Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Andrew Matthews | Katie Graham
Starring: Anne Gee Byrd | Brock England | Cyndi Williams | Garrett Graham | Sam Eidson | Vincent James Prendergast
Jason says: “If I were the type of person to walk out of movies (and could have done it without disturbing the rest of the audience), I would have bolted ZERO CHARISMA. That’s not to say it’s a terrible movie;
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Aleksander Nordaas
Starring: Erlend Nervold | Jon Sigve Skard | Morten Andressen | Roland Astrand | Silje Reina
Thom says: “A two-man clean-up crew go deep into the Norwegian woods to a remote cabin where they discover a comatose woman that they revive. The woman has a long tail. Thale (the tailed figure) is apparently a Huldra a
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jeremy Frindel
Thom says: “While I have a great admiration for Jeffrey Kagel (Krishna Das) on turning his life around a making a sizable contribution to the world scene, I wasn’t all that swept up with this film, mainly for the simple
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Don Thacker
Starring: Adrian DiGiovanni | Danielle Doetsch | Jeffrey Combs | Ken Brown | Pete Giovangnoli
Jason says: “MOTIVATIONAL GROWTH ran twice at the festival, with overlapping crowds but different results: Once as a spotlight presentation with the director doing Q&A that was reasonably well received, and once as the 4am leg of a noon-to-noon marathon
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jesse James Miller
Jason says: “Ray Mancini was at this screening for a Q&A, and he mentioned that when Mark Kreigel approached him with the idea of doing the book on which this movie was based, he wasn’t particularly interested; he’d told his
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Krishna DK | Raj Nidimoru
Starring: Anand Tiwari | Kunal Khemu | Pooja Gupta | Saif Ali Khan | Vir Das
Jason says: “GO GOA GONE isn’t going to be of a whole lot of interest to serious horror movie fans unless they’re trying to fill a zombie passport of some sort and were missing a comedy from India. Otherwise, it’s
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Dror Moreh
Chris says: “This Academy Award-nominated documentary consists of interviews with six former heads of the Shin Bet (essentially the Israeli equivalent of the Secret Service), spanning the Six Day War (late 1960s) to the present. The openness and candor with
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Peter Webber
Starring: Eriko Hatsune | Isao Natsuyagi | Matthew Fox | Shohei Hino | Tommy Lee Jones | Toshiyuki Nishida
Jason says: “Under normal circumstances, I might grumble about EMPEROR being a case of keeping an interesting story and larger-than-life characters at arm’s length in favor of someone that the audience can perhaps more easily relate to. In this case,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher | Isabelle Huppert | Maya Sansa | Michele Riondino | Toni Servillo
Bruce says: “It is impossible to sit through DORMANT BEAUTY and not think about TALK TO HER, Pedro Almodóvar’s brilliant film about the events surrounding two women in comas. While DORMANT BEAUTY also has a similar pair – one on
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Chris says: “Divine was great and could unquestionably carry a film, but could Harris Glen Milstead do the same? Of course, Divine was Milstead’s outrageous drag alter-ego and left such a vivid legacy behind no one would dare argue against
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