Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Teriq Terguia
Starring: Ahmed Benaissa | Rachid Amrani | Samira Kaddour
Bruce says: “Some suspicious activity is going on with cargo at the airport; a man is having his photo taken standing in front of a painting with fake looking palms trees; a stun gun is fired; and a girl is
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Duncan Roy
Michael says: “British director Duncan Roy got a little attention several years ago with AKA, a film about a young working class man who impersonates an aristocrat. For his latest film, Roy creates a modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s well-known
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Keven Undergaro
Starring: Danielle Weeks | Mitch Malem | Wayne Previdi
Jason says: “For all I know, the most amusing part of “IN THE LAND OF MERRY MISFITS won’t even be included when it finally gets whatever sort of distribution it winds up getting. The festival screening opened with a rapid-fire summarization
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: David Munro
Starring: Alan Cumming | Judah Friedlander | Matt McGrath
Michael says: “I’m not a particular fan of male characters in film or literature who don’t want to grow-up. I’ve always had a little trouble with PETER PAN (although admit to really enjoying the 2003 film version). FULL GROWN MEN
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: George Hickenlooper
Starring: Guy Pearce | Hayden Christensen | Sienna Miller
Barbara says: “FACTORY GIRL outlines the bizarre and very sad life of Edie Sedgewick and her relationship with Andy Warhol whose ‘genius’ is surpassed by his meanness. Though the movies leaves you with a ‘What a waste of lives’ feeling,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ivan Vyrypayev
Starring: Maksim Ushakov | Mikhail Okunev | Polina Agureyeva
Bruce says: “Aside from two or three lovely moments, EUPHORIA is a rather grim and dreary film. Filmed on the steppes of Russia, the terrain is bleak and the story, bleaker. After meeting Vera at a wedding months earlier, Pavel
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Jude Law | Juliette Binoche | Robin Wright Penn | Vera Farmiga
Bruce says: “It’s hard to image how a film with so much potential could leave one feeling totally empty but Anthony Minghella’s flat, soulless BREAKING AND ENTERING does just that. Minghella’s script is the basic problem. It is obvious where
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Catherine Martin
Beth says: “Directed by French-Canadian Catherine Martin, this documentary was focused on a once remote part of Quebec called Charlesvoix. 30 years ago a photographer recorded images of the people and the places of this area, and Martin went back
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Adam Beach | Jesse Bradford | Ryan Phillippe
Bruce says: “I happen to respect Clint Eastwood as a filmmaker. LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is nothing short of magnificent. While my expectations were low going into FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, I was not fully prepared in spite of all
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Allison Janney | Anthony LaPaglia | Mark Webber
Diane says: “Quel disappointment! This story of a father and two sons five years after the mother’s death is a Sundance sponsored film, written and directed by Josh Sternfeld. My guess is that Sternfeld shot three times as many scenes
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