Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Satoshi Kon
Starring: Kôichi Yamadera | Megumi Hayashibara | Tôru Furuya
Jason says: “That star rating generally indicates that PAPRIKA is a nearly perfect film, which I’ll admit isn’t the case. Here’s the thing, though – there is just so much good stuff crammed into it that I’m willing to overlook that.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne | Alfonso Cuarón | Christopher Doyle | Ethan Coen | Gus Van Sant | Isabel Coixet | Joel Coen | Olivier Assayas | Tom Tykwer | Walter Salles | Wes Craven
Starring: Fanny Ardant | Gerard Depardieu | Julie Bataille | Juliette Binoche | Leïla Bekhti | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Margo Martindale | Melchior Derouet | Seydou Boro | Steve Buscemi | Willem Dafoe
Bruce says: “Twenty two directors join together for twenty short stories about love, each set in a different arrondissmont in Paris. The directors approach love from different angles. Some are dead serious, some bittersweet and others, quite amusing. By the
Read the review...The Orphanage (Spain/Mexico; 105 min.) directed by: Juan Antonio Bayonastarring: Belén Rueda; Fernando Cayo; Roger Princep; Mabel Rivera; Montserrat Carulla; Andrés Gertrúdix Julie says: “I’m not much one for ghost stories, but this incredibly well made Spanish film was excellent.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Starring: Bojana Novakovic | Dragan Jovanovic | Lazar Ristovski | Mira Banjac | Nebojsa Glogovac | Nebojsa Milovanovic | Slavko Stimac
Bruce says: “THE OPTIMISTS is a series of five vignettes about those who more or less take advantage of the situation rather than rise to the occasion. The first is about a hypnotist who visits a peasant village. The hapless
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Starring: Marijke Pinoy | Nand Buyl | Viviane De Muynck
Bruce says: “This film is a rarity because it features a central character that is not particularly likeable yet his story is funny and illustrative of a major problem facing communities worldwide – what to do with the aged. “Lucien
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Geun-shik Jo
Starring: Byung-hun Lee | Hae-eun Lee | Se-eun Lee | Su-Ae
Jason says: “The late 1960s were a tumultuous time in Korea’s history (but what part of the 20th Century wasn’t?). That’s a non factor through much of ONCE IN A SUMMER, which is a likable if kind of lightweight romance…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Carney
Starring: Danuse Ktrestova | Glen Hansard | Markéta Irglová
Bruce says: “Curious how such a film could become a critic’s darling. Using two non-professional actors John Carney tells a story about songwriters who meet on the streets of Dublin and connect in more ways than one. Or do they?
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Charles Ferguson
Bruce says: “Critics of the Bush Administration’s war in Iraq have been quick to disagree with almost every important decision made along the way. Dismissed as naysayers and accused of lacking patriotism, the critics had difficulty disproving decisions for the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tunde Kelani
Starring: Ayo Badmus | Seyi Fasuyi | Sola Asedeko
Bruce says: “The African films I’ve seen recently have all been quite melodramatic; THE NARROW PATH is no exception. Awero (Sola Asedeko), a young village girl is beautiful and much in demand as a potential wife for men in neighboring
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Pratibha Parmar
Michael says: “The Provincetown International Film Festival kicked off with a misstep with this cloying, clumsily scripted film about an Indian family living in Scotland. Nina returns to Glasgow from London for her father’s funeral after fleeing her family and
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