Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Zal Batmanglij
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brit Marling | Ellen Page | Patricia Clarkson | Shiloh Fernandez | Toby Kebbell
Chris says: “Serviceable—that’s the word I kept thinking of throughout this thriller in which an intelligence agency operative (Brit Marling) infiltrates herself within an eco-terrorist group that targets the agency’s corporate clients. I’m not saying this film, co-written by Marling
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sebastián Silva
Starring: Agustin Silva | Gaby Hoffman | José Miguel Silva | Juan Andrés Silva | Michael Cera
Chris says: “At the very least, CRYSTAL FAIRY features two irrefutably memorable, if supremely irritating characters, both of them twenty-something Americans in Chile. The first, Jamie (Michael Cera) babbles on pretentiously about The Doors of Perception and harbors an obsession
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sophie Letourneur
Starring: Camille Genaud | Carole le Page | Julien Gester; Eugenio Renzi | Sophie Letourneur
Bruce says: “LES COQUILLETTES is an enjoyable piece of fluff, an example of amateur filmmaking pushing its way into the festival circuit, possibly the mainstream. Anyone can be a filmmaker today especially if they can tap into the beat of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kim Dae-Seung
Starring: Jo Yeo-Jeong | Kim Dong-Wook | Kim Min-Joon | Park Ji-Young
Kyle says: “THE CONCUBINE received its North American Premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival. Fans of the hit HBO television series GAME OF THRONES will feel right at home, although I am not sure that is the proper
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