Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Akihiro Miwa | Chieko Baisho | Takuya Kimura
Chris says: “I have to admit I was hooked from the first scene, where the amazing, immense contraption that gives this film its title emerges through a brown, dusty fog. Although based on a story by Diana Wynne Jones, this
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jacques Richard
Bruce says: “The opening scenes of Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE DREAMERS involve Andre Malraux’s firing of Henri Langlois founder of the Cinémathèque Française. In front of the Cinémathèque Matthew, an American, meets Isabelle and Theo, twins who have a bizarre incestuous
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: George Cloioney
Starring: David Straithairn | Frank Langella | George Clooney | Patricia Clarkson | Robert Downey Jr
Chris says: “This historical recreation of Edward R. Murrow’s televised expose of Joseph McCarthy is a strong second directorial effort from George Clooney. The impressive ensemble is headed by David Strathairn, who delivers a career-best performance as Murrow; also good
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Andrew Bujalski | Christian Rudder | Kate Dollenmayer
Michael says: “I really enjoyed FUNNY HA HA, and would recommend a trip to the theatre to see it. The performances, especially the lead actress are really great… very natural. There is an element of Woody Allen to the story,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Chris Evans | Ioan Gruffudd | Jessica Alba | Julian McMahon | Kerry Washington | Michael Chiklis
Michael says: “As a longtime Fantastic Four fan I enjoyed the film quite a bit. It wasn’t what it could have been, but for me, it was much better than most of the critics make it out to be. I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hubert Sauper
Bruce says: “DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE is an atypical political documentary. It understates its case. About fifty years ago a lone fisherman introduced Nile perch into Lake Victoria. Until that time Lake Victoria was a source of food for much of Tanzania.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Amy Stewart | Darcy Fehr | Melissa Dionisio
Chris says: “If Guy Maddin’s most accessible effort, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, failed to move you, I’m not even going to try to convince you to check out this hour-long film that was made roughly around the same
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Bernard Otieno Oduor | Bill Nighy | Damaris Itenyo Agweyu | Daniele Harford | Danny Huston | Hubert Koundé | Rachel Weisz | Ralph Fiennes
Bruce says: “Had anyone asked I would have said John Le Carré is prolific, but that is hardly the case considering he has published only eighteen novels in forty four years. “Le Carré (The Tailof of Panama, The Spy Who
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Carmen Maura | Eduardo Antuña | Jesús Bonilla | María Asquerino | Marta Fernández Muro | Paca Gabaldón
Michael says: “I try to see any film that Carmen Maura appears in that is released in the States. I still think Pedro Almodóvar’s best films were during the Carmen Maura period. Carmen has done some mediocre films since she
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodney Evans
Starring: Anthony Mackie | Larry Gilliard Jr. | Roger Robinson
Ron says: “BROTHER TO BROTHER is a compelling look at the Harlem Renaissance as seen through the eyes of Bruce Nugent, a writer and painter of the era, now living in a homeless shelter in New York. Bruce befriends Perry
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