Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Errol Morris
Kyle says: “’We need to understand how we got to where we are.’ This fatuous comment by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is memorable only because subsequent Iraq history has made both the man and this dispiriting documentary a waste
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Bruce says: “Joanna Hogg in an early interview talks freely about her first film, UNRELATED, winner of the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize at the 2007 London Film Festival. Trained as a photographer, Hogg worked in British television
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Douglas McConnell | Jeremy McWilliams | Lynsey Taylor MacKay | Scarlett Johansson
Chris says: “Widely branded as an experimental (read: plot less and arty) adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel, this is admittedly far more out there than SPECIES or even THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, to name two other films that center
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