Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ivan Kavanagh
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes | Calum Heath | Hannah Hoekstra | Kelly Byrne | Rupert Evans | Steve Oram
Jason says: “THE CANAL opens with a bit that’s almost too clever for its own good, with film archivist David Williams (Rupert Evans) standing on stage and asking an audience full of unruly children if any want to see some
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Josephine Decker
Starring: Charlie Hewson | Isolde Chae-Lawrence | Sarah Small | Stephan Goldbach | Yury Yakor
Jason says: “BUTTER ON THE LATCH was listed in the program as playing before director Josephine Decker’s prior film, THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY, as if it was a short film rather than a 63-minute feature. The programmers and projectionists
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Snow Zou
Starring: Gao Yuanyuan | Lam Suet | Nicholas Tse
Jason says: ““Is it cynical of me to start counting shots between a ‘New York 2001′ caption and the first glimpse of the World Trade Center, or of writer/director Snow Zou for putting the audience in that position? That’s not
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Flip van der Kuil | Steffen Haars
Starring: Birgit Schuurman | Daniel Arends | Henry van Loon | Raymond Thiry | Sylvia Hoeks | Tim Haars
Jason says: “I wasn’t really looking forward to this one, having kind of hated the first New Kids movie enough to skip the second, but it was the only English-friendly thing playing and I wanted to see what came after,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Brent Hodge
Michael says: “I’ve been watching a bunch of 2014 films on DVD or streaming this past week or so in preparation for nominations. I’m planning on doing a quick round-up of these films soon, but this latest film is the
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Daniel Wu Yan-zu | Gao Yuanyuan | Louis Koo Tin-lok | Miram Yeung | Vic Chou Yu-min
Jason says: “DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 repeats quite a bit from part one, from rescuing a weird pet to flirting through facing windows; one character even wryly asks another if she thinks her life is a ‘to be
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ning Hao
Starring: Huang Bo | Xu Zheng | Yuan Quan | Zhang Li | Zhou Dongyu
Jason says: “Director Ning Hao has received some attention over the last few months because the Chinese censor board finally allowed the release of NO MAN’S LAND a movie from 2009 that he is reluctant to discuss, whether for political
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane | Ethan Hawke | Lorelei Linklater | Nick Krause | Patricia Arquette
Chris says: “When asked what BOYHOOD was about, I stumbled in finding the words for a two-sentence description; having had a few days to mull it over, my response now would be simply, ‘Everything.’ It’s the best way to sum
Read the review...Boundless (Hong Kong; 94 min.) directed by: Ferris Lindocumentary Jason says: “Like many documentaries about films and filmmakers, BOUNDLESS will likely eventually end up as the extra disc in a box set (in this case of Johnnie To films), which
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Starring: Alex van Warmerdam | Hadewych Minis | Jan Bijvoet | Jeroen Perceval | Tom Dewispelaere
Thom says: “I saw van Warmerdam’s brilliant 2009 film THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK (5 CATS) at TIFF and ever since I’ve been haphazardly tracking him down but it was sheer coincidence that I went to see BORGMAN recently.
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