Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sean Byrne
Starring: Jessica McNamee | John Brumpton | Richard Wilson | Robin McLeavy | Victoria Thaine | Xavier Samuel
Jason says: “What sort of movie is THE LOVED ONES? It’s the sort of movie where, when a carpet is lifted from the floor to reveal hinges, we in the audience are given a bit of time to ponder just
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Doze Niu
Starring: Amber Kuo | Ching-Tien Juan | Eddie Peng | Mark Chao | Qi Shu | Wei Zhao | Yi-han Chen
Jason says: “LOVE is exactly the sort of movie that gets released for Valentine’s Day, which is when it showed up in Taiwan and a few larger American cities. It’s not a classic romance, but it sets the mood well,
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Valerie Weiss
Starring: Bitsie Tulloch | John Billingsley | Kethleen Robertson | Miranda Kent | Reid Scott | Theo Alexander
Jason says: “I try not to get too worked up about science in movies, but given that LOSING CONTROL is about a scientist trying to apply the scientific method to her personal life and the title is a pun that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Mini Yang | Miriam Yeung Chin Wah | Shawn Yue | Zheng Xu
Jason says: “The vagaries of North American release patterns of foreign films have resulted in LOVE IN THE BUFF reaching theaters here before LOVE IN THE PUFF, the movie to which it is a sequel, has been available on anything
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julia Loktev
Starring: Bidzina Gujabidze | Gael García Bernal | Hani Furstenberg
Thom says: “A loving couple arrive in Georgia (the country) and absorb the local culture. They hire a local guide (a guide in real life who had to be coerced into acting in his first and last film) to take
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Juan Martínez Moreno
Starring: Carlos Areces | Gorka Otxoa | Luis Zahera | Manuel Manquina | Secun de la Rosa | Tomas Cimadevilla
Jason says: “First, forget that stupid English-language title; Juan Martínez Moreno hates it (there’s no game involved) and hopes whoever picks it up in English-speaking territories just goes with LOBOS DE ARGA. Instead, focus on what a really great horror-comedy
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Isabelle Huppert | Jemima West | John Malkovich | José Afonso Pimentel | Mathieu Amalric | Miaris Paredes | Nuno Lopes | Soraia Chaves
Thom says: “This historical epic was originally a project for the great Chilean director Raoul Ruiz and was actually in pre-production when Ruiz passed away. The project was then handed to long-time Ruiz collaborator and wife Sarmiento. The film concerns
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Daniel Day Lewis | David Strathairn | Hal Holbrook | James Spader | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Sally Field
Diane says: “I am in love with Abraham Lincoln! At least as played by the superlative Daniel Day-Lewis. I feared the Spielbergization of what is already mythic, but Day-Lewis makes the hero of LINCOLN specific, odd, and complicated. The movie
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jacob Rosenberg
Jason says: “Most extreme sports movies sell spectacle; if one has been booked for a night or two at a local theater before hitting the shelves at the local ski/surf/skate shop, you can usually bet on quality photography of impressive
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Josh Radnor
Starring: Allison Janney | Elizabeth Olsen | Elizabeth Reaser | Josh Radnor | Kate Burton | Richard Jenkins
Michael says: “Written, directed, and starring Josh Radnor (of TV’s ‘How I Met Your Mother’) offers a film revolved around nostalgia, and looking back at your college days as they high point of your life. Jesse (Radnor) is living an
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