Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Alan Ball
Starring: Aaron Eckhart | Eugene Jones III | Maria Bello | Peter Macdissi | Summer Bishil | Toni Collette
Bruce says: “Jasira (Summer Bishil) is just thirteen. Her sexual awakening is triggered by a potpourri of clues. Most involve mixed messages. Her mother’s boyfriend offers to shave her pubic area; her whining, hubristic father is screwing his girlfriend within
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bruce McDonald
Starring: Ellen Page | Julian Richings | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Michael says: “This was surely the year of Ellen Page at the Toronto International Film Festival. After receiving well-deserved accolades for her fine comedic work in JUNO, she turns around a floors audiences in Bruce McDonald’s (‘Twitch City’; HIGHWAY 61)
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Pablo Larraín
Starring: Alfredo Castro | Amparo Noguero | Elsa Poblete | Hector Morales | Paola Lattus
Bruce says: “***Disgusting Spoilers*** “Who remembers Tony Romero? He is the character John Travolta immortalized in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, not high on my list of favorite films. It is not a particular treat to see Tony back on screen in
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Helen Hunt
Starring: Ben Shenkman | Bette Midler | Colin Firth | Helen Hunt | Matthew Broderick
Michael says: “I love this time of year… when I get to catch up on a lot of movies that I missed at the theatre in preparation for nominating. Through screeners, DVD rentals and borrowing from the library, it’s a
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring: Ashley Springer | Hale Appleman | Jess Weixler | John Hensley | Josh Pais
Jason says: “Every site I’ve seen that tags movies by genres lists TEETH as a horror movie, but I’m not sure that’s really the best description. Sure, if you’re a guy, the very concept of vagina dentata is scary as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guillame Canet
Starring: François Cluzet | Kristen Scott Thomas | Marie-Josée Croze | Nathalie Baye
Bruce says: “TELL NO ONE is the first of Harlan Coben’s novels to be adapted for the screen. This novel is not from Coben’s famous mystery series featuring sports agent Myron Bolitar. A film version of DEAL BREAKER, which is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Bruce says: “TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE would have been an entirely different experience had I not already seen Rory Kennedy’s superior GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB and Michael Winterbottom’s more experimental ROAD TO GUANTANAMO, two films which made it to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Oren Jacobs
Bruce says: “CONSTANTINE’S SWORD is an adaptation of Boston Globe columnist James Carroll’s 2001 book Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews – A History, an examination of the roots of religious hatred and violence. Carroll, also a novelist and
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Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Catherine Keener | Hope Davis | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Samantha Morton
Marilyn says: “The most important film we caught in Toronto was SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK written and directed by Charlie Kaufman who said at the Q&A that he appreciated the audience very much because they clearly ‘got it.’ The film starring
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Doug Pray
Julie says: “I was somewhat mesmerized by SURFWISE. Director Doug Pray tells the story of Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz, a Stanford educated doctor and renowned surf guru who chose to raise his 9 children in a somewhat ‘unconventional’ way (although Paskowitz
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