Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Patrick Stettner
Starring: Frederick Weller | Julia Stiles | Stockard Channing
Michael says: “While it’s true that the most disappointing thing about THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS is its screenplay, I found the disappointing aspect was just that it didn’t really take any chances. It was pretty predictable, where I was hoping
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Carla Gugino | Molly Parker | Peter Sarsgaard
Emily says: “I thought this movie was the shallowest thing I’ve seen in years! I thought neither of the characters were realized in any form whatsoever and the trajectory of the relationship fizzled, was there really a relationship here at
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Rating: 0.5 cats
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Bijou Phillips | Brad Renfro | Michael Pitt | Nick Stahl | Rachel Miner
Robin says: “BULLY depicts a microcosm, of our society of under-educated, under-motivated, under-employed and over-sexed teenagers with too much free time and, if Clark’s assessment is correct, under-supervised by their parents. Neither side comes across well in this tome of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Kuroudo Maki | Masaya Kato | Omar Epps | Takeshi Kitano
Laura says: “Fans of Takeshi’s stylish violence will delight in the gunplay, Yubitsumes (the removal of a finger joint as apology), hari kiri and death-by-chopstick scenes peppered throughout his film, although newcomers may be left scratching their heads. Takeshi’s characters
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Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Jonathan Pryce | Sarah Wynter | Simon Verhoeven | Vincent Perez
Howard says: “This film is a biopic about Alma Mahler and takes us through her life. We begin to see her right before she meets Gustav Mahler. We see in a brief glance that she is somewhat rebellious and that
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Sharon Maguire
Starring: Colin Firth | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent | Renée Zellweger | Sally Phillips | Shirley Henderson
Michael says: “Caught a sneak preview of BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY on Thursday night and have to say it was sweet. While it does qualify as a Chlotrudis film, it really resembled something geared more toward a mainstream audience. I get
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Rating: 2.8 cats
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Starring: Flora Montgomery | Peter McDonald
Howard says: “Very cute & enjoyable film. A bit fluffy, but who cares? Peter McDonald is so charming and wonderful as Brendan. A great, feel-good movie that people who love film should see. Brendan is a film buff and a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Adrien Brody | Elpidia Carrillo | Jack McGee | Monica Rivas | Pilar Padilla
Michael says: “This impressive film by British director Ken Loach hits pretty hard. Two Latina sisters work as janitors in L.A. When the possibility of unionization comes up, alliances are torn apart and secrets uprooted, but in the end, family
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Adrea Di Stefano | Javier Bardem | Johnny Depp | Olivier Martinez
Kevin says: “BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (based on the memoirs of the homosexual poet/novelist Reinaldo Arenas, who was born in Cuba in the 50’s and emigrated to America in the early 90’s(?)), was excellent. One of the year’s best. Javier Bardem
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Todd Field
Starring: Marisa Tomei | Sissy Spacek | Tom Wilkinson
Diane says: “Will be nom’ing this for Best Director and Best Actor (Tom Wilkinson–oh, the man with the garden gnome in THE FULL MONTY!). Great drawing out of the Andre Dubus story, with a well-chosen cast (but could Marisa Tomei
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