Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Jim Fields | Michael Gramaglia
Chris says: “Well, now that this is being held over at the Kendall for another week, I can encourage all you Boston folk to check it out. Music films should be seen in a theater with an appreciative audience, dagnabit!
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Starring: Catherine Salviat | Julian Bouvard | Laura Smet | Marie Denarnaud | Maurice Antoni | Nicolas Duvauchelle
Bruce says: “EAGER BODIES is an uncomfortable film to watch yet I can’t get it out of my mind. Charlotte (Laura Smet) is twenty and not feeling well. When she goes to the doctor he performs routine tests. The doctor
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 0 cats
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Hilary says: “Just a few words on Bernardo Bertolucci’s latest effort, THE DREAMERS: silly, pretentious, and unsexy.” Janet says: “I had not intended to see this film, but today was so gray, and I was numbingly bored with both
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.9 cats
Director: Tod Williams
Starring: Bijou Phillips | Elle Fanning | Jeff Bridges | Jon Foster | Kim Basinger | Mimi Rogers
Bruce says: “Beware, spoilers. There is something very off about THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR; I think it’s the writing. And the money. It is very difficult to have bundles of sympathy for those who live in a gorgeous house
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Ben Gazzara | Blair Brown | Chloe Sevigny | Harriet Andersson | James Caan | Lauren Bacall | Nicole Kidman | Patricia Clarkson | Paul Bettany | Philip Baker Hall | Stellan Skarsgård
Ivy says: “I caught this last night at the Brattle. I am so glad I saw it on the big screen! I have felt for years that Von Trier is a talented filmmaker and DOGVILLE just reconfirms this belief. “It
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Emin Toprak | Muzaffer Özdemir | Nazan Kesal | Zuhal Gencer Erkaya
Bruce says: “Mahmut (Muzaffer Ozdemir) and Yusuf (Emin Toprak ) both hail from the same mountain village. Mahmut, who is the elder by at least a dozen years, is a self-made man. He is educated, a successful photographer in both
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: John Waters
Starring: Chris Isaak | Johnny Knoxville | Mink Stole | Patricia Hearst | Selma Blair | Suzanne Shepherd | Tracey Ullman
Chris says: “A DIRTY SHAME is an intermittently amusing but generally trite film. NC-17 rating and all, I wasn’t expecting John Waters to make another PINK FLAMINGOS, but there’s absolutely nothing shocking or subversive going on here. Like every other
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ondi Timoner
Chris says: “This frenzied documentary is worthy of the hype lavished upon it. A chronicle of seven years in the lives of two bands (The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre) who start out as friends and end up
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: Irwin Winkler
Starring: Ashley Judd | Jonathan Pryce | Kevin Kline
Scot says: “To everyone who wanted to take the extra pass Michael had for the new biopic of Cole Porter’s life, but couldn’t, I say, ‘Consider yourselves lucky.’ It was de-lousy. “I hate to discourage *anyone* from seeing more musicals,
Read the review...By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Frank Matter | Robert Margolis
Starring: Frank Krias | Kelli Barnett | Robert Margolis
Bruce says: “This bleak piece of filmmaking is the story of Robert, an unemployed actor who has been making the rounds in New York for a decade or so. He has a childish optimism that keeps him going in spite
Read the review...