Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Auster
Starring: David Thewlis | Irène Jacob | Michael Imperioli
Bruce says: “Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions is a magical work. It tells the story of Martin Frost, a man devastated by the loss of his wife and children, who returns to the living when he discovers the films
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Peter Vogt
Jay says: “It’s probably pretty easy to make a fairly entertaining documentary about Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee: Point a camera at him, ask a question, and let him go. Repeat until out of questions or time, do a little follow-up with
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Maziar Miri
Starring: Hassan Poorshirazi | Mohammed-Reza Foroutan | Niloofar Khoshkholgh
Bruce says: “GRADUALLY (BE AHESTEGI…) is a gentle film about a couple coming to grips with personal issues that may be affecting their marriage. Mahmoud is a railroad welder who works hard and loves his wife Pari. But she has
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Daniel Auteuil | Dany Boon | Julie Gayet
Bruce says: “During a business dinner with other successful antique dealers, the subject of friendship comes up when François Coste (Daniel Auteuil) asks his business partner Catherine (Julie Gayet) the name of the attractive woman at the other end of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lorraine Levy
Starring: Catherine Jacob | Marilou Berry | Pierre Arditi
Bruce says: “This coming of age story features Chlotrudis award winning actress Marilou Berry as Hannah Goldman, an ugly duckling with two older, attractive sisters. Like the character Berry played in LOOK AT ME, Hannah does not know how to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Abbie Cornish | Cate Blanchett | Clive Owen | Geoffrey Rush | Samantha Morton | Tom Hollander
Michael says: “Who can resist Cate Blanchett, royal, imperious, hair unbound, clad in armor, riding on a white horse? Apparently not me, as I went to see ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE on opening weekend. I enjoyed ELIZABETH, one of Blanchett’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Johnny To
Starring: Simon Yam | Tian-lin Wang | Tony Leung Ka Fai
Bruce says: “Triads in Hong Kong are similar to Mafia families in Italy and the United States. Each triad controls a specific geographic area and often a certain type of criminal activity such as drug trafficking, gambling, smuggling, prostitution, running
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Je-yong Lee
Starring: Jin-woo Park | Kyeon Lee | Ok-bin Kim
Jay says: “DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS is based on an internet comic strip, and it’s got that kind of manic energy: It starts out with a whole bunch of quick, raunchy gags that aren’t much more than crude but don’t really
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chris Stapp
Starring: Bonnie Soper | Chris Stapp | Matt Heath
Jason says: I ‘missed’ this one at Fantasia – it wasn’t one I was really super-excited to see anyway, but I would probably have gone if the schedule lined up right. The program made it out to sound like a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Starring: Magdyal Ugaz | Melania Urbina | Montserrat Carulla
Bruce says: “Having seen STATE OF FEAR and THE FALL OF FUJIMORI, the political background of BLACK BUTTERFLY was infinitely more understandable than it might otherwise have been. Those films chronicled the Fujimori presidency and its gradual phasing into a
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