Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chad M. Walker | Dave LaMattina
Jason says: “There was another documentary about the man behind one of ‘Sesame Street’s’ most beloved Muppets a couple years back, and even before it certain allegations (most later rescinded) were made, it didn’t really feel like BEING ELMO gave the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ricky Kennedy
Jason says: “Mock documentaries are inherently gimmick movies; it is a rare one that does not crash hard up against the form’s limitations, and when that happens, it doesn’t matter whether the disappointment comes from the filmmaker having to cheat
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peng Da-mo | Yan Fei
Jason says: “As near as I can tell, no character is played by multiple actors in GOODBYE MR. LOSER despite the bulk of the movie showing these middle-aged characters back in high school, and the fact that the filmmakers figure
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Kyle says: “Many fans of the definitive turn of the century pop culture phenomenon SOUTH PARK point easily to one classic episode against which all else is measured: ‘Trapped in the Closet’ from November 2005. Stan is suspected of being
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yu Ha
Jason says: “GANGNAM 1970 (or GANGNAM BLUES, the name under which it’s traveling the festival circuit) is the sort of movie where I tend to spend the first ten or fifteen minutes frantically trying to remember the seemingly dozens of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Derek Kwok Chi-kin | Henri Wong Chi-hang
Jason says: “There are plenty of silly things in FULL STRIKE- it is, in fact, ridiculous more or less non-stop – but the filmmakers never really portray badminton as a sport that is, itself, laughable. They could have, and that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lucas
Jason says: “FADE TO WHITE alternates between three science fiction stories taking place in and around New York City’s Central Park over the course of 112 years, and while they are in some ways a bit of a mixed bag
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Raul Garcia
Jason says: “Raul Garcia has been making the various pieces of EXTRAORDINARY TALES for a while; three of its five segments, all based upon Edgar Allan Poe stories, are listed on the IMDb as shorts released as far back as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ángel Vivas
Jason says: “EXTINCTION starts off problematically, with a prologue that involves three people doing what seems like the same dumb thing in a row, leading to nearly everybody getting killed by zombies. It’s the sort of thing that has the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Laxton
Jason says: “There is much more to the life of Euphemia ‘Effie’ Gray than the film bearing her name presents; it limits itself to what are likely the three worst years of her life and maintains so tight a focus
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