Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yuval Adler
Starring: George Iskander | Hisham Suliman | Hitham Omari | Michal Shtamler | Shadi Mar'i | Tarik Kopty | Tsahi Halevi
Kyle says: “The murky moral morass of murderous ages-old conflict between Jews and Arabs, and the seemingly never-ro-end war been Israel and Palestine, have brought us two of the year’s best films. The first is OMAR, about which Jason wrote
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Flora Lau
Starring: Carina Lau | Chen Kun | Lawrence Cheng | Stephanie Che | Tian Yuan
Kyle says: “BENDS is the opening title of the seventh season of ContemporAsian screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most films offer so little that it is tempting to go overboard in praising something as wonderful
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: John Carney
Starring: Adam Levine | Catherine Keener | Hailee Steinfeld | Keira Knightley | Mark Ruffalo | Yasiin ‘Mos Def’ Bey
Jason says: “I wonder if there’s something about making a movie about popular music that puts filmmakers into a zone where they don’t need to work in quite so straight a line – they’re already thinking in terms of coming
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: Amy Lloyd | Christopher Baker | Kate Fahy | Lydia Leonard | Tom Hiddleston
Bruce says: “ARCHIPELAGO begins with a plein air painter working on a canvas. The painting is abstract and is more about mood and feeling than it is about recording facts. Christopher (Christopher Baker), the painter, is only a peripheral character
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Felix Herngren
Jason says: “Sometimes you see a movie and don’t realize what it was missing until decades later, when someone else tries something similar but with an added extra ingredient. Such is the case with THE 100 YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kim Nguyen
Starring: Alain Lino | Mic EliBastien | Mizinga Mwinga | Rachel Mwanza | Ralph Prosper | Serge Kanyinda
Beth Ca says: “My goodness! This is a wonderful film! It’s amazingly beautiful and emotional!! I have to stop using exclamation points!!!! I’ve seen so many films this year I think are my favorite, but this one has stampeded past
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Arvin Chen
Starring: Kimi Hsia | Lawrence Ko | Mavis Fan | Richie Ren
Michael says: “Both thoughtful and whimsical, Arvin Chen’s WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW is a poignant exploration of a married couple’s domestic struggle while trying to have a child, when the husband realizes he cannot deny his homosexuality. Weichung
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Amy Berg
Thom says: “Coming so close on the heels of my viewing of the PARADISE LOST trilogy: THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS, REVELATIONS, & PURGATORY, I saw this the week it opened in San Francisco. With a big heft
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jim Mickle
Starring: Ambyr Childers | Bill Sage | Jack Gore | Julia Garner | Kassie DePaiva | Michael Parks
Jason says: “WE ARE WHAT WE ARE makes a heck of a case for the much-maligned idea of remaking a foreign film in English. Though the original Mexican version was much-beloved by many (I thought it had a great opening
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Kyle says: “AT BERKELEY and THE LAST OF THE UNJUST share little in common aside from both being Main Slate screenings of the 51st New York Film Festival, both having very long running times, and both being sharply revealing contemporary
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