Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.8 cats
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Gordon Pinsent | Julie Christie | Kristen Thomson | Olympia Dukakis
Beth says: “Sarah Polley’s directorial debut, an Alice Munro story, and a glorious Julie Christie – how could I miss it? And it didn’t disappoint – Christie and Gordon Pinsent play husband and wife grappling with how to handle her
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tricia Regan
Chris says: “I’ve seen a number of films that copy the formula set in motion by the spelling bee documentary SPELLBOUND, profiling individual participants and charting their progress as theycompete or work towards a unified goal. Produced for HBO but
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mark Jacobs
Bruce says: “Pentecostals are also known as ‘holy rollers’ because of all the moving and shaking going on during the services. The Voice of Pentecost Church was founded in San Francisco in 1966 by Marilynn Gazowsky. It was linked to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Peter Schønau Fog
Starring: Hanne Hedelund | Jannik Lorenzen | Jesper Asholt | Julie Kolbech | Rita Angela
Bruce says: “Sexual abuse is not the first topic that comes to mind when black comedy is mentioned. Although THE ART OF CRYING is technically comedic in nature, its aim is dead serious. The story takes place in 1971, a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: James McAvoy | Keira Knightley | Romola Garai | Saoirse Ronan | Vanessa Redgrave
Sarah says: “Let me begin by saying I have not read the book the film was based upon (although it’s on my to be read list now) and I knew nothing about the film when I sat down in the
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Starring: Catherine Keener | EllenPage | Hayley McFarland
Chris says: “Tommy O’Haver’s film raises a question I rarely ask of cinema (unless I’m screening shorts, of course): ‘Did this really need to be made?’ It’s based on a true story: in 1965, single mother Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener)
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Neel
Bruce says: “Few artists have the integrity of Alice Neel. Neel viewed painting as a privilege and an obsession. ‘I had to paint,’ she would say. While her contemporaries reveled in the downtown abstract expressionist art scene, Alice remained outside
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Darryl Roberts
Michael says: “Darryl Roberts’ AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL kicked off a series of strong docs at Provincetown, with a theme that always intrigues me: America’s obsession with beauty culture. Reminiscent of the outstanding, Chlotrudis award-winning short documentary WET DREAMS AND FALSE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mary Lance
Bruce says: “Agnes Martin says ‘I’ve been born a hundred times, married a hundred times, given birth hundreds of times and died a hundred times. This time around I want to be alone.’ ‘You can‘t be an artist if you
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Christian Tafdrup | Mads Mikkelson | Meenal Patel | Mona Malm | Neeral Mulchandani | Rolf Lassgård | Sidse Babbet Knudson | Stine Fischer Christensen
Bruce says: “Probably the less said about Susanne Bier’s AFTER THE WEDDING the more enjoyable the viewing experience will be. A simple plot outline was all I had as background information before seeing the film; I was extremely glad not
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