Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun | Parkpoom Wongpoom | Paween Purikitpanya | Songyos Sugmakanan | Visute Poolvoralaks
Jason says: “The first PHOBIA (called 4BIA in festival programs) was a sort of sampler, offering up four short horror stories from four different directors, also tending toward different types of horror. The follow-up anthology brings the number of stories
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yonfan
Starring: Guangxuan Zhu | Joseph Chang | Kenneth Tsang | Terri Kwan | Wing Fan
Thom says: “It happens in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror, when an anti-Communist crusade swept the island and hysteria reigned. On one fall afternoon, two young sisters come back from class to find their home ransacked
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Starring: Alex van Warmerdam | Annet Malherbe | Eva van de Wijdeven | Gene Bervoets | Gijs Naber | Marlies Hueur | Marwan Kenzari
Thom says: “This Dutch gem is so droll that I find myself still thinking about months after seeing it at T.I.F.F. A woman who supposedly is dying lives in a large country house where she has assigned servant roles (including
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis | Emlyn Williams | Gary Merrill
Thom says: ” When some 20 years ago I started a must-see list for actors, the first actor I added to the list was Bette Davis, and upon doing so I realized that there were actually dozens of her films
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael Engler
Starring: Imelda Staunton | Lesley Nicol | Maggie Smith | Michael Fox | Michelle Dockery | Stephen Campbell Moore
Thom says: “This is an absurdly easy film to review because it’s nearly impossible to believe that anyone who loved the mega-successful television series from 2010 wouldn’t also praise this highly entertaining affair. Director Engler has done only one other
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sasha Joseph Neulinger
Thom says: “This film is so brave and so unnerving that I find myself thinking about it and the heinous presence of child sexual abuse in our society weeks after seeing it. The director Neulinger and his sister were targeted
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Amy Seimetz
Starring: Chris Messina | Jane Adams | Kate Lyn Sheil | Katie Aselton | Kentucker Audley
Michael says: “This one came recommended by Scot, and since it was already on my list to see, it made sense to dive in. I was a little leery, since it had a similar premie to a film I did
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bora Kim
Starring: Ing-gi Jeong | Ji-hu Park | Sae-byeok Kim | Seung-Yun Lee
Michael says: “As with GHOST TROPICAL, the thought emerged as I was watching HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD, I think I would be getting more out of this film if I knew more about life in South Korea in the mid-90’s. Unlike
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ilker Çatak
Starring: Anne Ratte-Polle | Godehard Giese | Jörg Schüttauf | Ogulcan Arman Uslu
Michael says: “This German/French co-production is an intriguing love story, that’s actually a complex story of finding oneself and determine their path in life. When we first meet Baran, he is hitchhiking to the coast of Turkey, nothing but the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: John Magaro | Orion Lee | Rene Auberjonois | Toby Jones
Chris says: “Throughout Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, I couldn’t help but detect motifs from across her oeuvre. It’s set in the 19th century along the Oregon Trail like MEEK’S CUTOFF, the focus is on a friendship between two men reminiscent
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