Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jennifer Abbott | Mark Achbar
Bruce says: “In 1712 Thomas Newcomen invented a steam engine that pumped water from the depths of coal mines, making them safer and more accessible. This event triggered the Industrial Age; everything could suddenly be measured in units – units
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Barbara E. Robertson | James Franco | Malcolm McDowell | Neve Campbell | Susie Cusack | William Dick
Bruce says: “THE COMPANY is a difficult film to classify because it isn’t much of anything. Robert Altman loves tackling complicated scenarios. One would think a peek-a-boo film about what goes on behind the scenes at a dance company would
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Jada Pinkett Smith | Jamie Foxx | Tom Cruise
Bruce says: “What exactly does the title of this film mean? Four different definitions could be possibilities: running side by side, concomitant, serving to support, and subordinate. “Jamie Foxx plays Max, a LA taxi driver who always has a dream
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Bruno Lastra | Christopher Simpson | Jeanne Balibar | Nina Fog | Om Puri | Samantha Morton | Tim Robbins | Togo Igawa
Bruce says: “The prolific Michael Winterbottom (BUTTERFLY KISS, JUDE, WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, WONDERLAND, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and IN THIS WORLD) could never be accused of making the same film twice. Each of his works is very different from the
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Alfred Molina | Bill Murray | Cate Blanchette | Iggy Pop | Steve Coogan | Tom Waits
Diane says: “Found most of this tedious. Maybe because I don’t like coffee _or cigarettes? I enjoyed three or four of the eleven conversations: the closing one with Rice and Mead listening to an imagined Mahler lied (Beckett-like), the great
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Clive Owen | Jude Law | Julia Roberts | Natalie Portman
Janet says: “Just got back from the Embassy Cinema after seeing this film about a quartet of lovers who lust after and betray one another, and I’m very excited about it. I’m not a Julia fan—every time I see her
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Antonio Hernández
Starring: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Geraldine Chaplin | Leonardo Sbaraglia
Michael says: “This semester’s Sunday Eye-Opener kicked off with a Spanish/Argentinian co-production that promised to be intriguing, but for me, ended up being soap operaish melodrama that didn’t live up to its possibility. Hot off is intriguing role in INTACTO,
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
Starring: Helen Mirren | Robert Redford | Willem Dafoe
Hilary says: “Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford), a wealthy rental-car executive, is abducted by a disgruntled former employee, Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe). Hayes’ wife Eileen (Helen Mirren) is soon surrounded by family and FBI agents, hoping for Wayne’s safe return. “Mirren’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kai S. Pieck
Starring: Sebastian Urzendowsky | Tobias Schenke
Bruce says: “THE CHILD I NEVER WAS is the true story of Jurgen Bartsch who first killed a boy when he was fifteen and subsequently became infamous as a serial killer. The second killing did not happen for another three
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Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Starring: Akira Terao | Kumiko Aso | Yusuke Iseya
Tom says: “Before I start, check out the trailer at http://www.apple.com/jp/quicktime/trailers/casshern_large and make sure you’re wearing depends, because you will wet your pants. “Because I’ve seen HERO, I can’t call CASSHERN the most visually stunning movie I’ve ever seen. Luckily, the
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