Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Neel
Bruce says: “Few artists have the integrity of Alice Neel. Neel viewed painting as a privilege and an obsession. ‘I had to paint,’ she would say. While her contemporaries reveled in the downtown abstract expressionist art scene, Alice remained outside
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Darryl Roberts
Michael says: “Darryl Roberts’ AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL kicked off a series of strong docs at Provincetown, with a theme that always intrigues me: America’s obsession with beauty culture. Reminiscent of the outstanding, Chlotrudis award-winning short documentary WET DREAMS AND FALSE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mary Lance
Bruce says: “Agnes Martin says ‘I’ve been born a hundred times, married a hundred times, given birth hundreds of times and died a hundred times. This time around I want to be alone.’ ‘You can‘t be an artist if you
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Christian Tafdrup | Mads Mikkelson | Meenal Patel | Mona Malm | Neeral Mulchandani | Rolf Lassgård | Sidse Babbet Knudson | Stine Fischer Christensen
Bruce says: “Probably the less said about Susanne Bier’s AFTER THE WEDDING the more enjoyable the viewing experience will be. A simple plot outline was all I had as background information before seeing the film; I was extremely glad not
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen | Nicolas Bro | Paprika Steen | Ulrich Thomsen
Beth C says: “This must be the first time I’ve ever favorably rated a film that got a 48 on METACRITIC. Usually they love a film that I hated but this time it’s the other way around. I found it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jean-Pascal Hattu
Starring: Bruno Todeshini | Cyril Troley | Valerié Donzelli
Bruce says: “Thematically speaking, 7 YEARS is sort of a French BREAKING THE WAVES in the way it plays with the notion of a surrogate sexual partner. Unlike BREAKING THE WAVES, Vincent (Bruno Todeshini) is prison bound, not bedridden. He
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Starring: Ayaka Onoue | Kenji Mizuhashi | Risa Mizuno | Satomi Hanamura | Yoshimi Kondou
Jason says: “I wish I’d watched and written about this movie when I actually purchased the DVD almost two years ago since, this is a great little movie that was only available on North American DVD for a lousy four
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Yong-hwa Kim
Starring: Ah-jung Kim | Jin-mo Ju | Yong-geon Kim
Jason says: “The thing about 200 POUNDS BEAUTY is that there’s no satisfying way to end it. The premise (fat girl becomes a beauty through extensive surgery) leads to the film either presenting radical, dangerous cosmetic surgery as a viable course
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Starring: Cristina Ciofu | Ion Sapdaru | Mircea Andreescu | Teodor Corban
Beth says: “This was a Rumanian film about a small town TV station owner/call-in show host who decides to mark the 16th anniversary of the Communist overthrow by having a special show, in which he asks two men to debate
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Marwan Hamed
Starring: Adel Imam | Nour El-Sherif | Youssra; Hend Sabri
Bruce says: “Opulent, expensive and larger than life, this adaptation of a best-selling Egyptian novel is the type of film one rarely sees anymore. Clocking in at nearly three hours, it’s both a Robert Altman-esque intersecting narrative ensemble piece and
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