Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Elena Rufanova | Eva Mattes | Leonid Mozgovoy | Peter Fitz
Thom says: “After having found FATHER & SON so provocative I decided to delve further into the Sokurov cannon. Hopefully this film will be a great companion piece to DOWNFALL, which I hope to see in the next two weeks.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Chris Weitz | Paul Weitz
Starring: Alyson Hannigan Chris Klein | Jason Biggs | Jennifer Coolidge | Shannon Elizabeth
Janet says: “Rented this from my library yesterday (with bonus scenes!) after years of curiosity. For a film that got so much press, it seemed quite ordinary. It has trouble getting traction between the big jokes, mostly because the lead
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Jacques Perrin | Jean Marais | Micheline Presle
Hilary says: “I encourage the local membership to go see DONKEY SKIN (Peau d’âne) at the Brattle this week — it’s a trippy good time! “Stylistically, Jacques Demy’s adaptation of a 17th-century fairy tale is somewhere between CAMELOT and WILLY WONKA
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Rick Sebac
Rob says: “Children’s show host and bastion of goodness Fred Rogers, the Presbyterian minister who became an American institution, is the subject of this wonderfully thorough and thoroughly wonderful tribute, made shortly after his death in February 2003. Hosted by
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Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Annu Mari | Jô Shishido | Kôji Nanbara | Mariko Ogawa
Tom G. says: “Filmed in Black and White, this 1967 Japanese thriller is engaging, beautiful and confusing. Both Takashi Miike and Quentin Tarentino have cited director Seijun Suzuki as a major influence, and one can easily, easily see a logical
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Christian Bale | John Bernthal | Matt Damon
Thom says: “So it appears with age some objectivity is almost totally lost. To be up front, I have absolutely no interest in cars, car races, nor anything to do with automobiles. I understand their need and usefulness but at
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Thom says: “This film is so brave and so unnerving that I find myself thinking about it and the heinous presence of child sexual abuse in our society weeks after seeing it. The director Neulinger and his sister were targeted
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Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: Amy Geller | Gerry Peary
Diane says: “What do you do when a competitor horns in on your territory? Specifically, how can liberal religion hold its own against the enthusiasm, reassuring convictions, and deliberate outreach of fundamentalist sects? This is the question of most interest
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dan Sallitt
Starring: Lorelei Romani | Norma Kuhling | Tallie Medel
Michael says: “Everyone who’s made it through college and into their 30’s has a friend like Jo. Often attractive, always charismatic, usually the center of attention, self-involved, and source for lots of unnecessary drama, these are friends who take up
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shola Amoo
Starring: Denise Black | Gbemisola Ikumelo | Nicholas Pinnock
Michael says: “THE LAST TREE is a coming-of-age story about a Nigerian-born boy named Femi who is growing up in England. For reasons we are not entirely certain of, Femi spends his early years in foster care with a nurturing
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