Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring: Ashley Springer | Hale Appleman | Jess Weixler | John Hensley | Josh Pais
Jason says: “Every site I’ve seen that tags movies by genres lists TEETH as a horror movie, but I’m not sure that’s really the best description. Sure, if you’re a guy, the very concept of vagina dentata is scary as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guillame Canet
Starring: François Cluzet | Kristen Scott Thomas | Marie-Josée Croze | Nathalie Baye
Bruce says: “TELL NO ONE is the first of Harlan Coben’s novels to be adapted for the screen. This novel is not from Coben’s famous mystery series featuring sports agent Myron Bolitar. A film version of DEAL BREAKER, which is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Bruce says: “TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE would have been an entirely different experience had I not already seen Rory Kennedy’s superior GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB and Michael Winterbottom’s more experimental ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, two films which made it to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Oren Jacobs
Bruce says: “CONSTANTINE’S SWORD is an adaptation of Boston Globe columnist James Carroll’s 2001 book Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews – A History, an examination of the roots of religious hatred and violence. Carroll, also a novelist and
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Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Catherine Keener | Hope Davis | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Samantha Morton
Marilyn says: “The most important film we caught in Toronto was SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK written and directed by Charlie Kaufman who said at the Q&A that he appreciated the audience very much because they clearly ‘got it.’ The film starring
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Doug Pray
Julie says: “I was somewhat mesmerized by SURFWISE. Director Doug Pray tells the story of Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz, a Stanford educated doctor and renowned surf guru who chose to raise his 9 children in a somewhat ‘unconventional’ way (although Paskowitz
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Hideaki Ito | Kaori Momoi | Kôichi Satô | Masanobu Andô | Yusuke Iseya
Jason says: “As much as I love Takashi Miike for being an outrageous filmmaker who does unpredictable things, I sometimes wonder if that can be a double-edged sword. SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO is unabashedly a gimmick movie; if you’ve heard about
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ole Bornedal
Starring: Jonas Wandschneider | Mollie Maria Gilmartin | Nikolaj Falkenberg-Klok | Paprika Steen | Ulrich Thomsen
Michael says: “This Danish science fiction/comedy/suspense film hits all the right notes, especially with the casting of the divine Paprika Steen in the title role. What’s a willful and rowdy class of students to do when they discover that the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stuart Gordon
Starring: Mena Suvari | Rukiya Bernard | Russell Hornsby | Stephen Rea
Jason says: “STUCK is based on a true story that made headlines a few years back, although much-beloved cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon has changed almost all the details to make a feature-length film out of it. That’s fine, though; the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Starring: Haiyu Xiang | Hong Wei Wong | Lin Zhou | Sanming Han | Tao Zhao | Zhubin Li
Bruce says: “Anyone who has seen THE WORLD will likely expect great things from Jia Zhang-ke, one of China’s ascending directorial stars. While THE WORLD was not a totally satisfying film it did portend great things to come. Happily, the
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