Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Starring: Margeurite McNeil | MollyParker | Rebecca Jenkins | Stacy Smith
Chris says: “Quiet, understated Canadian film about three daughters dealing with their ailing mother and past demons. It has subtly sound performances, lovely cinematography, and a thoughtful, original script. Molly Parker stands out as Agnes, the prodigal alcoholic daughter who
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Menno Meyjes
Starring: John Cusack | Kevin McKidd | Leelee Sobieski | Molly Parker | Noah Taylor | Ulrich Thomsen
Laura says: “Max Rothman (John Cusack, HIGH FIDELITY) is a progressive art dealer in 1918 Munich when he meets a Corporal whom he fought with in Ypres who aspires to be an artist. Screenwriter Menno Meyjes (THE SIEGE) makes his
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Starring: Juhani Niemelä | Kaija Pakarinen | Kati Outinen | Markku Peltola
Michael says: Aki Kaurismäki’s THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST is a quirky, romantic comedy with deadpan humor, and a pair of terrific leads. This tale of amnesia avoids many of the cliches of a bad man whose memory is wiped
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff | Geraldine McEwen | Nora-Jane Noone
Bruce says: “Most films which deal with Christian religion as subject matter deal in faith and redemption. Then we have films such as THE MAGDALENE SISTERS and the brilliant Canadian film, THE BOYS OF ST. VINCENT, which focus on human
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Émile Gaudreault
Starring: Claudia Ferry | Ginette Reno | Luke Kirby | Mary Walsh | Paul Sorvino | Peter Miller
Bruce says: “MAMBO ITALIANO, a coming-out comedy from Canada, does have its moments. Perhaps that is damning with faint praise. While there are some things to like, some scenes which made me laugh, I am left with a notion of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Starring: Flavio Bauraqui | Lázaro Ramos | Marcelia Cartaxa
Bruce says: “Diehard fans of CITY OF GOD should definitely add MADAME SATA to their must see list. Set in the 1930’s, this is the story of Madame Sata, a bisexual transvestite gangster, who is very much a part of
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert Cary
Starring: Andrew McCarthy | Cameron Bancroft | Isabel Rose
Michael says: “Writer/Producer/Actress Isabel Rose creates a dreamy homage to the romantic musicals of the 40’s and 50’s in this sweetly delightful film. Billie (Rose) is on the verge of giving up her cabaret career (singing at airport lounges) to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Antonio Cerrano
Starring: Cecila Roth; Carlos Álvarez-Novoa | Kuno Becker
Laura says: “Writer/director Antonio Serrano, adapting the novel by Homónima de Rosa Montero, has created a multi-generational madcap lark that attempts to address a middle aged woman’s rebirth, marriage, kidnapping, revolutionaries and government corruption within a children’s book author’s whimsical
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Keith Fulton | Luis Pepe
Ivy says: “What a riveting tale of the true delicate state that most films are made in. A local film production company, Central Productions, uses as their cornerstone battle the statistic that most films are never completed. So is how
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mina Shum
Starring: Chang Tseng | Colin Foo | Sandra Oh | Tsai Chin
Michael says: “Mina Shum reunites with her DOUBLE HAPPINESS star, Sandra Oh for this funny, poignant and slightly sentimental look at several Asian-American families living in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Oh plays a single mother whose husband left her suddenly to care
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