Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Takashi Nakamura
Starring: Akiko Hiramatsu | Megumi Toyoguchi
Michael says: “I’ve been trying to keep up with 2005 films I’ve missed in the theatre by catching them on DVD when they appear. The most recent in this category is a bit of Japanese anime entitled A TREE OF
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Claire Danes | Jason Schwartzmann | Steve Martin
Chris says: “Why, why, why do I get all hyped up about adaptations of my favorite books, since they rarely turn out well? Steve Martin’s novella surprised me, not only by being so unexpectedly bittersweet, but also in the way
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Hye-jeong Kang | Ji-tae Yu | Min-sik Choi
Thom says: “I’m really quite curious why this film has been so lauded. With Quentin Tarentino having long established the hatred and insidiousness of the ‘revenge’ film, this had the dubious distinction of trying to go one step further. This
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Gus Van Zant
Starring: Asia Argento | Lukas Haas | Michael Pitt | Nicole Vicius | Ricky Jay | Scott Patrick Green
Bruce says: “What worked so well in Gus Van Sant’s ELEPHANT – the revisiting of scenes and events until the viewer had total familiarity with the film’s terrain and understanding of the motivation of the main characters – does not
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Chris Terrio
Starring: Glenn Close | James Marsden | lizabeth Banks
Hilary says: “I am relieved to read that Ismail Merchant was working on another film at the time of his death. I would be terribly sad if that this Hollywood-Normative-in-indie-clothing was his last credit. The plot (such as it is)
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Deborah Koons Garcia
Michael says: “This documentary falls into the recent flood of films teaching the viewer about the evils of the corporate culture that is so pervasive in our society today. The filmmakers start with the fascinating and somewhat frightening chain of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Beto Brant
Starring: Felipe Ehrenberg | Lilian Taublib | Marco Ricca
Bruce says: “An effete intellectual theatre critic finds that his written words are powerful enough to seduce women. The smart set – those in Brazilian artistic circles – all know who he is, an unusual position for a writer. One
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: John Kirby
Bruce says: “‘If you see this film, it may not be the same film I saw, which was not the same film shown at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. The filmmakers confessed to having been up all night editing before
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Kieran O'Brien | Margot Stilley
Hilary says: “Is it soft-core porn? Is it nine mini-concert films? It’s successfully neither; mostly just boring. “1 cat for the whole mess, 3 cats for the musical perfs”
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Bruno Dumont
Starring: David Wissak | Yekaterina Golubeva
Bob says: “David is an American photographer from LA. Katia is his girlfriend, and possibly his model. She speaks mostly French, but I get the feeling from her name and her accent that she may be Russian. The two of
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