Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Niclas Larsson
Starring: Ellen Burstyn | Ewan McGregor | Lara Flynn Boyle | Rhys Ifans | Taylor Russell
Diane says: “Mother (Ellen Burstyn) has plunked herself down on a couch in a furniture store and refuses to get up. Her youngest son David (Ewan McGregor) is torn between tending to his mother and trying to get to his daughter’s birthday
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ben Johnson | Cloris Leachman | Clu Gulager | Cybill Shepherd | Eileen Brennan | Ellen Burstyn | Jeff Bridges | Sam Bottoms | Timothy Bottoms
Michael says: “Based on a novel by Larry McMurtry, and adapted by the author and director Peter Bogdanovich, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW is a sad, and nostalgic look at a dying Texas town in 1951. The film follows best friends,
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Director: Michael Lembeck
Starring: Alec Mapa | Ann-Margret | Christopher Lloyd | Ellen Burstyn | French Stewart | James Caan | Jane Curtin | Loretta Devine
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Starring: Benny Safdie | Ellen Burstyn | Iliza Shlesinger | Molly Parker | Sarah Snook | Shia LaBeouf | Vanessa Kirby
Chris says: “The first half-hour, which mostly consists of an extended tracking shot is not only an impressive technical feat but also an effective choice in what it depicts (a nerve-wracking home childbirth.) However, the remainder vindicates my mixed feelings
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Starring: Ellen Burstyn | Molly Parker | Shia LaBeouf | Vanessa Kirby
Chris says: “The first half-hour, which mostly consists of an extended tracking shot is not only an impressive technical feat but also an effective choice in what it depicts (a nerve-wracking home childbirth.) However, the remainder vindicates my mixed feelings
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Roberto Faenza
Starring: Ellen Burstyn | Lucy Liu | Marcia Gay Harden | Peter Gallagher | Stephen Lang | Toby Regbo
Bruce says: “Now here’s a film that is testimony to how international filmmaking has become. Directed by an Italian, bankrolled with Italian and US money, this English language film takes place in New York and stars primarily American actors. Based
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Elizabeth Banks | Ellen Burstyn | James Cromwell | Jeffrey Wright | Josh Brolin | Richard Dreyfuss | Scott Glenn
Bruce says: “W. works as a conversation piece; were the film hilarious, educational or consciousness raising in any way, it would have redeeming qualities. There is no apparent reason to make such a film and no reason to see it.
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Director: Nicholas Fackler
Starring: Adam Scott | Elizabeth Banks | Ellen Burstyn | Martin Landau
Marilyn says: “On Wednesday we saw a sweet, poignant film called LOVELY, STILL, starring Ellen Burstyn and Martin Landau. It is a love story about a couple dealing with the separation caused by Alzheimer’s. It is touching and beautiful. Landau
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Donna Murphy | Ellen Burstyn | Hugh Jackman | Mark Margolis | Rachel Weisz | Stephen McHattie
Bruce says: “THE FOUNTAIN, a barely likeable film, is an overly ambitious opus about love and death that takes place in the past, the present and future. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play Isabel and Tomas in the days of
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