Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: John Stalberg Jr.
Starring: Adrien Brody | Colin Hanks Adhir Kalyan | Matt Bush | Sean Marquette
Jason says: “Marijuana’s got little to no appeal to me in real life, and I don’t find most stoner characters very funny, either. So HIGH SCHOOL has a little work to do with me from the start. It does okay
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Starring: Léa Seydoux | Nicole Garcia | Pierre Perrier | Théo Frilet | Yannick Renier
Thom says: “It’s a bit of a stretch to include this in an LGBT film festival, although one of the characters (maybe two?) is certainly homosexual. But, then again, director Lifshitz did make the rather confusing COME UNDONE, as well
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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: 4 cats
Director: Soi Cheang
Starring: Louis Koo | Michelle Ye Suet Lam | Richi Jen | Stanley Sui-Fan Fung
Jason says: “Crime movies are filled with hitmen, to the extent that, if these numbers existed in the real world, it would be a shock if any potential murder victim lived more than a couple of days and nobody could make
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Hong Seo-baek | Hoon Ryoo | Young-doo Oh | Yun-Jeong Jang
Starring: Eun-Jung Ha | Ji-hun Bae | Kim Hyeon-tae | Yeo-jini Kim | Yong-geun Bae
Jason says: “Zombie movies have the potential to be a dime a dozen, and not just because they can be made on a shoestring budget, as this South Korean anthology film is. What makes it stand out from the crowd?
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexander Voytinskiy | Dmitriy Kiselev
Starring: Ekaterina Vilkkova | Grigory Dobrygin | Valeriy Zolotukhin | Viktor Verzhbitskiy | Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Jason says: “It may have improved in the two weeks since I headed north for this film festival, but the summer movie line-up for 2010 could be described as uninspiring. It’s enough to make me wonder why Universal hasn’t found
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Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Starring: Aivan Uttapa | Andrea Suarez Paz | Gustavo Sánchez Parra | Melanie Frometa | Rosa Armendariz
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Matt Johnson
Starring: Antonio Banderas | Dominic Sessa | Emilia Jones | Leo Woodall | Stavros Halkias
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: David Ferino
Starring: Dan Bakkedahl | Daniel Roebuck | Myrna Velasco | Noor Razooky | Zachary Roozen
