Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asif Kapadia
Diane says: “AMY will see a best doc nom from me. Stills and lousy video footage are used to relate the unremittingly bleak chronology of Amy Winehouse’s life in show biz. Director has interviews–or perhaps borrowed sound–from a good range
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Jason says: “RUBBER was surreal. WRONG was bizarre. Spinoff WRONG COPS is peculiar. At this rate, Quentin Dupieux is only a few films away from doing something eccentric but basically sensible. Fortunately, he’s not there yet, and the plentiful gags he
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Asuka Kurosawa | Fumi Nikaido | Koji Yakusho | Nana Komatsu | Satoshi Tsumabuki
Jason says: “The latest from Tetsuya Nakashima is not quite so sublime as his mid-aughts peak (KAMIKAZE GIRLS and MEMORIES OF MATSUKO is a heck of a one-two punch), and it kind of stretches out too long, padded by some
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Benny Chan
Jason says: “Sometimes, it’s not enough for someone to be shot in the chest. They have to fall off a cliff, and there have to be alligators in the river below. That is the attitude Benny Chan brings to THE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Roger Michell
Jason says: “Vicarious travel is one of the more underrated joys of going to the movies even if it can’t carry a film itself, and LE WEEK-END uses it well: It could have just been another nicely-acted argument that runs
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hubert Sauper
Kyle says: “WE COME AS FRIENDS is Austrian director Hubert Sauper’s horrifying documentary about contemporary colonization of South Sudan. Perhaps depressing and infuriating are better adjectives. This constitutes numerous episodes about the exploitation of the resources and manipulation of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Barmak Akram
Jason says: “Depending on where in the world it plays, WAJMA may be titled AN AFGHAN LOVE STORY or use that as a subtitle. It’s a somewhat ironic one, as those hoping for a romance that brings either cheer or
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hans Herbots
Jason says: “Film festivals, or the other ways that film lovers cram more movies than their friends watch in a month into a much shorter span of time, can really warp one’s perception of a given picture via context. On
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tarek Saleh
Jason says: “TOMMY starts out looking like it might be a certain type of movie – you know, the one where the underestimated woman at the center is eventually revealed to always be three steps ahead of everyone around her
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Charlie Cox | David Thewlis | Eddie Redmayne | Felicity Jones | Maxine Peake
Jason says: “Stephen Hawking’s life story is extraordinary, but not necessarily cinematic – its milestones are often losing the ability to do things, and his accomplishments can be difficult for laymen to understand. So what do you do? In this
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