Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Bruce Dern | Elizabeth Ashley | Jayce Bartok | Kristen Stewart | Melissa Leo | Miriam Shor
Jeff says: “Mary Stuart Masterson, in her directorial debut, tells the story of a patriarch (the increasingly crusty Bruce Dern) and his two sons, coming to terms with the death of the family’s mother. Features a pre-Bella Kristen Stewart as
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Őzcan Alper
Starring: Megi Kobaladze | Nino Lejava | Onur Saylak | Raife Yenigül | Serkan Keskin
Bruce says: “Yusuf is one of the Hamshen Armenians of northeastern Turkey, many of whom converted to Islam to avoid being eradicated during the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that took the lives of hundreds of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yoav Shamir
Jason says: “If there’s high art and low art, advertising must be considered the lowest of them, with perhaps only grudging admission that any part of it can be considered art at all. Advertising is creative work, though, and for
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Havana Marking
Michael says: “In a culture where dancing is forbidden, it seems strange that Afghan Idol, the middle eastern country’s cousin to the very popular western television reality show, American Idol, would be so incredibly popular… or perhaps not so strange.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Arsinée Khanjian | Devon Bostick | Kenneth Welsh | Scott Speedman
Michael says: “Atom Egoyan is my favorite filmmaker, so I am predisposed to enjoy his films. I like the themes he explores and the way he explores them. With his latest film, ADORATION, he once again explores the nature of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Marc Webb
Starring: Chloe Moretz | Clark Gregg | Geoffrey Arend | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Zooey Deschanel
Michael says: “It’s nice to see a movie not about two people falling in love and living happily ever after, but two people embarking on a relationship that doesn’t work leaving on with a broken heart. That is the premise
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Wang Quanan
Starring: Ba'toer | Bao'lier | Nan Yu | Sen'ge
Bruce says: “Before TUYA’S MARRIAGE there were other recent films about Mongolian peasants, THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL and MONGOLIAN PING PONG. The landscape of the Mongolian steppes, harsh and stark, is surprisingly photogenic and the native attire is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Oren Jacobs
Bruce says: “CONSTANTINE’S SWORD is an adaptation of Boston Globe columnist James Carroll’s 2001 book Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews – A History, an examination of the roots of religious hatred and violence. Carroll, also a novelist and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Erez Tadmor | Guy Nattiv
Starring: iron Levo | Lubna Azabal
Bruce says: “Rana (Lubna Azabal) has come to Berlin for the 2006 World Cup, France against Italy. Eyal (Liron Levo) is attempting to reconnect with a former girlfriend. On a subway in Berlin these two strangers with identical back packs
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Bruce says: “Today William Castle is not exactly a household name although he was quite well known in his day. Labeled the B-Movie Alfred Hitchcock, he never argued that point as he reveled in a spotlight borrowed from P.T. Barnum.
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