Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bryan Reisberg
Starring: Harry Lloyd | James Ricker II | Krista Kosonen | Sylvia Grace Crim | Travis Koop
Jason says: “There are many ways to have a good road trip; you can do it by sticking close to a map and itinerary, let your whims guide you, or do something in between. There are many ways to mess
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Director: Esteban Roel | Juanfer Andrés
Starring: Carolina Bang | Jesús Ángel Castrodeza | Macarena Gómez | Silvia Alonso
Brett says: “For SHREW’S NEST’s lead character Montse, the Biblical consideration ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ is more of an emphatic statement rather than a question. And in this case, she is not a brother’s keeper, rather her sister’s. In
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: William Eubank
Starring: Beau Knap | Brenton Thwaites | Lawrence Fishburne | Olivia Cooke
Jason says: “Mystery is not enough. Don’t misunderstand, it’s terrific when a story gets one to lean closer, tantalized by what’s going on, and creating that feeling is a matter of much more than leaving some details out while hinting
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Hajime Katoki | Hiroaki Ando | Katsuhiro Ohtomo | Shûhei Morita
Starring: Kôichi Yamadera | Midori Yûki | Saori Hayami | Seiichi Morita | Takeshi Kusao | Yu Kobayahi
Jason says: “Studios and exhibitors should find a way to get short films on movie screens more often. Individually, they’re often great, compact little stories, and a ticket that gets you a handful of them for ten bucks can come
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Gilles Deroo | Marianne Pistone
Kyle says: “MOUTON is the nickname for the title character; the word means ‘Sheep.’ It could also be taken as a description of audience members (like me) who are willingly dragged to artistic slaughter. The members of the Selection Committee
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anja Marquardt
Kyle says: “SHE’S LOST CONTROL, a feature film debut by director Anja Marquardt, tells a tale of sex surrogates within the psychotherapy community: the elusive goal is intimacy but the process involves sex with people who are essentially strangers, often
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jason says: “SEVENTH CODE is the sort of movie that can easily get lost in a career like Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s: It’s a short thing produced alongside two large projects that sure looks like a promotional tool for its pop-star lead
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Brendan Gleeson | Gordon Pinsent | Liane Balaban | Taylor Kitsch
Jason says: “The previous version of THE GRAND SEDUCTION, a French-Canadian film, SEDUCING DR. LEWIS, from about ten years ago, seems to have been fairly well regarded along with being popular enough to inspire a remake. That isn’t necessarily surprising;
Read the review...The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (South Korea; 81 min.) directed by: Chang Hyung-yun starring: Jung Yu-mi; Yoo Ah-in Jason says: “You can do absolutely anything with animation, so why not do a story about a satellite that falls to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Israel Cárdenas | Laura Amelia Guzmán
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin | Ricardo Ariel Toribio | Yanet Mojica
Bruce says: “First there was HEADING SOUTH, Laurent Cantet’s 2005 film that featured middle-aged women fighting for the affections of Haitian beach boys. Then came PARADISE: LOVE, Ulrich Seidl’s searing 2012 portrait of Austrian women who go to Kenya to
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