Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Starring: Benno Fürmann | Florian Lukas | Georg Friedrich | Johanna Wokalek | Simon Schwarz | Ulrich Tukur
Jason says: “I saw a poster advertising a mini festival of ‘climbing movies’ in the same theater where I saw NORTH FACE, and the fact that most of us can instantly deduce what that means probably counts as a strike
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Ben Miller | Benjamin Sadler | Emily Watson | Ian Hart | Jimmy Yuill | Pam Ferris | Ulrich Tukur
Diane says: “I have a problem with Holocaust movies! I can’t help but consider them as entertainment and not as windows into the horror of what happened. When SCHINDLER’S LIST came out, my reaction was ‘movies shouldn’t be made about
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Christian Friedel | Ernst Jadobi | Fion Mutert | Leonie Benesch | Ulrich Tukur | Ursina Lardi
Bruce says: “Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Michael Haneke (THE PIANO TEACHER, CACHÉ, BENNY’S VIDEO, FUNNY GAMES, THE TIME OF THE WOLF) finally gets his well deserved recognition. Not that his films are always satisfying. I cannot think
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Martin Provost
Starring: Anne Bennent | Geneviève Mnich | Nico Rogner | Ulrich Tukur | Yolande Moreau
Bruce says: “Martin Provost’s SÉRAPHINE is an elegiac reflection on the life of a working class woman who was a gifted art naïf painter. Séraphine Louis is her full name although in the art world she is known as Séraphine
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Costa-Gravas
Starring: Juliane Köhler | Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos | Riccardo Scamarcio | Ulrich Tukur
Bruce says: “Costsa-Gavras’s reputation as a master filmmaker was made in 1969 with the dazzling Z, a film about totalitarian rule in Greece. His stance on fascist rule was amplified with STATE OF SIEGE and MISSING, the two politically charged
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Costa-Gavras
Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz | Michel Duchaussoy | Ulrich Mühe | Ulrich Tukur
Michael says: “Here’s a film that didn’t get a lot of attention when it was out earlier this year but deserves it now on DVD or video. Of the many films detailing the atrocities of the holocaust, AMEN is among
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