Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Andreas Johnsen
Jason says: “Though the two are unrelated outside of their subject and subject matter – they are made by different directors for different producers with visual styles that are fairly divergent as documentaries shot in the same places go –
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nancy Buirski
Bruce says: “Some legends are more obscure than others: obscure to the public eye, that is. Tanaquil Le Clercq is a case in point. Hardly a household name among those who do not follow dance all that closely, Le Clercq
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Jonathan Newman
Starring: Aneurin Barnard | Ioan Gruffudd | Keeley Hawes | Lena Headey | Michael Sheen | Sam Neill
Kyle says: “The most interesting mystery in this unfortunate waste of time and money is its title. It went straight to video as THE ADVENTURER: THE CURSE OF THE MIDAS BOX, but if you last until the end titles, you
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: John Huddles
Starring: Bonnie Wright | Daryl Sabara | Freddie Stroma | James D'Arcy | Rhys Wakefield | Sophia Lowe
Kyle says: “A class of philosophy students in a privileged high school in Djakarta on the final day of class is challenged by the teacher to consider issues confronting them on different doomsday scenarios, in which only ten of the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kim Han-min
Starring: Cho Jin-woong | Choi Min-sik | Jin Goo | Kim Myung-gon | Lee Jung-hyun | Seung-ryong Ryu
Jason says: “Let’s be honest about THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS (‘Myeongryang – Huiori Bada’ in the original Korean, and apparently sometimes only either half of the English title is used): Roughly 95% of why people buy a ticket is for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Christophe Sermet | Fred Lebelge | Isabelle Huppert | Kool Shen | Laurence Ursino | Ronald Leclerq
Michael says: “The latest from Catherine Breillat is once again a fascinating fictional version of Breillat’s actual life. As in SEX IS COMEDY, where Breillat recreated the filming of a particular scene from FAT GIRL, ABUSE OF WEAKNESS stars Isabelle
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard
Jason says: “I swear I’ve heard of the Department Q books from somewhere, even though I haven’t really been keeping up on detective fiction as much as I’d like. If they’re going to keep cranking out movies this good in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Carrie Ng | Eric Tsang | Gigi Leung | Louis Koo | Man-Tat Eng | Miriam Chin Wah Yeung
Jason says: “Is there a term for when directors like Pang Ho-cheung who have thrived, maybe not on the edge, but certainly in a part of the film industry where things are less polished and more open to eccentricity, do
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ursula Long
Jason says: “9-MAN was the second film at the festival built around Chinese-American themes and it turns out to be an excellent pairing with THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO: Where TSO mainly concerned itself with history and adaptation, this movie
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alex Orr
Starring: Alex Orr | Dan Triandiflou | John Curran | Juduth Beasly | Katie Rowlett
Jason says: “Someday, Alex & Katie Orr’s first-born child is going to see this movie, and in my head it’s running fifty-fifty on whether they’ll have some explaining to do our whether they’ll just be the sort of weird parents
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