Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Zeiger
Bruce says: “FTA…Fun, Travel Adventure…Foxtrot, Tango Alpha…Fuck The Army. That is the evolution of the initials that were first used as an Army recruiting slogan in the early Vietnam years. As the war escalated and the troops began to see
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Starring: Burghart Klaußner | Imogen Kogge | Sandra Hüller
Bruce says: “Films about illness and disability used to run the risk of being slotted into the ‘Ailment of the Week’ made-for-TV film category. That insult is mostly a thing of the past since television is now many times more
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Carlos Saurin
Starring: Juan Villegas | Rosa Valsecchi | Walter Donado
Bruce says: “EL PERRO (sometimes advertised as BOMBON, EL PERRO) is a delightful film. Set in Patagonia, the story is paper thin but the sentiment is sincere thanks to a lovely performance by Juan Villegas. He plays Coco, an aging
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Bill Nighy | Cate Blanchett | Judi Dench | Juno Temple | Max Lewis | Philip Davis
Michael says: “Richard Eyre follows-up IRIS and STAGE BEAUTY with a real romp of a thriller in NOTES ON A SCANDAL. There’s a lot of excess in SCANDAL, and the entire thing really lives and dies by Judi Dench’s performance
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Greg Whiteley
Chris says: “Few musicians–heck, few people have undergone as radical a transformation as Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane. In the early ’70s, he was the bassist for the New York Dolls, a thunderously influential (but never commercially successful) cross-dressing glam rock outfit.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emmanuel Carrère
Starring: Cylia Malki | Emmanuelle Devos | Hippolyte Girardot | Mathieu Amalric | Vincent Lindon
Bruce says: “A meditation on the complexities of intimate relationships, LA MOUSTACHE is successful up to a point. One day, Marc (Vincent Lindon) asks his wife Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos) if he should shave off his moustache. She replies indifferently. When
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Jonathan Rhys-Meyers | Matthew Goode | Scarlett Johansson
Chris says: “For years, Woody Allen has desperately needed to get away from his terminal Upper East Side complacency and try something different, but I never thought he’d go ahead and do it. Actually, this isn’t as much of a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Barbara Hammer
Bruce says: “In 1937 Claude Cahoun and Marcel Moore moved from France to the Isle of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel off the coast of Brittany. Claude, nee Lucy Schwab, was young when her father
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sarah Watt
Starring: Anthony Hayes | Justine Clarke | William McInnes
Michael says: “This Australian film has so much going for it; a great premise, terrific writing, strong acting, a strong visual style, and some neat experimental tricks that it’s a shame that first time feature director Sarah Watt relied so
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rowan Woods
Starring: Cate Blanchett | Dustin Nguyen | Hugo Weaving | Noni Hazlehurst
Michael says: “On a recent trip to New York City, Scot, Bruce and I went to see the Australian film LITTLE FISH starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving. Unfortunately, this intense little film was never released in Boston and is
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