Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard
Starring: Casper Christensen | Frank Hvam | Iben Hjejle | Marcuz Jess Petersen | Mia Lyhne | Niels Weyde
Thom says: “I might have passed on this Danish uproarious comedy that is not without a cruel, macabre streak, had it not been a free viewing and I was delightfully suprised. This was adapted from the smash Danish television series
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yeong Sang-ho
Starring: Ben Van den Heuvel | Eva van der Gucht | Mickey | Noor Ben Taoeut | Thomas Coumans
Jason says: “Animation fans will spend a great deal of time telling the rest of the world that the medium is good for more than children’s entertainment, and will point to movies with either violent content or mature themes to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Magnus Martens
Starring: Andreas Cappelen | Arthur Berning | Henrik Mestad | Kyrre Hellum | Mads Ousdal | Marie Blokhus
Jason says: “So, it looks like I’m going to have to start putting Jo Nesbø stuff in my Amazon basket, as any guy who comes up with the raw material for both this and HEADHUNTERS is my kind of darkly
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kirby Dick
Michael says: “Kirby Dick won the Chlotrudis Award for Best Documentary with his film THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED. Now he tackles sexual violence in the military with the same intensity and passion. This film is tough to watch,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mia Donovan
Jason says: “Hey, festivals, I know all I really want to know about the porn industry. Really, you can stop screening docs about it and films that are set there; folks give me funny looks after I tell them what
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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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