Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Starring: Anne Louise Hassing | Annika Wedderkopp | Lasse Fogelstrøm | Mads Mikkelsen | Susse Wold | Thomas Bo Larsen
Bruce says: “Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 for his portrayal of Lucas, a man falsely accused of child molestation. Mikkelsen’s performance is a textbook case in underplaying a role to achieve
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Director: Hong Ji-young | Jung Bum-sik | Kim Gok | Kim Sun | Lim Dae-woong | Min Kyu-dong
Starring: Jin Tae-hyun | Jung Eun-chae | Kim Hyun-soo | Kim Ji-won | No Hyeon-hee | No Kang-min | Yoo Yeon-seok
Jason says: “You could get a lot of horror anthology action at Fantasia this year, between this Korean picture, Hong Kong’s TALES FROM THE DARK and (mostly) America’s V/H/S/2. One thing that I find interesting, looking at the three, is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lee Won-seok
Starring: Kim Jeong-tae | Kim Joon-seong | Lee Si-yeong | Lee Won-jong | Oh Jeong-se | Park Yeong-gyoo
Kyle says: “The title, seen at the New York Asian FIlm Festival in its North American premiere, refers to a series of idiotic but highly successful self-help videotapes on how to meet, influence and win over guys. It is a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yuichi Fukuda
Starring: Fumika Shimizu | Ken Yasuda | Nana Katase | Ryohei Suzuki | Tsuyoshi Muro
Jason says: “Look, I’m not going to make HENTAI KAMEN out to be anything other than it is: It is a deeply silly, tacky, crude spoof of the superhero genre that takes Warren Ellis’s description of their outfits as ‘underwear
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jeremy Kipp Mitchell | John Mitchell
Jason says: “It’s odd but true: These days, an act like Future Folk can be both a local secret and have a national (or international) cult following. Even if both cases are true, a movie centered around such a band
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano
Starring: Alan Martinez | Barbara Perrin Reivemar | Francisco Barreiro | Laura Caro | Michele Garcia
Jason says: “There are two sorts of horror movies in the world: The kind looking to make the audience jump with a thrill of excitement and the kind aiming to make them shake because they’ve been confronted with an idea
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Tobias Lindholm
Starring: Abdihakin Asgar | Dar Salim | Gary Skjoldmose Porter | Pilou Asbæk | Roland Møller | Søren Malling
Kyle says: “To most Americans, the word ‘hijacking’ is forever associated with 9/11/2001; to many seamen on voyages in the Indian Ocean, it is a fearsome nightmare perpetrated by 21st century Somali pirates, and a potential danger all the time.
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Mika Ninagawa
Starring: Anne Suzuki | Ferika Sawajiri | Nao Omori | Shinobu Terajima
Kyle says: “All the definitions of ‘gonzo’ in www.urbandictionary.com have to do with pornography, except for the single simple ‘bizarre.’ It’s up to slack-jawed audiences at the end of this outrageous Japanese film to decide which applies most clearly. I
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Takashi Ishii
Starring: Kokone Sasaki | Mitsu Dan | Naoto Takenaka | Tasuku Emoto
Jason says: “HELLO, MY DOLLY GIRLFRIEND (FIGYUA NA ANATA in the original Japanese) is just as bizarre a movie as its name makes it sound, and it gets a little stranger if you start following hyperlinks on the online movie
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Roberta Grossman
Thom says: “Everyone knows the Jewish staple celebration song Hava Nagila. This film tracks the history of the song from its origins in Eastern European shtetls to pedways of the world. It’s been featured in hundreds of films and this
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