Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Justin Edwards
Starring: Franco Castan | James Jarrett | Lauren Jennings | Liz Kate | Scottie Knollin | Terri James
…some hope for anyone who can survive that insanity. 3 3/4 cats “Seen 27 March 2010 at Landmark Kendall Square #3 (Boston Underground Film Festival, digital video)” …
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: So Yong Kim
Starring: Chae Gil Byung | Hee-yeon Kim | Jung Gil Ja | Kim Mi Jung | Mi-hyang Kim | Shin Hyun Je
…Yeon Kim, the director, and adapted screenplay. Now to see Kim’s acclaimed 2007 story of a Korean teen new to the U.S., IN BETWEEN DAYS. 4 cats” …
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Ning
Starring: Bo Huang | Cheung Yung | Jack Kao | Kong Jiu | Lifan Dong | Shaohua Ma | Zheng Xu
…he takes a swig from a product he’s endorsing made by Fala Li (Jiu Kong). Positive drug test! Forfeiture! Banned! Now, years later, he’s driving a refrigerated truck, and his…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Marc Webb
Starring: Chloe Moretz | Clark Gregg | Geoffrey Arend | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Zooey Deschanel
…having a serious relationship. She is, however, happy to spend a lot of time with Tom, kiss him, hold hands with him, play ‘house’ at Ikea with him, and sleep…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lionel Baier
Starring: Alicja Bachleda-Curus | Lionel Baier | Natacha Koutchoumov
…of extremes. Although he is openly gay, he dumps his boyfriend Serge (Stéphane Rentznik) to have an affair with a Polish au pair (Alicja Bachleda-Curus). Lionel is exploring his roots….
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
…photographs do not add up to a satisfying film. At best, MANUFACTURED LANDACAPES is quixotic. 2.5 cats “MANUFACTURED LANDACAPES screened at the 2007 Miami International Film Festival” …
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Dolly Wells | Kathleen McDermott | Paul Popplewell | Ruby Milton | Samantha Morton
…I’d seen in a long time, and was greatly moved by it. Cheers.” Laura says: “The quietly observant, childlike Morvern, given an alien luminosity by Samantha Morton (SWEET AND LOWDOWN),…
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Rating: 3.25
Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: A.J. Cook | Ali Larter | Michael Landes | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson
…is the naysayer, Kat (Keegan Connor Tracy) the career chick who chain smokes, Rory (Jonathan Cherry) the endearingly klutzy stoner. Nora (Lynda Boyd) and Tim Carpenter (James N. Kirk, TV’s…
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Carlos Carrera
Starring: Ana Claudia Talancón | Damien Alcazar | Gael García Bernal | Sancho Gracia
…under cover of a severely disabled young woman named Getsemani(!) and a laughable story about preparing her for nunhood. Benito, feeling guilty, shuns Sanjuanera, Amelia’s mother, but continues to consort…
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…top. It explores the tumultuous relationship between a self-absorbed, generally inappropriate-but-still-loving mother, (Anne Dorval), her precocious but imbalanced and violent teenage son (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) and a shy, secretive neighbor (Suzanne…
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