Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ondi Timoner
Michael says: “I was a big fan of Ondi Timoner’s documentary DiG! from a few years ago, so I was intrigued to see what her next project was like. WE LIVE IN PUBLIC explores the increasingly blurry line between public
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Peter Chan | Wai Man Yip
Starring: Andy Lau | Jet Li | Jinglei Xu | Takeshi Kaneshiro
Jason says: “At certain points, the fact that Warlords licked around for a while without a U.S. distributor despite being an epic with high production values and a star in Jet Li who is still relatively bankable was taken as
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aron Gaudet
Jason says: “I was, perhaps, a little hard on THE WAY WE GET BY when I first got out of it. It’s like that, sometimes, when you’re at a festival and really want to see one movie, can’t get in,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Starring: Fanny Ardant | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Jeanne Moreau | Laetitia Casta | Lee Kang-Sheng | Lu Yi-Ching | Mathieu Amalric | Natalie Baye
Michael says: “Drawing parallels between the chaos of making a film and that same unpredictability in life, Tsai Ming-liang has made his most far out and in many ways exciting movie to date. Kang, who we have come to know
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Clara Bindi | Isabelle Huppert | Jean-Hughes Anglade | Maya Sansa | Xavier Beauvois
Bruce says: “Isabelle Huppert is an actress I would pay money to hear read the phone book; any city – Paris, New York, Tokyo – will do. Huppert elevates every film in which she appears and that fortunately is the
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Tim Disney
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Michael O'Keefe | Nicole Beharie | Tim Blake Nelson | Will Patton
Julie says: “Docudrama of a young mother’s fight after being unfairly accused in drug raid of a predominantly black housing project in Arlington Texas. Will Patton was excellent. Nicole Beharie did do a good job as of course did Alfre
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Pierre Schöller
Starring: Aure Atika | Brigitte Sy | Guillame Depardieu | Judith Chemla | Max Baissette de Malglaive | Patrick Descamps
Bruce says: “For a woman at the end of her ropes, caring for a child is not easy. Nina (Judith Chemla) is first seen navigating the backstreets of Paris trying to find a construction site where she and her five
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
Bruce says: “There are several things many people might not know about Valentino. The first that comes to mind is that Valentino is his first name not his surname, which is Garavani. Another thing is that Valentino is basically a
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hajime Kadoi
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima | Kaoru Kobayashi | Nene Otsuka | Ren Ôsugi
Jason says: “Toru Hirai (Kaoru Kobayashi) is dragging. He falls asleep while riding the train with his fiancée Mika (Nene Otsuka) and her son Tatsuya (Shusei Uto), but you don’t need that to see it. He’s middle aged, but it’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Reitman
Starring: Amy Morton | Anna Kendrick | George Clooney | J.K. Simmons | Jason Bateman | Melanie Lynskey | Vera Farmiga
Thom says: “Reitman has done a few seriously lauded films including JUNO and THANK YOU FOR SMOKING. & yes I’m thrilled to see him using must-see Simmons once again, albeit, in a small role. For many reasons, I suppose, it’s
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