Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Alain Darborg
Jason says: “More of this, please. “I’ve got no idea whether this reboot of Sweden’s JÖNSSONLIGAN franchise was popular enough to spawn sequels, but I want it to be. It’s a neat, tight little caper movie that introduces its characters
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Miguel Llansó
Jason says: “Science fiction films about a man on a quest in a post-collapse wasteland are so far from uncommon that entries in the subgenre need something truly special in order to stand out from a low-budget haze of deserts,
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Lee Jeong-beom
Starring: Alexander Wraith | Brian Tee | Dana Lee | Jang Dong-gun | Kim Joon-sung | Kim Min-hee
Jason says: “Lee Jeong-beom’s last film as director was THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, an action thriller spectacular enough that I’ve spotted people who usually don’t like their movies with subtitles telling other folks that they’ve got to see it. Lee
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Adrien Brody | Bill Murray | Jeff Goldblum | Owen Wilson | Ralph Fiennes | Saoirse Ronan | Tilda Swinton | Tony Revolori | Willem Dafoe
Jason says: “When trailers for THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL first started appearing a few months ago, I felt some apprehension. Not so much because I often think I like director Wes Anderson less than I do, but because a large
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Chris O’Dowd | James Fox | Jesse Eisenberg | Mia Wasikowska | Noah Taylor | Wallace Shawn
Jason says: “It says something, either about my expectations or what Richard Ayoade pulled off, that THE DOUBLE is actually more peculiar than I had figured on a movie about a man meeting a dead ringer who is his opposite
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Starring: Alex van Warmerdam | Hadewych Minis | Jan Bijvoet | Jeroen Perceval | Tom Dewispelaere
Thom says: “I saw van Warmerdam’s brilliant 2009 film THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK (5 CATS) at TIFF and ever since I’ve been haphazardly tracking him down but it was sheer coincidence that I went to see BORGMAN recently.
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Starring: Léa Drucker | Mathieu Amalric | Stéphanie Cléau
Jason says: “Georges Simenon wrote La Chambre Bleue (The Blue Room in English) about sixty years ago, and it appears to be the sort of elemental crime story where only small details need be changed to bring it into the
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Angelababy | Carina Lau | Chao You-ting | Feng Shaofeng | Ling Geng-xin
Jason says: “I’ve got to confess: When I hoped for more Detective Dee movies after seeing MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME a couple years ago, I didn’t really think I’d get them. Happily, it seemed the people of China also
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Edward James Olmos | Harold Perrineau | Hector Elizondo | Isaiah Washington | LisaGay Hamilton | Mahershala Ali | Yolanda Ross
Jason says: “John Sayles is perhaps the most notable independent filmmaker who falls through the cracks despite being quite accessible. Why is that? After all, he’s got LONE STAR and EIGHT MEN OUT to his name! There are a number
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Tobias Lindholm
Starring: Abdihakin Asgar | Dar Salim | Gary Skjoldmose Porter | Pilou Asbæk | Roland Møller | Søren Malling
Kyle says: “To most Americans, the word ‘hijacking’ is forever associated with 9/11/2001; to many seamen on voyages in the Indian Ocean, it is a fearsome nightmare perpetrated by 21st century Somali pirates, and a potential danger all the time.
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