Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Peter Richardson
Bruce says: “Rex Clemens, born in 1901, owned one of twelve logging companies in Philomath, Oregon. Today Philomath is an entirely different place. Depending on who is talking there are now just one or two logging companies and the spotted
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michael Mabbott
Starring: Alberta Watson | Devon Bostick | Douglas Smith | Vivica A. Fox
Beth says: “A Canadian misfit in high school comedy. I hadn’t read too much about it; it was a late switch alternative when I decided I didn’t want to start the day on a dark note (which my original choice
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chris Paine
Bruce says: “The story of the electric car is not a tale of fiction or sci-fi. The car was introduced to the marketplace in 1996 in response to a mandate from the State of California for reducing overall emission standards.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kirk Marcolina | Larry Grimaldi
Bruce says: “CAMP OUT is a documentary about the first of a kind – a Christian Bible camp for gay teenagers. The camp is Bay Lake Camp in rural Minnesota. These teens are not runaways or problem children; they’re just
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Heinz Bütler
Bruce says: “As Andrew Berends describes his film, ‘The primary objective of THE BLOOD OF MY BROTHER is to illustrate the infinite ripples of grief that follow the tragic killing of even just one person.’ When Ra’ad, an Iraqi photographer
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michele Soavi
Starring: Alessio Boni | Alina Nadelea | Carlo Cecchi
Bruce says: “ARRIVEDERCI AMORE, CIAO has an English title, THE DEADLY KISS, that describes nothing contextual about the film, whereas the Italian title relates perfectly to the story. In THE BEST OF YOUTH Alessio Boni was extremely vulnerable and devastatingly
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky
Starring: Marina Vovchenko | Sergei Shnurov | Yuri Laguta
Chris says: “This is one of the strangest films I’ve ever seen (and if you know me, that’s saying something). 4 begins with a piano-tuner, a prostitute, and a slaughterhouse worker. Strangers to each other, they meet in a Moscow
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
Bruce says: “WE FEED THE FORLD is a call to arms encouraging people to rail against the globalization of agriculture that is destroying the small farming industry. 52% of the world’s gross product is now in the hands of just
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nick Park | Steve Box
Starring: Helen Bonham Carter | Peter Sallis | Ralph Finnes
Chris says: “If you loved the earlier shorts, I can’t imagine you’ll be disappointed by this wonderful, long-awaited feature-length adaptation. It’s true to the spirit of these beloved characters: you get all the expected Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, delightfully bad puns,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Hiner Saleem
Starring: Ivan Franek | Lala Sarkissian | Romik Avinian
Bruce says: “VODKA LEMON is short on plot but long on atmosphere and political statement. In is winter in Armenia and the small village is covered with heavy snow. It is a dry climate, for most of the people sit
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