Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.8 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif | Eva Mendes | Fairuza Balk | Jennifer Coolidge | Nicolas Cage | Val Kilmer
Thom says: “This film was an absolute blast and Herzog definitely has the last laugh. For months now folks have been moaning and wailing on the Internet about the horrible crime Herzog was committing by ‘remaking’ the Abel Ferrara classic
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: James Cameron
Starring: CCH Pounder | Giovanni Ribisi | Michelle Rodriguez | Sam Worthington | Sigourney Weaver | Stephen Lang | Zoe Saldana
Diane says: “From Variety: ‘a film of universal appeal that just about everyone whoever goes to the movies will need to see.’ Who’s going to see this? If you’ve seen it, do you agree? “I watched the trailer, and found
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Michel Ocelot
Starring: Cyril Mourali | Hiam Abbass | Karim M'Riba | Patrick Timsit | Rayan Mahjoub
Thom says: “AZUR & ASMAR was the 1st of the new screeners that I watched and it’s always cool to start off with a winner. God bless Jeff Pike for being responsible for this fabulous service! “While I had to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Őzcan Alper
Starring: Megi Kobaladze | Nino Lejava | Onur Saylak | Raife Yenigül | Serkan Keskin
Bruce says: “Yusuf is one of the Hamshen Armenians of northeastern Turkey, many of whom converted to Islam to avoid being eradicated during the pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that took the lives of hundreds of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yoav Shamir
Jason says: “If there’s high art and low art, advertising must be considered the lowest of them, with perhaps only grudging admission that any part of it can be considered art at all. Advertising is creative work, though, and for
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Stephen Soderbergh
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Demián Bichir | Julia Ormond | Oscar Isaac | Ramon Fernandez | Rodrigo Santoro
Jason says: “At various times, Steven Soderbergh’s ambitious Che Guevera project has been described as one very long picture and as two, and I’m not sure which is how it started and which is considered the definitive experience. To further
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Diane says: “Am I glad I saw this one! And gladder still to see Anvil’s decent sked of tour dates for the next couple of months (they’re playing in England now and will open for AC/DC in Foxborough next month).
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kyu-Dong Min
Starring: Ah-in Yu | Jae-wook Kim | Ji-ho Choi | Ji-hun Ju
Jason says: “Part of what makes seeing foreign popular cinema fun is that the genre barriers often aren’t quite in the same place, so while what you see is mostly familiar, it can quickly go to unexpected places. Seldom has
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Cherien Dabis
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Hiam Abbass | Joseph Ziegler | Melkar Muallem | Nisreen Faour
Bruce says: “Muna (Nisreen Faour) is a single parent raising her son Fadi (Melkar Muallem) in Bethlehem. Each day they spend considerable time negotiating checkpoints, often humiliated by Israeli soldiers. Muna works at a bank and Fadi attends private school
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Willem Defoe
Thom says: “I’m flat out going to warn you, without giving away any plot details, do not see this film if you are the tiniest bit disturbed by graphic torture scenes. It comes very close to being the most despairing
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