Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Abigail Breslin | David Hewlett | Michelle Nolden | Peter DaCunha | Peter Outerbridge | Stephen McHattie
Jason says: “HAUNTER is the kind of horror movie that is in many ways so well-built that it almost gets in its own way when someone sees it, likes it, and wants to recommend it: The film has a hook
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Christian Vincent
Starring: Arthur Dupont | Catherine Frot | Hervé Pierre | Hippolyte Girardot | Jean d’Romesson | Jean-Marc Roulot | Laurent Poitrenaux | Philippe Uchan
Bruce says: “Catherine Frot (AN AMAZING COUPLE, ON THE RUN, AFTER THE LIFE, THE DINNER GAME, THE PAGE TURNER) has been around a long time. Chlotrudis members may recall her in the Lucas Belvaux Trilogy consisting of the first three
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Dmitry Vasyukov | Werner Herzog
Jason says: “Werner Herzog is the name that will (and should) draw people to HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA, although it’s likely that the other credited director, Dmitry Vasyukov, actually spent more time in Siberia gathering footage. However
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Starring: Axel Milberg | Barbara Sukowa | Janet McTeer | Julia Jentsch | Michael Degen | Ulrich Noethen
Bruce says: “In 2009 Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa collaborated on VISION, the story of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th century nun who was a musician, a poet, a scientist, and a practitioner of herbal medicine. Their extraordinary collaboration
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sion Somo
Starring: Chika Uchida | Kanji Tsuda | Kazuya Kojim | Makoto Togashi | Megumi Kagurazaka | Miki Mizuno | Ryuju Kobayashi
Jason says: “I’m not quite sure what the rationale is for cutting a half hour out of GUILTY OF ROMANCE for non-Japanese audiences; Sion Sono’s fans have proven quite willing to sit through a long movie over the past few
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastian Hofmann
Starring: Alberto Trujillo | Hugo Albores | Lourdes Trueba
Jason says: “HALLEY will be classified a horror movie by many, what with it centering on a representative of the living dead, but in some ways its hold on that genre is just a couple of fingertips at the end
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yan Yan Mak
Kyle says: “The World Premiere of THE GREAT WAR at the New York Asian Film Festival was for many of us one of the festival highlights. A documentary on the dozen November 2012 concerts by two major groups from the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Cung Le | Qingxiang Wang | Tony Chiu-Wai Leung | Ziyi Zhang
Jason says: “Wong Kar-wai is a notoriously slow worker in a movie industry that can turn things over with ruthless efficiency, and as evidence I present the four movies about martial-arts master Ip Man (by two different directors and starring
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kim Loo-ho
Starring: Cha Tae-hyun | Ko Chang-seok | Lee Chae-young | Min Hyo-rin | Oh Ji-ho | Shin Jung-keun
Jason says: “For all the noir, caper, and pulp material I’ve consumed in my life, I don’t know how many times I’ve ever actually heard someone refer to the jewels they were looking to steal as ‘ice’, and I don’t
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Rating: 2.8 cats
Director: Punit Malhotra
Starring: Anupam Kher | Imran Khan | Kareena Kapoor | Nizhalgal Ravi
Jason says: “GORI TERE PYAAR MEIN is a movie about a layabout becoming a productive and charitable member of society, and maybe it takes that lesson too well to heart. For all that there are moments of it being sweet,
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