Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Bulle Ogier | Júlia Buisel | Leonor Baldaque | Michel Piccoli | Ricardo Trêpa
Bruce says: “In a film career that has spanned eight decades de Oliviera has made forty two films. He has completed at least one film every year since 1990 when he was only 82. The 98 year old director of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joe Wright
Starring: James McAvoy | Keira Knightley | Romola Garai | Saoirse Ronan | Vanessa Redgrave
Sarah says: “Let me begin by saying I have not read the book the film was based upon (although it’s on my to be read list now) and I knew nothing about the film when I sat down in the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jean-Pascal Hattu
Starring: Bruno Todeshini | Cyril Troley | Valerié Donzelli
Bruce says: “Thematically speaking, 7 YEARS is sort of a French BREAKING THE WAVES in the way it plays with the notion of a surrogate sexual partner. Unlike BREAKING THE WAVES, Vincent (Bruno Todeshini) is prison bound, not bedridden. He
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Yong-hwa Kim
Starring: Ah-jung Kim | Jin-mo Ju | Yong-geon Kim
Jason says: “The thing about 200 POUNDS BEAUTY is that there’s no satisfying way to end it. The premise (fat girl becomes a beauty through extensive surgery) leads to the film either presenting radical, dangerous cosmetic surgery as a viable course
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Bunta Sugawara | Chiaki Kuriyama | Etsushi Toyokawa | Hiroyuki Miyasako | Ryunosuke Kamiki
Michael says: “A children’s film by Takashi Miike, auteur responsible for the nightmarish (AUDITION), the sick (VISITOR Q), and the bizarre (HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS) certainly seems like an oxymoron. And upon initial viewing, this fable about Japanese goblins attempting
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David Leaf | John Scheinfeld
Michael says: “The first installment of this season’s Sunday Eye-Opener began last weekend at the Brattle Theatre with a much-anticipated documentary; THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON. Directors David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, responsible for dozens of made-for-tv, biographical specials, manage
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alistair Christopher | Jonathan Hock
Bruce says: “Today’s Horatio Algers are athletes who have produced at the high school level and are perceived to have the goods that will make them stars in the big leagues. Not much of a basketball fan, even I was
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Rating: 3 cats
Starring: Aaron Eckhart | David Koechner | Katie Holmes | Maria Bello | Rob Lowe | Robert Duvall | William H. Macy
Chris says: “This satire about a slick lobbyist for the tobacco industry (perfectly embodied by Aaron Eckhart) isn’t nearly as subversive or edgy as it thinks it is. Actually, it plays like a less eccentric, dumbed-down version of I HEART
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Haskell Wexler
Bruce says: “Haskell Wexler has quite a reputation. He has won two Oscars for BOUND FOR GLORY and WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? He achieved cult status with MEDIUM COOL, a feature film using the 1968 Democratic Convention riots in
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Caroline Neal
Bruce says: “SI SOS BRUJO is a film about efforts, led by cellist Ignacio Varchausky, to preserve tango by a small group of musicians in Buenos Aires. Varchausky is determined that the great tango composers, each having their own recognizably
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