Scott | Emm Gryner | Joshua Jackson | Liane Balaban
Marilyn says: “On Wednesday, we took whatever we could which turned out not to be so bad. We saw a small film that told a sweet and poignant story. ONE WEEK is a Canadian film and a love poem to
Read the review...The New Year Parade (USA; 85 min.) directed by: Tom Quinn starring:Paul Blackway; Andrew Conway; Irene Longshore; Greg Lyons; MaryAnn McDonald; Jennifer Welsh Bruce says: “Working from a beautifully crafted script, Tom Quinn has made a lovely film, the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
Bruce says: “Although NEVER APOLOGIZE has a documentary label, it is a screen adaptation of Malcolm McDowell’s one-man show that originated on stage. Wearing a tuxedo jacket, an open white shirt and baggy jeans, McDowell, a raconteur par excellence, enthralls
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Chad R. Davis | David Strathairn | Jude Law | Natalie Portman | Norah Jones
Chadd says: “As I discussed my love of indie and foreign film to a woman I recently met (coincidentally, the same woman who accompanied me to see this film), I described that the process of viewing most foreign films is
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Reginald Harkema
Starring: Don McKellar | Nadia Litz | Tracy Wright
Beth says: “This film is among other things, an ode to Toronto by Torontonians – and it’s a small world in Canadian cinema circles! Don McKellar, Tracy Wright and Nadia Litz play revolutionaries past and present living on the edge
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Alison Pill | Denis O’Hare | Diego Luna | Emile Hirsch | James Franco | Josh Brolin | Sean Penn | Stephen Spinella | Victor Garber
Bruce says: “Many might call MILK Gus Van Sant’s return to content from his concentration on form in recent films such as GERRY, ELEPHANT, LAST DAYS and PARANOID PARK. The one thing that MILK does have in common with the
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