Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ka-Fai Wai
Starring: Ching Wan Lau | Jo Koo | Kelly Lin | Mia Yam | Ying-Kit Chung
Jason says: “Last year, I saw Wai Ka-fai as a guest at another film festival, and as one might expect, most of the questions in the extended Q&A were about his collaborations with Johnnie To. WRITTEN BY didn’t play until
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lee Hae-jun
Starring: Jeong Jae-yeong | Jung Ryeo-won | Min-heui Hong | Park Young-seo | Yang Mi-kyeong
Jason says: “Somehow, I got the idea into my head that CASTAWAY ON THE MOON was going to be a serious film, all allegory for isolation within the city and breaking its hero down to find out who he is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Atsushi Itô | Gaku Hamada | Hidekazu Mashima | Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Noriko Eguchi
Jason says: “FISH STORY, if nothing else, lives up to its name. Not in that fish appear anywhere in it, but in the other definition. It’s an unlikely story, which grows larger and stranger in the telling, but one that
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jennifer Alleyn
Starring: Elsa Guedj | Emmanuel Schwartz | Jennifer Alleyn | Olivia Palacci | Philippe-Audrey Larrue St-Jacques
Michael says: “This was the one! Sublime film, looking at alienation and feeling exiled from your own life. Emmanuel Schwarz does an amazing job as a theater actor losing his focus and getting the opportunity to do a 3 –
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Johnson
Starring: Ben Petrie | Ethan Eng | Jay McCarrol | Luke Lalonde | Matt Johnson
Jess says: “Saw it through the AMC Mystery Movie last week, genuinely such a treat! I cant remember the last time I had so much fun with a comedy, maybe THE NAKED GUN last year. I am not familiar with
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nicholas Colia
Starring: Abby Ryder Fortson | Alivia Bellamy | Everett Blunck | Melanie Lynskey | Owen Teague
Jessica says: “What. A. Delight. Coming in at a tight 90 minutes, this punchy coming of age comedy is FULL of heart. Such a great exploration of how art can help us explore the parts of ourselves we didn’t know
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Laks says: “We got a timely Chlotrudis review of Alex Garland’s WARFARE which I kept in mind as I went in to see Mstyslav Chernov’s (20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL) 2000 METERS IN ANDRIIVKA. The film opens with a description of the
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Rating: 5 cats
Starring: Jessica Earnshaw
Diane says: “I am so glad I saw this movie. BABY DOE is a doc by Jessica Earnshaw about a grandmother who is on trial for leaving a newborn to die at the side of the road 25 years before.
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ben Rivers
Laks says: “I was listening to Joyeeta & Debojyoti Sanyal’s Raag Malkauns on the peaceful journey home from the HFA tonight, having been reminded of my love for Indian classical music as Jake Williams played his excellent choices on dusty cassettes found in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tallulah Schwab
Starring: Bjørn Sundquist | Crispin Glover | Dearbhla Molloy | Fionnula Flanagan | Sunnyi Melles
Brett says: “Finally, a movie for those of us trapped in our own respective minds! But wait, surely there have been others featuring this concept, right? Did I just make a fool of myself? How do I get out of
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