Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: István Szabó
Starring: Annette Bening | Bruce Greenwood | Jeremy Irons | Michael Gambon | Miriam Margoyles | Shaun Evans
Hilary says: “Annette Bening moves to the top of my growing Best Actress nominations list playing Julia Lambert, a stage actress of a certain age, in 1930s London. It is refreshing to see a woman over 30 who both acts
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Starring: Dominique Blanc | François Morel | Gilbert Melki | Ornella Muti | Valérie Mairesse
Barbara says: “I really liked this movie and after seeing it was able to look back at ON THE RUN and think better of it. After seeing ON THE RUN Mary, Tim and I all sort of went ‘Huh?’ Of
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Starring: Bernard Mazzinghi | Catherine Frot | Dominique Blanc | Gilbert Melki | Ornella Muti
Barbara says: “After much discussion Mary and I both agreed that this was the best made film of the trilogy but we enjoyed AN AMAZING COUPLE the most. After seeing AN AMAZING COUPLE I didn’t think I could ever like
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jacques Cluzaud | Michel Debats
Esmé says: “My second favorite movie of the year was a documentary. After I watched it, I drove to Western Mass in the morning. Every flock of flying birds made me want to be up in the sky with them,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu | Amos Gitai | Claude Lelouch | Danis Tanovic | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Ken Loach | Mira Nair | Samira Makhmalbaf | Sean Penn | Shohei Imamura | Youssef Chahine
Starring: Dzana Pinjo | Emmanuelle Laborit | Ernest Borgnine | Jérôme Horry | Kapil Bawa | Keren Mor | Kumiko Aso | Lionel Zizréel Guire | Liron Levo | Maryam Karimi | Nour El-Sherif | Taleb Adlah | Tomorô Taguchi | Vladimir Vega
Laura says: “This outstanding omnibus is a French production featuring a short film from 11 global filmmakers. Their only guidelines were that the film be a reflection on 9/11 and that it be 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Geoffrey Rush | Johnny Depp | Keira Knightley | Orlando Bloom
Howard says: “Ahoy, me hearties! The pirate movie be back and, blimey, if it be keelhaulin’ the scurvy-ridden bilge that be marooned in yon summer theaters. “PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL is a big, sprawling adventure.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Dean Andrews | Joe Duttine | Steve Huison | Thomas Craig
Peg says: “THE NAVIGATORS, directed by Ken Loach, is a fictional story of an all-too-real situation: the deregulation and increasingly-private ownership of the railway system in Great Britain. The script was written by a former railway employee, Rob Dawber, who
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Starring: Juhani Niemelä | Kaija Pakarinen | Kati Outinen | Markku Peltola
Michael says: Aki Kaurismäki’s THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST is a quirky, romantic comedy with deadpan humor, and a pair of terrific leads. This tale of amnesia avoids many of the cliches of a bad man whose memory is wiped
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Ed Harris | Julianne Moore | Meryl Streep | Miranda Richardson | Nicole Kidman | Stephen Dillane | Toni Collette
Hilary says: “Only a few scenes into THE HOURS I found myself wishing I could start the film over and view it without the Philip Glass score. The score was used in a heavy-handed fashion, cueing the viewer to the
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Matthew Barney
Starring: Aimee Mullins | Matthew Barney | Paul Brady | Richard Serra
Laura says: “Multi-media artist Matthew Barney explores the evolution of form via Celtic mythology, automotives, biology and vaseline in his five part Cremaster cycle, which began in 1994 with CREMASTER 4 and move from a state of ascendance to descendance
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