Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Starring: Cherry Pie Picache | Eugene Domingo | Jiro Manio | Kier Segundo
Bruce says: “Brillante Mendoza completed six feature films within a three year period, 2005-2007. He is working at a speed not seen since the salad days of Fassbinder although, age-wise, Mendoza (age 48) is about two decades behind Fassbinder (who
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Claire Forlani | Jamie Bell | John Paul Lawler | Lucy Holt | Sophia Myles
Bruce says: “David Mackenzie is succeeding in bringing unconventional stories to the screen such as THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS and YOUNG ADAM. MISTER FOE is a perfect companion piece for those earlier films. MISTER FOE is a coming-of-age tale which
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Fang Song | Hippolyte Girardot | Juliette Binoche | Simon Iteanu
Chris says: “A few years back, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien traveled to Japan to make CAFÉ LUMIÈRE, a charming, languid tribute to one of that country’s greatest filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu. In this, his first non-Asian effort, he has crafted the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Madonna
Starring: Eugene Hutz | Holly Weston | Richard E. Grant | Vicky McClure
Michael says: “I’m not sure what I expected from Madonna’s directorial debut, but I know the main reason why I came was because of a fairly positive review I read from the Berlin Film Festival. Had I dug a little
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kristian Levring
Starring: Lars Brygmann | Paprika Steen | Ulrich Thomsen
Bruce says: “Mikael (Ulrich Thomsen) is on six week leave from his job. Is he fighting boredom or depression? The answer seems apparent when his bother-in-law Frederik (Lars Brygmann) mentions that his hospital is involved in trials for a new
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Anne Sundberg | Ricki Stern
Bruce says: “Based on Naomi Wolf’s book of the same name, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg have chosen to present the material to the viewer as a series of Wolf’s lectures and interviews as well as gathering the opinions
Read the review...Eye in the Sky (Hong Kong; 90 min.) directed by:Nai-Hoi Yaustarring: Simon Yam; Tony Leung Ka Fai; Kate Tsui; Suet Lam; Maggie Siu Jason says: “It would not take a whole lot of tinkering to transform EYE IN THE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeremy Thomas
Starring: Elle May | Jaden Holle | Jeremy Thomas | John Knight | Katie Webber
Jason says: “It is a bit worrisome when, prior to a festival screening, the director is offering what can seem like excuses or explanations – they had less money than the short film that precedes it, but it is long
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Bruce says: “Like Ozu and Rohmer, Werner Herzog tends to revisit the same themes. That is not to say he is making the same film over and over; he is compiling a body of work that is forged together thematically,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Deborah Harry | Dennis Hopper | Patricia Clarkson | Penélope Cruz | Peter Sarsgaard
Michael says: “I missed ELEGY in the theatre last year, and was able to catch up with it on Blu-Ray this morning. It firmly propels Isabel Coixet into that category of talented filmmakers whose films I will not miss. Never
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