Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julian Farino
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Allison Janney | Catherine Keener | Hugh Laurie | Leighton Meester | Oliver Platt
Thom says: “Director Farino appears to have laid his groundwork on established, top-of-the-line, television series like ‘SEX & THE CITY,’ ‘BIG LOVE,’ ‘ROME,’ & ‘ENTOURAGE.’ Since a majority of the cast also cut their teeth on television series it only
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Roschdy Zem
Starring: Denis Podalydès | Maurice Bénichou | Nozha Khouadra | Salomé Stévenin | Sami Bouajila
Bruce says: “OMAR KILLED ME holds great promise but falls short. Based on an autobiography by Omar Raddad, the film documents the events and trial surrounding the murder of a wealthy woman Madame Pascal, living on the Côte d’Azur. For
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rob Grant
Starring: Bradley Duffy | Chelsea Reist | John Fitzgerald | Mike Kovac | Scott Wallis | Teagan Vincze
Jason says: “MON AMI, despite its title, is in English, so its audience needn’t fret about having to deal with subtitles. It’s still rather off the beaten path, a buddy black comedy, with as much enthusiasm as gags involving grievous
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Jacopo Olmo Antinori | Sonia Bergamasco | Tea Falco | Tomasso Ragno | Veronica Lazar
Tom says: “It’s been 9 years since Bertolucci’s last film, the very disappointing THE DREAMERS, a film with a distinct lack of conviction, but the Italian master has been responsible for some of my all-time favorite films including THE COMFORMIST,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Steven Kostanski
Starring: Adam Brooks | Conor Sweeney | Ludwig Lee | Matthew Kennedy | Meredith Sweeney
Jason says: “For what it is, MANBORG is damn impressive. Director Steve Kostanski estimates that he and his friends made the movie for about a thousand dollars, although I suspect that is the sort of estimate that severely underestimates the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Doze Niu
Starring: Amber Kuo | Ching-Tien Juan | Eddie Peng | Mark Chao | Qi Shu | Wei Zhao | Yi-han Chen
Jason says: “LOVE is exactly the sort of movie that gets released for Valentine’s Day, which is when it showed up in Taiwan and a few larger American cities. It’s not a classic romance, but it sets the mood well,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julia Loktev
Starring: Bidzina Gujabidze | Gael García Bernal | Hani Furstenberg
Thom says: “A loving couple arrive in Georgia (the country) and absorb the local culture. They hire a local guide (a guide in real life who had to be coerced into acting in his first and last film) to take
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josh Radnor
Starring: Allison Janney | Elizabeth Olsen | Elizabeth Reaser | Josh Radnor | Kate Burton | Richard Jenkins
Michael says: “Written, directed, and starring Josh Radnor (of TV’s ‘How I Met Your Mother’) offers a film revolved around nostalgia, and looking back at your college days as they high point of your life. Jesse (Radnor) is living an
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gakuryu Ishii
Starring: Asato Iida | Eri Aoki | Hakka Shiraishi | Keisuke Hasebe | Mai Takahashi | Rin Takanashi | Yumika Tajima
Jason says: “It is, I suppose, unfair to judge this picture for not being conventional enough; it’s meant to be unusual and relatively plot-free. The question is, if you strip the basic building block of story away, what’s left? ISN’T
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hanan Kattan | Shamim Sarif
Bruce says: “Walls, barricades, checkpoints, barbed wire fences. These are prominent features in the West bank landscape and the areas that Palestinians must traverse to get from a refugee camp to a Palestinian village twenty five kilometers away. This fifteen
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