Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 2.75
Director: Philip T. Johnson
Starring: Aaron Graham | Brad Norman | Kenneth Hughes | Kirby O’Connell
Jason says: “There’s an atom-thin line between movies that separate themselves from the pack by being prepared with irreverence, eccentric characters, and black comedy and the ones that fail horribly because injecting that sort of thing into something that wants
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Yi Li
Starring: Chong Wang | Joma | Yalayam
Jason says: “Director Yi Li and his crew worked for seven years on TEANA: 10000 YEARS LATER, and its looking kind of rough in spots goes to show how crazy the resources Hollywood has at its disposal are and how
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Zhang Hao
Jason says: “As Fong Yang (Tang Wei) lays out the backstory for ONLY YOU in its opening fourth-wall-breaking minutes, I briefly wondered if it perhaps made a bit more sense with a Chinese background than in the original American movie
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Emayatzy Corinealdi | Lindsay Burdge | Logan Marshall-Green | Michiel Huisman | Tammy Blanchard
Jason says: “That I was asking myself when the stabbing was going to start fairly early on in THE INVITATION implies bad things, either about my character or the filmmakers’ performance in terms of telling a story that, in fact,
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Rob Fitz
Starring: Chris Devecchio | Gene Silvers | Rachel Kerbs | Rick Montgomery Jr
Jason says: “Sometimes it’s hard to give a movie a fair shake, no matter how much it may deserve one. I saw a flat-out great movie with a similar idea just a couple weeks before seeing BLESSID so I wanted
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Benjamin Gilani | Deepika Padukone | Irrfan Khan | Priyanka Chopra | Ranveer Singh | Tanvi Azmi
Jason says: “I guess it’s an improvement that somewhere during the second half of BAJIRAO MASTANI I backed off thinking of it as being a historical romance where nearly everybody is a terrible person, instead considering it one where people
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Starring: Christophe Paou | Jean-Christophe Deladonchamps | Jérôme Chappatte | Patrick d'Assumçao
Kyle says: “New York Film Festival Selection Committee member Dennis Lim tells the audience: ‘I’ve been waiting to see this on a big screen ever since the Cannes Film Festival!’ His words promise size as well as artiness. The program
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Roberto Minervini
Starring: Colby Trichell | Grace Carlson | Katarina Carlson | LeeAnne Carlson | Sara Carlson | Tim Carlson
Kyle says: “I quote the first sentence of the New Directors/New Films program notes: ‘Sara (Sara Carlson, playing herself) is part of a devout Christian goat-farming family with 12 children, all home-schooled and raised with strict moral guidance from the
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Adele Haenel | Alban Aunard | Arta Dobroshi | Clotide Hesme | Raphaël Personnaz | Rasha Bukvic | Reda Kateb
Thom says: “”I had quite like Corsini’s LEAVING (2009) and went into this with my eyes wide open and was mostly satisfied. It’s the story of a man returning from his bachelor party with two friends who runs over an
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