Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Bruce says: “In 1970 playwright Alan Bennett moved into a small house in Camden Town, a then up-and-coming artsy neighborhood. Shortly thereafter Bennett noticed there was a van parked down the street and a feisty old woman seemed to be
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bennett Jones
Jason says: “This review has been a long time coming, as BUFF is the third festival I’ve attended to play I AM A KNIFE WITH LEGS. I’ve watched the film at all three, but it’s the sort of weird movie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Barber
Jason says: “THE KEEPING ROOM is a nicely-built little thriller that takes place during the American Civil War and which uses the details of that period so well in moving the action forward that some might miss what makes it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brett Haley
Jason says: “Thing to ponder: I can put a note in my phone or computer that says ‘revisit I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS twenty-five years from now’, and it could follow me from device to device over that time,
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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one of ‘Sesame Street’s’ most beloved Muppets a couple years back, and even before it certain allegations (most later rescinded) were made, it didn’t really feel like BEING ELMO gave the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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