Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Taisuke Kawamura
Jason says: “Though the audience for comic books in America – and symbiotically, comic-book movies – has been growing broader in the past few years, the variety of material has lagged a bit, and we’ll probably never catch up to
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Director: Philip Yung Chi-kwong
Jason says: “PORT OF CALL looks like it’s going to be a police procedural, and certainly acts like one during the early going. But then the answer to ‘who killed Wang Jiamei?’ presents itself, and Aaron Kwok’s Inspector Chong keeps
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Felix Römer | Imogen Kogge | Michael Maertens | Nina Hoss | Nina Kunzendorf | Ronald Zehrfeld | Trystan Pütter
Jason says: “In a happy coincidence, the local boutique multiplex was playing PHOENIX and the new restoration of THE THIRD MAN in adjacent theaters on the night when I saw the former, and the pair would make a fantastic double feature:
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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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