Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Rodman Flender
Julie says: “I went into this with great trepidation. I was not sure how exciting it would be to watch a film about Conan Obrien touring since I always felt the Conan show was just okay…But I was curious to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shion Sono
Starring: Asuka Kurosawa | Denden | Hikari Kajiwara | Megumi Kagurazaka | Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Jason says: “Clearly, Sion Sono is a guy I’m going to have to pay more attention to going forward. So far, I’ve seen three of his movies and really liked all three, even though they’re frequently the very definition of
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Brendan McFadden | Chris Lankenau | Jeb Pearson | Raúl Castillo | Trieste Kelly Dunn
Jason says: “COLD WEATHER looks like a detective story, but to an extent that’s just camouflage. Though it’s got more of a definite plot than many of the movies that rightly or wrongly are placed under the ‘mumblecore’ umbrella, the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chuan Lu
Starring: Hideo Nakaizumi | Ye Liu | Yuanyuan Gao
Toni says: “We drove up to Boston on a Friday night from RI in traffic to see the one week only CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH up at the Kendall. “Maybe it is the use of black and white to
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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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