Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Miguel Albaladejo
Starring: David Castillo | Empar Ferrer | José Luis García Pérez
Michael says: “Many of you know how much I tend to dislike American films that tackle gay subject matter. I find that other countries tend to make better films dealing with the same subject matter (although I tend to think
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Aure Atika | Emanuelle Devos | Gilles Cohen | Jonathan Zaccaï | Niels Arestrup | Romain Duris
Chris says: “American remakes of French films are usually trite, dumbed-down abominations, so does it follow that a French remake of an American film should have the opposite effect? I can’t fully say—I haven’t seen the original, James Toback’s FINGERS
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Heidi Ewing | Rachel Grady
Bruce says: “Twenty African-American boys, age 12, are selected each year to attend a two year program in Kenya. The Baraka School was built buy money from The Abel Foundation in Baltimore as an experiment to save some of Baltimore’s
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Sijie Dai
Starring: Kun Chen | Shuangbao Wang | Xun Zhou | Ye Liu
Scot says: ” The novel of Balzac has been making the rounds of book clubs lately, so to be honest, I was kind of prepared for this to be a let down. Often, when a book or a film is
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner | Isild Le Besco | Noémie Lvovsky | Valéry Zeitoun
Bruce says: “If only the last 90% of BACKSTAGE were as good as the beginning. – the first scenes were out of this world. Lauren (Emmanuelle Seigner) is a French pop star so unlike any female musician in America she
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Daniel Geller | Dayna Goldfine
Michael says: “BALLETS RUSSES does for ballet what BROADWAY: THE GOLDEN YEARS did for Broadway. The film documents the history of the Ballet Russes, the ballet company (and its offshoot) that defines ballet today through archival footage and interviews with
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Rating: 2.3
Director: Niels Mueller
Starring: Don Cheadle | Naomi Watts | Sean Penn
Barbara says: “Extremely bleak film which was ‘inspired’ by a true event. For 90% of it I thought Sean Penn was doing a fair imitation of Dustin Hoffman. For the remainder he reprised his role as the mentally challenged character
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Starring: Daniel Auteuil | José Garcia | Sandrine Kiberlain
Michael says: “I decided to check out this trifle of a film because Daniel Auteuil (THE WIDOW OF ST. PIERRE, THE GIRL ON THE BRIDGE) was the star. Shades of THE CLOSET, APRÈS VOUS, is, for the most part, a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Provenza
Michael says: “Before entering this film, I told the seven other people with me that I wasn’t a fan of stand-up comedians. Here we were about to enter a documentary featuring dozens of stand-up comedians telling and reflecting on a
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Rating: 3 cats
Diane says: “This year’s version of the show compiled by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt doesn’t reach the quality of the earlier one I saw. The best of the 12 shorts is Ward 13, an inexplicably successful horror Claymation. Also
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