The Virtuoso (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Nick Stagliano
Starring: Abbie Cornish | Anson Mount | Anthony Hopkins | David Morse | Eddie Marsan
Percy vs. Goliath (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Clark Johnson
Starring: Adam Beach | Christina Ricci | Christopher Walken | Luke Kirby | Martin Donovan | Peter Stebbings | Roberta Maxwell | Zach Braff
Michael says: “I’m sure many of you saw the documentary THE CORPORATION when it was released in 2004. One segment of this harrowing tale featured a lawsuit brought to bear on a Canadian farmer after he unknowingly grew and harvested
Read the review...The Outside Story (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Casimir Nozkowski
Starring: Asia Kate Dillon | Brian Tyree Henry | Michael Cyril Creighton | Olivia Edward | Rebecca Naomi Jones | Sonequa Martin-Green | Sunita Mani
Michael says: “Charles is a Brooklyn video editor who creates memorial videos about people who have the potential to die soon, for TMC. He’s also stuck. He just found out his girlfriend, Isha, cheated on him with a woman, he’s
Read the review...Three Pints and a Rabbi (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Richard J. Perry
Starring: Amanda Abbington | Hannaj Bang Bendz | Jordan Stephens | Michael Maloney
Golden Arm (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Maureen Bharoocha
Starring: Betsy Sodaro | Dawn Luebbe | Dot-Marie Jones | Eugene Cordero | Mary Holland | Olivia Stambouliah
Four Good Days (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Rodrigo García
Starring: Carla Gallo | Chad Lindberg | Glenn Close | Joshua Leonard | Michael Hyatt | Mila Kunis | Stephen Root | Violet Brinson
Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Espen Sandberg
Starring: Christian Rubeck | Glenn Andrew Kaada | Ida Ursin-Holm | Katherine Waterston | Pål Sverre Hagen | Ruby Dagnall | Trond Espen Seim
Every Breath You Take (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Vaughn Stein
Starring: Casey Affleck | Emily Alyn Lind | Hiro Kanagawa | India Eisley | Michelle Monaghan | Sam Claflin | Veronica Ferres | Vincent Gale
Sun Children (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Majid Majidi
Starring: Ali Nassirian | Javad Ezati | Roohollah Zamani | Shamila Shirzad
Michael says: “Belmont World Film Festival did a great job assembling their virtual film festival this year. They screened several high profile international films, and did so for a full week, running from March through April. Gave plenty of opportunities
Read the review...The Dazzled (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sarah Suco
Starring: Camille Cottin | Céleste Brunnquell | Daniel Martin | Éric Caravaca | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Laurence Roy | Spencer Bogaert
Michael says: “Belmost World Film Festival had a really strong line-up of international films this year, screening each one virtually for a week through April and into May. I caught THE DAZZLED, French actress Sarah Suco directed this semi-autobiographical film about
Read the review...Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Hamid Farokhnezhad | Hediyeh Tehrani | Houman Seyyedi | Pantea Bahram | Sahar Dolatshahi | Taraneh Alidoosti
Michael says: “The first film by Farhadi that I saw was the riveting A SEPARATION, released in US in 2012, which I didn’t realize was his first film until quite a bit later. His follow-up film, the nearly as riveting
Read the review...Love the Hard Way (2003)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Peter Sehr
Starring: Adrien Brody | August Diehl | Charlotte Ayanna | Elizabeth Regen | Jon Seda | Liza Jessie Peterson | Pam Grier
Laura says: “German cowriter (with Marie Noelle)/director Peter Sehr gets points for trying something different, but his radical choices, incoherent storytelling and truly head-scratching ending add up to an intriguing failure. Star Adrien Brody has always been interesting to watch,
Read the review...Silent Light (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Starring: Cornelio Wall | Elizabeth Fehr | Jacobo Klassen | Maria Pankratz | Miriam Toews | Peter Wall
Bruce says: “From the opening shot of a sunrise (in what appears to be real-time) until the closing crepuscular shot, the cinematography dictates the pace and mood of SILENT LIGHT, a film in which dialogue is a rarity. The story
Read the review...City by the Sea (2002)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Anson Mount | Eliza Dushku | Frances McDormand | James Franco | Patty LuPone | Robert DeNiro | William Forsythe
Laura says: “DeNiro finally returns to form in his best dramatic outing since 1995 while up and comer James Franco proves his Golden Globe win for last year’s James Dean TV biopic was no fluke. Screenwriter Ken Hixon (INVENTING THE ABBOTTS)
Read the review...8 Mile (2002)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Brittany Murphy | Eminem | Evan Jones | Kim Basinger | Mekhi Phifer | Omar Benson Miller
Laura says: “”Producer Brian Grazer combines his passion for hip hop with a prestige director (Curtis Hanson, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL), a music superstar and a Rockyesque genre script for a solid commercial outing. 8 MILE isn’t a great film, but it is
Read the review...Inside Job (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Charles Ferguson
Bruce says: “This dazzling film examines the recent financial crisis in an efficient, insightful way. For those of us who followed the debacle on a daily basis the basic facts are nothing new; for newcomers they are concisely summarized. The
Read the review...Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Ruxandra Medrea | Serge Bromberg
Everyone Else (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Maren Ade
Starring: Atef Vogel | Birgit Minichmayr | Carina Wiese | Hans-Jochen Wagner | Lars Eidinger | Mira Partecke | Nicole Marischka | Paula Hartmann
Scot says: “Just watched the German film EVERYONE ELSE, which I quite enjoyed. My concise summary of the film is that it’s about that moment in a relationship when you see your partner deciding whether he/she would rather be a freak
Read the review...Night Catches Us (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Tanya Hamilton
Starring: Amari Cheatom | Anthony Mackie | Black Thought | Jamie Hector | Kerry Washington | Ron Simons | Wendell Pierce
Chris says: “Tanya Hamilton’s truly independent, long-gestating project is personal cinema of the sort one rarely sees anymore. Set in 1976 Philadelphia, it reunites two former Black Panthers: Marcus (Anthony Mackie), who returns to his old neighborhood after years in
Read the review...Mine (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Geralyn Pezanoski
Jason says: “There are a lot of fiction films that don’t set their main plot up as artfully as MINE does. After all, the title speaks pretty directly to what the movie is about, and yet director Geralyn Pezanoski is
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