Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bob Odenkirk
Starring: Annabelle Gurwitch | David Cross | Jack Black | Matt Price | Maura Tierney | Michael Blieden | Stephanie Courtney
Chris says: “I’m so glad I managed to see this film before it left the Coolidge yesterday; MELVIN GOES TO DINNER is a smart, entertaining low budget indie about four thirtysomethings who unexpectedly meet up for dinner. Their conversations are
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff | Geraldine McEwen | Nora-Jane Noone
Bruce says: “Most films which deal with Christian religion as subject matter deal in faith and redemption. Then we have films such as THE MAGDALENE SISTERS and the brilliant Canadian film, THE BOYS OF ST. VINCENT, which focus on human
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Keith Fulton | Luis Pepe
Ivy says: “What a riveting tale of the true delicate state that most films are made in. A local film production company, Central Productions, uses as their cornerstone battle the statistic that most films are never completed. So is how
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Todd Louiso
Starring: Jack Kehler | Kathy Bates | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Sarah Koskoff
Chris says: “Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a schlub whose wife commits suicide and leaves him a note that he can’t bear to read. Instead, he finds solace in increasingly dangerous dosages of gas fumes. With a screenplay written by Hoffman’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Cedric the Entertainer | Edward Herrman | Geoffrey Rush | George Clooney | Paul Adelstein | Richard Jenkins
Howard says: “There is a point in INTOLERABLE CRUELTY where George Clooney is giving a keynote speech professing his love that is long enough to make you suspect the Coen brothers have ‘sold out’ into schmaltz. Wrong! The film, in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Stanton | Lee Unkrich
Starring: Albert Books | Alexander Gould | Ellen DeGeneres | Willem Dafoe
Howard says: “If you can get past the first 10 minutes of Pixar’s latest, you’ll get a movie that is on par with their four other feature films. FINDING NEMO turns out to be a big, adventure film with a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Brent Carver | Don McKellar | Jane Leeves | Olympia Dukakis | Parker Posey | Sarah Polley
Michael says: “‘Some films are difficult to review. THE EVENT, the latest film from one of my favorite filmmakers, Thom Fitzgerald (THE HANGING GARDEN, THE WILD DOGS) is one such film. The reason that it is so difficult to review
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Josef Bierbichler | Juliane Heinemann | Katja Studt | Nina Petri
Michael says: “Tom Tykwer introduced his first feature film, DEADLY MARIA, to a sold out theatre at the Museum of Fine Arts last night. It was great seeing all those Chltorudis members, including Tim, Sara Rubin and new members Erin
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kwon-taek Im
Starring: Ho-jeong Yu | Min-sik Choi | Sung-kee Ahn | Yejin Kim
Laura says: “In late 1800’s Korea significant artists, all schooled intellectuals of the time, curried favor with Government officials in hopes of the ultimate commission – working at the king’s palace as a royal painter. A wealthy man dared to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Felipe Lacerda | José Padilha
Diane says: “BUS 174 is grueling — the docu about the Rio de Janeiro bus hostages. Director keeps the tension going for 2 hours, despite very little happening. Diversity of cinematographic effects is effective: long aerial shot of the city
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