Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Greengrass
Bruce says: “ATTENTION, SPOILERS. “Jason Bourne is a wanted man. Trained by the CIA to be a hit man, he can’t escape his past. Although he remembers very little about his one and only CIA assignment, his dreams are offering
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: John Furse
Starring: Ian Hart | Linus Roache
Bruce says: “BLIND FIGHT is based on a true story about an Irish teacher, Brian Keenan, and a British journalist, John McCarthy, who were captured by Lebanese terrorists. They lived together in various cells and makeshift prisons for four and
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jang Li
Starring: Baoqiang Wang | Qiang Li | Shuangbao Wang
Michael says: “After winning several awards at recent film festivals, including Berlin and Tribeca, this powerful film explores the dark and the light of humanity as embodied by mine workers in China. Song and Tang work the mines, but they
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Leander Haussmann
Starring: Christien Ulmen | Detliev Buck | Katja Danowski
Bruce says: “Christien Ulmen got his start in show business as a German MTV host. This is his second feature film and he could become a major star. He has the charm and intelligence of Paul Rudd (I happen to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ken Harder | Scott Milam | Todd Pottinger
Chris says: “A Seattle fixture for decades, Richard Peterson is a mentally challenged, musically gifted savant obsessed with Johnny Mathis and orchestral cues from the ’50s TV show ‘Sea Hunt.’ Initially, I feared that the filmmakers were crudely exploiting Peterson
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: István Szabó
Starring: Annette Bening | Bruce Greenwood | Jeremy Irons | Michael Gambon | Miriam Margoyles | Shaun Evans
Hilary says: “Annette Bening moves to the top of my growing Best Actress nominations list playing Julia Lambert, a stage actress of a certain age, in 1930s London. It is refreshing to see a woman over 30 who both acts
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke | Julie Delpy
Chris says: “When I first heard that Richard Linklater was making a sequel to BEFORE SUNRISE, I thought, ‘What a terrible idea.’ I remember finding the first film pleasant, but not particularly wanting to sit through it again (whereas I
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Fele Martínez | Gabriel García Bernal | Lluís Homar | Pedro Almodóvar
Bruce says: “Because Pedro Almodóvar is so proficient and so accomplished I tend to perhaps expect too much from him. In BAD EDUCATION we see Almodóvar fine-tuning his craft once again, this time turning to suspense and a bit of
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Carol Bausch | José María Doménech
Barbara says: “What I found interesting about this documentary was that it was so neutral politically. I thought it would be a big anti-Castro film focusing on the perils faced by the Cuban refugees who try to escape by homemade
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Hough
Rick says: “While this fascinating documentary is no longer playing at the Coolidge, it is available on DVD. I highly recommend it for anyone who likes documentaries and has an interest in youth subcultures or sociology. But not for those
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