Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Charles Atlas
Peg says: “I also highly recommend THE LEGEND OF LEIGH BOWERY, a wonderful film looking at the outrageous design talents and performance quirks of a true original. Bowery is perhaps best known as model and muse for painter Lucian Freud–the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Cillian Murphy | Colin Farrell | Colm Meany | Kerry Condon | Shirley Henderson
Diane says: “I haven’t innapropriately laughed so much at violence since HAPPINESS. INTERMISSION, about a dozen or so people in a working-class neighborhood of Dublin dealing with violence and broken hearts, is made strong by excellent pacing and editing and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Siu Fai Mak | Wai Keung Lau
Starring: Andy Lau | Anthony Chau-Sang Wong | Carina Lau | Daoming Chen | Edison Chen | Eric Tsang | Kelly Chen | Leon Lai | Sammi Cheng | Shawn Yue | Tony Leung
Bruce says: “IA3 is comprised of what is left over from the first two films in the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy. It is somewhat of a Hong Kong MULHOLLAND DR. which is both curse and compliment. “As complicated as the first
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zak Penn
Starring: Kitana Baker | Werner Herzog | Zak Penn
Chris says: “INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS is a clever, often side-splitting little film. The less said about what it’s about, the better. All you need to know is that its lead ‘character’ is the always intriguing Werner Herzog, and it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Craig T. Nelson | Holly Hunter | Samuel Jackson | Sarah Vowell
Tom says: “I am a big fan of both Pixar and Brad Bird’s feature-film debut (and what I consider to be America’s best animated film) THE IRON GIANT, so I was as excited as could be when I heard Pixar
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terry George
Starring: Don Cheadle | Jean Reno | Joaquin Phoenix | Nick Nolte | Sophie Okonedo
Bruce says: “It is important to let the world know exactly what went on in Rwanda ,a nation of two main groups, the Tutsis and the Hutus. The two groups speak the same language and have intermarried extensively over the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Mayer
Starring: Colin Farrell | Dallas Roberts | Robin Wright Penn | Sissy Spacek
Chris says: “Even though it cuts out a fairly major character and settles for an omniscient point of view (rather than the book’s chapter = character narration), Michael Cunningham mostly captures the essence of his beautiful book in his adapted
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