Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Schorr
Starring: Harald Warmbrunn | Horst Krause | Karl Fred Müller
Johanna says: “Am I the only one who has seen this movie?? I haven’t seen any mention of it in any of the recent discussions. I’m not a great review writer, but this film is really worthwhile. Although it may
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liam Lynch
Michael says: “My experience with Sarah Silverman amounted to her brief appearances in the recent documentary THE ARISTOCRATS, but an invitation to the Sarah Silverman party was reason enough for me to catch her first performance film, SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Starring: Ali Suliman | Ashraf Barhom | Hiam Abbass | Kais Nashef | Lubna Azabal
Bruce says: “This simple story is about two Palestinian childhood friends who decide to become suicide bombers. The story may be simple but the issues are not. For over thirty years terrorism has been a major issue in Israel. Israel
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Peg says: “If SIDEWAYS was wine’s MANHATTAN, MONDOVINO is its ROGER AND ME. An ambitious, sprawling (2 and a quarter hours and maybe a bit too long) documentary which mainly takes place in France, Italy and California (with brief segments
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Kang-ho Song | Roe-ha Kim | Sang-kyung Kim
Michael says: “This challenging film of the misuse of power by the police during a dictatorial regime is further proof of the rise in the Korean film industry. In 1986 a small village in South Korea was plagued by its
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Ng Man-Tat | Qiu Yuen | Stephen Chow | Wah Yuen | Xing Yu | Yuen Wah
Hilary says: “A kung fu comedy incorporating aspects of classic Hollywood cinema, Westerns, Looney Tunes, and a hint of musicals; no great need for a plot summary here. In short, the residents of Pig Style Alley rise up and fight
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Emmanuelle Devos | Hippolyte Girardot | Jean-Paul Roussillon | Mathieu Amalric | Maurice Garrel | Nathalie Boutefeu | Noémie Lvovsky | Valentin Lelong
Chris says: “Even though it seems like a fairly conventional dialog-rich character study on the surface, this is really a strange, complex little film, if subtly so. It tells parallel stories of two ex-lovers: Nora (Emanuelle Devos) and Ismael (Mathieu
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nimród Antal
Starring: Csaba Pindroch | Eszter Balla | Sándor Badár | Sándor Csányi | Zoltán Mucsi | Zsolt Nagy
Bruce says: “This is the second Hungarian film I have seen recently that shows great promise for its director. First there was the delightfully enigmatic HUKKLE directed by György Pálfi and now there is KONTROLL, a dark, comedic allegory, directed
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Phil Morrison
Starring: Alessandro Nivola | Amy Adams | Benjamin McKenzie | Embreth Davidtz
Chris says: “Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), owner of a Chicago gallery specializing in outsider art, finds herself very much an outsider when she travels to small town North Carolina to acquire a local artist’s work. Coincidentally, George (Alessandro Nivola), her husband
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska
Starring: Agnieszka Nagorzycka | Piotr Jagielski
Bruce says: “Looking at the world through a child’s eyes is a wonderful cinematic experience providing the director is competent and the child is perfect for the role. Fortunately both ingredients are present in I AM. Piotr, the lead, was
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