Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Anthony Nicholls | Dennis Price | Dirk Bogarde | Norman Bird | Peter Copley | Peter McEnery | Sylvia Syms
Philip says: “In 1961, U.K. director Basil Dearden did something remarkable. He made a big budget film starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Sims about homosexuality. The title of the film was VICTIM. Ironically instead of portraying the lead character as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Anne Revere | Elizabeth Taylor | Fred Clark | Keefe Brasselle | Montgomery Clift | Raymond Burr | Shelley Winters
Philip says: “George Stevens’ adaptation of An American Tragedy became the 1951 Oscar winning film, A PLACE IN THE SUN. Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, Stevens’ film follows the modest rise and fall of a nephew to a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: C. Aubrey Smith | George Sanders | Joan Fontaine | Judith Anderson | Laurence Olivier | Nigel Bruce | Reginald Denny
Philip says: “REBECCA is a classic on so many levels. It was Hitch’s first American film made in 1940 for David O. Selznick. Second, it was an eerie Gothic thriller based on the famous Daphne du Maurier novel. Third it stars
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Gregory La Cava
Starring: Adolphe Menjou | Andrea Leeds | Constance Collier | Gail Patrick | Ginger Rogers | Katharine Hepburn | Lucille Ball | Samuel S. Hinds
Philip says: “Edna Ferber’s adaptation of the stage play she wrote with George S. Kaufman won Best Picture from the NY Film Critics Circle and was nominated for four Oscars. STAGE DOOR is the kind of old film (1937 is
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Starring: Henry Wadsworth | Maureen O'Sullivan | Minna Gombell | Myrna Loy | Nat Pendleton | Porter Hall | William Powell
Philip says: “The 1930’s shone a little brighter thanks to the adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Thin Man serialized for the big screen by director W.S. ‘Woody’ Van Dyke. Stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as carefree sleuths Nick and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christopher Amos
Philip says: “I found the new documentary HATING PETER TATCHELL fascinating. I knew who Peter was and often see his name online, but his life story surprised and impressed me. Hailing from Australia, Tatchell’s made the U.K. his home for the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Penny Marshall
Starring: Ann Cusack | Anne Ramsay | Bitty Schram | Geena Davis | Lori Petty | Madonna | Megan Cavanagh | Rosie O’Donnell | Tom Hanks | Tracy Reiner
Philip says: “Penny Marshall’s love letter to women’s baseball, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN holds up beautifully nearly 30 years after its initial release. Weaving an all-American story wrapping feminism in the blanket of America’s favorite pastime proved box office
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Ali Larter | Holland Taylor | Jennifer Coolidge | Luke Wilson | Matthew Davis | Reese Witherspoon | Selma Blair | Victor Garber
Philip says: “LEGALLY BLONDE is my pass. It’s my one ridiculously pulpy Hollywood comedy I get to swoon over without any flack from friends or family. We all deserve one pass and LEGALLY BLONDE is mine. What starts out as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francine Parker
Philip says: “This nearly lost 1972 documentary, F.T.A.focuses on the Free Theater Associates, an anti-war variety show offering up an alternative to Bob Hope’s sexist revue as F.T.A. performs at Pan Pacific U.S. military bases. The idea came to Jane Fonda and Donald
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Bernie Casey | Buck Henry | Candy Clark | David Bowie | Jackson D. Kane | Rip Torn
Michael says: “On my journey to fill in gaps of my film-viewing history as triggered by mentions in the Brattle Film Podcast, I finally saw Nicolas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, famously starring David Bowie in one of
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