Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Julia Roberts | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Tom Hanks
Bruce says: “CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR is not a film I was looking forward to seeing. To my surprise it was my favorite among the Hollywood year-end fare. Had I thought it through I might have not been so surprised. After
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Linda Hattendorf
Michael says: “Most filmmakers should be so lucky to come across Jimmy Mirikitani, an elderly Japanese-American man who was living on the streets of lower Manhattan in 2001. A self-proclaimed ‘Grand Master’ of an artist (with the work to back
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gaston Biraben
Starring: Bárbara Lombardo | Osvaldo Santoro | Susana Campos
Bruce says: “In the 70’s Argentina had a Dirty War. Those who criticized or opposed the government were frequently disappeared. Over 30,000 missing persons have been reported. What is lesser known is many of the women captured during that time
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Alon Freidman | Daniela Virtzer | Ohad Knoller
Bruce says: “Having loved Eytan Fox’s last film, WALK ON WATER, I greeted THE BUBBLE with great enthusiasm. I was hoping for a masterpiece. That clearly is not the case. In spite of examining up-to-the-minute issues Fox has made a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zoe R. Cassavetes
Starring: Drea de Matteo | Justin Theroux | Melvil Poupaud | Parker Posey
Chris says: “Here’s a tale we’ve heard before: Nora (Parker Posey), a woman in her mid-30’s, is in pre-midlife crisis mode. Her administrative hotel job neither challenges nor fulfills her and she has yet to truly fall in love. Substitute
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Jude Law | Juliette Binoche | Robin Wright Penn | Vera Farmiga
Bruce says: “It’s hard to image how a film with so much potential could leave one feeling totally empty but Anthony Minghella’s flat, soulless BREAKING AND ENTERING does just that. Minghella’s script is the basic problem. It is obvious where
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Gretchen Krich | Jake Morgan-Scharhon | Maya Lawson | Sullivan Brown | Todd Moore
Beth says: “Guy Maddin. His latest, a semi-autobiographical silent film, with a live musical accompaniment, a narrator and a foley effects crew. Pretty much unmissable, really, even if I don’t always get Maddin – I love silent films shown with
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Isidore Rosmarin
Bruce says: “As the camera pans over acts of violence, serene countrysides or samples of everyday life in Israel, a written paragraph prefaces each BLOOD AND TEARS chapter. Covering the battle between Israelis and Palestinians, starting with the Turkish and
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Markie Hancock
Chris says: “Markie Hancock’s middle-class childhood in Altoona, PA was typical in every way except for one: she was raised as a Fundamentalist Christian. Later, as an adult, she came out as a lesbian and renounced her faith. This documentary
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Starring: Magdyal Ugaz | Melania Urbina | Montserrat Carulla
Bruce says: “Having seen STATE OF FEAR and THE FALL OF FUJIMORI, the political background of BLACK BUTTERFLY was infinitely more understandable than it might otherwise have been. Those films chronicled the Fujimori presidency and its gradual phasing into a
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