Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Hie-jin Choi | Rain | u-jeong Lim
…a romantic comedy, it doesn’t fit the usual template that well. The comedy is often pitch-black, as Young-goon fantasizes about fully recharging and slaughtering the ‘white ‘uns’ (the doctors and…
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: AJ Schnack
…me think that much, and keeps me coming back to it a couple days after I’ve seen it is a successful film in my mind. 4 cats” …
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gary Hustwit
…most of the world gives little or no thought. “Don’t go looking for Helvetica on your computer. Computer software companies don’t like paying royalties. This review is typed in Ariel…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Caroline Neal
…film a marginal success is Earnest Franco, one of the great Argentine tango composers. At 87 he still has the energy and style to light up the screen. Unfortunately he…
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Amira Casar | Rocco Siffredi
…as an implement of penetration, we do not actually see insertion. She also knows composition and uses the camera exquisitely. Less successful in ANATOMY OF HELL is the dialogue, i.e….
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Jason J. Tobin | Parry Shen | Roger Fan | Sung Kang
Michael says: “Justin Lin’s BETTER LUCK TOMORROW is an interesting if not entirely original take on high school ennui, and the how easy the slide from academic success into crime…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Amei Wallach | Marion Cajori
…one major flaw. Amei Wallach interviews Ms. Bourgeois throughout the film, asking inane questions and making stupid comments that the subject finds off-putting to the extent that she clams up…
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Chris McKim
…artist and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. Sadly, like so many men in the 80’s, he died of complications due to the AIDS virus in 1992….
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni | รric Caravaca | Golshifteh Farahani | Isabella Rossellini | Maria de Maderios | Mathieu Almaric
Bruce says: “After their huge success with PERSEPOLIS, filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were surprised to find that money for their second feature was so difficult to raise. It’s…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jay Burleson
Starring: Allison Shrum | Darius Willis | K.J. Baker | Kansas Bowling | Poppy Cunningham | Taylor Smith
…for humor’s sake, but the sentiment and affection for the world-building is real. “Is it going to come across as low budget? Yes, and as a necessary component to what’s…
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