Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Cairns
Starring: Higarino | Mai Tsujimoto | Max MacKenzie
Jason says: “Believe it or not, SCHOOLGIRL APOCALYPSE is not the third Nobboru Iguchi film on the festival’s program, or a similarly cheery exploitation picture from a filmmaker of like sensibilities. No, it’s an often-impressive bit of stripped-down sci-fi/horror that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Starring: Chan Kawai | Gaku Hamada | Junya Kawashima | Shinijiro Igarashi | Takehiko Ono | Yuriko Yoshitaka
Jason says: “There are certain comedies where the viewer might realize that what’s going on really make no sense even as the absurdity unfolds on screen, but will consciously forgive it because this particular joke is worth that particular bit
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aaron Moorhead | Justin Benson
Starring: Bill Oberst Jr. | Emily Montague | Kurt David Anderson | Peter Ciella | Vinny Curran | Zahn McClarnon
Jason says: “RESOLUTION gave me the creeps, and while it’s easy to dismiss that as just what horror movies are supposed to do, take a minute to think of how many of the last ten you’ve seen genuinely did so
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Chao-Bin Su
Starring: Barbie Hsu | Jung Woo-sung | Kelly Lin | Leon Dai | Michelle Yeoh | Shawn Yue | Wang Xueqi
Jason says: “A popular game among festival attendees after REIGN OF ASSASSINS (JIANYU) was to try and guess just which parts were worked on by ‘co-director’ (and producer) John Woo. Certain elements of the action, certainly, although several pointed to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paco Plaza
Starring: Àlex Monner | Claire Baschet | Diego Martin | Ismael Martínez | Javier Botet | Leticia Dolera
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Jason says: “[REC] 3: GENESIS breaks with the previous films in the series enough that one almost wonders if director Paco Plaza had the idea for the movie and then figured that the benefits of folding it into [REC] continuity
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Han
Starring: Jasmine Lee | Kang Byul | Kim Sang-ho | Kim Young-jae | Kim Yun-seok | Park Soo-young | Yoo Ah-In
Jason says: “From the name it’s been given in English, PUNCH, you might expect WON-DEUK-I to be an inspirational sports movie, and it’s got some of that in the later reels. In reality, it’s actually something closer to an inspirational
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Juhn Jai-hong
Starring: Choi Moo-Seong | Kim Gyu-ri | Kim Jong-soo | Yoon Kye-sang | Yu Ha-bok
Jason says: “I sometimes wonder if Kim Ki-duk has a whole cache of unfilmed scripts on his laptop, turned out quickly because not writing dialogue for your main character saves a lot of time. It makes for a distinctive style,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alain Gagnol | Jean-Loup Felicioli
Starring: Bernadette Lafont | Bruno Salomone | Dominique Blanc | Jean Benguigui | Oriane Zani
Jason says: “One of two ‘underdog’ nominees for Best Animated Feature in last year’s Academy Awards, A CAT IN PARIS is at the very least as deserving than the other cat-themed feature nominated, although that undersells its charm quite a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wuershan
Starring: Chen Kun | Chen Tingjia | Feng Shaofeng | Kris Phillip | Yang Mini | Zhao Wei | Zhou Xun
Jason says: “Newcomers should not be too put-off by the fact that PAINTED SKIN: THE RESURRECTION has a subtitle or a roman numeral depending on whether the title is written in English or Chinese; the first text on the screen
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielson Lie | Hans Olay Brenner | Ingrid Olava | Malin Crepin | Petter Width Kristiansen | Tone Mostraum
Thom says: “Director Trier was responsible for the highly-praised REPRISE (2006) that was also lauded by this viewer so to say I was surprised at how much I disliked this film is putting it mildly. The story takes place over
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