Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Perry Blackshear
Starring: Evan Dumouchel | MacLeod Andrews | Margaret Ying Drake
Jason says: “It feels a bit like giving the game away to say that THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE is seldom the movie it’s expected to be from the descriptions written in festival programs, which talks about how Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews)
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Chow Yun-fat | Eason Chan Yik-shun | Lang Yue-ting | Sylvia Chang Ai-chia | Tang Wei | Wang Zi-yi
Jason says: “As a fan of filmmakers giving me something great that I don’t necessarily expect, I was kind of already in the tank for OFFICE (aka GORGEOUS OFFICE WORKERS aka DESIGN FOR LIVING) – who expected the first time
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kristina Grozeva | Petar Valchanov
Starring: Ivan Barnev | Ivan Savov | Ivanka Bratoeva | Margita Gosheva | Stefan Denolyubov
Thom says: “I had a lot of mixed feelings about this laconic film. It’s obscure, dim, pastel color palette somehow melds well with its depressing, austere style that features an enormous number of obnoxious, repellent characters. An appealing teacher takes
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Naji Abu Nowar
Starring: Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh | Hussein Salameh Al-Sweihiyeen | Jacir Eid Al-Hweitat | Jack Fox
Jason says: “The Western never really dies; it just picks up and moves to unexpected places in unexpected forms. In this case, that’s a coming-of-age film set in Arabia, and it’s an impressive, thrilling piece of entertainment. “The year is
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: David Felix Sutcliffe | Lyric R. Cabral
Jason says: “I suspect that many watching (T)ERROR, even with plentiful assurances to the contrary, will be expecting that, by the end, a curtain will be pulled back to reveal the film as fictitious, heavy on re-enactments, or some other
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Amit Sharma
Starring: Arjun Kapoor | Deepti Naval | Manoj Bajbayee | Raj Babbar | Shruti K. Haasan | Sonakshi Sinha
Jason says: “There is a lot of bloat in TEVAR, a 157-minute Bollywood ‘thriller’ that could be remade as a direct-to-video action flick roughly half that length without particularly suffering for the revision. It’s all well and good to have
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Yi Li
Starring: Chong Wang | Joma | Yalayam
Jason says: “Director Yi Li and his crew worked for seven years on TEANA: 10000 YEARS LATER, and its looking kind of rough in spots goes to show how crazy the resources Hollywood has at its disposal are and how
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kang Hyung-chul
Starring: Choi Seung-hyun | Kim In-kwon | Kim Joon-ho | Kim Yun-seok | Kwak Do-wan | Lee Dong-hwi | Sin Se-kyung
Jason says: “I appear to have really liked the first TAZZA movie (alternately called WAR OF FLOWERS and TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS) when it played this festival eight years ago, although I don’t remember it well enough to remember whether
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: James Ransone | Karren Karagulian | Kitana Kiki Rodriguez | Mickey O’Hagan | Mya Taylor
Jason says: “One almost wants TANGERINE to get through its entire length without any sort of real consequences, because the movie Sean Baker has built moves forward with such great chaotic energy that actually slowing down enough for someone to
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Zaza Urushadze
Starring: Elmo Nüganen | Giorgi Nakashidze | Lembit Ulfsak | Misha Meskhi | Raivo Trass.
Kyle says: “TANGERINES is set in a rural village in Abkhazia, which considers itself independent, and which Georgia considers part of its territory. The collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 resulted in dozens of local conflicts, and this one is
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