Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Keiichi Har
Jason says: “Stories about art and artists are fantastic opportunities for makers of animated films, and I suspect that if I knew more about Japanese art, I’d be even more impressed by how MISS HOKUSAI uses it to give its
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Director: Alberto Rodriguez
Jason says: “While, to a certain extent, murder is murder, a story that could be easily set in any era becomes much more fascinating when placed in a specific time, and not just because cell phones, GPS, and security cameras
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Director: Gaspar Noé
Jason says: “It’s almost a shame that Gaspar Noé apparently shot LOVE entirely in native 3D, because it might be fun to ask guys doing post-conversion work whether sex was a nice change of pace from the usual violence. That
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Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Jason says: “The latest from the director of LINDA LINDA LINDA is another charmer about someone finding friends and himself (this time) through music, although its appeal won’t be limited to the too-small audiences who have seen the former. It’s
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Director: Roger Allers
Jason says: “KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET is a labor of love for producer Salma Hayek, and like a fair number of those projects, it’s got some rough edges as the desire to realize a complicated project within a window of
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Director: Lisandro Alonso
Jason says: “JAUJA opens with an explanation of the title, a mythological land that was always somewhere over the horizon in Patagonia, although these things are always exaggerated. That’s probably the right ‘it’s not really totally real’ attitude to have
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Director: Trevor Iuras
Jason says: “THE INTERIOR seemingly starts as an one thing and stays that way for roughly the first third, when the title comes up, the scene shifts, and the main character re-appears with a new look and direction, as if
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Director: Kim Seong-hun
Jason says: “’Chekhov’s _____’ is an extremely easy joke to make when watching and reviewing thrillers and the like, and like most trope-related comments, folks often say that in terms of ‘don’t do this’ as opposed to ‘make sure you
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Director: Aleksey German
Jason says: “HARD TO BE A GOD may deserve your ten bucks just for the sheer level of will and effort it took to get made, with decades of working on the script, six years of filming, and another seven
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Director: Michael Almereyda
Jason says: “I really hope that this one opens fairly wide, because I’d like to give it a second look. I came out of it with an odd sort of ambivalence, liking almost all of what it did but feeling
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