Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: .75 cats
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Gabriel Byrne | Geraldine McEwan | James Purefoy | Jonathan Rhys-Meyers | Reese Witherspoon | Rhys Ifans
Diane says: “Yuk. Reese Witherspoon is a bad choice for the lead here–she really can’t carry it. Music is too heavy; scenes surprisingly clichéd; Nair’s liberties with the book to emphasize the India element (e.g., belly-dancing replaces a game of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dylan Kidd
Starring: Gabriel Byrne | Laura Linney | Lois Smith | Marcia Gay Harden | Paul Rudd | Topher Grace
Carolyn says: “I knew very little about this movie except that it was similar to BIRTH another movie out in theaters that I only heard a bit about. Louise, an admission director for Columbia’s School of Fine Arts, receives an
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Gabriel Byrne | Lynne Redgrave | Miranda Richardson | Ralph Fiennes
Esmé says: “This was great and who saw it? I thought Fiennes was great, and so was the directing. Lots of cats. (A man is released from the asylum and returns to his old neighborhood where he tries to make
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