Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Ashraf Barhorn | Max Minghella | Michael Lonsdale | Oscar Isaac | Rachel Weisz | Rupert Evans
Jason says: “I adore AGORA, and I’ll readily admit that a large part of it is that I agree with the politics and philosophy of the thing. Rather than it being a movie about a scientist who encounters something her
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Starring: Aditya Roy Kapoor | Aishwarya Rai | Akshay Kumar | Alok Kumar | Neha Dhupia | Randhir Kapoor
Jason says: “Western movie fans may have some doubts about the provenance of Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s new film, ACTION REPLAYY. It’s an adaptation of a 1994 play with almost the same name (the play spells it correctly), although Warner Brothers,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Reed Cowan | Steven Greenstreet
Thom says: “You might well have thought that due to my living in California & being gay & Proposition 8 being right in my state I would have been more appreciative of this piece of agitprop. It’s certainly not because
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Ben Miller | Benjamin Sadler | Emily Watson | Ian Hart | Jimmy Yuill | Pam Ferris | Ulrich Tukur
Diane says: “I have a problem with Holocaust movies! I can’t help but consider them as entertainment and not as windows into the horror of what happened. When SCHINDLER’S LIST came out, my reaction was ‘movies shouldn’t be made about
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alexander Olch
Diane says: “Lacking the directorial genius of Jonathan Caouette (TARNATION) and the painfully fascinating subjects of GREY GARDENS, deceased Harvard film prof Richard Rogers tried for twenty-five years to create an autobiographical documentary. He failed. In fact, Rogers called himself
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Bárbara Goenaga | Candela Fernández | Juan Inciarte | Karra Elejalde | Nacho Vigalondo
Diane says: “This Spanish pic (Nacho Vigalondo, director), still rumored to be up for a remake by David Cronenberg, is a low-budget horror/time-travel puzzle. Set-up got my interest, midpoint I was thinking, ‘This is a pretty silly movie,’ but last
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Charles Berling | Edith Scob | Isabelle Sayodan | Jérémie Renier | Juliette Binoche
Bruce says: “This film began as a commission from the Musée d’Orsay and then evolved into a different animal from what had originally been envisioned. By the time the film was made the relationship with the d’Orsay evaporated. Hard-core Assayas
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michelle Esrick
Jason says: “Can I be honest about something? I can’t warm up to hippies, or counterculture. In the abstract, I am all for a philosophy of living your life any way you want so long as you don’t hurt anyone
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Charlize Theron | Guy Pearce | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Molly Parker | Robert Duvall | Viggo Mortenson
Diane says: “Forgive me, I can only review this as movie vs. book. I read the book once, and listened to the audiobook three times. I am awed by Cormac McCarthy’s language in The Road. ‘The cold relentless circling of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brendan Toller
Michael says: “I NEED THAT RECORD – Record stores were a big part of my growing up and coming of age. I even managed one (albeit part of an evil chain) for several years. So Brendan Toller’s documentary, I NEED
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