Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Starring: Brian George | Jimi Mistry | Kris Holden-Ried | Kyle MacLachlan | Suleka Mathew | Veena Sood
Bruce says: “You were born in Kenya but all your ancestors were from India. You were raised in Canada and now you live away from your family in London. Who can you turn to? Cary Grant, of course. Alim (Jimi
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Salvatore Mereu
Starring: Daniele Casula | Michele Carboni | Yaël Abecassis
Bruce says: “The four seasons represent the four stages of life in THREE STEP DANCING. The film is not about the life of any single person, it is the collective lives of the residents of a village in Sardinia. The
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Julián Hernández
Starring: Juan Carlos Ortuño | Juan Carlos Torres | Mario Oliver | Perla de la Rosa | Rosa-Maria Gomez | Salvador Alvarez
Michael says: “This atmospheric Mexican film surprised me after its initial dreary opening. While not nearly as brilliant a either of these, PEACE is a bit of a cross between Tsai Ming Liang’s WHAT TIME IS IT THERE and Wong
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chi McBride | Diego Luna | Stanley Tucci | Tom Hanks | Zoe Saldana
Bruce says: “Anyone wishing to argue Steven Spielberg’s shortcomings as a director need look no further than THE TERMINAL. This film is a textbook case. “Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a tourist from a fictional Eastern European country, who becomes
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Clémence Meyer | Emmanuelle Béart | Gaspard Ulliel | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Jean Fornerod | Samuel Labarthe
Michael says: “Tonight, Scot and I watched STRAYED, a French film directed by André Téchiné (ALICE AND MARTIN; THE WILD REEDS) that I missed during its brief run at the Kendall. I was particularly interested as it features Agnès Godard
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Doyle Jr.
Rob says: “There is a moment in BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989) when Charles Fleischer says to an incredulous, time traveling Michael J. Fox, who has recently arrived in 2015 and just read (on a holographic billboard) of a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Toni Kalem
Starring: Guy Pearce | Irma P. Hall | John Hawkes | Lili Taylor
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS** “Based on an Anne Tyler novel, A SLIPPING-DOWN LIFE is a weird combination of a traditional love story and a bizarre turn of events for two Southerners who see nothing in their boring lives but a dead
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Greg Pak
Starring: Glenn Kubota | Greg Pak | James Saito | Karen Tsen Lee | Tamlyn Tomita; Wai Ching Ho; Sab Shimono | Vin Knight
Barbara says: “I think this is worth seeing. The four stories all have a connection to robots or robotics and are each focused on a strong emotion. ‘My Robot Baby’ recalls a turbulent childhood. ‘Robot Fixer’ deals with a mother
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tony McNamara
Starring: Ben Lee | Christopher Stollery | Garry McDonald | Miranda Richardson | Rose Byrne
Barbara says: “At first I thought this was going to be ‘Napoleon Dynamite Grows Up’ but it was much more. The underlying themes about the parental relationship with each other and with Placid as well as the over the top
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Devlin
Bruce says: “At the beginning of POWER TRIP I thought I would be seeing another tale of a greedy American corporation taking advantage of citizens in the economically depressed and politically chaotic state of Georgia. That was a false assumption
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