Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.75
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Alan Rickman | Cameron Diaz | Cloris Leachman | Colin Firth | Stanley Tucci | Tom Courtenay
Jason says: “It’s a horrible thing when a caper movie doesn’t come off. The great ones are casual and precise in a way that seems to come as much from alchemy as chemistry, and when that doesn’t happen, it seems
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tim Cawley
Chris says: “Creativity is nebulous; what inspires and motivates us often varies maddeningly from one artist to another, making it near impossible to form a general hypothesis on how people create. And yet, certain motifs and a collective camaraderie emerges
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Starring: Alex Maizus | Brandon Waltz | Charles Kwame Odei | Dylan Hartigan | Jordan Puzzo | Kevin Corrigan | Kevin McManus | Matthew McManus
Jason says: “You don’t really need that much of a hook for a coming-of-age film – they’re more or less going to cover the same territory, albeit in different ways – but it doesn’t hurt to have one. That way,
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Brandon Trost | Jason Trost
Starring: Art Hu | Brandon Barrera | Caitlyn Folley | James DeBello | Jason Trost | Lee Valmassy | Nick Principe
Jason says: “THE FP is the sort of flick that is precisely built to appeal to a certain category of movie fans, who are often surprised when it doesn’t do much for others. I have no doubt that it will
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aleksei Fedorchenko | Harmony Korine | Jan Kwiecinski
Starring: al Kilmer | Darya Ekamasova | Igor Sergeev | Justyna Wasilewska | Pawel Smagala | Pawel Tomaszewski | Rachel Korine | Tomasz Tyndyk
Jason says: “The makers of this anthology were given dozens of instructions that ranged from restrictive to twee, or so the legend goes, although ultimately they had a fair amount of leeway so long as they made a movie on
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joshua Sanchez
Starring: Aja Naomi King | E.J. Bonilla | Emory Cohen | Kathryn Meisle | Wendell Pierce
Thom says: “This is an amazingly problematic, thoughtful, but off-putting film. It’s a 4-character study that starts out with a middle-age roly-poly African American salesman, Joe, having an assignation with a white 15-year-old-boy, June. Wendell Pierce, who anyone that loves
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Emi Takei | Ito Ono | Sakura Andô | Satoshi Tsumbuki | Takumi Saito | Tsuyoshi Ihara
Jason says: “FOR LOVE’S SAKE is the sort of crazy mix of adolescent emotions that seem over-the-top when you describe it, often going from pure sweetness to eye-rolling to angry violence in the very same scene. It’s just what one
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ela Thier
Starring: Dalena Le | Laura Camien | Noa Rotstein | Udi Razzin | Virginia Hastings
Thom says: “The essence of this Film Movement experience is a beautiful one but the awkward interpretation brought it down a peg for me. Ellie. a young girl from Israel, has moved to the United States in the 1980s because
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Joseph Cedar
Starring: Albert Iluz | Alma Zack | Lior Ashkenazi | Shlomo Bar-Aba | Yuval Scharf
Chris says: “An Israeli father and son, both well-versed scholars in Talmudic studies, experience conflict when one is mistakenly awarded a prestigious annual prize that was actually meant for the other. The mistaken winner, however, is unaware of the mistake.
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Chen Kun | Gordon Liu | Jet Li | Li Yuchaun | Mavis Fan | Zhou Xun
Jason says: “Foreign movies often take a while to open in the United States for a number of reasons, and while the eight months since FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (LEE MEN FEI JIA) opened in Hong Kong actually isn’t
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