Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Daniel Garcia | Rania Attieh
Jason says: “Movies like H., with its deliberately un-evocative title, unexplained strange events, and ostentatiously non-standard structure, can bring out my least favorite reaction to a movie – the urge to shout that the emperor has no clothes and the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Corin Hardy
Jason says: “By way of exposition, there’s a bit on the radio early on mentioning that an upcoming deal would make Ireland the only developed country without a national forest, and that just sounds like a bad idea: Anyone who
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Pierre Morel
Kyle says: “The most interesting feature of the indispensable Internet Movie Database has become ‘Plot Keywords’, a virtual ‘CliffsNotes’ of movie plots so spot on that in most cases, you can read the list and skip the movie. Which increasingly
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Andrew Niccol
Jason says: “Writer/director Andrew Niccol has never been a guy who had a problem with letting the audience know exactly what he is getting at with his movies, and that’s certainly the case when he sets his movies in the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peng Da-mo | Yan Fei
Jason says: “As near as I can tell, no character is played by multiple actors in GOODBYE MR. LOSER despite the bulk of the movie showing these middle-aged characters back in high school, and the fact that the filmmakers figure
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ifa Isfansyah
Jason says: “I talked to folks who passed on THE GOLDEN CANE WARRIOR because the martial arts looked unimpressive in the trailer, which I suspect may be kind of unfair; they were probably cut to ribbons, and even if I
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Kyle says: “Many fans of the definitive turn of the century pop culture phenomenon SOUTH PARK point easily to one classic episode against which all else is measured: ‘Trapped in the Closet’ from November 2005. Stan is suspected of being
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Han Yan
Jason says: “The ‘cancer comedy’ is a minefield as genres go; cancer’s no laughing matter but it’s not a difficult path from tragedy to absurdity to jokes, at least for some. That’s the path Xiong Dun took when she was
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Chris says: “Obviously not a distaff take on Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD — the French title is BANDE DE FILLES, which translates as ‘Group of Girls.’ Marieme (Karidja Touré), a timid sixteen-year-old living in mostly black, housing project-heavy Parisian suburb, drops
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yu Ha
Jason says: “GANGNAM 1970 (or GANGNAM BLUES, the name under which it’s traveling the festival circuit) is the sort of movie where I tend to spend the first ten or fifteen minutes frantically trying to remember the seemingly dozens of
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