Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Maher Sabry
Starring: Ayman | Julian Gonzalez Esparza | Jwana | Mehammed Amadeus | Munir Bayyiri | Youssef El-Shareif
Bruce says: “ALL MY LIFE is billed as the first gay Egyptian film. It has been banned in Egypt which should not come as a big surprise since the film contains sex scenes that border on soft porn. Maher Sabry
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: R. W. Goodwin
Starring: Dan Lauria | Eric McCormack | Jenni Baird | Jody Thompson | Robert Patrick
Jason says: “If you go to enough genre-oriented film festivals or keep an eye out for would-be cult films, you will probably feel like you see a new movie like ALIEN TRESPASS every month or two – a fifties sci-fi
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Alexander H. Browne | Christopher Browne
Diane says: “From the Boston Jewish Film Festival, this docu is about a soccer team from the Arab-Israeli town of Sakhnin in Galilee. The team, made up of Arabs, Jews and foreigners, has it ups and downs compounded by anti-Arab
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Havana Marking
Michael says: “In a culture where dancing is forbidden, it seems strange that Afghan Idol, the middle eastern country’s cousin to the very popular western television reality show, American Idol, would be so incredibly popular… or perhaps not so strange.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Arsinée Khanjian | Devon Bostick | Kenneth Welsh | Scott Speedman
Michael says: “Atom Egoyan is my favorite filmmaker, so I am predisposed to enjoy his films. I like the themes he explores and the way he explores them. With his latest film, ADORATION, he once again explores the nature of
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Cheang Pou-Soi
Starring: Alexander Chan | Louis Koo | Michelle Ye | Richie Ren | Shui-Fan Fung | Suet Lam
Bruce says: “Not often do I wish that a foreign film would be remade by Hollywood but ACCIDENT is the perfect candidate. My hope is that some clarity would be added to the film, thus ratcheting it up the cat
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Diane says: “Even though it’s only 80 minutes long, I’m giving myself permission to stop watching this screener. ACT OF GOD is a docu about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. Intriguing, no? “Early on, there’s a ten-minute
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Ahmad Mehranfar | Golshifteh Farahani | Mani Haghighi | Marila Zare’I | Peyman Moaadi | Rana Azadvar | Saber Abbar | Shahab Hosseini | Taraneh Alidoosti
Bruce says: “ABOUT ELLY is gathering laurels on more the one continent. Director Asghar Farhadi won directorial award at the Berlin Film Festival earlier in 2009 and the film recently won the Best Picture award at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jean Mach | Nicolas Alberny
Starring: Ahlima Mhamdi | Alain Azerot | Eloïssa Florez | Matthew Géczy | Robert William Bradford
Jason says: “The ‘virtual country’ has been a favorite device of science fiction authors for a while now. The idea is that an online community would grow large and organized (and, perhaps, wealthy) enough to be more of a player
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tatia Rosenthal
Starring: Joel Edgerton | Josef Ber | Leon Ford | Tom Budge
Jason says: “Movies made up of a group of intersecting stories often get downright peculiar. After all, one of the basic ideas is that the people passing in and out of our lives that we think of as background lead
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