Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Peter Webber
Hilary says: “The film is adapted from the novel by Tracy Chevalier, which creates a backstory for the Vermeer painting, ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring.’ As with most book-to-film adaptation, the timeline is condensed and little of the heroine’s, Griet
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ian Gabriel
Starring: Arnold Vosloo | Quanita Adams | Zane Meas
Bruce says: “Each year the Toronto International Film Festival has a program which highlights films from a single country – this year that country was South Africa, chosen to celebrate the tenth anniversary of democracy and the end of apartheid.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jørgen Leth | Lars Von Trier
Bruce says: “THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS is not the film it was purported to be nor was it at all what I had anticipated. The film is billed as a ‘battle of the minds’ between Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Moore
Bruce says: “If you still think that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that there was a link between Al Qaida and Iraq before 9/11 or that George Bush has been telling us the truth, please see this
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Azita Rayeji | Hossain Emadeddin | Kamyar Sheisi
Michael says: “CRIMSON GOLD is the latest film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi (THE CIRCLE) written by Abbas Kiarostami (TEN, A TASTE OF CHERRY.) This circular film examines the class inequities in Iran in a similar way to Panahi’s THE
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Jada Pinkett Smith | Jamie Foxx | Tom Cruise
Bruce says: “What exactly does the title of this film mean? Four different definitions could be possibilities: running side by side, concomitant, serving to support, and subordinate. “Jamie Foxx plays Max, a LA taxi driver who always has a dream
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kai S. Pieck
Starring: Sebastian Urzendowsky | Tobias Schenke
Bruce says: “THE CHILD I NEVER WAS is the true story of Jurgen Bartsch who first killed a boy when he was fifteen and subsequently became infamous as a serial killer. The second killing did not happen for another three
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joseph Mealey | Michael Shoob
Bruce says: “BUSH’S BRAIN is a documentary about Karl Rove. Bush’s two Presidential campaign victories were carefully engineered by Rove. Often quoted that he would stop at nothing to win an election, Rove has been credited with almost every dirty
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Leander Haussmann
Starring: Christien Ulmen | Detliev Buck | Katja Danowski
Bruce says: “Christien Ulmen got his start in show business as a German MTV host. This is his second feature film and he could become a major star. He has the charm and intelligence of Paul Rudd (I happen to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Barry Barnes | Brenda Fricker | Cate Blanchett | Ciarán Hinds | Colin Farrell | Don Wycherley | Gerard McSorley
Bruce says: “It was a fluke that I saw VERONICA GUERIN immediately after seeing SHATTERED GLASS – two films about journalism based on true stories. Within a few hours I had a glimpse of two journalistic extremes. Veronica Guerin was
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