Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Micha X. Peled
Bruce says: “The subject of CHINA BLUE is the denim industry in China. Less than twenty years ago it was not possible for those living in rural areas to migrate to cities where work in factories was plentiful. The Chinese
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Linda Hattendorf
Michael says: “Most filmmakers should be so lucky to come across Jimmy Mirikitani, an elderly Japanese-American man who was living on the streets of lower Manhattan in 2001. A self-proclaimed ‘Grand Master’ of an artist (with the work to back
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Laura Muscardin
Starring: Carmen De Santos | Marco Bonini | Paolo Gasparini | Susy Laude | Thierno Thiam
Bruce says: “Billo (Thierno Thiam), a young man from Senegal, has wanted to be a fashion designer since he was a small child put to work in his uncle’s garment business. He and his mother have always been the black
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Neel
Bruce says: “Few artists have the integrity of Alice Neel. Neel viewed painting as a privilege and an obsession. ‘I had to paint,’ she would say. While her contemporaries reveled in the downtown abstract expressionist art scene, Alice remained outside
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen | Nicolas Bro | Paprika Steen | Ulrich Thomsen
Beth C says: “This must be the first time I’ve ever favorably rated a film that got a 48 on METACRITIC. Usually they love a film that I hated but this time it’s the other way around. I found it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Starring: Cristina Ciofu | Ion Sapdaru | Mircea Andreescu | Teodor Corban
Beth says: “This was a Rumanian film about a small town TV station owner/call-in show host who decides to mark the 16th anniversary of the Communist overthrow by having a special show, in which he asks two men to debate
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Morrison
Starring: Delroy Lindo | Emily Woof | Sam Smith
Michael says: “In the tradition of feel-good films like BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM or BILLY ELLIOT combined, WONDROUS OBLIVION shows us our collective prejudices but allows us to overcome them in a slightly formulaic, but ultimately more successful film than
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Peter Rosen
Bruce says: “Henry Geldzahler was an anomaly – a gay man often traveling in circles of predominately straight artists who liked to hang out at the famed Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village; a curator of contemporary art for a museum
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Dean Budnick
Bruce says: “Wetlands used to be about twenty blocks from where I live and I had never heard of it. The reason for that is pretty clear. Some big names played at Wetlands before becoming famous – Dave Matthews, Phish,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Duncan Tucker
Starring: FelicityHuffman | Fionnula Flanagan | Kevin Zegers
Chris says: “I’ve been wracking my brain trying to think of exceptional lead actresses to nominate this year. Just in time, Felicity Huffman slaughters any potential competition in a brave, absorbing turn as Bree, a 40-ish pre-operative man-to-woman transsexual. “One
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