Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Gaku Hamada | Haru | Kana Kurashina | Kei Tanaka | Kento Nagayama | Naomi Ortega | Nene Otsuko
Jason says: “I feel vaguely like we’ve been taking Yoshihiro Nakamura for granted. Though he got his start writing horror movies for the likes of Hideo Nakata, he’s spent the last few years on a string of off-beat but surprisingly
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Jason says: “THE SQUARE doesn’t necessarily look like much as it starts; just some people who happened to have a camera in the right place at the right time. Make no mistake; that is an incredibly useful thing for a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Barbara Jefford | Judi Dench | Mare Winningham | Sophie Kennedy Clarke | Steve Coogan
Thom says: ‘Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised at how much I loved this film but until the starting credits rolled I had completely forgotten that the great Stephen Frears was the director. Over the years he’s been responsible
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Elizabeth Mims | Jason Tippet
TC says: “To outsiders, Santa Clarita, California looks like a really great place to live. It is less than an hour from Los Angeles, is ranked as #18 among the Top 100 places to live by Money magazine, and sits
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bob Odenkirk | Bruce Dern | June Squibb | Mary Louise Wilson | Stacy Keach | Will Forte
Chris says: “‘Older’ is a They Might Be Giants song whose primary lyric incessantly proclaims ‘You’re older than you’ve ever been / and now you’re getting older,’ baldly and astutely stating a fact that most of us would rather not
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: Demetrius Grosse | Kristin Slaysman | Paul Eenhoorn | Richmond Arquette | Tom Plunkett
Chris says: “Deceptively simple and effortlessly graceful, this character study is the type of American indie you wish would receive the release and promotional heft of something like THE WAY WAY BACK. Martin Bonner, a divorced, sixty-ish man of Australian
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Caradog W. James
Starring: Caity Lotz | Denis Lawson | Jade Croot | Sam Hazeldine | Toby Stevens
Jason says: “THE MACHINE is not the sort of science fiction movie that comes from someone who is, at heart, making a western, or because setting it in the future gives the FX guys a reason to make cool visuals,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Dheeraj Akolkar
Bruce says: “A love affair that evolved into a friendship spanning five decades is the best way to describe the relationship between Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. They met during the filming of Bergman’s PERSONA on
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Kôdai Asaka | Kurumi Shimizu | Masahiro Higashide | Mizuki Yamamoto | Noboyuki Suzuki | Ryunosuke Kamiki | Suzuka Ohgo | Takemi Fujil
Kyle says: “THE KIRISHIMA THING received its New York Premiere at the Asian Film Festival. There is no jury, no prize is given, the film is not a commodity in competition. Nonetheless this film resonated more strongly with me, stayed
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kang Yi-kwan
Starring: eo Young-ju | Gang Hyeok-il | Gang Rae-yeon | Jeon Ye-jin | Jeong Seok-yong | Lee Jeong-hyeon
Kyle says: “The North American Premiere of JUVENILE OFFENDER provided one of the surprisingly touching experiences of the New York Asian Film Festival. It is a deceptively simple but emotionally resonant story about a teenage boy without family tending toward
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