Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Barnz
Starring: Bill Pullman | Campbell Scott | Elle Fanning | Felicity Huffman | Patricia Clarkson
Jason says: “I really hope the Fanning kids are getting better advice and guidance than other people whose names come to mind at the mention of the phrase ‘child star.’ Not just because they’re kids, and what sort of monster
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