Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Amanda Redman | Ben Kingsley | Cavan Kendall | Ian McShane | Julianne White | Ray Winstone
Michael says: “I found this film to be lots of fun, with some really terrific performances and visuals. Basically a caper film with Gal (a terrific Ray Winstone) retired from the business and enjoying the life of leisure in Spain
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Jeanne Balibar | Marianne Basler | Sergio Castellitto
Diane says: “VA SAVOIR is a lowkey (and long!) romantic comedy about an Italian troupe performing Pirandello in Paris. Camille is strong on stage but falling apart offstage, looking for her former lover who lives in Paris. “The interplay between
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Ewan McGregor | Jim Broadbent | Nicole Kidman
Diane says: “I call it a confection. So sue me! I was pulled in by the wonderful color and chaos in the first third, bored by the middle chunk, regained interest when the drama picked up toward the end. I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Lima Duarte | Luis Carlos Vasconcelos | Regina Casé | Stenio Garcia
Howard says: “What a beautiful film! I will definitely be nominating this one for cinematography. All the beautiful earth tones. OY! Regina Case was excellent as Darlene, a woman who basically finds everything she needs from a man in three
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Ellen says: “This contains a slight spoiler unless you are familiar with the recent (last 30 – 40 years) history of the Congo in which case I won’t say anything that will stun you. The film is the story of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michael Cuesta
Starring: Adam LeFevre | Billy Kay | Brian Cox | Bruce Altman | James Costa | Marcia DeBonis | Paul Franklin Dano | Tony Donnelly | Walter Masterson
Bob says: “L.I.E., at its base, is a pretty standard rites of passage story: a young boy considers his life and what he wants to become, or senses himself becoming, within a context that involves one absent parent, another who
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Danis Tanovic
Starring: Branko Djuric | Filip Sovagovic | Georges Siatidis | Rene Bitorajac
Diane says: “NO MAN’S LAND is more important as a war film than great as a film in general, despite the raves. It’s an indictment particularly of UN peacekeeping forces, and of the absurdities of civil war, here between Bosnians
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Starring: Alastair Galbraith | Kerry Fox | Marianne Faithful | Mark Rylance | Philippe Calvario | Susannah Harker | Timothy Spall
Diane says: “Finely tuned perfs by leads Rylance and Fox (her ANGEL AT MY TABLE is in my top five ever) and Spall (the Mikado in TOPSY TURVY) as the cuckolded husband. A couple who meet weekly for anonymous sex–it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: Charles "Bud" Tingwell | Julia Blake | Terry Norris
Ellen says: “I saw this wonderful Australian/Belgian film at the Kendall this afternoon. Once again, I am reminded that only the foreign cinema would make a film about 70-year-olds having a romantic relationship. The lead actress is quite beautiful, in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Ayre Gross | Eric Schweig | George Coe | Louise Fletcher | Tim DeKay
Trent says: “Ayre Gross, looking like a cross between SNL veteran and THREE KINGS actress Nora Dunn and a strangely attractive aardvark, stars as a gay artist who must return to his roots in the gentle movie BIG EDEN. This
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