Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenne
Jason says: “I’m mildly curious how big a part a secondary character had in the original book; after an amusing introduction (and fairly high billing), he gets streamlined right in the background. It’s the right choice – this is a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mike Scholotz
Jason says: “The comedic documentary is not exactly rare, but it is generally reserved for people famous for being funny – after all, if something is funny, it is seldom considered important enough for a film that gets any sort
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Zhou
Jason says: “Here in Boston, we’ve recently been threatened with hosting the Olympics, and though the recent experience of the Big Dig should really have the whole city threatening to string up whoever first thought this was a good idea,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hyun-seok Kim
Starring: Hee-ae Kim | Hyo-joo Han | Hyun-Sung Jang | Jin Goo | oon-seok Kim | Woo Jung
Jason says: “There is a little bit of Korean text at the start and end of C’EST SI BON left untranslated (at least on the local theater’s DCP) that likely says something along the lines of it being based upon
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Wolfe
Jason says: “CATCH ME DADDY opens with a poem/folk tale about its Yorkshire setting, fitting enough but a bit surprising, as the story is driven by people and traditions that arrived in the UK from elsewhere. On the other hand,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matt O'Mahoney
Jason says: “If BLOODY KNUCKLES filmmaker Matt O’Mahoney knows one thing, it’s that measured calls for free speech are kind of missing the point. You can’t just say that offensive media has value, you have to demonstrate it, so it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anucha Boonyawatana
Jason says: “When making a film meant to be eerie and still, greatness is almost the baseline requirement for the cinematography. Fortunately, Thailand seems to be unusually well stocked with both great shooters and things for them to point a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Huang Wen-Chang
Jason says: “To say one doesn’t see many movies like THE ARTI may understate the case; there is one family in Taiwan not only carrying on a tradition of glove puppetry but using it to make fantastic adventure films like
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Adriano Luz | Carloto Cotta | Crista Alfaiate | Dinarte Branco | Miguel Gomes | Rogério Samora
Jason says: “The best way to review Miguel Gomes’s three-part ARABIAN NIGHTS anthology is probably all at once, rather than writing about the first film before watching the second. I am currently trying that anyway, not knowing if characters will
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sonny Mallhi
Starring: Amberley Gridley | Annika Marks | Cliff Chamberlain | Karina Logue | Ryan O’Nan | Ryan Simpkins
Jason says: “ANGUISH lives up to its title and spreads it around, doing an impressive job of mixing jump shocks and genuine human discomfort. Despite placing that sort of emotion front and center, though, it has a much broader range
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