Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.9
Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia | Tana Schembori
Starring: Celso Franco | Lali Gonzalez | Nico Garcia | Paletita | Victor Sosa
Julie says: “This one should have been nominated for buried treasure! I loved this! “Have there been any other Paraguayan movies that our group has seen? There are not a lot of them out there. “The film had some brilliant
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Iain Forsyth | Jane Pollard
Kyle says: “The closing night screening of the 43rd New Directors/New Films fittingly offered the feature film debut of British directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard — a documentary on Australian musician/composer/screenwriter/novelist/actor Nick Cave. Many fans admire him for his
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joe Swanberg
Starring: Adam Wingard | Caroline White | Helen Rogers | Mike Brune | Simon Barrett | Sophia Takal
Jason says: “How prolific is independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg? His latest movie (as a director) started showing up on the festival circuit before his prior one hit theaters, and DRINKING BUDDIES wasn’t nearly as slow in moving through the system
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Felix Herngren
Jason says: “Sometimes you see a movie and don’t realize what it was missing until decades later, when someone else tries something similar but with an added extra ingredient. Such is the case with THE 100 YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jérôme Salle
Starring: Conrad Kemp | Forest Whitaker | Orlando Bloom | Tinarie van Wyk Loots
Jason says: “That ZULU Is basically a mismatched-cop movie is not something that should be held against it; that’s a field-tested template which could prove a little more interesting than usual given this film’s South African setting. There’s usually something
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Andrew Matthews | Katie Graham
Starring: Anne Gee Byrd | Brock England | Cyndi Williams | Garrett Graham | Sam Eidson | Vincent James Prendergast
Jason says: “If I were the type of person to walk out of movies (and could have done it without disturbing the rest of the audience), I would have bolted ZERO CHARISMA. That’s not to say it’s a terrible movie;
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Angelababy | Carina Lau | Chao You-ting | Feng Shaofeng | Ling Geng-xin
Jason says: “I’ve got to confess: When I hoped for more Detective Dee movies after seeing MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME a couple years ago, I didn’t really think I’d get them. Happily, it seemed the people of China also
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Eytan Fox
Starring: Lior Ashkenazi | Ohad Knoller | Orly Silbersatz Banai | Oz Zehavi
Bruce says: “I’ll admit to a bit of skepticism when I saw that a sequel to Eytan Fox’s wonderful 2002 film YOSSI AND JAGGER would be made. Sequel can be a very bad word for a film buff. Very few
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alexis Dziena | Eric Judor | Jack Plotnick | Mark Burnham | Regan Burns | Steve Little | William Fichtner
Jason says: “Even those who haven’t seen Quentin Dupieux’s previous feature-length bit of absurdity RUBBER can probably guess that this is going to be a strange movie from the title alone. The playful, cheery nature of the picture may be
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Juan Carlos Fanconi
Starring: Alvaro Matute | Fabian Sales | Juan Pablo Olyslager | Rocio Carranza
Jason says: “EL XENDRA is impressively ambitious for a Honduran science fiction movie, and it actually does a better job of delivering on those ambitions than a lot of movies whose reviews start that way. It’s not necessarily going to
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