Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Michael Burke
Starring: Emile Hirsch | Richard Jenkins | Tom Guiry
Bruce says: “THE MUDGE BOY opens with a woman riding her bike down a bucolic path, a stack of eggs carefully placed in her bicycle basket. As she reaches a knoll she dismounts and walks the bike to the top
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Rating: 3.25
Chris says: “After reading Gerald Peary’s scathing review earlier this year in his Cannes 2004 report (likening it to the wretched LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!), I feared the worst for this biopic about the young Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. “It’s not nearly
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Tjebbo Penning
Starring: Diana Kent | Eric van der Donk | Marcel Faber | Paul Freeman | Susan Lynch
Barbara says: “I didn’t like this movie at all despite some pretty scenery of the Irish countryside. I found it very disjointed and rather cruel. Paul Freeman has one expression throughout and the longer I watched him, the more I
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Anne Reid | Cathryn Bradshaw | Daniel Craig
Michael says: “Motherhood. In the arts, and to a certain extent, in life, the mother figure is laden with so much baggage. We all have certain expectations when it comes to mothers. Nurturing, self-sacrificing (remember BAMBI?), caring, encouraging. Director Roger
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Starring: Fatoumata Coulibaly | Maimouna Hélène Diarra | Rasmané Ouédraogo | Salimata Traoré
Bruce says: “MOOLAADÉ is a tale about female genital mutilation, a triumph of rationality over tradition. For years many cultures in Africa have practiced the ritual of female circumcision. Performed crudely with more attention to ritual than health and safety
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Patty Jenkins
Starring: Bruce Dern | Charlize Theron | Cristina Ricci | Pruitt Taylor-Vince | Scott Wilson
Peg says: “Saw this yesterday. A very gripping and intense character study of a female serial killer (based upon a true story). Charlize Theron is Aileen, an uneducated but resilient woman who has worked as a prostitute since she was
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Anthony Mackie | Clint Eastwood | Hilary Swank | Jay Baruchel | Margo Martindale | Mike Colter | Morgan Freeman
Diane says: ** SPOILERS ALERT! ** “There was a thread a couple of weeks ago about all movies being good (for their intended audience). If they are, why do we need Chlotrudis? And speaking of bad movies….. “I don’t know
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Director: Vicente Amorim
Starring: Carol Castro | Cláudia Abreu | Manoel Sebastião Alves Filho | Ravi Ramos Lacerda | Wagner Moura
Bruce says: “This is a lovely but somewhat lacking film. Director Vicente Amorim tells the story of a family of seven who travels from northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro so that the father can find decent work that will
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Starring: Chun-hao Tuan | Jack Kao | Qi Shu | Yi-Hsuan Chen
Hilary says: “I was trying to fight it, but I gotta be a contrarian — I thought MILLENNIUM MAMBO was a complete waste of great cinematography. I skipped the discussion afterwards because I had nothing positive to say beyond the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bruce Sinofsky | Joe Berlinger
Michael says: “One of the measures of a successful documentary, for me, is making me interested in a subject or subjects that I never in my wildest dreams would have thought to be interested in. Heavy Metal music, and more
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