Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Arthur Vincie
Starring: Derek Morgan | Eric Martin Brown | Kelly Sullivan | MacLeod Andrews | Mina Vesper Gokal
Jason says: “A tricky thing for a science fiction story to do is to build its world and story without spending any time explaining it to the characters that, living in it, don’t need the explanation. Add a changing timeline
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Aozaru Shiao | Kitamura Toyoharu
Starring: Amber An Xin Ya | Hou Yen-hsi | Lan Zheng-long | Long Shao-hua | Tien Hsin | Wang Po-chieh
Kyle says: “A slapstick farce from Taiwan in Mandarin that is both an affectionate satire of a long vanished Taiwanese film business in 1969 (there are numerous references to the July 1969 Moon Landing) and a sweet romantic comedy about
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Richie Mehta
Starring: Gillian Anderson | Haley Joel Osment | Rufus Sewell | Susanna Fournier | Victor Garber
Jason says: “Science fiction writers have come up with dozens of ways for time travel to be a terrible idea, from rifts that can collapse the entire structure of the Universe to far-future AIs who will eradicate anything that might
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Herman Yau
Starring: Anita Yuen Wing-yee | Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Gillian Chung Yan-tung | Jordan Chan Siu-chun | Timmy Hung Tin-ming | Xiong Xin Xin
Kyle says: “The North American premiere of IP MAN: THE FINAL FIGHT, the second Hong Kong film about Ip Man directed by Herman Yau to be screened at the New York Asian Film Festival, contrasts both narratively and stylistically with
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tomasz Wasilewski
Starring: Bartosz Gelner | Katarzyna Herman | Marda Nieradkiewicz | Mateusz Banasiuk
Bruce says: “Growing up in Warsaw film director Tomasz Wasilewski was exposed to the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski at an early age. While he does not see films such as THE DECALOGUE as a direct influence, he does feel that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tom O'Brien
Starring: Alexie Gilmore | Chris Messina | Natalie Gold | Rich Sommer | Sarah Paulson | Tom O'Brien
Jason says: “If you’re going to go through a time of self-doubt or regret, you could find worse surroundings than Fairhaven, Mass. It’s got the kind of snow dirt and smoke don’t seem to stick to, there are good friends
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sebastián Cordero
Starring: Anamaria Marinca | Christian Camargo | Daniel Wu | Embeth Davidtz | Karolina Wydra | Michael Nyqvist | Sharlto Copley
Jason says: “I have likely mentioned this a few dozen times, but my favorite subset of science fiction is that which takes place during the ‘interplanetary era’, as humanity expands from Earth but is still confined to the solar system
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Randy Moore
Starring: Annet Mahendru | Danielle Safady | Elena Schuber | Jack Dalton | Katelynn Rodriguez | Roy Abramsohn
Jason says: “Someday, perhaps soon, folks may accuse Randy Moore of selling out. After all, while most of the crowd for the opening-night showing of ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW seemed to be there to cheer on poking a finger in the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Ben Falcone | Catherine Keener | James Gandolfini | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Toni Collette
Chris says: “As dependable as Rohmer or Ozu, Nicole Holofcener could be their modern American equivalent as an auteur director. In terms of style and sensibility, she arguably makes the same film over and over again, but touches on a
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Luo Li
Starring: Dian Mai | Hai Zhang | Jia Liu | Jie Zi | Juchuan Li | Li Wen | Wei Wu | Yi Zuo
Kyle says: “The awkwardly but amusingly Anglicized title EMPEROR VISITS THE HELL is based upon three chapters from the 16th century Chinese novel, Journey to the West” — not to be confused with Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Chow’s recent film
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