Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Apted
…the most compelling lens through which to study these lives. “As the subjects get older, interviews become less standardized. I’m sure that some of them resisted the filmmaker’s line of…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Patricio Guzmán
…all of the ways he looked to the past fascinating. 4+ cats “Seen 29 January 2012 in the Brattle Theatre [(Some of) The Best of 2011, 35mm]” …
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Barbara Hershey | Benjamin Millepied | Mila Kunis | Natalie Portman | Vincent Cassel | Winona Ryder
…her single mother’s overprotective nature and desire to create for her daughter the successful career she never had. “When the ballet master (Vincent Cassel) announces the company will next do…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Alex Descas | Bill Murray | Gael García Bernal | Hiam Abbass | Isaach De Bankolé | Tilda Swinton
…study, it may not be enough, which is why I left the theater confused and more than a little annoyed. “Yet, there was so much about the film that I…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
Starring: Javier Bardem | José Ángel Egido | Luis Tosar
…night, Santa takes him home and gets a shocking eye-opener. “The film ambles along alternating social commentary with comedy while digging deeper into its characters’ psyches. The group seems both…
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…compared to ANATOMY OF HELL!) Kinsey dir. Bill Condon w/Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, 2h5m Director Bill Condon (GODS & MONSTERS) tells the…
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Daniel Auteuil; Isild de Besco | Grégoire Colin | Jeanne Balibar | Marianne Denicourt
…not in a way you would think. “If the study concentrated on this complicated, intriguing relationship I may have liked SADE a bit more. There are other stories and statements…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeff Orlowski
…media platforms are threatening to case the downfall of modern civilization as we know it, or at least democracy and free will. If that sounds like science fiction, don’t be…
Read the review...…off, and the acting is superb. The after party at the newly opened Crystal Ballroom upstairs had plenty of food, cake, and complimentary cocktails. Thursday night I went to the…
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…latest film, FAHRENHEIT 9/11. Join us Monday night at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 7:30 show for what is sure to be a crowded show. If you know you’re coming, try…
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