Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Beatrice Dalle | Isabelle Huppert | Maurice Bénichou | Patrice Chéreau | Rona Hartner
Chris says: “This is one of the most unsettling films I’ve ever seen (even more so than FAHRENHEIT 9/11!). I don’t want to say too much about the plot, because it’s best going into it knowing as little as possible,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Salvatore Mereu
Starring: Daniele Casula | Michele Carboni | Yaël Abecassis
Bruce says: “The four seasons represent the four stages of life in THREE STEP DANCING. The film is not about the life of any single person, it is the collective lives of the residents of a village in Sardinia. The
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Julián Hernández
Starring: Juan Carlos Ortuño | Juan Carlos Torres | Mario Oliver | Perla de la Rosa | Rosa-Maria Gomez | Salvador Alvarez
Michael says: “This atmospheric Mexican film surprised me after its initial dreary opening. While not nearly as brilliant a either of these, PEACE is a bit of a cross between Tsai Ming Liang’s WHAT TIME IS IT THERE and Wong
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Michael Almereyda
Diane says: “I wasn’t so keen on this docu about the staging of Sam Shepard’s ‘The Late Henry Moss.’ Especially when you compare it to the ne plus ultra of doc’s in this category, VANYA ON 42ND STREET! The snippets
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Director: Trey Parker
Starring: Kristen Miller | Masasa | Matt Stone | Trey Parker
Tom says: “Matt Stone and Trey Parker may have the subtlety of a sledgehammer, and their humor is usually pretty lowbrow but goddamnit if they don’t always make me wet my pants with laughter. “Some of you may have grown
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Chi McBride | Diego Luna | Stanley Tucci | Tom Hanks | Zoe Saldana
Bruce says: “Anyone wishing to argue Steven Spielberg’s shortcomings as a director need look no further than THE TERMINAL. This film is a textbook case. “Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a tourist from a fictional Eastern European country, who becomes
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Jonathan Caouette
Hilary says: “I am pleased that I finally made it to see this film. I was quite moved by Jonathan Caouette’s documentary/video diary/experimental film TARNATION. This multi-faceted piece had me completely engaged from the moment it came on the screen.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Diane says: “I recommend this rich docu by Morgan Spurlock, the engaging ‘star’ of the film, who went on a diet of pure McDonald’s for 30 days. Along the lines of a Michael Moore piece, Spurlock also travels the country
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Clémence Meyer | Emmanuelle Béart | Gaspard Ulliel | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Jean Fornerod | Samuel Labarthe
Michael says: “Tonight, Scot and I watched STRAYED, a French film directed by André Téchiné (ALICE AND MARTIN; THE WILD REEDS) that I missed during its brief run at the Kendall. I was particularly interested as it features Agnès Godard
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: John Palmer
Starring: Andre Noble | Brendan Fehr | Maury Chaykin | Sarah Polley
Bruce says: “Based on some Bruce La Bruce short stories, SUGAR is a dark, bleak, coming-of-age story. When Cliff (Andre Noble) turns eighteen his precocious ten year old sister suggests that he down a split of vodka, smoke a joint
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