Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Starring: August Diehl | Devid Striesow | Karl Markovics
Philip says: “Austria’s first Oscar win for Best Foreign Language Film, DIE FÄLSCHER (THE COUNTERFEITERS) proves to be a complicated exercise on prisoner ethics in the midst of the Holocaust horror. All kinds of questions arise in this film regarding
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cheick Fantamady Camara
Starring: Alex Ogou | Moussa Keita | Tella Kpomahou
Bruce says: “Many films from Africa today are focusing on the heavy weight an average African must bear – the combined weight of tradition, politics and religion. CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY is a superb black comedy about the cultural complexities engulfing
Read the review...The Class (France; 128 min.) directed by: Laurent Cantetstarring: François Bégaudeau, Esmèralda Ouertani, Louise Grinberg, Boubacar Touré, Carl Nanor, Wei Huang, Rachel Régulier, Franck Keita Bruce says: “Laurent Cantet burst on the scene with the admirable first effort, HUMAN
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bradley Beesley | George Salisbury | Wayne Coyne
Starring: Steve Burns | Steven Drozd | Wayne Coyne
Jeff says: “My son described it as a cross between DARK STAR and ERASERHEAD. “The first human colony on Mars seems doomed. The capacitor on the main oxygen generating unit has burned out, all the spares are gone, and the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Kitty Zhang Yugi | Lei Huang | Stephen Chow
Julie says: “I thought CJ7 was a lovely movie. I highly recommend it. I believe it was mentioned during the nominations committee. Has Chlotrudis ever had a category for comedy? This along with PING PONG PLAYA would have been great
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Guido Santi | Tina Mascara
Michael says: “This was the film that Chlotrudis co-presented at Ptown, and I was very pleased by the nearly packed house at the Crown & Anchor. CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY beautifully tells the story of the thirty-year relationship
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Director: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Ahmad Razvi | Alejandro Palanco | Carlos Zapata | Isamar Gonzales
Tony says: “This is a nice movie about cars. Actually more about parts of cars. I don’t really know anything about cars, but it’s more about this kid and his sister. It all seems to take place near Shea Stadium,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Clark Gregg
Starring: Anjelica Houston | Brad William Henke | Kelly Macdonald | Sam Rockwell
Michael says: “I’m not sure why, but I had high hopes for CHOKE, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel. Victor Mancini is a sex addict attending, but not really involved with, other than physically, a recovery program. His mother
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Chow Yun-fat | Guang Li | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Michelle Yeoh | Radha Mitchell
Julie says: “On another note I just saw THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI based on the true life story of George Hogg. The movie went into development of character relationships a bit more thoroughly than SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE… and deserved better
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joel Hopkins
Starring: Dustin Hoffman | Eileen Atkins | Emma Thompson | Kathy Baker; | Liane Balaban
Jason says: “Looking at the seven-year gap in Joel Hopkins’s filmography makes me glad that, as much as I like movies, I’m not trying to make them. After all, JUMP TOMORROW had to have been considered something of a success
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