Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christoffer Boe
Starring: Krister Henriksson | Maria Bonnevie | Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Michael says: “Superficially, RECONSTRUCTION is a tale of two couples, and the adultery that occurs between two of them. Alex is in a pleasant relationship with Simone, and while she loves him dearly, he never seems to want to say
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dylan Kidd
Starring: Gabriel Byrne | Laura Linney | Lois Smith | Marcia Gay Harden | Paul Rudd | Topher Grace
Carolyn says: “I knew very little about this movie except that it was similar to BIRTH another movie out in theaters that I only heard a bit about. Louise, an admission director for Columbia’s School of Fine Arts, receives an
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Greenwald
Barbara says: “I thought this documentary was very good. It truly makes you think about news as a business and how easy it is to manipulate what people say. A perfect example is Bill O’Reilly who has a tremendously popular
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chris Kentis
Starring: Blanchard Ryan | Daniel Travis | Saul Stein
Beth says: “OPEN WATER is based on a true story, or on what the filmmakers assumed may have happened to this couple on vacation in the Bahamas who get left behind by their boat when they went out on a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Diane says: “Am I imagining that some people already wrote in about this one? I liked MY ARCHITECT very much. The inherently compelling premise (illegitimate son wants to get to know his father better, posthumously) and the strong visual elements
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniela Fejerman | Inés París
Starring: Alex Angulo | Chisco Amado | Eliska Sirová | Leonor Watling | María Pujalte | Rosa María Sardà | Silvia Abascal
Beth says: “I saw a Spanish film called MY MOTHER LIKES WOMEN, a tour de force for the lead Leonor Watling who was funny, neurotic, beautiful, gifted comedienne, just – she was brilliant, I was excited about seeing a Spanish
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Patty Jenkins
Starring: Bruce Dern | Charlize Theron | Cristina Ricci | Pruitt Taylor-Vince | Scott Wilson
Peg says: “Saw this yesterday. A very gripping and intense character study of a female serial killer (based upon a true story). Charlize Theron is Aileen, an uneducated but resilient woman who has worked as a prostitute since she was
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Starring: Chun-hao Tuan | Jack Kao | Qi Shu | Yi-Hsuan Chen
Hilary says: “I was trying to fight it, but I gotta be a contrarian — I thought MILLENNIUM MAMBO was a complete waste of great cinematography. I skipped the discussion afterwards because I had nothing positive to say beyond the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bruce Sinofsky | Joe Berlinger
Michael says: “One of the measures of a successful documentary, for me, is making me interested in a subject or subjects that I never in my wildest dreams would have thought to be interested in. Heavy Metal music, and more
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Blaine Thurier
Starring: Bonnie Catterson | Kim Cote | Robert Dayton
Bruce says: “Andrew (Robert Dayton) is the type of man that would make anyone want to leave the room once he walked in. He is a self-involved, insensitive nerd. His wife (Bonnie Catterson) has kicked him out and he hasn’t
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