Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Dan Klores | Fisher Stevens
Hilary says: “This documentary gives new weight to the maxim that some people’s truth is stranger than fiction. “Burt Pugach and Linda Riss met and embarked on a rocky romance in the late ’50s. Burt was a successful ambulance-chasing lawyer
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodrigo Moerno
Starring: Cristina Villamor | Julio Chávez | Osmar Núñez
Bruce says: “Custodio translates as bodyguard in English. Ruben (Julio Chávez) is a personal bodyguard for the Planning Minister (Osmar Núñez) in the Argentine government. The Minister is a social animal – weaving work and pleasure as he darts from
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kim Massee
Starring: Diego Mestanza | Françoise Klein | Thierry Levaret
Bruce says: “COWBOY ANGELS begins with an eleven year old playing pinball in a smoky bar. We can tell it is late by the apparent drunkenness of the patrons. His mother (Françoise Klein) is at the bar, spilling her drinks
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Alexandra Maria Lara | Harry Treadaway | James Anthony Pearson | Joe Anderson | Sam Riley | Samantha Morton
Chris says: “Why did Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis hang himself at the age of 23? Was it misery brought on by marital infidelity, an uneasy mixture of meds prescribed for his epilepsy, stress at the onset of fame, or
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring: Beth Grant | Javier Bardem | Josh Brolin | Kelly McDonald | Tommy Lee Jones | Woody Harrelson
Barbara says: “Definitely one of my favorites this year. A film that makes you think about chance and how we react to what life throws at us. Hard to figure out who the heroes really are. The Coens have done
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Starring: Arnaud Mouithys | Claudia Tagbo | Janine Sutto | Jean-Pierre Cassell | Olivier Gourmet | Paul Ahmarani
Beth says: “I have to confess that I succumbed to that festival affliction – eyes falling shut midfilm – during this film, but thankfully figured out rather quickly what I missed, and that it wasn’t a significant plot point, whew!
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Wong
Starring: Brian Raffi | H.P. Mendoza | Jake Moreno | L.A. Renigen | Sigrid Sutter
Michael says: “This past week at the Sunday Eye Opener, we got to act as a bit of an informal test screening audience for a new film called COLMA: THE MUSICAL. I was contacted by the film’s distributor, Eric d’Arbeloff,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dalia Hager | Vardit Bilu
Starring: Katia Zinbris | Naama Schendar | Smadar Sayar
Beth says: “This film received low ratings on netflix, rotton tomatoes, and metacritic (~60%). But I really liked it. This film is a about a friendship between two young adult women, Mirit (Neama Shendar) and Smadar (Smadar Sayar), fulfilling their
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Micha X. Peled
Bruce says: “The subject of CHINA BLUE is the denim industry in China. Less than twenty years ago it was not possible for those living in rural areas to migrate to cities where work in factories was plentiful. The Chinese
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Ebru Ceylan | Nazan Kirilmas | Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Bruce says: “While I enjoyed DISTANT, Celylan’s last film, I found its many flaws curbed my enthusiasm. I have not seen Ceylan’s earlier films so I have no way of knowing whether there was ever an inkling of such an
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