Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jørgen Leth | Lars Von Trier
Bruce says: “THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS is not the film it was purported to be nor was it at all what I had anticipated. The film is billed as a ‘battle of the minds’ between Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Laura Poitras | Linda Goode Bryant
Michael says: “Filmed over four years in Columbus, Ohio, FLAG WARS presents a disturbing look at gentrification and class structure in our country. Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras are both first-time directors, and they present the many views clearly
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Dustin Hoffman | Freddie Highmore | Ian Hart | Johnny Depp | Julie Christie | Kate Winslet | Radha Mitchell
Michael says: “You can feel the Miramax hand on Marc Foster’s FINDING NEVERLAND, which is a shame, although doesn’t disrupt the film all that much. One suspects that it would have had a lot of the same sentimental elements because
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Bruce says: “FATHER AND SON opens with a close-up of two men, one holding the other. There are no immediate clues but as the scene unfolds we learn that it is a father and his son, who is having a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bob Smeaton
Robert says: “Historically overshadowed by Woodstock is the series of rock shows that toured Canada by train in 1970. The brainchild of promoters Ken Walker and Thor Eaton, the shows featured acts like Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Moore
Bruce says: “If you still think that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that there was a link between Al Qaida and Iraq before 9/11 or that George Bush has been telling us the truth, please see this
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno | Massimo Girotti | Raoul Bova
Bruce says: “Ferzan Ozpetek keeps growing with each film; first STEAM, then HIS SECRET LIFE and now FACING WINDOWS. I’ve felt each of his films has had problems which get in the way of achieving anything resembling perfection. Perfection, however,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Michael Gondry
Starring: Elijah Wood | Jane Adams | Jim Carrey | Kate Winslet | Kirsten Dunst | Mark Ruffalo | Thomas Jay Ryan | Tom Wilkinson
Bruce says: “For starters, I’m a big Jim Carrey fan. Let me qualify that. I think that he is one of the most talented actors alive. He needs a strong director. His performances too often have traces of juvenilia, mugging
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Benoît Cohen
Starring: Laurence Côte | Mathieu Demy | Romane Bohringer
Georgette says: “NOS ENFANTS CHÉRIS was a light romantic comedy about three couples who spend a vacation together in the South of France. As the movie goes on it’s obvious that there is much shared history and much that still
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Rating: 2.9 cats
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Daniel Craig | Rhys Ifans | Samantha Morton
Michael says: “What could have been fascinating and unusual turned out to be fairly pedestrian, beautifully filmed, and occasionally over-the-top. ENDURING LOVE, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, was directed by Roger Michell, whose unusual career includes such films
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