Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ching-Po Wong
Jason says: “Is Philip Ng the next big martial-arts action star to come out of China? It seems like we’ve been waiting for the generation that comes after Jet Li and Donnie Yen to show up for a while, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Starring: Camille | Catherine Deneuve | Claude Gensac | Gérard Garouste | Nemo Schiffman
Jason says: “At one point in ON MY WAY, Catherine Deneuve’s Bettie looks at the kid singing some English-language song in the passenger seat, then at the freeway outside the window, and grumbles that she feels like she’s in America.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Kyle says: “OF HORSES AND MEN marks an impressive feature film debut by Icelandic stage director Benedikt Erlingsson, as well as film debuts by many of his theater actor colleagues. Beautifully conceived and observed, with the exquisite but forbidding landscapes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jay Craven
Starring: Bruce Dern | Geneviève Bujold | Jacqueline Hennessey | Jessica Hecht | Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Jason says: “Having lived in New England my entire life, I’m mildly curious as to whether Jay Craven’s ‘Northern Kingdom’ films were ever particularly visible outside the region. They’re local and low budget, but fairly well made, and usually have
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kung-Lok Lee
Jason says: “I wonder how many of the critics who regularly make sure to include something along the lines of ‘don’t pay the extra for 3D, there’s nothing that merits it’ for seemingly every movie released in the format will
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Talya Lavie
Jason says: “Having a crappy job or two is often a rite of passage for folks in their late teens and early twenties, and if you live in a country like Israel with mandatory military service, having that turn out
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liv Ullman
Starring: Colin Farrell | Jessica Chastain | Nora McMenamy | Samantha Morton
Jason says: “One often talks of ‘opening up’ plays when adapting them to film, doing things to obscure the fact that they were originally created to take place in a limited number of limited spaces, all viewed from a single
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Andre Gregory | Emily Cass McDonnell | Jeff Biehl | Julie Hagerty | Larry Pine | Lisa Joyce | Wallace Shawn
Jason says: “Like a lot of people, I tend to have this vague knowledge that Wallace Shawn is more than the guy with the funny voice and the odd face, that he’s a playwright and an actor who has been
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pacho Velez | Stephanie Spray
Diane says: “Chlotrudis crunch time is not the time to indulge in this amazing and amazingly simple doc. When nothing had happened after 20 minutes, I had to look up a review to see what I was looking at. (I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chuck Workman
TC says: “Having become a major Welles fan after seeing CITIZEN KANE for the first time (I’m embarrassed to admit that was only seven years ago), this look at the man, the myth, and the legend that is, was, and
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