Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Fang Song | Hippolyte Girardot | Juliette Binoche | Simon Iteanu
Chris says: “A few years back, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien traveled to Japan to make CAFÉ LUMIÈRE, a charming, languid tribute to one of that country’s greatest filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu. In this, his first non-Asian effort, he has crafted the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Anne Sundberg | Ricki Stern
Bruce says: “Based on Naomi Wolf’s book of the same name, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg have chosen to present the material to the viewer as a series of Wolf’s lectures and interviews as well as gathering the opinions
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cheick Fantamady Camara
Starring: Alex Ogou | Moussa Keita | Tella Kpomahou
Bruce says: “Many films from Africa today are focusing on the heavy weight an average African must bear – the combined weight of tradition, politics and religion. CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY is a superb black comedy about the cultural complexities engulfing
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennifer Venditti
Michael says: “Jennifer Venditti’s feature debut emerged from a short film she cast called BUGCRUSH. When looking for some high school extras in a small town in Maine, she met Billy, a precocious, geeky, high school outcast and knew instantly
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ian McCrudden | Robbie Cavolina
Bruce says: “Anita O’Day was somewhat of a national treasure in her time. What a shame that today so few people are familiar with her music. O’Day’s remarkable career began in 1936 while still a teenager and continued to her
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Larry Fessenden
Starring: Connie Britton | James LeGros | Jamie Harrold | Joanne Shenandoah | Kevin Corrigan | Pato Hoffman | Ron Perlman | Zach Gilford
Jason says: “It would be completely wrong of me spoil the thing in THE LAST WINTER that made me go from thinking it was a nice little ‘isolated area (and maybe something else) starts messing with people’ horror movie to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paprika Steen
Starring: Lars Brygmann | Nicolaj Kopernicus | Rasmus Bjerg | Sidse Babett Knudsen | Søren Pilmark
Bruce says: “Jan (Lars Brygmann), manager of the upscale dining room on one of the day ferry lines in the Baltic, arrives at work with a black eye. ‘Is there a problem?’ his boss Erilk (Søren Pilmark) asks. Jan makes
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Daniel Day Lewis | Paul Dano
Michael says: “I caught this back in December but never got around to reviewing it. I have to tell you I was giddy for hours… even days after seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s decidedly bizarre adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andy Cockrum
Jay says: “TEAM EVEREST means to inspire you. It exists for that. Even if Andy Cockrum hadn’t been along to make a movie, the expedition it chronicles was still put together in order to inspire disabled people, by showing that
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Eddie Marsan | Javier Cámara | Julie Christie | Sarah Polley | Tim Robbins
Michael says: “On a recent trip to New York City, we caught THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS, Isabel Coixet’s (MY LIFE WITHOUT ME) latest film, on opening day. Coixet alum Sarah Polley stars as Hanna, a young deaf woman who
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