Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Ian Cheney
Jason says: “Every few weeks, Space.com will mention a meteor shower or comet, and I’ll stay up late and eagerly make my way out to my back porch before remembering that I live right across the river from Boston, and
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Alejandro Tejerías | Antonio de la Torre | Carlos Areces | Carolina Bang | Manuel Tallafé
Jason says: “Alex de la Iglesia’s new movie certainly qualifies as a circus – it’s filled with bright colors and daring displays that look joyful while also tempting the audience with sex and violence. This makes perfect sense; De la
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Maryam Keshavarz
Starring: Nasrin Pakkho | Nikohl Boosheri | Reza Sixo Safai | Sarah Kazemy | Sina Amedson | Soheil Parsa
Jason says: “CIRCUMSTANCE is sneaky. It starts out as a simple tale of teenage idealism and perhaps forbidden love, and that thread certainly continues throughout the entire film. The clever thing that writer/director Maryam Keshavarz does is to show a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Agathe Natanson | Gianna Giachertti | Jean-Claude Carrière | Juliette Binoche | William Shimell
Ibad says: “Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami marks a new chapter in his long career with CERTIFIED COPY, making a film outside of his home country for the first time. The naturally sunny Tuscan cinematography keeps the film floating light
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Trent Haaga
Starring: Billy Bakshi | Chad Ferrin | Tanisha Mukerji | Timothy Muskatell
Chris says: “Earlier in this festival, I saw a film described as a black comedy that played pretty well as a straight thriller. This one, meanwhile, is presented as a revenge thriller, but winds up being presented so broadly that
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Jason says: “Pundits declaiming the use of 3D in recent years often act like it was gone for a generation between the mid-eighties and late-naughts, but that’s not really the case; it was used extensively for documentaries that played at
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Todd Rohal
Starring: Koko Lanham | Miki Ann Maddox | Robert Longstreet | Steve Little | Wally Dalton
Jason says: “There are two distinct types of strange at play in THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM – weird characters in a somewhat conventional situation and parts that are just plain bizarre. Some in the audience aren’t going to be down for
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Wuershan
Starring: Ashton Xu | Kitty Zhang Yuqi | Liu Xiaoye | Masanobu Andô | You Benchang
Jason says: “THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF, AND THE SWORDSMAN certainly doesn’t lack for style; it’s got more styles than you can shake a stick at. At times, overwhelmingly so – though the movie is often quite funny and exciting, director
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: John Landis
Starring: Andy Serkis | Isla Fisher | Jessica Hynes | Simon Pegg | Tim Curry | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “The true story of 19th Century serial killers Burke & Hare is not a natural fit for romantic comedy, so this take on the characters is certainly going to stand out for that. It works better than one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gereon Wetzel
Jason says: “EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS has a strange start for a documentary abouta famous chef and his equally famous restaurant: The kitchen is disassembled and packed away. This is not, however, a precursor to a jump back in
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