Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Franco | Travis Mathews
Starring: Brenden Gregory | Christian Patrick | James Franco | Travis Mathews | Val Lauren
Bruce says: “Years ago there was a New Yorker cartoon with two old women on a bus. One was saying to the other, ‘the way I understand it is: if everyone in the world were stoned except for us, then
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Phillip Kadelbach
Starring: Katharina Schüttler | Ludwig Trepte | Miriam Stein | Tom Schilling | Volker Bruch
Kyle says: “GENERATION WAR is a three-part German television series which is being shown as two movies in the U.S. before complete showings on cable television. Its origin as an attempt to continue the national discussion about German complicity and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shahram Mokri
Kyle says: “FISH & CAT is writer/director Shahram Mokri’s second feature film. Ostensibly a horror film involving an out-of-the-way restaurant in Iran closed for serving ‘non-animal meat’ also known as a cannibal establishment, the proprietors cross paths with a group
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: Demián Bichir | Emilia Clark | Jude Law | Jumayn Hunter | Richard E. Grant
Jason says: “Dom Hemingway feels like he’s the sort of character Jude Law could settle into and play for a while, so perhaps it’s only fitting that the movie itself plays like a couple episodes of a TV show that
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robert Lemelson
Jason says: “BITTER HONEY opens with a bit of informative text, including the fact that it was filmed over a seven-year period. It’s an odd bit of information to include, because while director Robert Lemelson does a fair job of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chen Sicheng
Starring: Carina Lau Ka-ling | Chen Sicheng | Nana Ou-young | Tong Liya | Tony Leung Ka-fai | Wang Xue-bing
Jason says: “BEIJING LOVE STORY tells five overlapping stories of romance, and it could have gotten by with just three or four: Some feel like fragments just meant to tie others together, and some could use a little more fleshing
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Aram Garrig
Jason says: “As one of the many interviewees in this documentary notes, developed countries worldwide have generally seen a rise in the standard of living reflected by a decrease in strong religious faith, with the United States of America as
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Carrie Ng | Eric Tsang | Gigi Leung | Louis Koo | Man-Tat Eng | Miriam Chin Wah Yeung
Jason says: “Is there a term for when directors like Pang Ho-cheung who have thrived, maybe not on the edge, but certainly in a part of the film industry where things are less polished and more open to eccentricity, do
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Juan Carlos Fanconi
Starring: Alvaro Matute | Fabian Sales | Juan Pablo Olyslager | Rocio Carranza
Jason says: “EL XENDRA is impressively ambitious for a Honduran science fiction movie, and it actually does a better job of delivering on those ambitions than a lot of movies whose reviews start that way. It’s not necessarily going to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Moriro Miyamoto
Starring: Kiki Hanaka | Masaki Kitahara | Shinji Wada | Shishimaru Ozawa
Jason says: “There are any number of different types of weird movies, from the merely offbeat to eccentric to bizarre and beyond. UZUMASA JACOPETTI certainly tends toward the stranger end of the spectrum, and like a lot of movies there,
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