Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lu Chuan
Starring: Chang Chen | Cuckoo He | Daniel Wu | Huo Siyan | Li Qi | Liu Ye | Nie Yuan | Qin Lan | Sha Yi | Tao Zeru
Kyle says: “THE LAST SUPPER screened in its U.S. Premiere at the New York Asian Film Festival. According to various reports, the SARFT (State Administration for Radio, Film and Television), otherwise known as the Chinese censors, worked themselves into a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael McGowan
Starring: Barbara Gordon | Campbell Scott | Geneviève Bujold | George R. Robertson | James Cromwell | Jonathan Potts | Julie Stewart | Rick Roberts
Jason says: “It’s funny what gets to a person during this type of movie. I was doing okay through most of STILL MINE (which played festivals as STILL, and may have kept that name in some places), and then I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ken Scott
Starring: Antoine Bertrand | Dominic Philie | Julie LeBreton | Marc Bélanger | Patrick Huard
Jason says: “No matter how bound and determined a viewer is to just sit back and enjoy STARBUCK for the light comedy that it is, there are going to be moments when he or she can’t help but think it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Brie Larson | Dayo Okeniyi | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Kyle Chandler | Miles Teller | Shailene Woodley
Jason says: “It’s hard enough to try to review the first films to play a festival, writing a paragraph at a time between other screenings, but something like THE SPECTACULAR NOW makes it even more difficult. It’s does almost nothing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lian Lunson
Kyle says: “SING ME THE SONGS THAT SAY I LOVE YOU is a documentary of the May 2011 Town Hall concert in New York in loving memory of Kate McGarrigle by Rufus and Martha Wainwright, her children with singer/songwriter Loudon
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Andrea Riseborough | Brid Brennan | Clive Owen | David Wilmot | Domhall Gleeson | Gillian Anderson
Jason says: “There’s a twenty-year jump early in SHADOW DANCER, from 1973 to 1993, and another twenty years between then and the present day, and there’s something appealing about that sort of symmetry, especially with the reminders in the background
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mary Jane Doherty
Jason says: “For someone who has never been to the ballet, I sure tend to find a lot of movies involving the combination of art and athleticism fascinating. Maybe it’s the way that the intense discipline necessary to master the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Adam Cheng siu-Chow | Ady Ang Yi-Xuan | Ekin Cheng | Fu Xinbo | Shao Bing | Vic Chou | Wu Chan
Jason says: “The tale of the Yang Clan is something special, even in a culture already packed full of martial legends. Its combined simplicity and grandeur makes it an excellent source for Ronny Yu’s latest, and apparent labor of love
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Starring: Emi Takei | Munetaka Aoki | Takeru Satô | Taketo Tanaka | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yû Aoi
Jason says: “RUROUNI KENSHIN PART ONE: ORIGINS is a comic-book movie, not just in the sense that it’s adapted from a popular manga, but in how it both aims to introduce a lot of favorite elements and tell the story
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodney Ascher
Chris says: “Remember when someone first stumbled across how eerily Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album synced up to the first forty or so minutes of THE WIZARD OF OZ? With the band denying any intentional links
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