Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: C. Jay Cox
Starring: Amber Benson | Jacqueline Bisset | Mary Kay Place | Rebekah Johnson | Steve Sandvoss | Wes Ramsey
Hilary says: “When After School Specials on sexual orientation and religion collide with gay softcore porn. “I was hoping this would be funny-bad, but instead it was just bad. “The cats were so bored that they won’t even rate it.”
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Charles Atlas
Peg says: “I also highly recommend THE LEGEND OF LEIGH BOWERY, a wonderful film looking at the outrageous design talents and performance quirks of a true original. Bowery is perhaps best known as model and muse for painter Lucian Freud–the
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring: Laila Boonyasak | Sinitta Boonyasak | Tadanobu Asano | Takashi Miike
Chris says: “Still piecing together this puzzling film, but that alone doesn’t frustrate me. I was so delighted by what perplexed me that I can imagine re-watching it as I did with MULHOLLAND DR., discovering more clues each time out
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Laura Linney | Liam Neeson | Peter Sarsgaard
Diane says: “Uncontroversial movie about a controversial subject. In quality very much like SEABISCUIT. 1 cat.” Chris replies: “Which is good news, I guess, if you liked SEABISCUIT… “Liam Neeson is fine as the good doctor (if only Ian McKellen
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Bjørn Floberg | Joachim Calmeyer | Tomas Norström
Diane says: “KITCHEN STORIES will be on my nom list for cinematography: lovely palette (1940s hues of greens and browns), nice shots, esp. of low to high or vice versa showing the two characters’–observer and ‘host’–vantage points. The ending got
Read the review...Kings and Queen (France; 150 min.) directed by: Arnaud Desplechinstarring: Emmanuelle Devos; Mathieu Amalric; Maurice Garrel Bruce says: “Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), who manages an upscale art gallery, is the queen in question and the kings are the men in
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Director: Andrew Sniezek
Starring: James Calla | Jason Courtemanche | Patrick Luce
Bob says: “Poor, despondent Bruce is really just looking for a father figure. He lost his dad to gang violence when he was just a kid, and was taken in by a local priest who has protected him from certain
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Quentin Tarrantino
Starring: Daryl Hannah | David Carradine | Lucy Liu | Uma Thurman
Bruce says: “**SPOILERS AHEAD** “To say that KILL BILL: VOL 2 is more fun than its predecessor is about the kindest thing I can say. It certainly isn’t better although I enjoyed it more for couple of reasons which I’ll
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: Simon Sauvé
Bruce says: “Being somewhat to the left of center, I have always held admiration for protesters. In the early 1990’s I discovered that protesters were not always what they seemed. Many of the protesters were what I would call professionals
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sue Brooks
Starring: Bill Young | Gotaro Tsunashima | Kate Atkinson | Lynnette Curran | Toni Collette | Yumiko Tanaka
Esmé says: “Well it made me cry till the back of my neck was soaked. I was irritated by Collette’s irritability at the beginning, but really moved by her passion in the middle and her grief at the end. I
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