Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: Da-wit Lee | Hira Kim | Joeng-hie Yun | Nae-sang Ahn | Yong-taek Kim
Ibad says: “POETRY is a fascinating and often heartbreaking story focusing around an older woman desperate for fulfillment, vision, and control over her thoughts and memories. At the center of it is a behemoth of a performance by Jeong-he Yoon,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood; Marisa Tomei | George Clooney | Jennifer Ehle | Paul Giamatti | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Ryan Gosling
Thom says: “Governor Mike Morris (Clooney) is running hot & hard for his party’s Presidential candidacy and the latest crucial primary state is Ohio. His closest competitor is Senator Pullman. Morris’ hot-shot campaign manager Paul Zara (Hoffman in another spot-on
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Starring: Adamina Kerr | Frank Qutuq Irelan | John Miller | Josiah Patkotak
Jason says: “Thrillers like ON THE ICE are traditionally set among shadows and night, with the lines and crags on the actors’ faces all the backstory needed to explain how they wound up in such a spot. Of course, you
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ava DuVernay
Starring: Michole Briana White | Omari Hardwick | Salli Richardson-Whitfield | Tracie Thoms
Jason says: “Ava DuVernay’s I WILL FOLLOW is a fairly traditional independent film of a certain type: A close, quiet examination of family ties and other relationships, the sort made with a small budget, a single location, and the desire
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hark Tsui
Starring: Andy Lau | Bingbing Li | Carina Lau | Chao Deng | Tony Leung Ka-fai
Jason says: “DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME hits a lot of my sweet spots – it can be described as a Chinese martial-arts take on Sherlock Holmes, with a blockbuster budget, Tsui Hark directing with abandon,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Michael Fassbender | Viggo Mortenson | Vincent Cassel
Toni says: “I am not a person that either loves or hates Cronenberg but I am less into perverse stuff and more into his thrillers or more dialogue driven pieces with solid visuals and sound. I accidentally ended up seeing
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood | James McAvoy | Justin Long | Kevin Kline | Robin Wright | Tom Wilkinson
Thom says: “Two must-see actors, a passing interest in Redford films (his QUIZ SHOW was my #1 film of 1974!), & the noteworthy cast drove me to a theatre to see this & I’m glad I did. Certainly while I
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Rodman Flender
Julie says: “I went into this with great trepidation. I was not sure how exciting it would be to watch a film about Conan Obrien touring since I always felt the Conan show was just okay…But I was curious to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shion Sono
Starring: Asuka Kurosawa | Denden | Hikari Kajiwara | Megumi Kagurazaka | Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Jason says: “Clearly, Sion Sono is a guy I’m going to have to pay more attention to going forward. So far, I’ve seen three of his movies and really liked all three, even though they’re frequently the very definition of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chuan Lu
Starring: Hideo Nakaizumi | Ye Liu | Yuanyuan Gao
Toni says: “We drove up to Boston on a Friday night from RI in traffic to see the one week only CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH up at the Kendall. “Maybe it is the use of black and white to
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