Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Amira Casar | Rocco Siffredi
Bruce says: “It is hard to say whether Catherine Breillat knows what she is doing or not. Her message is, I think, both blatant and encrypted. For a while I thought I was watching a feminist hate poem. Slowly my
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Director: Louis Schwartzberg
Peg says: “Director Louis Schwartzberg was once employed by one of the world’s largest film-stock libraries. That may explain why many of the images in this film (more a collection of portraits than a documentary) are familiar: the Bandaloop dance
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Duncan Roy
Starring: Diana Quick | George Asprey | Lindsey Coulson | Matthew Leitch
Bruce says: “This film is partially autobiographical, for the director, Duncan Roy, actually served a prison sentence for impersonating the son of an aristocrat. In AKA, the central character, an eighteen year old working class boy, goes by the name
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Starring: Dominique Blanc | François Morel | Gilbert Melki | Ornella Muti | Valérie Mairesse
Barbara says: “I really liked this movie and after seeing it was able to look back at ON THE RUN and think better of it. After seeing ON THE RUN Mary, Tim and I all sort of went ‘Huh?’ Of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jonathan Demme
Michael says: “THE AGRONOMIST is a fascinating documentary by Jonathan Demme, examining the life of Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique. More of a portrait (as Ned so adeptly noted) than a documentary, Demme’s film traces Dominique’s
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Starring: Bernard Mazzinghi | Catherine Frot | Dominique Blanc | Gilbert Melki | Ornella Muti
Barbara says: “After much discussion Mary and I both agreed that this was the best made film of the trilogy but we enjoyed AN AMAZING COUPLE the most. After seeing AN AMAZING COUPLE I didn’t think I could ever like
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Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Andy Serkis | Crista B. Allen | Jennifer Garner | Judy Greer | Mark Ruffalo | Sean Marquette
Peg says: “From director Gary Winick (TADPOLE) and writing team Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith (WHAT WOMEN WANT) comes a bubbly remake of BIG for women who buy Cosmo for the articles. Suburban New Jersey, 1987: Jenna Rink (Crista B.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Austin Chick
Starring: Kathleen Robertson | Mark Ruffalo | Maya Stange | Patra Wright
Phred says: “Occasionally when you leave a movie theater, you get a feeling of tremendous satisfaction. That’s the case for me with XX/XY. “The film opens with a young man running into the same beautiful girl twice, the second time
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Assi Cohen | Ohad Knoller | Yehuda Levi
Michael says: “YOSSI AND JAGGER is a film with a deceptively simple story that comments on several issues in just over an hour. Simply put, this film deals with the love story between two male soldiers in the Israeli Defense
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Alan Cumming | Anna Paquin | Brian Cox | Famke Janssen | Halle Berry | Hugh Jackman | Ian McKellen | James Marsters | Patrick Stewart | Rebecca Romijn
Howard says: “Here we are again at the beginning of another summer season of blockbusters and, to start it all off, Hollywood has delivered unto us X2 (or X-MEN 2 if you prefer). And a little blessing it is. Especially
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