Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hubert Sauper
Kyle says: “WE COME AS FRIENDS is Austrian director Hubert Sauper’s horrifying documentary about contemporary colonization of South Sudan. Perhaps depressing and infuriating are better adjectives. This constitutes numerous episodes about the exploitation of the resources and manipulation of the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Johan Liljemark | Liv LeMoyne | Mattias Wiberg | Mira Barkhammar | Mira Grosin
Jason says: “The opening scene of WE ARE THE BEST briefly reminded me of another recent Scandinavian film, SONS OF NORWAY, which followed a punk-loving teenager whose need to rebel was frustrated by his exceptionally open-minded and accommodating father. This
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Barmak Akram
Jason says: “Depending on where in the world it plays, WAJMA may be titled AN AFGHAN LOVE STORY or use that as a subtitle. It’s a somewhat ironic one, as those hoping for a romance that brings either cheer or
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Rating: 2.8 cats
Director: Pieter Van Hees
Starring: Babetida Sadjo | Jérémie Renier | Natali Broods | Peter Van den Begin | Peter van den Eede
Jason says: “One of the best sorts of mysteries plunges its detective into a world not his own, such that figuring out how this other culture works is an important part of finding the killer. Some sort of personal growth
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mohit Suri
Starring: Remo Fernandes | Riteish Deshmukh | Shaad Randhawa | Shraddha Kapoor | Sidharth Malhotra
Jason says: “Given that uncredited Indian remakes of movies from other countries aren’t exactly uncommon, it’s not totally unfair that I went into EK VILLAIN with I SAW THE DEVIL in the back of my head; you don’t have to
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Diana Whitten
Chris says: “Founded by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, Women on Waves is an organization that assists women with having abortions who live in countries where the procedure is illegal. VESSEL spends over a decade following Gomperts and her crew as
Read the review...Veronica Mars (USA; 107 min.) directed by: Rob Thomasstarring: Kristen Bell; Jason Dohring; Enrico Colantoni; Chris Lowell; Percy Daggs III; Tina Majorino Kyle says: “I was blindsided by the Warner Bros. credit and the endless crawl of topnotch technical credits
Read the review...Venus in Fur (France/Poland; 96 min.) directed by: Roman Polanskistarring: Mathieu Amalric; Emmanuelle Seigner Thom says: “Since Polanski has directed 8 top-rated films for me in KNIFE IN THE WATER, REPULSION, CUL-DE-SAC, ROSEMARY’S BABY, TESS, MACBETH, THE TENANT, & CHINATOWN
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jessica Oreck
Kyle says: “THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA sounds more interesting than it is. Baba Yaga is a horrible witch famous throughout Slavic folklore and in the works of Russian composers such as Mussorgsky and Liadov, bearing similarities to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ken Ochiai
Starring: Chihiro Yamamoto | Hirotaro Honda | Hisako Manda | Kazuaki Tai | Kenichi Naganuma | Seizo Fukumoto
Jason says: “UZUMASA LIMELIGHT wears its inspiration on its sleeve, opening with a quote from Charles Chaplin’s original film before giving some background on where this contemporary Japanese version is coming from. That’s absolutely fine, though – after all, what
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