Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Keishi Otomo
Jason says: “The first RURONI KENSHIN movie had the look of a franchise starter in the best sort of way, an introduction to an appealing setting and group of characters that leaves the door open for new adventures. The second
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Brett Ryan Bonowicz
Starring: Cheryl Nichols | Don McManus | James M. Connor | Kelton John | Whit Hertford
Jason says: “Science fiction on film often tends to be action-oriented, even when the filmmakers would really like to be focusing on an idea, if only because an hour and a half of someone spewing jargon is not a natural
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Mark Levinson
Jason says: “Lots of sci-fi movies will have scenes of scientists frantically scribbling on chalkboards, with the directors at a loss for how to make this exciting. I don’t envy them their task; it’s usually being done by a new
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Anton Corbijn
Jason says: “I must admit to bring a little surprised that John le Carré is still with us and writing contemporary works; I had sort of aimed he faded away with the end of the Cold War. This, it turns
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rithy Panh
Jason says: “I passed on seeing THE MISSING PICTURE one night this week, overstating in my head how tight a squeeze it would be to get to the theater on time because I wasn’t in the mood for it that
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ilan Duran Cohen
Starring: Audrey Dana | Aurélien Recoing | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | Laurent Lucas | Pascal Greggory
Kyle says: “THE JEWISH CARDINAL disappoints in the way of most fictional accounts of real people and events: The messiness of life must be reduced to the neatness of fiction. This account of the relationship between Jean-Marie Aaron Lustiger, Archbishop
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Anders Morgenthaler
Starring: Anouk Fischer | Jordan Prentice | Kim Basinger | Peter Stormare | Sebastian Schipper
Jason says: “I AM HERE is heart-and-gut-wrenching in its first act, taking horrific events and making them hurt more with things that would at first glance have the opposite effect. It’s not quite so sure-handed when it starts to actually
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jang Joon-hwan
Jason says: “A little over ten years ago, director Jang Joon-hwan made a good-sized splash with a film by the name of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET, but after that, barely a peep. He certainly seems to have come back to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Dong-hyuk Hwang
Starring: Dong-il Song | Eun-kyung Shim | In-hwan Park | Jin-wook Lee | Mun-hee Na
Jason says: “Sitting down for MISS GRANNY, I had a horrible fear – what if this was 200 POUNDS BEAUTY again? The template, right down to the newly-cute protagonist becoming a singer, was sort of the same, and it certainly
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Starring: Arash Marandi | Dominic Rains | Marshall Manesh | Mozhan Marnò | Rome Shadanloo | Sheila Vand
Kyle says: “Every year in late March, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art co-produce a festival called New Directors/New Films. Screenings take place at the FSLC’s Walter Reade Theater, and at MoMA’s Ray and
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