Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Provenza
Michael says: “Before entering this film, I told the seven other people with me that I wasn’t a fan of stand-up comedians. Here we were about to enter a documentary featuring dozens of stand-up comedians telling and reflecting on a
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Rating: 3 cats
Diane says: “This year’s version of the show compiled by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt doesn’t reach the quality of the earlier one I saw. The best of the 12 shorts is Ward 13, an inexplicably successful horror Claymation. Also
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shonali Bose
Starring: Brinda Karat | Konkona Sen Sharma | Yashpal Sharma
Bruce says: “‘I feel foreign,’ Kaju tells her Delhi cousins. Raised in Los Angeles by a single mom, Kaju is visiting her family in India for the first time on her own. Her cousin takes her to the university where
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Stéphane Freiss | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Michael says: “The director of SWIMMING POOL, 8 WOMEN and UNDER THE SAND takes a slight stumble with his latest feature 5 X 2. Ozon shows us five stages in a couple’s relationship beginning with the day of their divorce
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Bernard Hill | Eleanor Bron | James McAvoy | Jon Favreau | Kirsten Dunst | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Paul Bettany | Sam Neil
Bruce says: “Being a huge tennis fan, I approached WIMBLEDON with certain trepidation. Would this romantic comedy be as bad as I feared? The answer is ‘no, it wasn’t really bad at all,’ although it should have been much better.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Starring: Alexandra Aidini | Giorgos Armenis | Nikos Poursadinis
Bruce says: “TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW begins with a group of Greek refugees from Odessa who have fled the Bolshevik revolution and are now approaching Thessalonica where they will ultimately settle in the mud flats along the river. The image
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Curran
Starring: Laura Dern | Mark Ruffalo | Naomi Watts | Peter Krause
Beth says: “I missed the first minutes of WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE which, despite starring Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo and Peter Krause, was horrible. Sooo booooring! It’s about two couples, the women and men each best friends
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Diane says: “I recommend this rich docu by Morgan Spurlock, the engaging ‘star’ of the film, who went on a diet of pure McDonald’s for 30 days. Along the lines of a Michael Moore piece, Spurlock also travels the country
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rodrigo Bellott
Starring: Matt Cavanaugh | Matthew Guida | Ronica V. Reddick
Chris says: “I had mixed feelings about this ambitious but flawed first feature from director Rodrigo Bellott. Beginning in Bolivia and ending up at a prototypical American University, it tracks a cast of young adults undergoing various sexual awakenings, experiences
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Belén Rueda | Celso Bugallo | Clara Segura | Javier Bardem | Joan Dalmau | Lola Dueñas | Mabel Rivera
Hilary says: “In portraying Ramon Sampedro, a Spanish quadriplegic who fought for the right to die, Javier Bardem is presented with a great acting challenge, as it all must be done using only his face and voice. Bardem is a
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