Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Apted
Thom says: “Naturally, I’ve been expecting this treasure for awhile now. When in New York this past October I’d heard of its imminent release but since it has yet to open here in backwater San Francisco I thought it would
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Director: Lauren Greenfield
Jason says: “Times are tough for everybody, although ‘tough’ can be a relative concept. The further you get from the bottom, not only does it get further from what many would consider really difficult, but harder to sympathize, at least
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aaron Houston
Starring: Amatai Marmorstein | Ben Cotton | Johannah Newmarch | Kacrey Rohl | Patrick Gilmore | Peter New
Jason says: “Even as mock-documentary movies go, SUNFLOWER HOUR looks kind of bare bones, but partly by design. Of course, even when cheapness is part of the aesthetic, that doesn’t mean a filmmaker knows how to use it – despite
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Frédéric Jardin
Starring: Joey Starr | Julien Boisselier | Laurent Stocker | Lizzie Brochere | Serge Riaboukine | Tomer Sisley
Jason says: “As much as action movies and thrillers will often try to impress by their intricacy and build-up to a spectacular climax, there is something tremendously satisfying to the two-step process that Frédéric Jardin uses for SLEEPLESS NIGHT (NUIT
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Armand Verdure | Bouli Lanners | Corrine Masiero | Marion Cotillard | Matthias Schoenaerts
Bruce says: “I was a huge fan of Jacques Audiard’s THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (2005) and READ MY LIPS (2001). His most acclaimed film A PROPHET (2009) did not score as high with me as with other viewers
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Lorraine Levy
Starring: Areen Omari | Emmanuelle Devos | Jules Sitruk | Khalifa Natour | Mehdi Dehbi | Pascal Elbe
Jason says: “My half-a-lifetime-ago high school French tells me that the title of this movie doesn’t quite translate to ‘The Other Son’, but to ‘The Son of the Other’ and that does turn out to be a fairly important distinction.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan | Ercan Kesal | Firat Tanis | Muhammet Uzuner | Taner Birsel | Yilmaz Erdogan
Michael says: “Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s seventh film (following the outstanding trio of DISTANT, CLIMATES, and THREE MONKEYS continues the trend proving him to be a filmmaker of note. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA clocks in at 157 minutes, and
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Eric Hayden
Starring: Alec Gillis | Brian Baumgartner | James Madio | Khary Payton | Lance Henriksen
Jason says: “THE LAST PUSH is a movie by space nuts but for a larger audience, and I very much hope that it will find one on the festival circuit. The filmmakers give themselves the opportunity to do a lot
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Chen Kun | Gordon Liu | Jet Li | Li Yuchaun | Mavis Fan | Zhou Xun
Jason says: “Foreign movies often take a while to open in the United States for a number of reasons, and while the eight months since FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (LEE MEN FEI JIA) opened in Hong Kong actually isn’t
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Peter Chan Ho-sun
Starring: Donnie Yen | Jimmy Wang Yu | Li Xiao-ran | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Wang Tei
Jason says: “Though Harvey Weinstein has saddled this movie with a generic name for when he finally gets around to releasing it in the USA (the man can’t help himself), the original Chinese name of WU XIA is even more
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