Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Stanley Kwan
Starring: Fang Lu | Jun Hu | Li Huatong | Shuang Li
Michael says: “LAN YU is a simple, well-conceived love story that takes place in Hong Kong during the late 80’s, during the time of the Tiananmen Square disaster. Handong is a successful business partner who spends a night with Lan
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Alain Libolt | Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Léonard Cobiant | Lucy Rusell
Michael says: “THE LADY & THE DUKE is Eric Roehmer’s interesting behind-the-scenes look at the French Revolution. Lucy Russel plays a Scottish aristocrat living in France, Grace Elliott, a royalist and former lover and still good friend of Philippe, the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Starring: Aamire Kahn | Gracy Singh | Paul Blackthorne | Rachel Shelley
Michael says: “LAGAAN is a 4-hour psuedo-Bollywood epic of legendary proportions, filled with good triumphing over evil and injustice in a most satisfactory way. In fact, LAGAAN is structured very much like a legend, complete with predictable plot, and over-the-top
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Adam Low
Laura says: “This documentary chronicles Kurosawa’s childhood, connecting significant events with images in his later films, as well as his development as a filmmaker, his relationship with actor Toshiro Mifune and his influence on other filmmakers. If you didn’t already
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Giovanna Mezzogiorno | Stefania Sandrelli | Stefano Accorsi
Laura says: “Carlo (Stefano Accorsi, THE SON’S ROOM) is one of five buddies, all seen celebrating Marco’s last evening of bachelorhood, at the beginning of THE LAST KISS. He must face adulthood and responsibility himself as his live in girlfriend,
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Starring: Heather Juergensen | Jennifer Westfeldt | Scott Cohen | Tovah Feldshuh
Michael says: “Finally managed to catch up with KISSING JESSICA STEIN the other night, and found it to be perfectly charming if a mite predictable (The very first scene involving Jessica and Josh had me correctly predicting the ending.) Tovah
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Rating: 0.67 cats
Director: Brett Morgen | Nanette Burstein
Michael says: “Despite the rave reviews I have read/heard about this documentary, I have to say I was pretty unimpressed. THE KIDS STAYS IN THE PICTURE chronicles the career of Robert Evans, young actor turned longtime head of Paramount Pictures,
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Starring: Hassan Tantai | Niloufar Pazira | Sadou Teymouri
Ellen says: “Okay, basically I would not want to be a woman (or a man for that matter) in Afghanistan. This film shows the horrific way of life that these people lead. An interesting slice of life that I never
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alberto Vendemmiati | Fabrizio Lazzaretti
Diane says: “JUNG is a cinema-verité docu about an Italian doctor, British nurse, and Italian journalist working to set up a hospital for war victims in northern Afghanistan. I had the same reaction as I did to NO MAN’S LAND:
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Anne Heche | Denzel Washington | James Woods | Robert Duvall
Robin says: “There is not a lot new to the original screenplay by James Kearns, which is the weakest aspect of the film. It is often trite, manipulative and derivative of other films, but the craftwork behind the camera and
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