Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jesse James Miller
Jason says: “Ray Mancini was at this screening for a Q&A, and he mentioned that when Mark Kreigel approached him with the idea of doing the book on which this movie was based, he wasn’t particularly interested; he’d told his
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Deepika Padukone | Krishna Singh Bisht | Ranveer Singh | Supriya Pathak
Jason says: “The last time I wrote a review of an Indian movie, I got comments saying not to compare it to something else and to just enjoy it for what it is. That’s actually good advice in general, although
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ryan White
Chris says: “A half-century on, there’s not much about The Beatles that hasn’t already been revealed, explored or analyzed to death. The idea of a documentary centered on the band’s secretary and fan club president initially smacks of clutching at
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Starring: Avi Glickstein | Brandon deSpain | Bryant Pappas | Milda | Rayvin Disla | Sammy Menna | Simone Xi
Jason says: “Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to get your facts straight. I saw GO DOWN DEATH late in the evening toward the end of Fantasia, and was wiped enough to have spaced out at points during even a fun,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Krishna DK | Raj Nidimoru
Starring: Anand Tiwari | Kunal Khemu | Pooja Gupta | Saif Ali Khan | Vir Das
Jason says: “GO GOA GONE isn’t going to be of a whole lot of interest to serious horror movie fans unless they’re trying to fill a zombie passport of some sort and were missing a comedy from India. Otherwise, it’s
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Cory James Krueckeber
Bruce says: “What do you do when you are between projects and the financing for your next project just fell through? If you are writer/director/editor Cory James Krueckeberg and producer Tom Gustafson you raise $10,000 on Kickstarter, pull together a
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