Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Vincent Lannoo
Starring: Bénédicte Bantuelle | Carlo Ferrante | Fleur Lise Heuet | Pierre Lognay | Vera Van Dooren
Jason says: “It’s not that you can’t make a scary, surprising vampire movie any more – my last two trips to this festival delivered LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and THIRST, so it can be done. It’s just hard; the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mai Tominaga
Starring: Dori Sakurada | Hikari Mitsushima | Ko Shibaski | Mirai Shida | Tetsushi Tanaka
Jason says: “So, here’s my question: If you lived in this tiny Japanese village, what sort of evidence would you need to declare that Rinco’s cooking has magical wish-granting powers? After all, in the sort of small town where everybody knows
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Momoru Hosoda
Starring: Mieko Nobusawa | Mitsuki Tanimura | Nanami Sakuraba | Ryunosuke Kamiki | Takahiro Yokokawa
Jason says: “Mamoru Hosoda perhaps didn’t make a huge name for himself with THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME, but he made a very good animated film that told a fantastical science fiction story that was also very emotionally grounded.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yûya Ishii
Starring: Hikari Mitsushima | Kira Aihara | Kôtarô Shiga | Masashi Endô
Jason says: “A frustrating aspect of seeing foreign films at festivals is that they tend to be very directer-oriented, so if it’s a performance that catches one’s eye, the most likely situation for seeing that actor again is if he/she
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Soi Cheang
Starring: Louis Koo | Michelle Ye Suet Lam | Richi Jen | Stanley Sui-Fan Fung
Jason says: “Crime movies are filled with hitmen, to the extent that, if these numbers existed in the real world, it would be a shock if any potential murder victim lived more than a couple of days and nobody could make
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexander Voytinskiy | Dmitriy Kiselev
Starring: Ekaterina Vilkkova | Grigory Dobrygin | Valeriy Zolotukhin | Viktor Verzhbitskiy | Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Jason says: “It may have improved in the two weeks since I headed north for this film festival, but the summer movie line-up for 2010 could be described as uninspiring. It’s enough to make me wonder why Universal hasn’t found
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claudia Tuyet Scheffel
Starring: Jordis Herrmann | Nano Nguyen | Niklas Wetzel | Tri An Bui | Vy Luu
Michael says: “This one is a bit of a mind-bender. Trúc is a young Vietnamese woman going to college in a tiny town in the remote German mountains. Feeling alienated and alone, she takes a guided tour of a nearby
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Rating: 4 cats | 4.2 cats
Director: Adam Meeks
Starring: Annette Deao | Danny Wolohan | Kevin P. Braig | Noah Centineo | Will Poulter
Michael says: “Low-key, well told story of the struggle with addiction as a young man and his foster brother try to find a path in life. Strong performance by Will Poulter. 4 cats” Julie says: “Well I sort of did
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cyril Aris
Starring: Camille Salameh | Hasan Akil | Julia Kassar | Mounia Akl | Tino Karam
Michael says: “First half is a playful, passionate, and utterly convincing tale of two people falling in love, then a shift when the realities of two people who want very different things out of life make the last half painful
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Carney
Starring: Beth Fallon | Marcella Plunkett | Nick Jonas | Paul Rudd | Peter McDonald
Vicki says: “POWER BALLAD is a crowd-pleasing movie about friendship, ambition, and the world of songwriting. Paul Rudd plays Rick Power, a wedding singer whose dreams of musical success remain unfulfilled while Nick Jonas plays Danny, former boy-band star trying
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