Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Harvey Keitel | Jane Fonda | Michael Caine | Paul Dano | Rachel Weisz | Robert Seethaler
Kyle says: “My notes on Paolo Sorrentino’s atrocious YOUTH include pages of terrible lines, and scenes so grandiose, stuffed with so much visual information and shots held to the point of masturbatory self-indulgence (the sort of garbage that has people
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Denny Tedesco
Jason says: “THE WRECKING CREW has had a long time on the path to release – it played the festival circuit back in 2008, but it started shooting in 1996, meaning that it took director Denny Tedesco nearly two decades
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Rating: 3 cats | 4.25 cats
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Catherine Terracini | Jay Gallagher | Keith Agius | Leon Burchill | Meganne West
Jason says: “It’s no bad thing, I say, that WYRMWOOD feels like a season’s worth of an eventful TV series packed into an hour and a half; it’s an exhausting ride at times, but there’s not ten or fifteen minutes
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: David Burris
Starring: Adelaide Clemens | Haley Joel Osment | Jeremy Irvine | Minka Kelly | Noah Wyle | Steve Earle
Kyle says: “‘Violence begets violence,’ says Leonard, the character portrayed by Noah Wylie, whom we know is sensitive because he listens to Aaron Copland’s ‘Appalachian Spring’ but nonetheless picks up his rifle whenever the dog barks or the sound of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daigo Matsui
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Jun Aonami | Marie Machida | Yu Inaba
Jason says: “As soon as I saw this one, I figured that it may need some mulling over, although more for its downright peculiar ending than the occasional sense that as someone who is not a teenage Japanese girl, this
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fernando Coimbra
Starring: Antonio Saboia | Fabiula Nascimento | Isabelle Ribas | Leandra Leal | Milhem Cortez
Kyle says: “Although the title A WOLF AT THE DOOR is metaphorical, a number of candidates can be considered for the titular character in this intriguing Brazilian domestic melodrama, the first full-length feature film by writer/director Fernando Coimbra. A 6-year-old
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Crystal Moselle
Jason says: “I suspect that film fans are going to talk THE WOLFPACK up more than it truly merits; the only thing we like more than an amazing story is meeting folks who love movies as much as we do,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ahn Sang-hoon
Starring: Lu Han | Wang Jing-chun | Wayne Liu Rui-lin | Yang Mi | Zhu Ya-wen
Jason says: “It’s a sign of how big the Chinese film industry has grown that they are now pulling one of Hollywood’s signature tricks – not just remaking a foreign film for the local market, but luring the director there
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Demet Akbag | Haluk Bilginer | Melissa Sözen | Serhat MustafaKiliç
Michael says: “Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has yet to let me down. I have enjoyed (now, including this one) all five of his films that I have seen, including ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA, which scored a Chotrudis
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Joseph Chang Hsiau-chuen | Louis Koo | Shawn Yue Man-ick | Tong Liya | Yuen Qiu
Jason says: “Welcome back Ringo Lam, a director who has been absent from the Hong Kong movie scene for too long, but who doesn’t really seem to have missed a beat with this neon-noir. In many ways, Hong Kong cinemas
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