Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Leena Yadav | Lucia Bulgheroni | Lucia Puenzo | Maria Sole Tognazzi | Mipo Oh | Silvia Carobbio | Taraji P. Henson
Starring: Cara Delevingne | Danielle Pinnock | Eva Longoria | Leonor Varela | Marcia Gay Harden
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Director: Annette Haywood-Carter
Starring: Aidan Quinn | Andrew Richardson | Brenda Currin | Halston Sage | Marcia Gay Harden
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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: 4.6
Director: Tony Kaye
Starring: Adrien Brodie | Betty Kaye | Blythe Danner | Christina Hendricks | James Caan | Lucy Liu | Marcia Gay Harden
Bruce says: “When AMERICAN HISTORY X made a big splash nearly fifteen years ago it seemed there might be a new director entering the master ranks. Then along came SNOWBLIND, LOBBY LOBSTER and BLACK WATER TRANSIT. Remember them? Of course
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Drew Barrymore
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Drew Barrymore | Elliot Page (as Ellen Page) | Juliette Lewis | Kristen Wiig | Marcia Gay Harden
Thom says: “For all the world I thought this was going to be a box office smash due to the general nature of the story and the great big “Hollywood” presence of the production. But the public reception to the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Penn
Starring: Catherine Keener | Emile Hirsch | Jena Malone | Marcia Gay Harden | William Hurt
Hilary says: ” Sean Penn’s latest directorial & screenwriting effort, INTO THE WILD, is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. WILD is the true story of an idealistic new college grad, Christopher McCandless, who travels around
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Starring: Brittany Murphy. Piper Laurie | Bruce Davison | James Franco | Kerry Washington | Marcia Gay Harden | Mary Beth Hurt | Mary Steenburgen | Rose Byrne | Toni Collette
Michael says: “With an outstanding cast and a handful of Independent Spirit Award nominations (including Best Director, Best Feature, and Best Supporting Actress), I would have thought that Karen MoNcrieff’s somber, powerful film, THE DEAD GIRL, would have had better
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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: 3 cats
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Kevin Bacon | Laura Linney | Marcia Gay Harden | Sean Penn | Tim Robbins
Bob says: “I didn’t read the book, but I thought the film was very good. I found Robbins’ performance just as strong as Penn’s (and Penn really was great). Besides, I love depressing films.” Hilary says: “I saw it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Julia Roberts | Julia Stiles | Kirsten Dunst | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Marcia Gay Harden
Bruce says: “Only two names are listed in the writing credits but I would swear that this film was designed by a committee. A lot of ‘stuff’ is going on here and usually the bad stuff is also the good
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