Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis | Emlyn Williams | Gary Merrill
Thom says: ” When some 20 years ago I started a must-see list for actors, the first actor I added to the list was Bette Davis, and upon doing so I realized that there were actually dozens of her films
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt | Leonardo DiCaprio | Margot Robbie
Thom says: “I’m the first to admit it, I just am not a fan of Quentin Tara ntino (the only film of his I’ve really liked [&, yes, I’ve seen all of them] was THE HATEFUL EIGHT). But this shoddy
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Imelda Staunton | Lesley Nicol | Maggie Smith | Michael Fox | Michelle Dockery | Stephen Campbell Moore
Thom says: “This is an absurdly easy film to review because it’s nearly impossible to believe that anyone who loved the mega-successful television series from 2010 wouldn’t also praise this highly entertaining affair. Director Engler has done only one other
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Director: Hiroshi Hamazaki | Kôjirô Tsuruoka | Nanako Shimazaki | Satoshi Kon | Takayuki Hirao | Takuji Endo
Starring: Liam O'Brien | Mamiko Noto | Michael McConnohie | Shôzô Îzuka | Toshihiko Seki
Tom G. says: “I promise, promise, that I won’t review anime series often, if ever again. However, I thought this may be of interest of those of you who enjoyed Satoshi Kon’s other works Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and/or Tokyo
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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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