Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Moon-saeng Kim | Park Sunmin
Starring: Andrew Ableson | Cathy Cavadini | David Naughton | Joon-ho Chung
Michael says: “SKY BLUE is a bit of South Korean anime that fails (for the most part) visually, and fails bigtime in terms of story. It’s funny that I wasn’t expecting an anime film to fall prey to the utterly
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Frank Miller | Quentin Tarantino | Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Benicio Del Toro | Bruce Willis | Elijah Wood | Jessica Alba | Mickey Rourke | Rosario Dawson
Hilary says: “If you’re looking for pure big-screen entertainment and don’t mind violence, however cartoonish and hyperbolic, check out SIN CITY. “This flick appeals to both my inner film noir nerd and affection for comic book/graphic novel adaptations. I do
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Claire Danes | Jason Schwartzmann | Steve Martin
Chris says: “Why, why, why do I get all hyped up about adaptations of my favorite books, since they rarely turn out well? Steve Martin’s novella surprised me, not only by being so unexpectedly bittersweet, but also in the way
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Starring: Anlian Yao | Bin Li | Hao Qin | Xueyang Wang | Yang Tang | Yuanyuan Gao
Chris says: “The first film I saw [at the Toronto International Film Festival] was one of the very best, so good that I worried it would set an impossible standard for the rest of the festival. Set in the Chinese
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Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Alan Tudyk | Gina Torres | Nathan Fillion
Tom says: “Let’s get this out of the way right now. SERENITY > RISE OF THE SITH. By a long, long shot. Lucas should have hired on Joss Whedon to write the latest Trilogy fiasco. The characters and dialog are
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andrew Douglas
Bruce says: “SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS is an ambitious documentary from director Andrew Douglas, a film I admire more than like. The premise of the film is that poor white southerners have but two paths to take in life:
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alice Wu
Starring: Ato Essandoh | Brian Yang | David Shih | Guang Lan Koh | Jessica Hecht | Jin Wang | Joan Chen | Lynn Chen | Michelle Krusiec
Michael says: “First-time filmmaker Alice Wu has created a delightful, blend of romantic comedy and culture clash in her story about the multi-generational, Chinese-American family. Wil is a successful young surgeon in New York City, but each Friday night she
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Schorr
Starring: Harald Warmbrunn | Horst Krause | Karl Fred Müller
Johanna says: “Am I the only one who has seen this movie?? I haven’t seen any mention of it in any of the recent discussions. I’m not a great review writer, but this film is really worthwhile. Although it may
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liam Lynch
Michael says: “My experience with Sarah Silverman amounted to her brief appearances in the recent documentary THE ARISTOCRATS, but an invitation to the Sarah Silverman party was reason enough for me to catch her first performance film, SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Börje Ahlstedt | Erland Josephson | Liv Ullman
Bruce says: “Very few of the world’s top directors have ever left their careers on the highest of notes. That cannot be said of Ingmar Bergman. His SARABAND has the touch of genius, revealing the wisdom of age but none
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