Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Anna Geislerová | Emília Vásáryová | Jana Brejchová | Jirí Schmitzer | Roman Luknár
Michael says: “I saw a strange preview for this film a few weeks ago, and I can’t decide whether or not it worked or not. I guess we have to see that it did work because I did go to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Danny Glover | Jack Black | Mia Farrow | Mos Def
Carolyn says: “Moderately interesting plot to experiment with some crazy special effects. 3 cats”
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Eran Kolirin
Starring: Imad Jabarin | Khalifa Natour | Ronit Elkabetz | Rubi Moskovitz | Saleh Bakri | Sasson Gabai | Uri Gavriel
Bruce says: “THE BAND’S VISIT is a gentle little film. A small Egyptian police band is invited to Israel to perform. The band arrives a day early and follows signs to a bus stop where they board a bus to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ed Pincus | Lucia Small
Michael says: “I have been waiting for Lucia Small, director of MY FATHER, THE GENIUS, to make another film; curious to see what direction she would take after the intensely personal examination of her father’s life and its affect on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Dan Stone | Patrick Gambuti Jr.
Bruce says: “In 1986 an international ban on whaling was initiated. Most countries have honored the ban but a few – Iceland, Japan and Norway, to be specific – are continuing their whaling unapologetically. Japan found a loop hole in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Starring: Fan Liao | Hanyu Zhang | Jun Hu | Yuan Wenkang
Jason says: “One probably wouldn’t name a war movie RETREAT!, although that’s what the assembly call of the film’s title means – fall back and regroup. There is, after all, a time for soldiers to be fierce and a time
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Bai Li | Carina Lau | Jacky Cheung | Lesley Cheung | Maggie Cheung
Jason says: “I saw and reviewed ASHES OF TIME three and a half years ago, when it played as part of a series of director Wong Kar-wai’s films at the Brattle Theatre. I was not particularly impressed at the time,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Starring: Ahmed Al Feshawy | Amr Waked | Hend Sabry | Menha Batraoui | Samah Anwar
Bruce says: “Occasionally I recognize that I am out of step with a filmmaker who clearly loves his or her characters while I sit there finding them deplorable or pathetic. THE AQUARIUM is a strange film. Watching it, I was
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Esteban Sapir
Starring: Alejandro Urdapilleta | Julieta Cardinali | Rafael Ferro | Valeria Bertuccelli
Jason says: “LA ANTENA opens with hands superimposed on a typewriter keyboard while a piano plays, and introduces us to its City Without a Voice by displaying it as the pages of a pop-up book. That’s a fanciful start to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ian McCrudden | Robbie Cavolina
Bruce says: “Anita O’Day was somewhat of a national treasure in her time. What a shame that today so few people are familiar with her music. O’Day’s remarkable career began in 1936 while still a teenager and continued to her
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