Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane | Ethan Hawke | Lorelei Linklater | Nick Krause | Patricia Arquette
Chris says: “When asked what BOYHOOD was about, I stumbled in finding the words for a two-sentence description; having had a few days to mull it over, my response now would be simply, ‘Everything.’ It’s the best way to sum
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Amy Hargreaves | Brent Werzner | Devin Ratray | Eve Plumb | Kevin Kolack | Macon Blair | Stacy Rock
Jason says: “Say this for BLUE RUIN: It starts from a different place that many movies of its type, and that starting point means that even when it doesn’t necessarily go in a unique direction, it still winds up in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aharon Keshales | Navot Papushado
Starring: Doval’e Glickman | Dvir Benedek | Lior Ashkenzai | Menashe Noy | Rotem Keinan | Tzahi Grad
Jason says: “Even if Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado were just one filmmaking team out of many people making this sort of movie in Israel, BIG BAD WOLVES would be a pretty terrific movie, a step up from their already
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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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