Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji
Starring: Kelden Lhamo Gurung | Pen Zam | Sangay Lham | Sherab Dorji | Ugyen Norbu Lhendup
Diane says: “I ended up liking LUNANA, a film from Bhutan, well enough despite my misgivings that it was too sweet. (If you follow those other awards, you may recognize the name from the noms for best international film.) “A
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Patrick Imbert
Starring: Damien Boisseau | Elisabeth Ventura | Eric Herson-Macarel | François Dunoyer | Kylian Rehlinger | Lazare Herson-Macarel
Diane says: “This Buried Treasure contender, a French animated adaptation of a manga, is jump-started by a tidbit of mountain-climbing lore. Photojournalist Fukamachi searches for the reclusive climber Habu, who may have the camera that George Mallory took on his
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Bruno Lochet | Coralie Russier | David Marsais | Grégoire Ludig | India Hair | Raphaël Quenard | Roméo Elvis
Michael says: “Most of French director Quentin Dupieux’s films begin with a simple, but completely bizarre and often ridiculous premise, that he is then able to spin into an entertaining yarn with some social commentary threaded in. With MANDIBLES, a
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Bassam Tariq
Starring: Aiysha Hart | Alyy Khan | Anjana Vasan | Kiran Sonia Sawarm | Nabhaan Rizwan | Riz Ahmed | Sudha Bhuchar
Toni says: “Riz Ahmed collaborated with a co-writing credit, with director Bassam Tariq, writing all of the songs on Mogul Mowgli, which explores similar themes to his previous SOUND OF METAL. In MOGUL MOWGLI, he plays an aspiring rapper Zed,
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Anson Mount | Eliza Dushku | Frances McDormand | James Franco | Patty LuPone | Robert DeNiro | William Forsythe
Laura says: “DeNiro finally returns to form in his best dramatic outing since 1995 while up and comer James Franco proves his Golden Globe win for last year’s James Dean TV biopic was no fluke. Screenwriter Ken Hixon (INVENTING THE ABBOTTS)
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Mike Mosallam
Starring: Amin El Gamal | Christopher J. Hanke | Haaz Sleiman | Michael Cassidy | Patrick Sabongui | Rula Gardenier | Veronica Cartwright
Michael says: “Anyone who knows me, knows I’m pretty tough on ‘gay films,’ especially American ones. BREAKING FAST is no exception, and ultimately, it can’t rise about the tepid script and uneven acting to be a win. However, it’s pretty
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Alan Ball
Starring: Judy Greer | Margo Martindale | Paul Bettany | Peter Macdissi | Sophia Lillis | Steve Zahn
Diane says: “I’ll put UNCLE FRANK a notch above a Hallmark movie. An Amazon original by Alan Ball (screenplay, AMERICAN BEAUTY), this 1970s-set drama uses the perspective of adolescent Beth (well played by Sophia Lillis) who yearns for something more
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Rating: 2.75 | 3.5 cats
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Robert Pattison | Valeriia Karaman | Willem Dafoe
Chris says: “Enjoyed this a little more than THE WITCH–it’s just as silly, but Eggers’ Lynch/Maddin pretensions are finely tuned and wrought, and a sense of encroaching madness forever drives things forward. DaFoe/Pattinson is also an inspired pairing, and where
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Zheng Xiao
Starring: Brother Sway | David Wu | Dennis Joseph O'Neil | JiangShan | Macy Gray | Song Zuer | Xia Yu | Yang Zi
Jason says: “There’s always something a bit off about movies like PAPA though they are set in America and surround their (in this case) Chinese star with local actors, the filmmakers don’t quite know how everyday English sounds or the
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Prakash Jha
Starring: Kiran Karmarkar | Manav Kaul | Ninad Kamat | Prakash Jha | Priyanka Chopra
Jason says: “I’m not sure how much of a coincidence it is that Priyanka Chopra’s most recent Bollywood film is getting is global release on a weekend when she has a fairly high profile in the United States – she
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