Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Starring: Alan Paule | Coco Martin | Jaclyn Jose
Bruce says: “Filmed in video in only eight days THE MASSEUR tells the story of workers in the Manila sex industry, in particular an all male massage parlor. Director Brillante Mendoza makes a wise choice in telling the story of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Charles Dance
Starring: Daniel Brühl | Judi Dench | Maggie Smith | Miriam Margoyles | Natascha McElhone
Bruce says: “LADIES IN LAVENDER is the story of two elderly ladies living on the coast of Cornwall. Ursula (Judi Dench) is a spinster and Janet (Maggie Smith) is a widow. One day a body, barely alive, washes up on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Garth Jennings
Starring: Martin Freeman | Mos Def | Sam Rockwell | Zooey Deschanel
Diane says: “First of all, I had been foiled in my movie-going efforts a few weeks ago because everything had such rotten reviews. PALINDROMES is a good example: HAPPINESS is one of my faves, but reading that PALINDROMES is more
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Tucker | Petra Epperlein
Michael says: “There are some films that are powerful and fascinating to see even if they’re not really films I would say were impressively made. CASUISTRY: THE ART OF KILLING A CAT, which I saw at last year’s Toronto International
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Line Kruse | Mads Mikkelsen | Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Michael says: “This disappointing film had so much going for it. It was written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, whose writing credits include Susanne Beir’s wonderful films BROTHERS and OPEN HEARTS, as well as Lone Scherfig’s Chlotrudis Awards nominee,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mohsen Abdolvahab | Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Starring: Bahram Radan | Fatemeh Motamed Arya
Bruce says: “GILANEH is a grim, unsettling portrait of an Iranian mother who sees her family torn asunder by war. The war is the eight year Iranian-Iraqi war. The first half of the film takes place during the last days
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Vimukthi Jayasundara
Starring: Hemasiri Liyanage | Kaushalaya Fernando | Nilupili Jayawardena
Bruce says: “THE FORSAKEN LAND is testimony of the long term effects of civil war on a small village in Sri Lanka. A soldier and his wife live with his sister in a remote house which is nothing more than
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Fernando Tejero | Guillermo Toldeo | Luis Varela | Mónica Cervera
Bruce says: “This silly farce is successful because of the brilliant comedic performances of the two leads, Guillermo Toledo and Mónica Cervera. Toledo plays Rafael Gonzalez, ambitious manager of the women’s department of a leading Madrid department store; retail is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Michael says: “This one was billed as possibly the next big doc to crossover, with a lively trailer that promised laughs, shocks and excitement. ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM certainly shocked me and got me angry, but it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shona Auerbach
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Gerard Butler | Jack McElhone | Mary Riggans
Bruce says: “Pulling your heartstrings from every conceivable direction, DEAR FRANKIE is unabashedly sentimental. Just when you think that one more heartbreaking moment will be absolutely unbearable the film takes some turns that give pause to wonder why you had
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