Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Penn
Starring: Catherine Keener | Emile Hirsch | Jena Malone | Marcia Gay Harden | William Hurt
Hilary says: ” Sean Penn’s latest directorial & screenwriting effort, INTO THE WILD, is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. WILD is the true story of an idealistic new college grad, Christopher McCandless, who travels around
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bong Joon-Ho
Starring: Du-na Bae | Hie-bong Byeon | Kang-hoSong
Jeff says: “In the year 2000, an overly compulsive American doctor on a U.S. military base in Korea orders his Korean employee to pour hundreds of bottles of formaldehyde down a drain, directly into Seoul’s Han River. On a bright,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gary Hustwit
Bruce says: “In 1957 Edward Alfred Hoffman invented a new typeface. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk it is now the most ubiquitous of all typefaces, known throughout the world at Helvetica. Post-war European design in the 1950’s was centered on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asger Leth | Milos Loncarevi
Jay says: “According to the information presented at the start of this film, the Cité Soleil section of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is considered the most dangerous place in the world by the United Nations. The poorest section of the poorest
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Kammoun
Starring: Elie Mitri | Issam Bou Khaled | Michel El Hourany
Bruce says: “Beirut was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. Now, partly in ruins, Beirut is missing the tourists but the joie de vive still survives. FALAFEL explores the city through the wanderings of three friends during
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Francis Ng | Josie Ho | Nick Cheung | Simon Yam
Michael says: “One of the things I love about the Chlotrudis/Brattle co-presented Sunday Eye Opener series is that it gives me the opportunity to see films I would never select on my own. Johnnie To’s EXILED is one such film.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodrigo Moerno
Starring: Cristina Villamor | Julio Chávez | Osmar Núñez
Bruce says: “Custodio translates as bodyguard in English. Ruben (Julio Chávez) is a personal bodyguard for the Planning Minister (Osmar Núñez) in the Argentine government. The Minister is a social animal – weaving work and pleasure as he darts from
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Alexandra Maria Lara | Harry Treadaway | James Anthony Pearson | Joe Anderson | Sam Riley | Samantha Morton
Chris says: “Why did Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis hang himself at the age of 23? Was it misery brought on by marital infidelity, an uneasy mixture of meds prescribed for his epilepsy, stress at the onset of fame, or
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Wong
Starring: Brian Raffi | H.P. Mendoza | Jake Moreno | L.A. Renigen | Sigrid Sutter
Michael says: “This past week at the Sunday Eye Opener, we got to act as a bit of an informal test screening audience for a new film called COLMA: THE MUSICAL. I was contacted by the film’s distributor, Eric d’Arbeloff,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dalia Hager | Vardit Bilu
Starring: Katia Zinbris | Naama Schendar | Smadar Sayar
Beth says: “This film received low ratings on netflix, rotton tomatoes, and metacritic (~60%). But I really liked it. This film is a about a friendship between two young adult women, Mirit (Neama Shendar) and Smadar (Smadar Sayar), fulfilling their
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