Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Zhang Yimou
Michael says: “In HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, legendary Chinese director Zhang Yimou returns to the high-flying martial arts saga that he scored big with in HERO. After seeing the gorgeous, exciting trailer, I was excited about the film, but ultimately,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Laura Poitras | Linda Goode Bryant
Michael says: “Filmed over four years in Columbus, Ohio, FLAG WARS presents a disturbing look at gentrification and class structure in our country. Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras are both first-time directors, and they present the many views clearly
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jim Fields | Michael Gramaglia
Chris says: “Well, now that this is being held over at the Kendall for another week, I can encourage all you Boston folk to check it out. Music films should be seen in a theater with an appreciative audience, dagnabit!
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Amira Casar | Rocco Siffredi
Bruce says: “It is hard to say whether Catherine Breillat knows what she is doing or not. Her message is, I think, both blatant and encrypted. For a while I thought I was watching a feminist hate poem. Slowly my
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Rating: 3.25
Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: A.J. Cook | Ali Larter | Michael Landes | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson
Laura says: “FINAL DESTINATION was a cut above the standard teen horror flick, leading the pack of current films which examine luck and fate’s relationships with death (UNBREAKABLE, INTACTO), its premise obscuring its slasher film agenda of innovative death scenes.
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Rating: 3.25
Director: John Malkovich
Starring: Elvira Mínguez | Javier Bardem | Juan Diego Botto | Laura Morante
Esmé says: “I thought Javier Bardem was great in this. I really liked this movie, the story, the filming, the understated way Malkovich showed us the lifestyle of the characters. The tension, the revelation, awesome! (A terrorist group is threatening
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Deepa Mehta
Starring: Jazz Mann | Lisa Ray | Rahul Khanna | Rishma Malik
Bob says: “BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD is strongly influenced by its (and I assume director Mehta’s) location in the west. It seemed to me that it referred more to Bollywood than it was part of the genre. Characters are constantly talking about their
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Claude Lelouch
Starring: Jeremy Irons | Patricia Kaas | Thierry Lhermitte
Laura says: “Jane Lester (newcomer Patricia Kaas) is a French chanteuse found driving in circles by the gendarmes after leaving a love triangle. Valentin Valentin (Jeremy Irons, THE TIME MACHINE) is an English jewel thief found dazed in Morocco after
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Brendan Gleeson | Christopher Eccleston | Cillian Murphy | Naomie Harris
Laura says: “Director Danny Boyle (TRAINSPOTTING) makes great use of the digital video format (with Dogme favorite, Director of Photography Anthony Dod Mantle (THE CELEBRATION) for his post-apocalyptic/undead ‘zombie’/survival tale. 28 DAYS LATER is short on real scares, but it
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho | Mansaku Fuwa | Misa Shimizu | Mitsuko Baisho
Laura says: “Imamura’s fanciful tale is like an offbeat Japanese homage to LOCAL HERO. An out of towner seeks riches in a strange place where people come from far off places to fish, woman have fantastical powers, strange lights are
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