Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Bastien Ughetto | Emmanuelle Seigner | Ernst Umhauer | Fabrice Luchini | Kristin Scott Thomas
Bruce says: “I’ve said it before – François Ozon is one of those filmmakers whose skills are immense but has yet to produce the masterpiece showcasing his talent. IN THE HOUSE is an expository film, one that centers on the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ti West
Starring: Alison Bartlett | Jake Ryan | Kelly McGillis | Lena Dunham | Pat Healy | Sara Paxton
Jason says: “Ti West knows how to make his audience jump, which isn’t necessarily as easy as it sounds. Harder, though, is leading up to those jumps with light comedy and deep shivers, and West pulls that off, too. The
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ariel Vroman
Starring: Chris Evans | David Schwimmer | James Franco | Michael Shannon | Ray Liotta | Stephen Dorff | Winona Ryder
Thom says: “This is a nasty little film that certainly knows how to entertain once you get past the content. I’ve never seen any of Vroman’s previous output but I can say he’s done a very professional job here. Shannon
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Leos Carax
Starring: Denis Levant | Edith Scob | Eva Mendes | Kylie Minogue | Leos Carax | Michel Piccoli
Chris says: “Honestly one of the strangest films I’ve ever seen, and perhaps one of the most wonderful. In his first feature in over a decade, filmmaker Leos Carax(THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE), along with his regular collaborator, the wiry
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asoka Handagama
Starring: Dharshan Dharmraj | Gregory Philip Ferminus | Raja Ganeshan | Subashini Balasubramaniyam
Thom says: “A young, big, burly man returns after a long stint in the army to his village and is either ignored or reproached by his old neighbors and acquaintances. His betrothed has married another man who died on the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Braden Croft
Starring: Cara Uchida | Kanna Hashimoto; Rento Isobe | Koki Maeda | Ohshirô Maeda | Ryôga Hayashi
Jason says: “We’re probably healthier as a society for not throwing terms like ‘insane’ or ‘crazy’ around quite so much as we used to. It’s not always the case in the movies, where simple homicidal maniacs are often the norm,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Alejandro Awada | Victoria Almeida
Bruce says: “Carlos Sorin returns to Patagonia, the setting of his wistful 2004 film BOMBÓN: EL PERRO. One might call GONE FISHING a double road story. The main character Mario (Alejandro Awada) is on the road to recovery and is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chris McCawley | Jim Morrison | Jim Munroe | Tate Young
Starring: Jason Wrubell | Jonah Hundert | Kelly Spilchak | Rachel MacMillan | Sean Lerner | Taylor Katz
Jason says: “The ‘ghosts’ of this movie’s title are not supernatural; ‘gwai lo’ in Cantonese is both the word for ghost and slang for white/foreign people, and since this movie posits a future where the Western economies have collapsed… Well,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Victor Ginzburg
Starring: Andrey Fomin | Mikhail Efremov | Sergey Shnurov | Vladimir Epifantsev | Vladimir Menshov
Bruce says: “The USA started the ball rolling with HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING in 1967 (based on the Broadway show that debuted six years earlier) and Canada gave us THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ in 1974.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aleksei Fedorchenko | Harmony Korine | Jan Kwiecinski
Starring: al Kilmer | Darya Ekamasova | Igor Sergeev | Justyna Wasilewska | Pawel Smagala | Pawel Tomaszewski | Rachel Korine | Tomasz Tyndyk
Jason says: “The makers of this anthology were given dozens of instructions that ranged from restrictive to twee, or so the legend goes, although ultimately they had a fair amount of leeway so long as they made a movie on
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