Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Albert Brooks | Bryan Cranston | Carey Mulligan | Oscar Isaac | Ryan Gosling
Diane says: “The good: Ryan Gosling, of course. I was with a dozen or so women friends recently, and Ryan Gosling was the one actor they could all agree on as someone they’d like to sleep with. Albert Brooks. What
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Howard J. Ford | Jonathan Ford
Starring: David Dontoh | Prince David Oseia | Rob Freeman
Jason says: “Most people who decide to make a zombie movie do it in a bare-bones way, shooting in their hometown rather than going particularly far afield; when you’re working with no budget, it’s best to be in familiar territory.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Evan Kelly
Starring: Mary-Colin Chisholm | Matthew Amyotte | Nigel Bennett | Stephen Chambers
Jason says: “In most horror movies, insanity encroaches slowly, chipping away at the seemingly normal world that the filmmakers had built up at the start. To say that director Evan Kelly and writer Josh MacDonald go the opposite route with
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Agathe Natanson | Gianna Giachertti | Jean-Claude Carrière | Juliette Binoche | William Shimell
Ibad says: “Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami marks a new chapter in his long career with CERTIFIED COPY, making a film outside of his home country for the first time. The naturally sunny Tuscan cinematography keeps the film floating light
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Trent Haaga
Starring: Billy Bakshi | Chad Ferrin | Tanisha Mukerji | Timothy Muskatell
Chris says: “Earlier in this festival, I saw a film described as a black comedy that played pretty well as a straight thriller. This one, meanwhile, is presented as a revenge thriller, but winds up being presented so broadly that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Landis
Starring: Andy Serkis | Isla Fisher | Jessica Hynes | Simon Pegg | Tim Curry | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “The true story of 19th Century serial killers Burke & Hare is not a natural fit for romantic comedy, so this take on the characters is certainly going to stand out for that. It works better than one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gereon Wetzel
Jason says: “EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS has a strange start for a documentary abouta famous chef and his equally famous restaurant: The kitchen is disassembled and packed away. This is not, however, a precursor to a jump back in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yu Li
Starring: Bingbing Fan | Bo-lin Chen | Lisi Danni | Sylvia Chang | Yu Chen | Zhenjiang Bao
Jason says: “It doesn’t always work out this way, but ending the trip to New York City for the Asian Film Festival with BUDDHA MOUNTAIN turned out to be a nice way to decompress. After a non-stop barrage of movies
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rowan Joffe
Starring: Andrea Riseborough | Helen Mirren | John Hurt | Philip Davis | Sam Riley
Thom says: “This absorbing adaptation of the great Graham Greene (how could he have not won the Nobel prize is a mystery) novel is a remake of a 1947 entry which I haven’t seen which starred the young Richard Attenborough.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wai-keuing Lau
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Danying Feng | Liang Tian | Qi Shu | Ye Liu
Jason says: “You’ve got to sort of admire a movie like A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. It’s filled with characters that could easily be defined by how they are handicapped or burdensome, and yet it’s not a pity-baiting exercise. Well, not more
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