Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chris Bell
Chris says: “As a short kid growing up in Poughkeepsie in the 1980s, Christopher Bell and his brothers Mark and Mike were picked-on outcasts until the tremendously pumped-up likes of Hulk Hogan and Arnold Schwarzenegger came along and saturated American
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Delaney
Jason says: “NOT YOUR TYPICAL BIGFOOT MOVIE isn’t really about cryptozoology. It may have started out that way, but given how little actual information one is likely to find about the mythical creature and how unlikely it is that a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Beth Murphy
Jason says: “Humanity is still around as a species because most of its members are basically good. They need to be, because one person giving into his or her more destructive impulses can create damage that require the actions of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Santosh Sivan
Starring: Jennifer Ehle | Linus Roache | Nandita Das | Rahul Bose
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS** “During the British Raj, Britain’s nearly 100-year rule of India, Britain attempted to maintain a myth of white male supremacy while raping a country many times its size of natural resources. To say that the Brits were
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Anna Geislerová | Emília Vásáryová | Jana Brejchová | Jirí Schmitzer | Roman Luknár
Michael says: “I saw a strange preview for this film a few weeks ago, and I can’t decide whether or not it worked or not. I guess we have to see that it did work because I did go to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Danny Glover | Jack Black | Mia Farrow | Mos Def
Carolyn says: “Moderately interesting plot to experiment with some crazy special effects. 3 cats”
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Eran Kolirin
Starring: Imad Jabarin | Khalifa Natour | Ronit Elkabetz | Rubi Moskovitz | Saleh Bakri | Sasson Gabai | Uri Gavriel
Bruce says: “THE BAND’S VISIT is a gentle little film. A small Egyptian police band is invited to Israel to perform. The band arrives a day early and follows signs to a bus stop where they board a bus to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ed Pincus | Lucia Small
Michael says: “I have been waiting for Lucia Small, director of MY FATHER, THE GENIUS, to make another film; curious to see what direction she would take after the intensely personal examination of her father’s life and its affect on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Dan Stone | Patrick Gambuti Jr.
Bruce says: “In 1986 an international ban on whaling was initiated. Most countries have honored the ban but a few – Iceland, Japan and Norway, to be specific – are continuing their whaling unapologetically. Japan found a loop hole in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Starring: Fan Liao | Hanyu Zhang | Jun Hu | Yuan Wenkang
Jason says: “One probably wouldn’t name a war movie RETREAT!, although that’s what the assembly call of the film’s title means – fall back and regroup. There is, after all, a time for soldiers to be fierce and a time
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