Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Chris Cooper | Jeff Bridges | Tobey Maguire | Valerie Mahaffey
Howard says: “As a docudrama, SEABISCUIT plays wonderfully. Here are reenactments of the most important moments of the horse and the people who loved him. As a piece of cinema it lacks slightly. It’s interesting and even compelling at times,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robb Moss
Diane says: “Documaker Rob Moss revisits some of his rafting pals from a Grand Canyon trip in 1978, made into a docu called ‘riverdogs.’ Too bad he doesn’t give newcomers like me enough context for the first trip and what
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Jenny McCarthy | Marny Eng | Pamela Anderson
Howard says: “I wondered when I watched the trailer for SCARY MOVIE 3 why I was laughing so hard. Sure I enjoyed the first two films, but they seemed… amateurish. Yeah, I know the entire series is nothing but crass,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Leonid Mozgovoy | Mariya Kuznetsova | Sergei Dontsov
Ivy says: “I watched RUSSIAN ARK a few months ago when Ned and I were deciding if we were brave enough to play a Sukarov film for an entire week. He has been compared to Tarkovsky but doesn’t have the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Kevin Bacon | Laura Linney | Marcia Gay Harden | Sean Penn | Tim Robbins
Bob says: “I didn’t read the book, but I thought the film was very good. I found Robbins’ performance just as strong as Penn’s (and Penn really was great). Besides, I love depressing films.” Hilary says: “I saw it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Julia Roberts | Julia Stiles | Kirsten Dunst | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Marcia Gay Harden
Bruce says: “Only two names are listed in the writing credits but I would swear that this film was designed by a committee. A lot of ‘stuff’ is going on here and usually the bad stuff is also the good
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Émile Gaudreault
Starring: Claudia Ferry | Ginette Reno | Luke Kirby | Mary Walsh | Paul Sorvino | Peter Miller
Bruce says: “MAMBO ITALIANO, a coming-out comedy from Canada, does have its moments. Perhaps that is damning with faint praise. While there are some things to like, some scenes which made me laugh, I am left with a notion of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Starring: Flavio Bauraqui | Lázaro Ramos | Marcelia Cartaxa
Bruce says: “Diehard fans of CITY OF GOD should definitely add MADAME SATA to their must see list. Set in the 1930’s, this is the story of Madame Sata, a bisexual transvestite gangster, who is very much a part of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Antonio Cerrano
Starring: Cecila Roth; Carlos Álvarez-Novoa | Kuno Becker
Laura says: “Writer/director Antonio Serrano, adapting the novel by Homónima de Rosa Montero, has created a multi-generational madcap lark that attempts to address a middle aged woman’s rebirth, marriage, kidnapping, revolutionaries and government corruption within a children’s book author’s whimsical
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mina Shum
Starring: Chang Tseng | Colin Foo | Sandra Oh | Tsai Chin
Michael says: “Mina Shum reunites with her DOUBLE HAPPINESS star, Sandra Oh for this funny, poignant and slightly sentimental look at several Asian-American families living in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Oh plays a single mother whose husband left her suddenly to care
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