Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Zhangke Jia
Starring: Wu Jiang; Lanshan Luo; Li Meng; Baoqiang Wang; Jia-yi Zhang; Tao
Jason says: “Considering the tales that have been told about China’s film censorship bureau and the way that most of the films exported from tend to be set in a prosperous Beijing, the existence of something like A TOUCH OF
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Director: Darren Paul Fisher
Starring: Charlie Rixon | Daniel Fraser | Dylan Llewellyn | Georgina Minter-Brown | Lily Laight | Owen Pugh
Jason says: “It is not necessarily difficult for an alternate-reality sci-fi film to hook an audience; it just needs a clever premise and the chance to present it in a familiar setting before playing out how strange it makes the
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Starring: Fumi Hirano | Gou Maeda | Kana Hanazawa | Miyu Irino | Suguru Inoue | Yuka Terasake
Jason says: “A new animated film from Makoto Shinkai at this point necessitates my going back and re-reading what I have written about the rest of his productions, as it can look somewhat lazy to praise him the same way
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Crystal Huang | Guo Tao | Lam Suet | Li Jing | Louis Koo | Sun Honglei
Kyle says: “The New York Premiere of DRUG WAR brought out enough fans of the great Hong Kong director Johnnie To to fill the Walter Reade Theater, although more than likely, the combination of drugs, cops, criminals and gun battles
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jack Perez
Starring: Ariel Gade | Barry Bostwick | Eric Price | Karen Black | Kevin Corrigan | Leo Fitzpatrick | Lucy Davis
Jason says: “Funnything about the festival circuit; a movie can be there for a while – I missed seeing this at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival last July, catching THE INNKEEPERS instead. I don’t regret seeing that at all, but I was
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Emile Hirsch | Gina Gershon | Juno Temple | Matthew McConaughey | Thomas Haden Church
Jason says: “It happens to nearly every writer, musician, or film director who doesn’t die young: Because they never really retire, they’ll eventually have an unimpressive period that runs longer than even a long run of success. Take William Friedkin,
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Cara Uchida | Kanna Hashimoto | Koki Maeda | Ohshirô Maeda | Rento Isobe | Ryôga Hayashi
Thom says: “Director Koreeda is a huge festival favorite having been lauded for such films as AFTER LIFE, NOBODY KNOWS, & STILL WALKING (already a part of the Criterion Collection). The story is reasonably simple here, but very sweet and
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Bart Layton
Jason says: “The very title of THE IMPOSTER seems like it might be giving the game away, but it’s not hard to argue that this is entirely appropriate. Director Bart Layton opts to make the film a mystery only after
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: David France
Bruce says: “HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE serves as a textbook for the pros and cons of various mechanisms surrounding a social movement responding to a crisis. ACT UP was founded in 1987 by a group of people who felt
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Todd Louiso
Starring: Blythe Danner | Christopher Abbott | Dan Futterman | John Rubinstein | Julie White | Melanie Lynskey
Michael says: “Fans of TAKE THIS WALTZ should check out Todd Louiso’s HELLO, I MUST BE GOING, about a young woman, recently divorced, who moves back in with her wealthy parents in suburban Connecticut and finds herself unable to move
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