Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Vadim Perelman
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Frances Fisher | Jennifer Connelly | Jonathon Ahdout | Ron Eldard | Shohreh Aghdashloo
Diane says: “I’m on a mainstream roll! HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG is a five-cat book, and here not reduced too awfully much in its film version. Ben Kingsley is perfect as Colonel Behrani, the exiled Iranian trying to recoup
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Kátia Lund
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues | Matheus Nachtergaele | Seu Jorge
Hilary says: “This one is a toughie not for the faint of heart. I know its the curse of my generation to constantly draw comparisons, but stylistically and thematically this film evokes AMORES PERROS, plus PULP FICTION and KIDS.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Dorothée Berryman | Johanne-Marie Tremblay | Marie-Josée Croze | Marina Hands | Rémy Girard | Stéphane Rousseau
Bruce says: “Have you ever had an acquaintance whom you disliked yet strangely liked all their friends and family? Such is Remy, the central character in THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS, who happens to be on his last legs in hospital. Throughout
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Daveigh Chase | Lauren Holly | Suzanne Pleshette
Howard says: “SPIRITED AWAY is the latest in a string of incredible animated films by Hayao Miyazaki, the most renowned animator in Japanese history and most say in the best in world. He takes a couple steps close to the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Lillete Dubey | Naseeruddin Shah | Shefali Shetty | Vijay Raaz
Diane says: “Janet and I liked MONSOON WEDDING very much. We’re both nom’ing Vijay Raaz (events manager) who makes a beautiful transition from an ugly boor to an eccentric lover. The opening and closing credits are very colorful and original.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Anders W. Berthelsen | Anette Stevelbaek | Ann Eleonora Jorgensen | Lars Kaalund | Peter Gantzier
Michael says: “In what is surely the surprise darling of the Toronto Film festival, Scherfig’s ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS proves that the dogme 95 manifesto can be used to stunning effect in a deadpan, romantic comedy. Laughter and tears, sometimes simultaneously, are
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Keiko Matsuzaka | Kenji Sawada | Kiyoshiro Imawano | Naomi Nishida | Shinji Takeda | Tetsurô Tanba
Michael says: “What can I possibly say about this most amazing film? “Takashi Miike, director the also incomparable AUDITION serves up a musical/comedy/horror flick about a family running a lonely guest house. As the bodies pile up, so do the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: A.J. Schnack
Michael says: “Surprisingly, the highlight of the Provincetown Film Festival for me was this top-notch documentary about the band, They Might Be Giants. John Flansbrugh and John Linnell met in Jr.High in Lincoln, MA. Together they formed alternative rock band
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Starring: Lucy Tulugarjuk | Natar Ungalaaq | Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq | Sylvia Ivalu
Michael says: “Despite another late night, all seven Chlotrudis-members made it to an 11:00 screening on Saturday morning, of a three-hour Inuit film entitled, THE FAST RUNNER at the High Falls Film Festival. Winner of the Award for Best Canadian
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Allan Gildea | Gerard Crossan | James Nesbitt | Mary Mould
Laura says: “Writer/director Paul Greengrass (THE THEORY OF FLIGHT) consulted Don Mullan, author of Eyewitness Blood Sunday, who had read the hundreds of civilian accounts ignored by the first official inquiry into the massacre and decided to tell his story
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