Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Bai Li | Carina Lau | Jacky Cheung | Lesley Cheung | Maggie Cheung
Jason says: “I saw and reviewed ASHES OF TIME three and a half years ago, when it played as part of a series of director Wong Kar-wai’s films at the Brattle Theatre. I was not particularly impressed at the time,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
Starring: Ahmed Al Feshawy | Amr Waked | Hend Sabry | Menha Batraoui | Samah Anwar
Bruce says: “Occasionally I recognize that I am out of step with a filmmaker who clearly loves his or her characters while I sit there finding them deplorable or pathetic. THE AQUARIUM is a strange film. Watching it, I was
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Esteban Sapir
Starring: Alejandro Urdapilleta | Julieta Cardinali | Rafael Ferro | Valeria Bertuccelli
Jason says: “LA ANTENA opens with hands superimposed on a typewriter keyboard while a piano plays, and introduces us to its City Without a Voice by displaying it as the pages of a pop-up book. That’s a fanciful start to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brett Harvey
Jay says: “At some point, Brett Harvey and Adam Scorgie should probably have changed the name of their documentary on the underground marijuana industry; the Union of the title isn’t mentioned until at least halfway through. THE UNION: THE BUSINESS
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Arias
Starring: Kankurô Kudô | Yû Aoi | Yusuke Iseya
Jay says: “The decaying city is a staple of anime and science fiction (though TEKKON KINKREET doesn’t really fit that genre). It appears in many conventional urban genres, too, but they seldom have the ability to really show the audience
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Starring: Arawat Ruangvuth | Chartchai Ngamsan | Stella Malucchi | Supakorn Kitsuwon | Suwinit Panjamawat
Michael says: “This buried treasure nominee is a visual feast, part Romeo & Juliet, part cowboy cum gangster flick, part wacky farce. Dum and Rampoey are have been in love since they first met as children, but different social classes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yang Zhang
Starring: Ge Gao | Haiying Sun | Joan Chen | Wang Haidi | Zhang Fan
Michael says: “SUNFLOWER is Chinese director Zhang Yang’s autobiographical look at the relationship between a father and son across three turbulent decades in China. Xiangyang is born in 1967 during the Cultural Revolution. As an infant, his father, Gengnian, is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bradley Beasley | Sarah Price
Chris says: “It’s easy for most of us to forget what it feels like to be a child, especially if you don’t work with children or aren’t a parent. Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price’s straightforward but affecting documentary unerringly captures
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mark Mahon
Starring: Gail Fitzpatrick | Michael Madsen | Michael Rawley | Patrick Bergin | Richard Chamberlain | Vinnie Jones
Jason says: “STRENGTH AND HONOUR is likely not a movie I see outside of a festival setting, because it looked to combine a couple of genres I’m not particularly fond of – the ‘poor and miserable Irish people’ movie and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hilary Brougher
Starring: Amber Tamblyn | Dennis O’Hare | Melissa Leo | Tilda Swinton | Timothy Hutton
Michael says: “STEPHANIE DALEY is a small, indie film that had a brief run in Boston back in May. It starred Tilda Swinton (THE DEEP END; TEKNOLUST) and Amber Tamblyn (THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS), and got fairly positive
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