Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Craig Zobel
Starring: Kene Holliday | Pat Healy | Rebecca Mader
Chris says: “The title is actually the name of a small record label in the film that bills itself as a ‘talent search company.’ Salesmen are hired as ‘record producers’ and trained to audition aspiring musicians whom they encourage to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jason Todd Ipson
Starring: Cerina Vincent | Jay Jablonski | John Kapelos
Jason says: “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ITALIAN is a delightfully slight romantic comedy. The film has a cute hook but isn’t held hostage by it, there are only one or two characters who aren’t at least occasionally funny, and the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Starring: Arnaud Mouithys | Claudia Tagbo | Janine Sutto | Jean-Pierre Cassell | Olivier Gourmet | Paul Ahmarani
Beth says: “I have to confess that I succumbed to that festival affliction – eyes falling shut midfilm – during this film, but thankfully figured out rather quickly what I missed, and that it wasn’t a significant plot point, whew!
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Florence Ayisi | Kim Longinotto
Michael says: “To kick off the Spring 2006 edition of the Sunday Eye-Opener, we enjoyed a terrific and inspiring documentary about the court system in Cameroon, Africa. This particular court tackles such cases as divorce, abuse and rape, and the
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jay Duplass
Starring: Kathryn Asleton | Mark Duplass | Rhett Wilkins
Chris says: “The titular piece of furniture is an old burgundy La-Z-Boy purchased on E-bay by Josh (Mark Duplass). He sets off from New York with his girlfriend Emily (Kathryn Aselton) to pick up the chair in rural Virginia so
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Emily Watson | Guy Pearce | Ray Winstone | Tom Budge
Chris says: “This Aussie western sports the first screenplay to be written by goth rock legend Nick Cave. Like a good number of the man’s songs, it’s darkly poetic, somewhat macabre, heavily death-obsessed, more than a little bloody and ponderously
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Daniel London | Tanya Smith | Will Oldham
Chris says: “Mark (Daniel London) and Kurt (cult folk-rocker Will Oldham) were once close friends; now both in their mid-30s, they’ve grown apart as friends often do. Mark has a career and a partner and is about to become a
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Casey Affleck | Jack Rovello | Kevin Corrigan | Liv Tyler | Mary Kay Place | Seymour Cassel
Michael says: “I was very pleasantly surprised by Steve Buscemi’s tiny film about the shattered dreams and paralyzing ennui of a Midwestern family. Jim left his small-town Indiana home, including Mom, Dad and brother Tim, for NYC and thought he
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Börje Ahlstedt | Erland Josephson | Liv Ullman
Bruce says: “Very few of the world’s top directors have ever left their careers on the highest of notes. That cannot be said of Ingmar Bergman. His SARABAND has the touch of genius, revealing the wisdom of age but none
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dave McKean
Starring: Gina McKee | Rob Brydon | Stephanie Leonidas
Michael says: “The visually spectacular fantasy by the comic world’s rock gods Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman has been getting very mixed reviews. Critics are comparing it to Alice in Wonderland and LABYRINTH for its tale of a young girl
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