Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rémi Lange
Starring: Abdellah Taia | Karim Tarek | Sihem Benamoune
Bruce says: “In sociology, one must be interested in society. That is what Karim (Karim Tarek), a straight man living with his girlfriend Sihem (Sihem Benamoune), thinks as he chooses North African gay men as a topic for his video
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Jamie Foxx | Kerry Washington | Regina King
Janet says: “‘This film, the story of Ray Charles with Chlotrudis fave Kerry Washington as Ray’s long-suffering wife Bea, has a lot to recommend it although it’s constrained by the usual limitations of the biopic. “There is that seemingly unavoidable
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Dustin Hoffman< Lily Tomlin | Isabelle Huppert | Jason Schwartzman | Jude Law | Mark Wahlberg | Naomi Watts
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Chris says: Pretty audacious for a studio comedy, even if it’s technically an indie studio. David O. Russell’s existential romp is a love-it-or-hate-it receptacle if I ever saw one. I loved it, but I’m skeptical as to how much it’ll
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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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