Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Clive Owen; Charlotte Rampling; Malcolm McDowell | Jamie Foreman | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Ken Stott | Sylvia Syms
Bruce says: “Director Mike Hodges and Clive Owen scored critical raves for CROUPIER. I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD fuels the argument that lightening rarely strikes twice in the same place. Owen plays Will Graham who is a ‘retired’ mobster who
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Curtiss Clayton
Starring: Aaron Standford | Agnes Bruckner | Bill Pullman | Sandra Oh
Chris says: “In this modern-day take on Verdi’s 16th century opera ‘Rigoletto.’ Rick O’Lette (Bill Pullman) is a rotten jerk of a corporate middle manager. He has an even more obnoxious boss half his age (Aaron Stanford) who unknowingly pursues
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Christo Jivkov | Claudia Gerini | Francesco De Vito | Hristo Shopov | James Caviezel | Luca Lionello | Maia Morgenstern | Monica Bellucci
Bob says: “Long story short: I didn’t like or appreciate anything about this movie. “Long story relatively long: I’m leaving out the anti-Semitism question (I don’t take that stuff personally, and besides, it’s all true. My uncle Moshe did it)
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mark A. Lewis
Starring: Bill Croft | Chris Gauthier | Howard Siegel | John Callander | John F. Parker | Kurt Evans | Nicki Clyne | Paul Campbell | Peter Outerbridge
Bruce says: “ILL FATED, a very black tragicomedy, is clever enough to make an audience laugh and I admit I was laughing along with the others. But my laughter made me feel a bit dirty and somewhat of a lesser
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: John Waters
Starring: Chris Isaak | Johnny Knoxville | Mink Stole | Patricia Hearst | Selma Blair | Suzanne Shepherd | Tracey Ullman
Chris says: “A DIRTY SHAME is an intermittently amusing but generally trite film. NC-17 rating and all, I wasn’t expecting John Waters to make another PINK FLAMINGOS, but there’s absolutely nothing shocking or subversive going on here. Like every other
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