Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Bruce says: “Which are your most memorable glamorous First Ladies? Eva Peron, Jackie Kennedy, Dewi Sukarno, Madame Chaing-Kai-Chek? These are all women of great beauty and style, who also happened to be extremely well-educated, very intelligent and had an incredible
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mark A. Lewis
Starring: Bill Croft | Chris Gauthier | Howard Siegel | John Callander | John F. Parker | Kurt Evans | Nicki Clyne | Paul Campbell | Peter Outerbridge
Bruce says: “ILL FATED, a very black tragicomedy, is clever enough to make an audience laugh and I admit I was laughing along with the others. But my laughter made me feel a bit dirty and somewhat of a lesser
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gabriele Salvatore
Starring: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón | Dino Abbrescia | Giorgio Careccia
Bruce says: “My memories of Gabriele Salvatore’s MEDITERRANEO are hazy but my feelings about it remain perfectly clear. I wasn’t wild about it. It felt glossy and superficial. While Salvatore’s I’M NOT SCARED is an improvement, I’m still not a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matt Mahurin
Bruce says: “I LIKE KILLING FLIES is an engaging character study. Kenny Shopsin is an original. He is never without an opinion or ever at a loss for words. He refers to himself as an endangered species, a closet intellectual.
Read the review...Hukkle (Hungary; 75 min.) directed by: György Pálfistarring: Ferenc Bandi; Józsefné Rácz; József Forkas Bruce says: “HUKKLE has its own personality. In giving equal time to plants, animals, sounds, architectural details and humans György Pálfi has achieved something remarkable
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: Dustin Hoffman< Lily Tomlin | Isabelle Huppert | Jason Schwartzman | Jude Law | Mark Wahlberg | Naomi Watts
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Chris says: Pretty audacious for a studio comedy, even if it’s technically an indie studio. David O. Russell’s existential romp is a love-it-or-hate-it receptacle if I ever saw one. I loved it, but I’m skeptical as to how much it’ll
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Deb Ellis | Denis Meuller
Beth says: “Next up was the documentary HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN’T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN, narrated by Matt Damon (who famously included a reference to Zinn’s A History of the United States in GOOD WILL HUNTING). He’s a
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Zhang Yimou
Michael says: “In HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, legendary Chinese director Zhang Yimou returns to the high-flying martial arts saga that he scored big with in HERO. After seeing the gorgeous, exciting trailer, I was excited about the film, but ultimately,
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Rating: 3.6
Director: John W. Walter
Chris says: I’m not sure how subversive HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY actually was, either, but it did justice to its subject, collage artist Ray Johnson (who was inarguably subversive). This is the usual collection of talking head interviews interspersed
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terry George
Starring: Don Cheadle | Jean Reno | Joaquin Phoenix | Nick Nolte | Sophie Okonedo
Bruce says: “It is important to let the world know exactly what went on in Rwanda ,a nation of two main groups, the Tutsis and the Hutus. The two groups speak the same language and have intermarried extensively over the
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