Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Dolly Wells | Kathleen McDermott | Paul Popplewell | Ruby Milton | Samantha Morton
…of her boyfriend who has committed suicide on Christmas day. She also finds his note asking her to take his completed manuscript and send it to a publisher. When Morvern…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Brendan Gleeson | Cillian Murphy | Liam Neeson | Ruth Negga | Stephen Rea
…in his sleepy Irish village behind and go in search of the elegant mother (‘the image of Mitzi Gaynor’) who abandoned the infant Patrick on the steps of the local…
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…that, if you need a strong quotient of shlocky camp… or just an amazing bad movie that I love… come to the Midnight Cult Screening of Menahem Golan’s THE APPLE!…
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Bill Sage | Brady Corbett | Elisabeth Shue | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michelle Trachtenberg
Bruce says: “We all bring our own baggage into every experience. It is hardly surprising that the effect of any common experience and the baggage we carry away from it…
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bill Ross IV | Turner Ross
Starring: Makai Garza | Micah Bunch | Nathaly Garcia | Nichole Dukes | Tony Aburto
…as five Oregon teens search for adventure and a good party. If the beginning feels self-consciously quirky with its restless camerawork, isolated moments come loaded with a haunting quality: as…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray | Chloe Sevigny | Frances Conroy | Jeffrey Wright | Jessica Lange | Julie Delpy | Sharon Stone | Tilda Swinton
…film’s title comes from Winston’s insistence that Don arrives at each woman’s door unannounced, but with a welcoming bouquet of flowers. As is typical for Jarmusch, the film is exceedingly…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Giuseppe Sanfelice | Jasmine Trinca | Laura Morante | Nanni Moretti
…ROOM. While not as aggressively impressive as its American counterpart, IN THE BEDROOM, Moretti’s film makes its own, quieter observations.” 3 1/2 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thesonsroom.htm” Robin…
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Zhang Yibai
…which comes from another culture, though often kind of puzzling: It’s at least partly someone else’s nostalgia, and if you don’t know the late-1990s mandopop song accompanying a scene, you…
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hou Chi-ja
Starring: Chien Man-shu | Kai Ko | Kuo Shu-yau | Nikki Hsieh | Tsai Chen--nan
…in preparation for university entrance examinations). Tung is determined to find and get back together with his former girlfriend, taking a job in a local copy shop that prints examinations…
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Aaron Wolf | Fred Melamed | Michael Stuhlbarg | Richard Kind | Sari Lenrick
…a certain plot point). This guy just keeps getting kicked while he’s down. Even though ‘[he] hasn’t done anything!’ “This is a somewhat puzzling film, but in a different way…
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