Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Miguel Gomes
Jason says: “Volume 1 of Miguel Gomes’s ARABIAN NIGHTS trilogy impressed me, although not quite enough to justify the scale of the thing on its own. This second volume, released a month after the first in their native Portugal but
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Miguel Gomes
Starring: Adriano Luz | Carloto Cotta | Crista Alfaiate | Dinarte Branco | Miguel Gomes | Rogério Samora
Jason says: “The best way to review Miguel Gomes’s three-part ARABIAN NIGHTS anthology is probably all at once, rather than writing about the first film before watching the second. I am currently trying that anyway, not knowing if characters will
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Desiree Akhavan
Starring: Anh Dong | Arian Moayed | Desiree Akhavan | Halley Feiffer | Hooman Majd | Rebecca Henderson | Scott Adsit
Jason says: “Movies like APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR are good checks for figuring out just to what degree you are becoming a grumpy old person. Do you find the main character whiny and irritating from the start? Do you get over it?
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jennifer Prediger | Jess Weixler
Jason says: “Screen acting can be such a volatile way of making a living that what is probably the signature absurdity in APARTMENT TROUBLES – that a pair of roommates can both be so broke as to face eviction from
Read the review...Antarctic Edge: 70° South (USA; 72 min.) directed by: Dana Seideldocumentary Kyle says: “’May 2014. Scientists declare West Antarctic ice sheet melt unstoppable.’ As you attempt to digest the word ‘unstoppable’, the typeface changes from black to red. This outstanding
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Duke Johnson
Starring: David Thewlis | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Tom Noonan
Jason says: “When I spent more time around various types of animation fandom, the use of actors for whom voice work was just a sideline was a big issue (and that was before DreamWorks had arrived on the scene!). I
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Lauren Shaw
Jason says: “It’s a weird thing to admit, but having seen a documentary or two about the Khmer Rouge a couple months back, and not regularly hearing much about Cambodia as it is now compared to those horror stories, it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sonny Mallhi
Starring: Amberley Gridley | Annika Marks | Cliff Chamberlain | Karina Logue | Ryan O’Nan | Ryan Simpkins
Jason says: “ANGUISH lives up to its title and spreads it around, doing an impressive job of mixing jump shocks and genuine human discomfort. Despite placing that sort of emotion front and center, though, it has a much broader range
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asif Kapadia
Diane says: “AMY will see a best doc nom from me. Stills and lousy video footage are used to relate the unremittingly bleak chronology of Amy Winehouse’s life in show biz. Director has interviews–or perhaps borrowed sound–from a good range
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Johnson
Starring: Danny DeVito | Evan Ross | Isabelle Fuhrman | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Virginia Madsen
Kyle says: “ALL THE WILDERNESS is another in a very very long line of films about a troubled teenager resisting the forces of socialization, having withdrawn into a world of his own making following the suicide of his father. The
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