Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Brent Carver | Don McKellar | Jane Leeves | Olympia Dukakis | Parker Posey | Sarah Polley
Michael says: “‘Some films are difficult to review. THE EVENT, the latest film from one of my favorite filmmakers, Thom Fitzgerald (THE HANGING GARDEN, THE WILD DOGS) is one such film. The reason that it is so difficult to review
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Bob Newhart | Ed Asner | James Caan | Mary Steenburgen | Will Ferrell | Zooey Deschanel
Howard says: “While ELF has some cute and amusing moments, it plays like most other vehicles of Saturday Night Live players – a skit that goes on too long. Will Ferrell is best when he’s alone off doing his weird,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Dave Moroni | Tara Birtwhistle | Wei-Qiang Zhang
Michael says: “Guy Maddin is a talented and creative filmmaker. For his latest U.S. release, he has taken Mark Godden’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and turned it into an beautifully eerie film with moments
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: George Gallo
Laura says: “Griffin wastes no time tipping his hat to his idol Richard Pryor during his opening concert salvos with a bit on the way white people walk. He also follows what seems to be the current de rigueur rule
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Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: David Hyde Pierce | Ewan McGregor | Renée Zellweger | Sarah Paulson
Peg says: “In what might have been a suave, swinging homage to the Rock Hudson/Doris Day cat-and-mouse romances of the 1960s, director Peyton Reed (BRING IT ON) serves up a pastel-colored ice-cream soda of a movie: sweet and bubbly at
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Audrey | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Sergi Lopez | Sophie Okonedo | Tautou
Ivy says: “DIRTY PRETTY THINGS is the newest film by Stephen Frears (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE). It is a thriller set in the world of illegal citizens in London and what they have to do in order to work, get citizenship,
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Elia Suleiman
Starring: Elia Suleiman | George Ibrahim | Manal Khader | Salwa Nakkara
Bob says: “I found DIVINE INTERVENTION funny, in a very odd way. A lot of it reminded me of Keaton and Tati (so with THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE we’ve got two Tatiesque movies this year), with a silent, mostly unemotional
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mark Rucker
Starring: Charles Busch | Frances Conroy | Jason Priestly | Phillip Baker Hall | Stark Sands
Howard says: “Good satire requires an understanding of your subject matter, comic and dramatic timing, good pacing, but most of all bite. Unfortunately, there’s not much bite to Charles Busch newest camp fest, DIE, MOMMIE, DIE! Based on his screen
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Campbell Scott | Dennis Leary | Hope Davis | Robin Tunney
Diane says: “Great perfs by Campbell Scott and Hope Davis; I loved the ambivalence of the ending.” 4 cats Esme says: “I caught this one the other night. I don’t have that much to say about it. The intentionally
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jennifer Dworkin
Michael says: “In a year of stellar documentaries, LOVE AND DIANE deserves a place near the top of the list. This debut feature documentary from Jennifer Dworkin is a hard-hitting look at a mother struggling to reunite with her family
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