Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kate Novack
Starring: documentary
Chris says: “Fairly pedestrian for a profile documentary—more worthy of CNN than a theatrical release, really. But Andre Leon Talley’s personality is welcome in almost any setting. Just as he nearly stole the show from no less than Anna Wintour
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ruben Östlund
Starring: Claes Bang | Dominic West | Elizabeth Moss | Terry Notary
Chris says: “The title refers to a highly-touted conceptual piece on display at a Stockholm Art Museum, but as we know, a square is not always just an object. Could it actually refer to a person, like curator Christian (Claes
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Eric Piccoli
Starring: Jean-Nicolas Verreault | Julien Deschamps Jolin | JuliePerreault | Nadia Essadiqi
Jason says: “The festival opened with a film (400 DAYS) that covers a lot of the same territory – global cataclysm happens while astronauts are undergoing long-term isolation trials – and this one is easily much better, despite having a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jonathan Hock
Jason says: “The professional sports industry churns out a tremendous amount of non-fiction films every year, and the number is probably only going up with the sheer number of cable sports channels with time to fill, especially during the off-season.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Susan Johnson
Starring: Andy Bustillos | Bel Powley | Desmin Borges | Gabriel Byrne | Vanessa Bayer
Brett says: “If anyone hasn’t gotten the memo, Bel Powley is an extremely captivating performer on screen. In the coming-of-age film CARRIE PILBY, Powley sets the tone from the very first shot with casual, subdued mannerisms that make all the
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Rating: 3 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Catherine Terracini | Jay Gallagher | Keith Agius | Leon Burchill | Meganne West
Jason says: “It’s no bad thing, I say, that WYRMWOOD feels like a season’s worth of an eventful TV series packed into an hour and a half; it’s an exhausting ride at times, but there’s not ten or fifteen minutes
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Crystal Moselle
Jason says: “I suspect that film fans are going to talk THE WOLFPACK up more than it truly merits; the only thing we like more than an amazing story is meeting folks who love movies as much as we do,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lee Byeong-heon
Starring: Jung Joo-yeon | Jung So0min | Kang Ha-neul | Lee Joon-ho | Lee Yoo-bi | Min Hyo-rin
Jason says: “I suspect that TWENTY being successful enough in South Korea to merit a quick try-to-beat-the-pirates release in the United States owes as much to the popularity of its good-looking young cast as anything else; it’s not a particularly
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel Benmayor
Starring: Adam Rayner | Josh Yadon | Luciano Acuna Jr. | Marie Avgeropoulos | Rafi Gavron | Taylor Lautner
Kyle says: “As a die-hard vampire movie fan, and unapologetic TWILIGHT SAGA maven, who sighed along with legions of tweens at the performance of Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black the werewolf in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE, I have followed with
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kang Hyung-chul
Starring: Choi Seung-hyun | Kim In-kwon | Kim Joon-ho | Kim Yun-seok | Kwak Do-wan | Lee Dong-hwi | Sin Se-kyung
Jason says: “I appear to have really liked the first TAZZA movie (alternately called WAR OF FLOWERS and TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS) when it played this festival eight years ago, although I don’t remember it well enough to remember whether
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