Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Fabrice Luchini | Gerard Depardieu | Judith Godrèche | Karin Viard
Thom says: “Earlier on in the beginning of his career Ozun showed he might well be on the way to become one of the great French directors but lately he seems to have lost his way. I was fascinated, while
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Fred Cavayé
Starring: Claire Perot | Elena Anaya | Gérard Lanvin | Gilles Lellouche | Mireille Perrier | Roschdy Zem
Jason says: “POINT BLANK is not a French remake of the classic 1967 John Boorman flick that starred Lee Marvin; that would require being mean down to its very bones, and this one is a shade or two warmer than
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wim Wenders
Bruce says: “For twenty years Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch planned on making this documentary. Wenders could not get started on the project because he could not figure out how to put her choreography on film. Finally, he decided to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: Da-wit Lee | Hira Kim | Joeng-hie Yun | Nae-sang Ahn | Yong-taek Kim
Ibad says: “POETRY is a fascinating and often heartbreaking story focusing around an older woman desperate for fulfillment, vision, and control over her thoughts and memories. At the center of it is a behemoth of a performance by Jeong-he Yoon,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicolás Goldbart
Starring: Daniel Hendler | Federico Luppi | Jazmin Stuart | Yayo Guridi
Jason says: “In most zombie/contagion movies, the point where the tension really cranks up is when, after braving the various horrors to get to what should be a safe place, the characters discover that the greatest danger isn’t out there;
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anne Renton
Starring: Elizabeth Peña | Emily Deschanel | Jason Ritter | Kathleen Turner | Richard Chamberlain
Chris says: “For film festivals from Cannes to Toronto, it’s usually a safe bet that the opening night film will not be the fest’s pick of the litter. Those selected for the Provincetown International Film Festival (now in its 13th
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrew Rossi
Diane says: “Had resisted seeing this one for so long, but… “The main thrust of the docu, about how the Web, social media, etc. are killing newspapers, is a stale story by now. What excited me were the stories of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Dee Rees
Starring: Aasha Davis | Adepero Oduye | Charles Parnell | Kim Wayans | Pernell Walker | Sahra Mellesse
Michael says: “Saw PARIAH last week, and I want to urge anyone who is heading out to the movies this week to try to catch it before nominations. PARIAH is the story of a young African-American lesbian in high school
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Jun Kunimura | Kippei Shiina | Ryo Kase | Takeshi Kitano | Tomokazu Miura
Jason says: “Takeshi Kitano has apparently been doing unusual stuff lately, with GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER and TAKEHSHIS apparently being considered weird for even Japan. Those projects haven’t been doing quite so well, so Kitano has gone back to the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
Diane says: “Doc about middle-aged punk rockers becoming ‘F’athers. Snippets of interviews about men teaching street-crossing rules to their kids after a career of being anti-authority, being accepted by other preschool parents despite all those nasty tattoos, blaming their parents
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