Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ti West
Starring: AJ Bowen | Amy Seimetz | Gene Jones | Joe Swanberg | Kentucker Audley
Jason says: “The text at the beginning of THE SACRAMENT describes the journalistic style of its protagonists as ‘immersionism’, and I suspect that this is writer/director Ti West’s goal as well – getting the audience inside a situation that it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Michôd
Starring: David Field | Gillian Green | Guy Pearce | Robert Pattinson | Scoot McNairy | Tawanda Manyimo
Jason says: “I went into THE ROVER already thinking about how Australia seems to churn out more than its share of post-apocalyptic movies (post-‘collapse’ in this case), at least among the ones worth remembering. It’s probably at least partially convenience
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jon Stewart
Starring: Amir El-Masry | Gael García Bernal | Kim Bodina | Shohreh Aghdashloo
Jason says: “I want more from ROSEWATER, but I’m not exactly sure what I want more of. More obvious suffering and torment on the part of its protagonist would certainly drive the point home better, but demanding that seems callous
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrew Lau
Starring: Billy Magnussen | Harry Shum Jr. | Jin Auyuen | Justin Chon | Kevin Wu | Leonard Wu | Ray Liotta
Jason says: “Don’t let some of the pedigree that REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS can whip out fool you – executive producer/’presenter’ Martin Scorsese and co-director Andrew Lau have made some transcendent gangster movies, but this one is more or
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jenée LaMarque
Starring: Carroll Lynch | Frankie Shaw | Jake Johnson | Jeremy Howard | Ron Livingston | Zoe Kazan
Jason says: “It sometimes feels like Jenée LaMarque could have done more with THE PRETTY ONE; the idea of one identical twin taking the place of the other is certainly not new, but it’s the sort of plot device that
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Bruce says: “Critics, fans and detractors alike, have compared Hong Sang-soo to Yasujiro Ozu largely because he is perceived as making the same film over and over OUR SUNHI clearly has broken that mold if for no other reason than
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Alexandra Roach | Colm Meaney | James Corden | Julie Walters | MacKenzie Crook | Trystan Gravelle
Jason says: “Once upon a time, the Weinstein brothers might have been able to make the pleasant-enough ONE CHANCE a sleeper hit, if not necessarily an awards contender; today they are barely able to get it noticed. And that’s not
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Dakota Fanning | Jesse Eisenberg | Katherine Waterston | Peter Sarsgaard
Chris says: “One phrase my professors repeated throughout film school was ‘show, don’t tell.’ Seems like a pretty obvious tenet until you consider how many filmmakers do exactly the opposite, from Hollywood hacks to indie auteurs. Watching this film, I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Aissa Maiga | Audrey Tautou | Charlotte Le Bon | Gad Elmaleh | Omar Sy | Romain Duris
Chris says: “Michel Gondry’s most ambitious film to date, MOOD INDIGO alternately plays like one of the director’s early, playfully innovative music videos stretched to feature-length, or ETERNAL SUNSHINE without brakes, or AMELIE on crack. An adaptation of a beloved
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Omung Kumar
Starring: Darshan Kumaar | Mridul Satam | Priyanka Chopra | Robin Das | Shakti Sinha | Sunil Thapa
Jason says: “MARY KOM opens with the title character going into labor in the middle of an armed rebellion in 2007, and that’s the sort of thing that one might think would have been a bit of a bigger factor
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