Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Starring: Gergely Bánki | Lili Horváth | Lili Monori | Sándor Zsótér | Szabolcs Thuróczy | Zsófia Psotta
Bruce says: “One of the great things about watching AMORES PERROS on DVD was the accompanying special feature that explained how dogs were trained so that no harm was actually done to them during the filming. While such technological detail
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liz Garbus
Diane says: “Multi-Grammy-winning jazz musician Nina Simone wanted nothing but to be the first female black concert pianist. This doc draws on a wealth of concert videos and interviews to tell her story: playing in her mother’s church at age
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Starring: Kasumi Arimura | Nanako Matsushima | Sara Takatsuki | Susumu Terajima | Toshie Negishi
Jason says: “Toward the end of WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, I found myself feeling a delightfully paradoxical appreciation for how it was put together: It somehow feels simultaneously surprising and inevitable, with the symbolic and the literal overlapping in ways
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Starring: Andrew Sensenig | Barbara Crampton | Larry Fessenden | Lisa Marie | Monte Markham
Jason says: “It’s funny which little details will make a movie really work for someone. Take WE ARE STILL HERE, for instance; it’s quite a well-executed ghost story with a nifty cast, good for a decent star rating even if
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Michael Madsen
Jason says: “THE VISIT is apparently meant to be the second in a thematic trilogy of documentaries by Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen, and I’m curious what grand-scaled idea will round them out. I hope it’s something a little more like
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Starring: André Hennicke | Burak Yigit | Franz Rogowski | Frederick Lau | Laia Costa | Max Mauff
Jason says: “In certain hands, VICTORIA might just have been an impressive achievement in logistics for hitting an ambitious set of marks as a single-shot, real-time thriller. It winds up being a fair bit better than that, even if there
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Starring: David Clayton Rogers | Lucy Griffiths | Mark Webber | Rainn Wilson
Jason says: “UNCANNY jokes about the Turing Test casually enough to make even longtime science fiction fans marvel a bit at how the phrase has started to enter the general lexicon in the last few years. The go-to reference for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Musa Syeed
Starring: Gulzar Ahmed Bhat | Mohammed Afza | Neelofar Hamid
Kyle says: “Although VALLEY OF SAINTS made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival three years ago, it is only now in 2015 receiving a general release. That it was shot during the 2010 Kashmir rebellion against India,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ryan Miyamoto | Samantha Futerman
Jason says: “I’ve noted before that young actresses often have to write something for themselves if they want a good part, but what about when you discover that your own life may be that good part. If you’re Samantha
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lee Byeong-heon
Starring: Jung Joo-yeon | Jung So0min | Kang Ha-neul | Lee Joon-ho | Lee Yoo-bi | Min Hyo-rin
Jason says: “I suspect that TWENTY being successful enough in South Korea to merit a quick try-to-beat-the-pirates release in the United States owes as much to the popularity of its good-looking young cast as anything else; it’s not a particularly
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