Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.4
Director: Lake Bell
Starring: Alexandra Holden | Demetri Martin | Eva Longoria | Ken Marino | Lake Bell | Rob Corddry
Jason says: “Funny thing; even when trailers starting with ‘in a world…’ supposedly happened all the time, I don’t ever recall hearing it enough to snicker when it did show up. Still, the very fact that people act like it
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Starring: Joel Murray | Mackenzie Brooke Smith | Melinda Page Hamilton | Rich McDonald | Tara Lynne Barr
Thom says: “Another TIFF entry that I had ridiculously high expectations for that crashed me back to Earth. I loved Goldthwait’s WORLD’S GREATEST DAD so much that I included it in my TOP 10 for 2009 so this was certain
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Pawel Pavlikovsky
Starring: Emily Blunt | Nathalie Press | Paddy Considine
Michael says: “MY SUMMER OF LOVE revolves around two teenaged girls who are drawn together over the course of one summer as kindred spirits who have suffered disappointment especially from the men in their lives. Director Pawel Pavlikowsky, who handled
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Zach Braff
Starring: Ian Holm | Natalie Portman | Peter Sarsgaard | Zach Braff
Bruce says: “In 1997, Elizabeth Wurtzel grabbed the country’s attention by declaring we were a Prozac Nation. Prozac is just one of many drugs generously distributed by doctors to fight depression. In GARDEN STATE, Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff), now 26,
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki | Koji Yakusho | Mazaru Miyazaki
Diane says: “I saw Shinji Aoyama’s 3-3/4 hour EUREKA last night, and recommend it. A study of three people set adrift by a horrible act of violence, the film certainly lets you get to know its characters in a leisurely
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