Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Jet Li | Maggie Cheung | Tony Leung | Zhang Zhiyi
Chris says: “Zhang Yimou’s long-delayed (in the US, anyway) martial arts epic is stunning, at least technically. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle outdoes himself, the awesome color-coding even more sensual than IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE’s rain-drenched streets and intricate, congested apartments.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Alan Rickman | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson | Rupert Grint
Chris says: “Of course this is the best Harry Potter film by miles, as Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN director Alfonso Cuarón is a virtuoso compared to the execrable Chris Columbus. This is the first Harry Potter book I’ve actually read
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Penny Panayotopoulou
Starring: Ioanna Tsirigouli | Stelios Mainas | Yorgos Karayannis
Diane says: “Writer/director Penny Panayotopoulou’s 2002 debut hasn’t gotten much of a release, but Ellen and I saw it in Newburyport. It’s a negative of THE RETURN: in 1969 Athens, a traveling salesman comes home for a few days to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ryan Fleck
Starring: Karen Clinton | Matt Kerr | Shareeka Epps
Chris says: “I wish our short film festival received more entries like this somber, subtle, soulful sketch about a 12 year-old girl and one of her teachers. Everything is delicately nuanced and left open; if the filmmakers succeed in expanding
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Katsuya Onizuka | Miho Yoshioka | Noboru Kaneko
Michael says: “I am filled with Mothra love! While not quite as strong as the epic GODZILLA, MOTHRA, KING GHIDORAH: ALL-OUT GIANT MONSTER ATTACK!, this penultimate entry into the Godzilla cannon is fun (it even includes the Mothra fairies again,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bob Smeaton
Robert says: “Historically overshadowed by Woodstock is the series of rock shows that toured Canada by train in 1970. The brainchild of promoters Ken Walker and Thor Eaton, the shows featured acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno | Massimo Girotti | Raoul Bova
Bruce says: “Ferzan Ozpetek keeps growing with each film; first STEAM, then HIS SECRET LIFE and now FACING WINDOWS. I’ve felt each of his films has had problems which get in the way of achieving anything resembling perfection. Perfection, however,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Benoît Cohen
Starring: Laurence Côte | Mathieu Demy | Romane Bohringer
Georgette says: “NOS ENFANTS CHÉRIS was a light romantic comedy about three couples who spend a vacation together in the South of France. As the movie goes on it’s obvious that there is much shared history and much that still
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Starring: Catherine Salviat | Julian Bouvard | Laura Smet | Marie Denarnaud | Maurice Antoni | Nicolas Duvauchelle
Bruce says: “EAGER BODIES is an uncomfortable film to watch yet I can’t get it out of my mind. Charlotte (Laura Smet) is twenty and not feeling well. When she goes to the doctor he performs routine tests. The doctor
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Ben Gazzara | Blair Brown | Chloe Sevigny | Harriet Andersson | James Caan | Lauren Bacall | Nicole Kidman | Patricia Clarkson | Paul Bettany | Philip Baker Hall | Stellan Skarsgård
Ivy says: “I caught this last night at the Brattle. I am so glad I saw it on the big screen! I have felt for years that Von Trier is a talented filmmaker and DOGVILLE just reconfirms this belief. “It
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