Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Alam Arkin | Elias Koteas | Ethan Hawke | Gore Vidal | Jude Law | Loren Dean | Uma Thurman
Michael says: “The premise was intriguing, and it was on a list of essential film’s to watch, but Andrew Niccol’s directorial debut, was a big loser for me. When a genetically inferior man tricks his way into a job that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Hugh Marlowe | Lock Martin | Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Sam Jaffe
Michael says: “I always had the impression that the 50s science fiction movies were cheesy and dumb, and not really worth the time to watch them. I’m glad I was wrong, and that I decided to check out THE DAY
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Akin Aksu | Bennu Yildirimlar | Dogu Demirkol | Hazar Ergüçlü | Murat Cemcir | Öner Erkan | Serkan Keskin
Michael says: “I am a big fan of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, despite the dense, sometimes inscrutable films he makes with running times sometimes well over three hours. His first film, DISTANT, plays like a sober, languid, dramatic version
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: François Périer | Henri Crémieux | Jean Marais | Juliette Gréco | María Casares | Marie Déa | Roger Blin
Michael says: “Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, ORPHEUS was the sixth of only eight narrative films that Jean Cocteau directed, the most famous of which, of course, is BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Cocteau’s ORPHEUS revolves around
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Agnes Moorehead | Dorothy Comingore | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | Joseph Cotten | Orson Welles | Paul Stewart | Ray Collins | Ruth Warrick
Michael says: “I have seen CITIZEN KANE before… about twenty years ago, so when it came up again in the Brattle podcast, about how it’s such a classic, in fact, probably THE classic film, and I couldn’t really remember much
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: David Bowie | Frank Oz | Jennifer Connelly | Shari Weiser | Shelley Thompson | Toby Froud
Michael says: “I have a dirty little secret… I’m not a fan of the muppets. I know, it’s sacrilege, but I enjoyed Sesame St. as a child, but I never really got into the Muppet Show, nor did I enjoy
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: David Hemmings | Gillian Hills | Jane Birkin | John Castle | Peter Bowles | Sarah Miles | Vanessa Redgrave | Veruschka von Lehndorff
Michael says: “Continuing my odyssey to fill some of the gaps in my movie-viewing history, I caught up with Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP. Released in 1966, BLOW-UP, while superficially a mystery of sorts, is really a curiously mysterious, visually stunning look at
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bob Peterson | Pete Docter
Starring: Bob Peterson | Christopher Plummer | Delroy Lindo | Edward Asner | Jordan Nagai
Diane says: “Latest Pixar is bedeviled by a MacGuffin chase that makes it generic. It’s the first half hour of the film, the beautifully moving story of a couple passing from youth to old age and relinquished dreams, that makes this
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Bruno Lochet | Coralie Russier | David Marsais | Grégoire Ludig | India Hair | Raphaël Quenard | Roméo Elvis
Michael says: “Most of French director Quentin Dupieux’s films begin with a simple, but completely bizarre and often ridiculous premise, that he is then able to spin into an entertaining yarn with some social commentary threaded in. With MANDIBLES, a
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Geeta Malik
Starring: Adil Hussain | Ashritha Kancharla | Manisha Koirala | Moses Das | Rish Shah | Sophia Ali | Thomas Kasp
Vicki says: “INDIA SWEETS AND SPICES is an Indian inter-generational coming of age film. It tries to take on too many themes and , as a result, it falls flat. It has some good moments and a fine performance by
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