Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Brooke Palsson | David Wontner | Isabella Rossellini | Jason Patric | Louis Negin | Udo Kier
Jason says: “Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has never been anything less than unconventional, but some of his more recent efforts have met the mainstream halfway; they were peculiar films but the audience didn’t have to take up residence in Maddin’s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Starring: Cho Jae-hyun | Kim Kyung-suk | Lee Kwan-hun | Na Tae-joo | Petchtai Wongkamiao | Ye Ji-won
Jason says: “THE KICK is frickin’ truth in advertising, living up to its title in every way it can. Not only does it feature more or less non-stop martial arts action, but it’s a kick – light, pure fun that
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: Julianne Nicholson | Paprika Steen | Souleymane SySavane | Thure Lindhardt | Zachary Booth
Chris says: “A fictional work based on a filmmaker’s own personal events risks a failure to resonate with or even translate to an audience. That’s exactly the problem with the latest from FORTY SHADES OF BLUE director Ira Sachs, which
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gabriel Rojas Vera
Starring: Angela Carrizosa | Angelica Sanchez | Diego Galindo | Diego Pelaez | Juan Manuel Diaz Oroztegui
Thom says: “Another recent winner from the enterprising Film Movement group this one emerges from Columbia, a rare treat. Karen, who’s married to a slimy businessman of no uncertain power decides to leave after ten years of an icy, reproachful,
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Alejandro Brugués
Starring: Alexis Díaz de Villegas | Andrea Duro | Andros Perugorría | Jazz Vilá | Jorge Molina
Bruce says: “I’m probably not the right person to review a zombie film and I certainly would not do so had I disliked JUAN OF THE DEAD. But like LET THE RIGHT ONE IN which I loved, a film that
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Matthew Mishory
Starring: Clare Grant | Dalilah Rain | Dan Glenn | Edward Singletary | Erin Daniels | James Preston | Rafael Morais
Thom says: “While the audience at the LGBT Film Festival went wild after the showing of this colorful representation of the early adult life of the legendary James Dean I felt like sneaking away in embarrassment. I’ve seen so many
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Karen Thorsen | Tracie Holder
Bruce says: “Credibility is hard to come by with a title JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS, knowing that a major portion of Joe Papp’s life, an act unto itself, was edited out of the film. Or worse, perhaps the filmmakers
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jay Duplass | Mark Duplass
Starring: Ed Helms | Evan Ross | Jason Segel | Judy Greer | Rae Dawn Chong | Steve Zissis | Susan Sarandon
Thom says: “The Duplass brothers continue to improve as filmmakers; from THE PUFFY CHAIR to BAGHEAD to CYRUS they’ve improved. This is a mostly successful independent comedy that has a good attitude and a lot of laughs. Jeff (Segel, also
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: David Gelb
Jason says: “I can’t say I’m a particular fan of sushi; in fact, I’m quite the culinary coward. But you don’t have to like a particular food to admire fine craftsmanship and dedication, and those are things that Jiro Ono
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Magnus Martens
Starring: Andreas Cappelen | Arthur Berning | Henrik Mestad | Kyrre Hellum | Mads Ousdal | Marie Blokhus
Jason says: “So, it looks like I’m going to have to start putting Jo Nesbø stuff in my Amazon basket, as any guy who comes up with the raw material for both this and HEADHUNTERS is my kind of darkly
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