Teaching audiences to view films actively
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen
Starring: Andy On | Man Cheuk Chiu | Michelle Yeoh | Xiaogang Feng | Xun Zhou
Jason says: “As the English-language title suggests, TRUE LEGEND is based upon an actual historical figure, although I strongly suspect that he is, as they say, being ‘used fictitiously.’ After all, you don’t go to a Yuen Woo-ping movie for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Constantin Popescu | Cristian Mungiu | Hanno Höfer | Ioana Uricaru
Starring: Alexandru Potocean | Avram Birau | Calin Chirila | Paul Dunca | Romeo Tudor
Jason says: “When Cristian Mungiu last took audiences to Romania before the fall of communism, he gave us the tense, oppressive 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS and 2 DAYS; it seldom referenced the Ceaușescu regime directly, but still managed to perfectly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Jessica Chastain | Katy Mixon | Michael Shannon | Shea Whigham | Tova Stewart
Diane says: “A film about the pervasive anxiety in our world, through the story of one man’s mental illness. On the literal level, this movie is good at showing the stigma of mental illness and the chaos of delusional disorders.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Khavn | Michael Noer
Jason says: “Did Khavn de la Cruz and Michael Noer stumble upon a potentially fascinating movie by pure chance while walking around the streets of Manila? Or did they know about the subject and gracefully insinuate themselves? Or were things
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aleksei Fedorchenko
Starring: Igor Sergeev | Yuliya Aug | Yurly Tsurilo
Jason says: “SILENT SOULS is an art-house movie, more obviously filled with more symbol than story; it’s deliberately oblique at times. In many cases, movies like that want more from their audiences than they’re willing to give, but this one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asif Kapadia
Diane says: “SENNA, a doc about Brazilian race car driver Ayrton Senna, is well-paced and has some pathos, but it isn’t very deep. One thing that makes it enjoyable is that Senna is awfully handsome. He was the pride of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucas Belvaux
Starring: Alex Descas | André Marcon | Anne Consigny | Françoise Fabian | Michel Voïta | Yvan Attal
Michael says: “I was excited to get the opportunity to see RAPT, the latest directorial effort from Chlotrudis Award winner (and past guest) Lucas Belvaux at the Boston French Film Festival this past weekend. RAPT is a political thriller starring
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Caroline Bottaro
Starring: Alexandra Gentil | FrancisRenaud | Kevin Kline | Sandrine Bonnaire | Valérie Lagrange
Jason says: “There should be more chess movies, although there are probably more than I think because I just haven’t gotten around to seeing many (I remember Siskel & Ebert raving about FRESH, but I missed it). It’s a game
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wing-cheong Law
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Candy Lo | Janice Man | Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee | Richie Ren
Jason says: “PUNISHED levels with the audience pretty quickly, opening with two scenes that don’t say everything but make it clear that this movie is less about resolutions than the process of getting there. Later on, it spells out just
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wim Wenders
Bruce says: “For twenty years Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch planned on making this documentary. Wenders could not get started on the project because he could not figure out how to put her choreography on film. Finally, he decided to
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