Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Kseniya Rappoport | Margherita Buy | Michele Placido | Pierfrancesco Favino
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS** “As the film begins we see Irena (Kseniya Rappoport) talking to the doorman of a luxury apartment building. She talks her way into becoming the charwoman for the public areas and soon she finagles her way into
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Joaquín Oristrell
Starring: Alex Brendemühl | Leonor Watling | Luis Tosar
Bruce says: “The Spanish are becoming quite proficient in the farce department. This delightful comedy is a period piece involving a Freud disciple named León (Alex Brendemühl) who suddenly disappears thereby creating havoc in his intersecting professional and family circles.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brett Harvey
Jay says: “At some point, Brett Harvey and Adam Scorgie should probably have changed the name of their documentary on the underground marijuana industry; the Union of the title isn’t mentioned until at least halfway through. THE UNION: THE BUSINESS
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Starring: Alicja Bachleda-Curus | Cesar Ramos | Kevin Kline | Linda Edmond | Marco Pérez | Paulina Gaitan
Jay says: “TRADE plays pretty rough, which is as it should be. If it didn’t, it could easily become just a suspense story that offers a thrill of horror rather than a nasty bit of business with just enough familiar
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Johnny To
Starring: Louis Koo | Simon Yam | Tian-lin Wang
Bruce says: “It is not necessary to see Johnnie To’s ELECTION before seeing TRIAD ELECTION but I would strongly recommend it, particularly for anyone who plans to see both films. In TRIAD ELECTION, two years have passed since the bloodshed
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Starring: Ha Jung Woo | Park Ji-Yeon | Seong Hyeon-A
Beth says: “The latest from Korea’s Kim Ki-duk. A woman undergoes secret cosmetic surgery then reappears as a new woman who romances her boyfriend – is it the ultimate sacrifice, to make yourself anew for love, or the ultimate test,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Daniel Day Lewis | Paul Dano
Michael says: “I caught this back in December but never got around to reviewing it. I have to tell you I was giddy for hours… even days after seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s decidedly bizarre adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Moussa Sene Absa
Starring: Ibrahima Mbaye | Lord Alajiman | Zéka La Plaine
Bruce says: “Billed as a rap musical TERANGA BLUES does indeed feature a character who is a rap singer recently deported from France and forced to return to Senegal with only 20 Euros to his name; however, Madiké (Lord Alajiman)
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: David Wain
Starring: Bobby Cannavale | Famke Janssen | Gretchen Mol | Justin Theroux | Ken Marino | Liev Schreiber | Olver Platt | Paul Rudd | Ron Silver | Winona Ryder
Michael says: “I had been looking forward to THE TEN, David Wain’s follow-up to WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, since I read about Winona Ryder playing a woman how has a relationship with a stolen ventriloquist’s dummy. THE TEN is an
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Arias
Starring: Kankurô Kudô | Yû Aoi | Yusuke Iseya
Jay says: “The decaying city is a staple of anime and science fiction (though TEKKON KINKREET doesn’t really fit that genre). It appears in many conventional urban genres, too, but they seldom have the ability to really show the audience
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