Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Elisa Lasowski | Ireneusz Czop | Kate Dickie | Perry Benson | Piotr Jagiello | Thomas Turgoose
Michael says: “Beautifully shot in black & white, Shane Meadows’ (THIS IS ENGLAND) latest film SOMERS TOWN is a sly look at two teenagers who become friends in working class London. Marek has recently arrived from Easter Europe and spends
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Haruka Igawa | Inowaki Kai | Kanji Tsuda | Kyôko Koizumi | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yû Koyanagi
Jason says: “There have been many sequences in movies where someone loses his or her job, but few have been so callously cruel as the one that opens TOKYO SONATA: A pretty girl walks through an office, drawing all eyes.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kevin Heffernan
Starring: April Bowlby | Cobie Smulders | Kevin Heffernan | Michael Clarke Duncan | Steve Lemme
Jason says: “I have more or less ignored BROKEN LIZARD for what are pretty stupid reasons: The trailers for SUPER TROOPERS didn’t amuse me and it later became a movie much-loved by people who were fans of comedies I disliked.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Anthony Fabian
Starring: Alice Krige | Ella Ramangwane | Sam Neill | Sophie Okonedo | Tony Kgoroge
Jason says: “The laws of nature and the laws of man are almost entirely different beasts. The former are relatively few, and constant, but allow for great complexity and variety; they say what can happen. The latter multiply continually, but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Starring: Hassan El Raddad | Mahmoud Hemida | Mona Zaki | Nahed El Sebaï
Bruce says: “SCHEHERAZADE: TELL ME A STORY weaves the tales of women who, in order to survive, have to tell a story. From the opening credits featuring bright red tomatoes on a black counter top, director Yousry Nasrallah forces to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Annti-Jussi Annila
Starring: Kari Ketonen | Rain Tolk | Sonja Petäjäjärvi | Tommi Eronen | Viktor Klimenko | Ville Virtanen
Michael says: “This Finnish horror story touches on so many themes that it threatens to overwhelm, but somehow, writer Iiro Küttner manages to weave them all together and along with director Antti-Jussi Annila manages to create an elegant monster movie
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marshall Curry
Jason says: “I admit that I don’t give auto racing a whole lot of thought in general, but one aspect which I gave particularly little thought to was where new drivers come from. Make all the jokes about stock car
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Ning
Starring: Bo Huang | Cheung Yung | Jack Kao | Kong Jiu | Lifan Dong | Shaohua Ma | Zheng Xu
Jason says: “If I were to look over the reviews I’ve been writing over the past few weeks, I’d probably find I’ve used the word ‘crazy’ a lot, and generally meant it as a compliment, which I hope comes through.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yun-su Jeon
Starring: Dae-sung Choi | Ja-Hyeon Chu | Min-sun Kim | Nam-gil Kim | Yeong-ho Joo
Jason says: “Passion is at the core of PORTRAIT OF A BEAUTY, both that of one person for another and a person for his or her art. The former comes across loud and clear; the heat on this film is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nelson Yu Lik-wai
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Jeff Chen | Jô Odagiri | Millhem Cortaz | Phellipe Haagensen
Jason says: “PLASTIC CITY was presented as part of the ‘Hong Kong Film – New Action!’ series… So one might be a bit surprised to find that one of its main characters is Japanese and it is set in Brazil,
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