Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Stéphane Aubier | Vincent Patar
Starring: Bruce Ellison | Jeanne Balibar | Nicolas Buysse | Stéphane Aubier | Véronique Dumont
Jason says: “A TOWN CALLED PANIC hit me just right tonight; it might not have on another day. It is, you see, an extraordinarily silly animated film, and sometimes one just doesn’t feel like silliness. Of course, those times may
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bill Plympton | Hiroyuki Nakao | Ignacio Ferreras | Kan Eguchi | Keiko Sootmoe | Masaya Kakei | Richard Fenwick | Riichiro Mashima | Takanobu Mizuno | Takashi Tanaguchi | Tetsurô Kodama | Tôru Hosokawa
Starring: Junichi Mogi | Osamu Shitara | Shôko Nakagawa | Yuki Himura
Jason says: “Anthology films like TOKYO ONLYPIC should probably not be graded on how good they are as a whole, but more on how good the best segments are, and how man segments should be in that group. On those
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kôji Yakusho
Starring: Eita | Kaoru Yachigusa | Koji Yakusho | Satomi Kabayoshi | Tôru Masuoka
Thom says: “Everyone will be familiar with Yakusho from his handsome, athletic, lead performance in the great Japanese film SHALL WE DANCE. Here, in his first try as a director & script writer, he more than ably directs himself and
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Dal-su Oh | Ha-kyun Shin | Hae-sook Kim | In-hwan Park | Kang-ho Song | Ok-vin Kim
Jason says: “I wish I could take credit for this line, but it was the lady in the next seat over who turned to me after the Fantasia screening of THIRST and said ‘isn’t it cool to see a vampire
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: John W. Walter
Michael says: “Who would have thought that a documentary on the life of Bertold Brecht, politics, and the rehearsals and staging of ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’ in Central Park starring Meryl Streep would make such compelling theater? Well we
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Anna Boden | Ryan Fleck
Starring: Algenis Perez Solo | Andre Holland | Ann Whitney | Ellary Potterfield | Jaime Tirelli | Rayniel Rufino
Diane says: “Loved SUGAR. More kudos to that fab filmmaking duo, Boden-Fleck. SUGAR is beautifully filmed and edited. Every shot has an emotion underlying it. This baseball ignoramus was able to get the story completely. My only complaint: I thought
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Hiroshi Abe | Kazuya Takahashi | Kirin Kiki | Shohei Tanaka | Yoshio Harada | You | Yui Natsukawa
Jason says: “Among my moviegoing friends, I have gained a not-undeserved reputation for lacking patience with French dysfunctional family dramas. I contend that this is a bit unfair; while I did, in fact, bang my head against the back of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Starring: James Purefoy | Jason Flemyng | Max von Sydow | Pete Postlethwaite | Rachel Hurd-Wood | Samuel Roukin
Thom says: “This is one of those big-budget extravaganza & fantasy creation that is beautifully done with lovely images of creatures from lost worlds. The time is the 1500s and our hero Kane has to fight pure evil to overcome
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Colin Firth | Jon Kortajarena | Julianne Moore | Matthew Goode | Nicholas Hoult
Michael says: “I’m glad I took the time to see this film a second time after seeing it in September in Toronto because I enjoyed it much more the second time allowing the minor issues that bothered me upon first
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hun Jang
Starring: Chang-seok Ko | Ji-Hwan Kang | Ji-seob So | Ji-sub So | Su-hyeon Hong
Jason says: “I’ve got to be honest here… I kind of wanted a different ending on this. Part of what’s so much fun about Korean movies is that they don’t seem obligated to take even familiar genre films in the
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