Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ross Kauffman | Zana Briski
Diane says: “Too soon, too soon! Janet and I were not quite ready to relive the overwhelming traffic and highly-developed bureaucracy of India so soon after our visit in December. “Zana Briski is a British photographer who has been living
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Starring: Adriana Asti | Alessio Boni | Luigi Lo Cascio
Chris says: “Originally produced for (but never shown on) Italian television, director Marco Tullio Giordana’s six hour miniseries has a cinematic sweep and scope makes it translate successfully as a theatrical release. “Split into three-hour halves, the first part opens
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ahmet Ulucay
Starring: Gülayse Erkoc | Ismail Hakki Taslak | Kadir Kaymaz
Bruce says: “At the Tribeca Film Festival the audience was told by one of the festival directors that BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON RINDS was chosen because it speaks in an original voice. I would certainly not introduce the film in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Barlen Pyamootoo
Starring: Davidsen Kamanah | Jérôme Boulle | Kristeven Mootien
Bruce says: “BENARES is the first film from novelist Barlen Pyamootoo who has lived and studied in France. It is also the first film ever from the country of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar with
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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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