Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama | inko Kikuchi | Shosuke Tanihara
Beth says: “Japanese anime, based on a novel about a war that’s been wholly privatized by two companies who are at endless war, and the Kildren, genetically mutated humans who cannot age. Yuichi is a new pilot at one of
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Luc Dardenne
Starring: ArtaDobroshi | Fabrizio Rongione | Jérémie Renier
Beth says: “Directed by the Dardennes brothers, we follow Lorna, a naturalized Albanian using her Belgian status in a scheme that marries her to others immigrating from Eastern Europe. Imagine if 4 MONTHS 3 WEEKS & 2 DAYS had followed the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jessica Yu
Starring: Elizabeth Sung | Jim Lau | Jimmy Tsai | Roger Fan | Shelley Malil
Michael says: “Who would have thought that the first feature narrative by filmmaker Jessica Yu, the brilliant documentarian responsible for IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL and PROTAGONIST, would be a wacky comedy in the vein of THE BAD NEWS
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Guido Sommer | Jey Crisfar | Katharina Klewinghaus | Marcel Shlutt | Susanne Sachße
Scot says: “Yeah, that’s the title, semicolon and all. It’s writer/director (sometimes actor) Bruce LaBruce’s latest effort and it’s not entirely terrible. I quite liked some of it, in fact, but overall, I think it’s a ‘meh.’ “The premise is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belén Rueda | Fernando Cayo | Mabel Rivera | Montserrat Carulla | Roger Príncep
Jason says: “This was going to be a negative review; I came out deflated, and if I’d written this right away, that probably would have been the theme. There is a great deal about this film that’s good, though, and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Denis Lavant | Diego Luna | James Fox | Richard Strange | Samantha Morton | Werner Herzog
Jason says: “MISTER LONELY invites the audience to ponder many philosophical questions. What is the purpose of a miracle? Is it a blessing or a curse to find oneself among people who share your passions completely? Can you choose your
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Simon Welsford
Starring: Adam Shaw | Alex Reid | Cal Macaninch | Jamie Draven | Shauna MacDonald
Jason says: “JETSAM certainly opens with a nifty hook – a man and a woman have apparently washed up on the seashore. She checks to see that she still has a USB drive and then looks for him, but he
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Starring: François Damiens | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Karim Belkhadra | Zinedine Soualem
Michael says: “I wonder who came up with the idea of having aging, C-list, action-star Jean-Claude Van Damme make a film comeback playing himself in a pseudo-action film nearly as self-referential as BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. Was it a producer trying
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Courtney Hunt
Starring: Charlie McDermott | Melissa Leo | Michael O’Keefe | Missy Upham
Bruce says: “Well known character actress Melissa Leo has 37 film credits since 2005; that comprises just half of her resume compiled over a twenty four year period. She must be one of the busiest actors in the business as
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Virginia Anita Williams | Virginia Williams
Jason says: “The ending of FRONTRUNNER is a matter of the public record, so I don’t feel like I’m spoiling much of anything by saying that it does not have a triumphant fairy-tale ending: In Afghanistan’s first democratic ever, after
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