Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Danis Tanovic
Starring: Branko Djuric | Filip Sovagovic | Georges Siatidis | Rene Bitorajac
Diane says: “NO MAN’S LAND is more important as a war film than great as a film in general, despite the raves. It’s an indictment particularly of UN peacekeeping forces, and of the absurdities of civil war, here between Bosnians
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Director: Joe Mantegna
Starring: Charles Durning | Dennis Leary | J.J. Johnson | Peter Falk | Robert Forster | Tony Mamet
Diane says: “Mamet’s play directed by Mantegna. Too static for me to say it’s great, but great for character studies. Excellent acting. Mamet’s younger brother plays the grad student shipping out as a crew member on a cargo ship plying
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Director: Kristian Levring
Starring: Brion James | Bruce Davison | Chris Walker | David Bradley | David Calder | Janet McTeer | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Lia Williams | Miles Anderson | Romane Bohringer | Vusi Kunene
Nathaniel says: “A group of international tourists on a bus ride through the deserts of Africa end up hundreds of miles off route and stranded in the middle of nowhere. While trying to survive the brutal conditions and limited food
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Starring: Alastair Galbraith | Kerry Fox | Marianne Faithful | Mark Rylance | Philippe Calvario | Susannah Harker | Timothy Spall
Diane says: “Finely tuned perfs by leads Rylance and Fox (her ANGEL AT MY TABLE is in my top five ever) and Spall (the Mikado in TOPSY TURVY) as the cuckolded husband. A couple who meet weekly for anonymous sex–it
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Joel Hopkins
Starring: Hippolyte Girardot | James Wilby | Natalia Verbeke | Tunde Adebimpe
Michael says: “I caught this sweet but flawed first indie feature yesterday, on the strength of a fabulously, groovy trailer. In the end, I feel the trailer was better than the film, but there was a lot to like about
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Cox
Starring: Charles "Bud" Tingwell | Julia Blake | Terry Norris
Ellen says: “I saw this wonderful Australian/Belgian film at the Kendall this afternoon. Once again, I am reminded that only the foreign cinema would make a film about 70-year-olds having a romantic relationship. The lead actress is quite beautiful, in
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Dan Akroyd | Eleanor Bron | Gillian Armstrong | Laura Linney
Howard says: “At the end of the 1800’s, women were still powerless to be independent and were at the whims of social society. In fact, a woman’s reputation was easily destroyed by the power brokering of other women who only
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell | Michael Pitt | Miriam Shor
Diane says: “I wasn’t going to see HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, but my sister invited me. I was very impressed with the movie, and almost flabbergasted that John Cameron Mitchell performed so successfully as writer, actor, and director. Wow!
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Rating: 3.25
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Danny DeVito | Delroy Lindo | Gene Hackman | Rebecca Pidgeon | Ricky Jay | Sam Rockwell
Esme says: “Want my opinion? Mediocre. Predictable. Hackneyed. Not very entertaining, or interesting. Gene Hackman was not as special as I had heard he would be. Corny performances all around. We were subjected to close up shots of Rebecca’s ass
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Rating: 3.3 cats
Director: Dominik Moll
Starring: Laurent Lucas | Mathilde Seigner | Sergi Lopez
Ellen says: “I thought Sergi Lopez did a good job as Harry, but he didn’t frighten me (in a chilling psychological way) the way I thought he would. In fact that would be my general feeling toward the film. Maybe
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