Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Spike Lee
Kyle says: “I respectfully disagree with Spike Lee, who claims DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS is not a vampire movie. It may lack traditional traits such as fangs and claws, snarling and biting, garlic and mirrors, but Dr. Green subsists
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Park Hye-mi
Jason says: “Two animated features from the Korean Academy of Film Arts played the festival this year, and there’s enough underlying similarities to make a viewer joke about them coming from the same class assignment or, more seriously, ponder how
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brett Morgan
Kyle says: “This HBO documentary on 1980s Seattle indie music scene visionary and guiding artistic force behind Nirvana has much to recommend it: childhood videos and drawings that help to explain Cobain’s restless drive, his horror of humiliation and ridicule,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Andres Torres
Jason says: “There are times when it almost seems as if BAG BOY LOVER BOY is making an argument against its own existence – that weird and difficult art is dangerous in the wrong hands, and not just in the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jennifer Prediger | Jess Weixler
Jason says: “Screen acting can be such a volatile way of making a living that what is probably the signature absurdity in APARTMENT TROUBLES – that a pair of roommates can both be so broke as to face eviction from
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Johnson
Starring: Danny DeVito | Evan Ross | Isabelle Fuhrman | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Virginia Madsen
Kyle says: “ALL THE WILDERNESS is another in a very very long line of films about a troubled teenager resisting the forces of socialization, having withdrawn into a world of his own making following the suicide of his father. The
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde | Catherine Deneuve | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Chiara Mastroianni
Kyle says: “Opening Night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s series ‘20th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema’ was Benoît Jacquot’s 3 HEARTS in its U.S. Premiere. Those who like their French films about doomed affairs of the heart intense and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Matt Chow
Jason says: “I see a fair number of movies from Hong Kong – just about every one that plays local theaters or the festivals I attend – but I’ve still somehow managed to miss almost the entire career of Sandra
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tom Shoval
Starring: David Cunio | Eitan Cunio | Gita Amely | Moshe Ivgy | Shirli Deshe
Kyle says: “YOUTH is the feature film debut of writer and director Tom Shoval. The fact of its co-production between Israel and Germany is attention grabbing. The title is a statement of age and experience, as well as a reference
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mohit Suri
Starring: Remo Fernandes | Riteish Deshmukh | Shaad Randhawa | Shraddha Kapoor | Sidharth Malhotra
Jason says: “Given that uncredited Indian remakes of movies from other countries aren’t exactly uncommon, it’s not totally unfair that I went into EK VILLAIN with I SAW THE DEVIL in the back of my head; you don’t have to
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