Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Anna Paquin | Barry Pepper | Brian Cox | Edward Norton | Levani | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Rosario Dawson | Tony Siragusa
Phred says: “I just saw the 25TH HOUR, and read a bunch of reviews. Opinions are extremely mixed, with some people loving and others hating it. I loved it. It has many many faults. The dialog is sometimes embarrassing, the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marzieh Meshkini
Starring: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar | Hassan Nebhan | Shahr Banou Sisizadeh
Ellen says: “I recommend this film to everyone.vThe film is short so it’s not a major time commitment. It tells three vignettes about women in Iran. The stories are simple yet the message is overwhelming.” 4 cats Diane says:
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ann Hu
Starring: Jared Harris | Liu Peiqui | Xia Yu | Xing Yufei
Jeffrey says: “I was a little distracted at the beginning of the movie by the transition from what appeared to be historical footage to what appeared to be artificially aged contemporary footage. I thought it should have been either one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Ann Hui | Chao-jung Chen | Kang-sheng Lee | Shiang-chyi Chen | Tien Miao | Yi-ching Lu
Bruce says: “A college-aged boy is on the up escalator going to a big department store when he is spotted by a girl he hasn’t seen in two years who is on the adjacent down escalator. They begin talking and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Shapiro | Laurie Shapiro
Diane says: “Here are two problems I have with this film: The impetus for what happens in this docu comes from the filmmakers, as opposed to, say STARTUP.COM and SOUND AND FURY. Schneebaum says ‘I’m really mad at the film
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lea Pool
Starring: Jessica Paré | Mischa Barton | Piper Perabo
Michael says: “LOST AND DELIRIOUS is the first English language feature from French Canadian Lea Pool (director of SET ME FREE which won last year’s Best Actress Award). This emotionally high strung tale deals with lives and loves of Mary,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell | Michael Pitt | Miriam Shor
Diane says: “I wasn’t going to see HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, but my sister invited me. I was very impressed with the movie, and almost flabbergasted that John Cameron Mitchell performed so successfully as writer, actor, and director. Wow!
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Scarlett Johansson | Steve Buscemi | ThoraBirch
Bob says: “It seems to me that this film is much too heavily reliant on marketing some committee got together and decided which segment of the population they were going after, and how they were going to get them.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liv Ullman
Starring: Erland Josephson | Krister Henriksson | Lena Endre | Thomas Hanzon
Diane says: “FAITHLESS was written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullman. An aging director (we’ll call him ‘Bergman’) is writing the story of a disastrous affair. The woman involved, ‘Marianne,’ appears to him as a muse. It becomes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Alan Ruck | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Justin Louis | Louis Ferreira | Mark Boone Junior | Mat Malloy | Megan Mulally | Michele Hicks | Radha Mitchell
Michael says: “EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER is the feature directorial debut from Marc Forster, whose MONSTER’S BALL starring Billy Bob Thornton is due out soon. TOGETHER stars HIGH ART‘S Radha Mitchell as a young suburban woman, pregnant and about to give
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