Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya | Ken Watanabe | Tsuyoshi Ihara
Bruce says: “Clint Eastwood has proven himself a gifted filmmaker over the years but there is nothing in his portfolio indicating he would create one of the best war films in the history of cinema. The Hollywood hype machine declared
Read the review...Last Man, The (Lebanon/France; 101 min.) directed by: Ghassan Salhabstarring: Carlos Chahine, Raia Haidar, Fayeh Hmaissé Bruce says: “THE LAST MAN is my first Lebanese vampire movie. Don’t think I’m cracking some kind of Rosie O’Donnell joke or making
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jan Schütte
Starring: Barbara Hershey | Elizabeth Peña | Olivia Thirlby | Otto Tausig | Rhea Perlman | Tovah Feldshuh
Bruce says: “Director Jan Schütte has combined three short stories by Isasac Bashevis Singer – ‘Alone,’ ‘The Briefcase,’ and ‘Old Love,’ – into a clever, intelligent screenplay weaving the active imagination of a writer of fiction into the narrative line
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Kelli Garner | Patricia Clarkson | Paul Schneider | Ryan Gosling
Michael says: “To think this is the second film that I have seen in four years that prominently features a Real Doll (the first being the low-budget, creepy horror flick, LOVE OBJECT.) LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a whimsical
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: AJ Schnack
Beth says: “I really wish this and MONKEY WARFARE had not been literally back to back – my festival highlights came in a clump, as a result. Directed by AJ Schnack, one of Chlotrudis’ Advisory Board members, the film was
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tony Kaye
Chris says: “I can’t think of a more difficult topic for a documentary to tackle than abortion. In his first feature since AMERICAN HISTORY X, director Tony Kaye dives head first into the debate over abortion, examining it from seemingly
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Seth Gordon
Michael says: “In the world of documentaries I am often left thinking, how did the filmmaker find that story? Other times I think, they really put that film together well to make it a compelling story. Seth Gordon’s THE KING
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Allison Janney | Elliot Page | J.K. Simmons | Jason Bateman | Jennifer Garner | Michael Cera | Olivia Thrilby
Chris says: “JUNO, Jason Reitman’s follow-up to the wildly popular THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, greatly benefits from a solid, honest, hilarious first screenplay from newcomer Diablo Cody, a exquisite comic turn from lead actor Elliot Page, and an affable supporting
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Vincent Katz | Vivien Bittencourt
Bruce says: “If ever two unrelated film projects deserved a pairing it is KIKI SMITH: SQUATTING THE PALACE with another film about the artistic process made a few years earlier, AGNES MARTIN: WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD. Shown together
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stanley Nelson
Michael says: “Most of us probably remember the late 70’s when Jim Jones and the People’s Temple committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Now director Stanley Nelson has put together a documentary about the People’s Temple that tries to focus
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