Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Gibney
Kyle says: “Many fans of the definitive turn of the century pop culture phenomenon SOUTH PARK point easily to one classic episode against which all else is measured: ‘Trapped in the Closet’ from November 2005. Stan is suspected of being
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Han Yan
Jason says: “The ‘cancer comedy’ is a minefield as genres go; cancer’s no laughing matter but it’s not a difficult path from tragedy to absurdity to jokes, at least for some. That’s the path Xiong Dun took when she was
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Chris says: “Obviously not a distaff take on Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD — the French title is BANDE DE FILLES, which translates as ‘Group of Girls.’ Marieme (Karidja Touré), a timid sixteen-year-old living in mostly black, housing project-heavy Parisian suburb, drops
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yu Ha
Jason says: “GANGNAM 1970 (or GANGNAM BLUES, the name under which it’s traveling the festival circuit) is the sort of movie where I tend to spend the first ten or fifteen minutes frantically trying to remember the seemingly dozens of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ronit Elkabetz | Shlomi Elkabetz
Starring: Eli Gornstein | Menashe Noy | Ronit Elkabetz | Sasson Gabai | Simon Abkarian
Michael says: “If the colloquial definition of insanity is ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,’ then surely Vivane Amsalem is feeling pretty insane by the end of GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM. She’s probably
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Kyle says: “FUTURO BEACH is in danger of being swallowed into the niche sinkhole of gay cinema, and being dismissed for a strict, even boring tri-partite formal structure, bookended by men on motorcycles. That would be a lamentable fate for
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Paul Goodwin
Jason says: “2000 AD is not the only comic that could believably have its history scored with punk rock, but most of the rest burned out fast, or never made any sort of popular impact. 2000 AD has been a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lorenzo Vigas
Bruce says: “My first note for FROM AFAR reads ‘out of focus.’ Little did I know when I wrote it how important focus would be in describing the psychological nature of the protagonist, Armando, played by Alfredo Costa (NO, TONY
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Derek Kwok Chi-kin | Henri Wong Chi-hang
Jason says: “There are plenty of silly things in FULL STRIKE- it is, in fact, ridiculous more or less non-stop – but the filmmakers never really portray badminton as a sport that is, itself, laughable. They could have, and that
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robbie Pickering
Jason says: “FREAKS OF NATURE was originally called ‘The Kitchen Sink’ – some websites are listing its show times under that title – and neither name is great. ‘Freaks’ is generic and not really what the movie is about; ‘Sink’
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