Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Hal Holbrook | Jane Fonda | Jason Robards | Maximilian Schell | Meryl Streep | Rosemary Murphy | Vanessa Redgrave
Philip says: “There exist a handful of films I watch so many times with such intensity I imagine the next scene a moment before it arrives on the screen. Such is my experience with JULIA, the 1977 adaptation of the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Anthony Nicholls | Dennis Price | Dirk Bogarde | Norman Bird | Peter Copley | Peter McEnery | Sylvia Syms
Philip says: “In 1961, U.K. director Basil Dearden did something remarkable. He made a big budget film starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Sims about homosexuality. The title of the film was VICTIM. Ironically instead of portraying the lead character as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Anne Revere | Elizabeth Taylor | Fred Clark | Keefe Brasselle | Montgomery Clift | Raymond Burr | Shelley Winters
Philip says: “George Stevens’ adaptation of An American Tragedy became the 1951 Oscar winning film, A PLACE IN THE SUN. Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, Stevens’ film follows the modest rise and fall of a nephew to a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: C. Aubrey Smith | George Sanders | Joan Fontaine | Judith Anderson | Laurence Olivier | Nigel Bruce | Reginald Denny
Philip says: “REBECCA is a classic on so many levels. It was Hitch’s first American film made in 1940 for David O. Selznick. Second, it was an eerie Gothic thriller based on the famous Daphne du Maurier novel. Third it stars
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Penny Marshall
Starring: Ann Cusack | Anne Ramsay | Bitty Schram | Geena Davis | Lori Petty | Madonna | Megan Cavanagh | Rosie O’Donnell | Tom Hanks | Tracy Reiner
Philip says: “Penny Marshall’s love letter to women’s baseball, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN holds up beautifully nearly 30 years after its initial release. Weaving an all-American story wrapping feminism in the blanket of America’s favorite pastime proved box office
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Ali Larter | Holland Taylor | Jennifer Coolidge | Luke Wilson | Matthew Davis | Reese Witherspoon | Selma Blair | Victor Garber
Philip says: “LEGALLY BLONDE is my pass. It’s my one ridiculously pulpy Hollywood comedy I get to swoon over without any flack from friends or family. We all deserve one pass and LEGALLY BLONDE is mine. What starts out as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mariem Pérez Riera
Philip says: “Rita fought racism, sexism, and typecasting to become an icon, a legend – someone for young Hispanic people to look up to. She continues to provide a roadmap of what is possible. And she did it by making
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Bokuzen Hidari | Haruo Tanaka | Miki Odagiri | Minoru Chiaki | Shin'ichi Himori | Takashi Shimura
Michael says: “I’m on a bit of a movie binge, partly due to the Brattle Theatre’s most excellent podcast, which I should have started listening to over a year ago. But it is inspiring me to catch up on a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Starring: Attilia Boschetti | Cristian Mercado | Haydeé Cáceres | Humberto Cavero | José Chacaltana | Manolo Cardona | Maria Edelmira Palomino | Tatiana Astengo
Michael says: “Gentle and understated, but with real emotion that resonates, Javier Fuentes-León’s debut feature UNDERTOW touches upon love, death, and what it means to be a man in South America. Set in a visually stunning village on the coast
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Starring: Boris Isakovic | Boris Ler | Dino Bajrovic | Emir Hadzihafizbegovic | Izudin Bajrovic | Jasna Djuricic | Johan Heldenbergh | Raymond Thiry
Bob says: “In 1995, during the Bosnian war, the UN has declared the town of Srebrenica a safe haven and set up a base of Dutch peacekeepers. The Serbs, despite an ultimatum from the UN, continue to advance on the
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