Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Cary Elwes | Eddie Izzard | Edward Herrmann | Jennifer Tilly | Joanna Lumley | Kirsten Dunst
Ellen says: “I was not especially excited to see this film based on the previews, but if my friends ask me to go, I’m usually game to try to expand my horizons unless I know I’ll absolutely hate something. Going
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Anna Mouglalis | Isabelle Huppert | Jacques Dutronc | Rodolphe Pauly
Laura says: “Septuagenarian Chabrol, long known as the French Hitchcock, knows how to utilize Huppert’s cool brand of calculation. Their seventh collaboration is both as twisty and as obvious as the black web Mika literally spins with her crochet needle.
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Starring: Anna Fiel | Michelle Williams | Oliver Milburn | Trudy Styler
Michael says: “The final day of the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema kicked off with a film that was being co-presented by the Boston Jewish Film Festival. ME WITHOUT YOU was directed by Sandra Goldbacher, who did the film
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Marlo Poras
Michael says: “The final film of our P-Town extravaganza comes from Boston filmmaker Marla Poras. Mai is a Vietnamese girl who comes to America… more specifically rural Mississippi to spend her Senior Year in High School as an exchange student.
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Rating: 3.75 cats | 3.9
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Diego Luna | Gael García Bernal | Maribel Verdú | Marta Aura
Ellen says: “I can see that MAMA might be a ‘teen movie’ because it is about teens and has those silly things that teens do – fart jokes, drinking, etc as noted by others. But, I felt these elements were
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis
Starring: Isabelle Renaud | Julie-Marie Parmentier | Sylvie Testud
Laura says: “Denis’ claustrophobic film evokes the sinister European wartime era feel of DOCTEUR PETIOT) where close houses hide dark secrets, and the downtrodden dankness of Claude Chabrol’s biopic of Marie Latour (THE STORY OF WOMEN), who was executed for
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood | Ian McKellen | Sean Astin | Viggo Mortensen
Laura says: “The only beauty to be found in THE TWO TOWERS is in the faces of the women who love Aragorn, Arwen (Liv Tyler) and the Rohan King’s niece Eowyn (Miranda Otto), and the majestic New Zealand landscape. The
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Brenda Blethyn | Catherine Keener | Emily Mortimer | Jake Gyllenhaal | James LeGros | Raven Goodwin
Michael says: “The Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema kicked off with LOVELY & AMAZING, Nicole Holofcener’s follow-up to WALKING & TALKING. Once again starring Catherine Keener, LOVELY & AMAZING explores the lives of a mother and her three daughters.
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Angelina Jolie | Edward Burns | Stockard Channing | Tony Shalhoub
Laura says: “It’s the lead actors who make this piece work. Jolie is appealing and believable as a hurt little girl masquerading as a shallow career gal. Playing Lanie Kerigan was a smart choice on Jolie’s part, softening her own
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: DeMane Davis | Khari Streeter
Starring: Barbara Montgomery | Eugene Byrd | Kerry Washington | Lonette McKee
Michael says:”LIFT takes the viewer into the world of ‘boosters,’ or professional shoplifters to the rest of us. Set on the streets of Boston and Roxbury, Kerry Washington, so loved in OUR SONG, plays Niecy, floor manager of an upscale
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