Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Philippe Garrel
Starring: Antoinette Moya | Clotilde Courau | Jean Pommier | Lena Paugam | Stanislas Merhar | Vimala Pons
Bruce says: “Filmed in black and white reminiscent of the 1960s, Philippe Garrel’s IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN follows the dissolution of a marriage. Both husband and wife are having extra-marital affairs although they are happily married and deeply in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Benjamin Utzerath | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | Vincent Nemeth
Bruce says “As he did with the Hermitage in RUSSIAN ARK, Sokurov takes on the Louvre mixing art, history and folklore. In spite of meandering – as a Sokurov film is wont to do – the focus ultimately settles on
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yang Qing
Starring: Bai Baihe | Chen Kun | Qin Hao | Yu Entai
Jason says: “There are bits of CHONGQING HOT POT that are clever, nifty, and well-executed enough that one almost wishes that filmmaker Yang Qing had a little bit more room to maneuver than he has in a contemporary Chinese crime
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Banlop Lomnoi | Jarinpattra Rueangram | Jenjira Pongpas | PetcharatChaiburi
Thom says: “I’ve been quite a fan of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul for some 15 years now since and his brilliant return to form here is as exciting as films get if your aura takes a cerebral nature. He’s been
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Bruce says: “A prerequisite to seeing this film is knowledge of Tsai Ming-laing’s films and his muse and leading man in all of his films, Lee Kang-sheng. The two men are lovers, spiritually and emotionally. They work together and live
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Peter Pau | Tianyu Zhao
Starring: Bao Bei-er | Chen Kun | Li Bing bing | Summer Jike Juanyi | Winston Chao | Yang Zi-shan
Jason says: “Maybe the best way to describe ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL (to give it the full name that appears on-screen) is to imagine if Ray Harryhausen had been born in China, making the sort of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daigo Matsui
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Jun Aonami | Marie Machida | Yu Inaba
Jason says: “As soon as I saw this one, I figured that it may need some mulling over, although more for its downright peculiar ending than the occasional sense that as someone who is not a teenage Japanese girl, this
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Debra Granick
Jason says: “You may have heard of director Debra Granik’s previous film, a great backwoods number called WINTER’S BONE that got a bunch of praise and is arguably the foundation for Jennifer Lawrence being as big a star as she
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sean McNamara
Starring: Carlos PenaVega | David del Rio | George Lopez | Jamie Lee Curtis | Jose Julian | Oscar Gutierrez
Jason says: “If I believed in guilty pleasures, I might count movies like SPARE PARTS among them, even though there’s not much worth feeling bad about where it’s concerned. Sure, it breaks almost no new ground at all, following its
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lázló Nemes
Starring: Balázs Farkas | Gergö Farkas | Géza Röhrig | Jerzy Walczak | Levente Molnár | Urs Rechn
Brett says: “Not another holocaust film. SON OF SAUL is a look from within a World War II concentration camp, or perhaps better described as a series of passing glances from within. Director Lázló Nemes provides the insight into militant
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