Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Emily Watson | Guy Pearce | Ray Winstone | Tom Budge
Chris says: “This Aussie western sports the first screenplay to be written by goth rock legend Nick Cave. Like a good number of the man’s songs, it’s darkly poetic, somewhat macabre, heavily death-obsessed, more than a little bloody and ponderously
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Adam Sandler | Emily Watson | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bob says: “I’ve seen this film twice now, and I’m still not sure what to think. It’s clearly an extension of the idea Anderson so overtly espoused in MAGNOLIA — that the unexpected can indeed happen. This time he managed
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Bob Balaban | Clive Owen | Eileen Atkins | Emily Watson | Helen Mirren | Jeremy Northan | Maggie Smith
Howard says: “This is a well done movie. Mostly because of how well the myriad of characters that the script calls for was juggled. And guess what? They do a pretty bang up job. You may not now the characters’
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Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Emily Watson | Geraldine James | John Turturro | Stuart Wilson
Diane says: “Based on Nabokov’s novel, this is a story of a Russian chess genius who is inept in every other sphere of life, except for winning the love of a young compatriot whom he meets at an Italian resort
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