Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Chase Infiniti | Leonardo DiCaprio | Regina Hall | Sean Penn | Teyana Taylor
Diane says: “Hip hip hooray for PT Anderson! His new ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is an intense thrill ride (like BUGONIA is intense, but you’re happier afterwards). Deserving of a screenplay nom for updating Pynchon’s Vineland (once I get my
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Director: Grant Singer
Starring: Alicia Silverstone | Benicio Del Toro | Domenick Lombardozzi | Eric Bogosian | Justin Timberlake
By Michael Colford
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Chazz Palminteri | Gabriel Byrne | Kevin Pollak | Kevin Spacey | Pete Postlethwaite | Stephen Baldwin
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Gina McKee | Mathieu Amalric | Michelle Thrush | Misty Upham
Jason says: “Early on in JIMMY P., a character apologizes for the way he tells, and it’s a bit of an odd moment, as he’s not the one whose manner of speech is likely to give a modern audience pause.
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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
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Stephen Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Demián Bichir | Julia Ormond | Oscar Isaac | Ramon Fernandez | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “At various times, Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious Che Guevera project has been described as one very long picture and as two, and I’m not sure which is how it started and which is considered the definitive experience. To further
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Frank Miller | Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Bruce Willis | Elijah Wood | Jessica Alba | Mickey Rourke | Rosario Dawson
Hilary says: “If you’re looking for pure big-screen entertainment and don’t mind violence, however cartoonish and hyperbolic, check out SIN CITY. “This flick appeals to both my inner film noir nerd and affection for comic book/graphic novel adaptations. I do
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