Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chris Kriofske
Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Starring: Charlotte Bøving | Gunnar Jónsson | JónBenónýsson | Sigurður Sigurjónsson | TheodórJúlíusson
Chris says: “Charming Icelandic drama about two sheep-herding brothers who, having been estranged (yet still neighbors) for 40 years must work together when illness effects both of their flocks. Pulls off the neat trick of convincing you it’s about one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Annette Bening | Candice Bergen | Lily Collins | Matthew Broderick | Paul Sorvino | Warren Beatty
Thom says: “I was totally amazed at my appreciation for this film especially because it was for all the wrong reasons, at least as my expectations went. I picked this up due to the presence of Annette Bening, the lovely
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Eric Piccoli
Starring: Jean-Nicolas Verreault | Julien Deschamps Jolin | JuliePerreault | Nadia Essadiqi
Jason says: “The festival opened with a film (400 DAYS) that covers a lot of the same territory – global cataclysm happens while astronauts are undergoing long-term isolation trials – and this one is easily much better, despite having a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Julian M. Grünthal | Samuel Schwarz
Starring: Arnold Bucher | Christoph Bach | Julian M. Grünthal | Nikolai Bosshardt | Nina Fog | PhilippeGraber
Jason says: “There are likely a great many odd cross-pollinations like POLDER that even the most dedicated watchers of world cinema miss because a German art-house adaptation of a Japanese science-fiction novel would appeal to fairly specialized tastes under the
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Zheng Xiao
Starring: Brother Sway | David Wu | Dennis Joseph O'Neil | JiangShan | Macy Gray | Song Zuer | Xia Yu | Yang Zi
Jason says: “There’s always something a bit off about movies like PAPA though they are set in America and surround their (in this case) Chinese star with local actors, the filmmakers don’t quite know how everyday English sounds or the
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Jason says: “I think that I vaguely recall the ‘Phoenix Lights’ that give this film its name; at least, there was a feeling of familiarity when the footage appeared which demonstrates that filmmaker Keith Arem has either done a nice
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Haruka Ayase | Kaho | Masami Nagasawa | Ryo Kase | Ryôhei Suzuki. | Suzu Hirose | Takafumi Ikeda
Michael says: “Hirokazu Kore-eda (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, STILL WALKING, NOBODY KNOWS, AFTER LIFE) returns with a lovely, heartfelt portrait of three sisters who discover they have a fourth sister after their estranged father passes away. They bring her into
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Amy Adams | Armie Hammer | Isla Fisher | Jake Gyllenhall | Laura Linney | Michael Shannon
Bruce says: “NOCTURNAL ANIMALS brings as layered and complex a narrative as anyone will find this year, combined with an unapologetic visual style that accents every complex fold of the plot. Added to the vision of Tom Ford as it
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Luo Dong
Starring: Cecilia Yip | Dillon Matthews | Du Juan | Ethan Juan Jing-tien | Michael MiuKiu-wai | William Yang Xu-wen
Jason says: “I wasn’t really looking forward to NEW YORK NEW YORK; the trailer made it look like yet another nostalgic Chinese romance, and not a particularly involving one. And yet, once it gets past its opening flash-forward, maybe even
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Justin Roberts
Lorraine says: “NO GREATER LOVE is ending a festival run but will be making a theatrical run and I want to put it on your radar. “It played in the Beaufort Film Festival. I missed the screening but met the
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