Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bille August
Starring: August Diehl | Bruno Ganz | Jack Huston | Jeremy Irons | Lena Olin | Martina Gedeck | Mélanie Laurent | Tom Courtenay
Jason says: “Sometimes, there are things that the written word can do that a film can’t. In NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON, Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) tells how certain sentences in the book at the film’s center had a profound effect
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama | Jun Hashimoto | Junichi Okada | Koji Ishaizaka | Nana Eikura | Soto Fukushi
Jason says: “Not having read any of the books in Hiro Arikawa’s Toshokan Sensô series, I readily admit that this film adaptation of the first may give its fans exactly what they want (the manga adaptation looks as ‘shojo’ as
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ashley Sabin | David Redmon
Jason says: “Documentary filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin had two features at IFFBoston last year; I saw the one about teenage Russian models in Japan rather than the one about the attempt to open a fish-processing plant in Maine.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Neil Barsky
Jason says: “The lettering used for the main titles of KOCH is the same as that used at a New York City subway station. That’s fitting; the subway is how New Yorkers (or those who visit) most frequently interact with
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Denis Arqueros | Nicolás Klein | Sergio Allard
Starring: Camilia Stuardo | Eusebio Arenas | Florencia Astrorga | Sergio Allard
Jason says: “Alone in the world’ movies offer the independent science fiction filmmaker a fair amount of bang for their buck – you can get by with a very small cast, some unusually still establishing shots taken at the right
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Leon Yang Shupeng
Starring: Hiruma Yoshinori | Huang Xiaoming | Sun Lei | Wang Lie | Zhang Xinyi | Zhang Yi
Kyle says: “AN INACCURATE MEMOIR (dubbed EASTERN BANDITS upon streaming release) received its North American Premiere at the 12th New York Asian Film Festival. Comparisons to director Sam Peckinpah and the violence of his films such as THE WILD BUNCH
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Starring: Avi Glickstein | Brandon deSpain | Bryant Pappas | Milda | Rayvin Disla | Sammy Menna | Simone Xi
Jason says: “Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to get your facts straight. I saw GO DOWN DEATH late in the evening toward the end of Fantasia, and was wiped enough to have spaced out at points during even a fun,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paul Bunnell
Starring: Creed Bratton | De Anna Joy Brooks | Jed Rowen | Les Williams | Reggie Bannister | Will Keenan
Jason says: “Many films boast of firsts, but THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X has to settle for lasts: Last film shot on Kodak’s Super-X black-and-white film stock. Last role for Kevin McCarthy of INVADERS OF THE BODY SNATCHERS fame.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Arthur Vincie
Starring: Derek Morgan | Eric Martin Brown | Kelly Sullivan | MacLeod Andrews | Mina Vesper Gokal
Jason says: “A tricky thing for a science fiction story to do is to build its world and story without spending any time explaining it to the characters that, living in it, don’t need the explanation. Add a changing timeline
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aozaru Shiao | Kitamura Toyoharu
Starring: Amber An Xin Ya | Hou Yen-hsi | Lan Zheng-long | Long Shao-hua | Tien Hsin | Wang Po-chieh
Kyle says: “A slapstick farce from Taiwan in Mandarin that is both an affectionate satire of a long vanished Taiwanese film business in 1969 (there are numerous references to the July 1969 Moon Landing) and a sweet romantic comedy about
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