Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Adrien Brody | Ed Stoppard | Emilia Fox | Michal Zebrowski
Laura says:”Polanski is quick to establish Wladyslaw’s determination not to be silenced by his continuing to play Chopin as the recording studio he inhabits is destroyed by German bombs. Brody quietly and confidently inhabits Szpilman in one of the best
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Artyom Bogucharsky | Lyubov Agapova | Oksana Akinshina
Michael says: “After the joyous optimism of community featured in TOGETHER, Moodysson shifts gears radically with a starkly bleak portrait of Lilya, a young girl living in an unnamed Russian city. Abandoned by her mother at age 16 so she
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jennifer Dworkin
Michael says: “In a year of stellar documentaries, LOVE AND DIANE deserves a place near the top of the list. This debut feature documentary from Jennifer Dworkin is a hard-hitting look at a mother struggling to reunite with her family
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Costa-Gavras
Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz | Michel Duchaussoy | Ulrich Mühe | Ulrich Tukur
Michael says: “Here’s a film that didn’t get a lot of attention when it was out earlier this year but deserves it now on DVD or video. Of the many films detailing the atrocities of the holocaust, AMEN is among
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Christopher Munch
Starring: Amy Madigan | Jacqueline Bisset | Martha Plimpton | Nick Stahl
Scot says: “I was blown away by this quiet little ‘family piece.’ “Middle-aged Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is an out-of-work writer/reporter who once consoled lonely men in 1950s Florida both with her overnight radio show and her company. When she learns
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Starring: Hassan Tantai | Niloufar Pazira | Sadou Teymouri
Ellen says: “Okay, basically I would not want to be a woman (or a man for that matter) in Afghanistan. This film shows the horrific way of life that these people lead. An interesting slice of life that I never
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Edward Yang
Starring: Elaine Jin | Issey Ogata | Jonathan Chang | Kelly Lee | Wu Nien Jen
Diane says: YI YI by Edward Yang is a Taiwanese AMERICAN BEAUTY. Members of a middle-class family go through changes, in isolation from each other (startlingly oblivious to each other’s crises, just like in this year’s novel The Bee Season).
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Ann Miller | Justin Theroux | Laura Harring | Naomi Watts
Bob says: “I think MULHOLLAND D. brings Lynch back, at least part way, to the dark obsessions of his earlier work: we are affected by (and in return, we affect) forces no one can understand, our hidden fears have real
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Fereshteh Sadr Orfani | Maryiam Palvin Almani | Nargess Mamizadeh
Diane says: “I finally saw THE CIRCLE, and think it’s excellent. The way the story slides from one woman to another is great, and I loved the constant close-ups, and the cinematography in general. I had to laugh to myself:
Read the review...