Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Mark Levinson
Jason says: “Lots of sci-fi movies will have scenes of scientists frantically scribbling on chalkboards, with the directors at a loss for how to make this exciting. I don’t envy them their task; it’s usually being done by a new
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gia Coppola
Starring: Chris Messina | Emma Roberts | Jack Kilmer | James Franco | Nat Wolff | Val Kilmer
Jason says: “That James Franco always seems to have more ambition than one would think should have stopped surprising me a few of his less mainstream projects ago, but it hasn’t. It should no longer shock to see another member
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Takashi Miike
Jason says: “In addition to his film work, Takashi Miike has directed a few stage productions, experience that he likely dipped into for OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (KUIME in Japanese). At times, I kind of wish that was where the
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Jessie Moss
Jason says: “THE OVERNIGHTERS starts with economics on-screen and probably could have the same sort of genesis as a project: The fracking-based oil boom in North Dakota brings people there in search of jobs that pay well, but a lack
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Bruce says: “Critics, fans and detractors alike, have compared Hong Sang-soo to Yasujiro Ozu largely because he is perceived as making the same film over and over OUR SUNHI clearly has broken that mold if for no other reason than
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aik Karapetian
Starring: Anita Aizupe | Aris Rozentals | Maxim Lazarev
Jason says: “Why, Fantasia (and other) programmers, do you insist on scheduling nearly wordless movies for 10pm (or later)? I get that they’re often enough of an acquired taste to keep out of prime time, but it can be rough
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Charlie McDowell
Starring: Elizabeth Moss | Mark Duplass | Marlee Matlin | Mary Steenburgen | Ted Danson
Jason says: “There are filmmakers that like to explain all the details of how their plot devices work, there are those who like to keep a little mystery, and then there are the makers of THE ONE I LOVE, who
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Anton Yelchin | Jeffrey Wright | John Hurt | Mia Wasikowska | Tilda Swinton | Tom Hiddleston
Diane says: “Jim Jarmusch gives us another lovely, delicately realized, witty film. Thanks, Kyle, for your writing on the soundtrack. “I always wish that Tilda Swinton could be more chameleonic–that is, not be so obviously Tilda Swinton–but I have to
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Alexandra Roach | Colm Meaney | James Corden | Julie Walters | MacKenzie Crook | Trystan Gravelle
Jason says: “Once upon a time, the Weinstein brothers might have been able to make the pleasant-enough ONE CHANCE a sleeper hit, if not necessarily an awards contender; today they are barely able to get it noticed. And that’s not
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ching-Po Wong
Jason says: “Is Philip Ng the next big martial-arts action star to come out of China? It seems like we’ve been waiting for the generation that comes after Jet Li and Donnie Yen to show up for a while, and
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