Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Gu Chang-wei
Jason says: “There’s a potentially great movie-industry satire inside LOVE ON THE CLOUD wrapped in a layer of romantic comedy just thick enough that a viewer will likely wonder whether director Gu Chang-wei and company are doing for something very
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Ryan Gosling
Jason says: “Filmmaker Ryan Gosling thanks a number of filmmakers toward the end of the credits to LOST RVIER, some of whom he has worked with as an actor, and of that group, it’s Nicolas Winding Refn who leaps to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peng San-yuan
Jason says: “There is an unabashed simplicity to LOST AND LOVE that might often be called deceptive by those who might want to praise the film, especially if its early stumbling didn’t quite click with those viewers. That may not
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Chris says: “THE ACT OF KILLING is a tough act to follow, let alone surpass, but director Joshua Oppenheimer does just that with THE LOOK OF SILENCE. Billed as a sequel, it’s actually more of a companion piece: whereas the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stevan Riley
Kyle says: “To the mountains of writing about Marlon Brando, most famously by legendary film critic Pauline Kael, and most recently by New Yorker writer Richard Brody in a June 23 article suggesting that readers should ‘free yourself from the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jack Bryan
Kyle says: “’What I do isn’t about the people that die; it’s about the people that are left alive. They get the short end of the stick, as far as I’m concerned’. This is the moral of a tale told
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Starring: Aleksey Serebryakov | Elena Lyadova | Roman Madyanov | Vladimir Vdovitchenkov
Chris says: “Andrey Zvyagintsev’s films do not easily conform to concise synopses. One could sum up his first (and best) feature, THE RETURN (2003) as follows: prodigal father suddenly resurfaces and takes his two sons on a road trip where
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Jiang Liu
Jason says: “LET’S GET MARRIED is the third Chinese film based upon a popular television series in roughly as many months to get a simultaneous American release, although I can attest that no prior experience is necessary to enjoy it.
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Jason says: “The late Roger Ebert would use the phrase ‘dead teenager movie’ dismissively, probably with the intention of getting horror fans riled up half the time. And while it’s not great form to glibly dismiss an entire genre, sometimes
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Brian Helgeland
Jason says: “One of my favorite ways to mess around during awards season and make the point that determining the winners is not nearly so important as shining a light on noteworthy achievements is finding a way to suggest nominating
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