Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kôji Fukada
Starring: Bryerly Long | Eriko Ono | Haruka Saito | Hiroko Matsuda | Kanji Furutachi | Kumi Hyôdô | Tatsuya Kawamura
Thom says: “This unsentimental winner is yet one more great representative of the Film Movement visionary picks. This might well have come from the family-orientation oeuvre of an Ozu until we realize that this film will veer off into wacky
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ron Morales
Starring: Dido De La Paz | Ella Guevara | Leon Miguel | Marife Necesito | Menggie Cobarrubias | Patricia Gayod
Jason says: “The easiest way to describe GRACELAND- a twistier, less philosophical take on Akira Kurosawa HIGH AND LOW- maybe does it a disservice by making it sound like it is less than its potential. That’s not particularly true; it’s
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jon Wright
Starring: Bronagh Gallagher | David Pearse | Lalor Roddy | Richard Coyle | Russell Tovey | Ruth Bradley
Jason says: “Even if the name of GRABBERS didn’t make one think of the monsters in TREMORS, the rest of the movie would, in the best possible way. It has the things that this sort of movie needs to succeed
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Starring: Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy | Leyla Zareh | Roya Taymourian | Shahab Hosseini
Michael says: “Saw my first film at the New Directors/New Films Festival in NYC this weekend, and it was powerful. Noora is a young woman living in Iran who is in some sort of trouble. She has been barred from
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tim Cawley
Chris says: “Creativity is nebulous; what inspires and motivates us often varies maddeningly from one artist to another, making it near impossible to form a general hypothesis on how people create. And yet, certain motifs and a collective camaraderie emerges
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Diane Kruger | Léa Seydoux | Michel Robin | Noémie Lvovsky | Virginie Ledoyen | Xavier Beauvais
Bruce says: “Based on the novel by Chantal Thomas, director Benoît Jacquot gives the final days of Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger) and the Court of Louis XVI the upstairs/downstairs treatment. Events are seen and heard through the eyes and ears
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: hirely Henderson | John Simm | Peter Gunn | Robert Kirk | Shaun Kirk
Thom says: “Winterbottom, a must-see director as much for his style which isn’t all that discernable as his willingness to expand his horizons by making a variety of genres and techniques. You’ll, of course, recall his THE KILLER INSIDE ME,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennifer Devoldère
Starring: Claude Perron | Florence Loiret Caille | Guillaume Gouix | Mélanie Laurent | Michel Blanc
Thom says: “Another outstanding winner from the ever-reliable Film Movement. This French eclair has a terrific plot with a romantic flair that often seems like the French have a lock on. Eli (Blanc) is celebrating his 60th birthday when he
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jin-ho Hur
Starring: Cecelia Cheung | Dong-gun Jang | Lisa Lu | Shawn Dou | Ziyi Zhang
Thom says: “This is the 8th version I’ve seen of my ALL-TIME favorite script. In order I’ve seen LE LIAISONS DANGEREUSES (1959, Roger Vadim, 5 CATS), DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988, Stephen Frears, 5 CATS), VALMONT (1989, Milos Forman, 5 CATS), a
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Starring: Isabelle Huppert | Jun-Sang Yu | Jung Yu Mi | Kwon Hye Hyo | Moon Sung Keun | So-ri Moon
Thom says: “The first of three films I saw that had the Goddess Ms. Huppert in starring roles. And, striking a novel turn that surmounted the duality of custom & culture brought 3 stories of three different women, all played
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