Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Bruce says: “TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE would have been an entirely different experience had I not already seen Rory Kennedy’s superior GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB and Michael Winterbottom’s more experimental ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, two films which made it to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Hideaki Ito | Kaori Momoi | Kôichi Satô | Masanobu Andô | Yusuke Iseya
Jason says: “As much as I love Takashi Miike for being an outrageous filmmaker who does unpredictable things, I sometimes wonder if that can be a double-edged sword. SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO is unabashedly a gimmick movie; if you’ve heard about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Mena Suvari | Rukiya Bernard | Russell Hornsby | Stephen Rea
Jason says: “STUCK is based on a true story that made headlines a few years back, although much-beloved cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon has changed almost all the details to make a feature-length film out of it. That’s fine, though; the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucky McKee | Trygve Allister Diesen
Starring: Brian Cox | Kyle Gallner | Noel Fisher | Tom Sizemore
Jason says: “One of the few things I miss about living in the suburbs versus the city is that it’s difficult for me to keep a dog. My family had them while I was growing up, and I envy my
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gabriel Medina
Starring: Daniel Hendler | Jazmin Stuart | Walter Jakob
Beth says: “About a sadsack of an Argentinian writer with writer’s block who finds out that, thanks to a longtime ‘friend’, he is famous in Spain as the quirky leading character in a hit TV show called The Paranoids…a character
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu
Starring: Derya Alabora | Onur Ünsal | Osman Sonant | Ovül Avkiran | Tsilla Chelton
Bruce says: “Nesrin’s husband thinks she is frigid. Nesrin’s son Murat is truant and so detached from reality he seems suicidal. He thinks his mother is controlling. Nesrin’s sister Güzin, a professional single woman, has a destructive relationship going. Their
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Aure Atika | Bérénice Bejo | Jean Dujardin | Philippe Lefebvre
Jason says: “Before CASINO ROYALE was made into a big, modern movie with Daniel Craig, there were persistent rumors about Quentin Tarantino wanting to take a crack at it, but having it take place in the Cold War period when
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nina Davenport
Michael says: “When Liev Schreiber saw an MTV profile shortly after the fall of Baghdad about Muthana, a young Iraqi who yearned to be a filmmaker, he was touched by the challenges the charismatic young man faced. Schreiber was about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Amei Wallach | Marion Cajori
Bruce says: “Films about artists often fall short because the filmmaker does not know how to balance the personal life of the artist with the product he or she has created. The two universes seem not to even intersect in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sam Garbarski
Starring: Dorka Gryllus | Jenny Agutter | Kevin Bishop | Marianne Faithfull | Miki Manojlovic | Siobhan Hewlett
Bruce says: “**Spoilers** “It is impossible to write about IRINA PALM without including spoilers. There is no question that this is a film best to see without knowing anything about it. Well, that is, unless you are put off by
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