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
Read the review...Undertow (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Starring: Attilia Boschetti | Cristian Mercado | Haydeé Cáceres | Humberto Cavero | José Chacaltana | Manolo Cardona | Maria Edelmira Palomino | Tatiana Astengo
Michael says: “Gentle and understated, but with real emotion that resonates, Javier Fuentes-León’s debut feature UNDERTOW touches upon love, death, and what it means to be a man in South America. Set in a visually stunning village on the coast
Read the review...The King’s Speech (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Tom Hooper
Starring: Colin Firth | Derek Jacobi | Eve Best | Geoffrey Rush | Guy Pearch | Helena Bonham Carter | Jennifer Ehle | Michael Gambon | Timothy Spall
Vicki says: “An impressive period drama set in England right before World War 2, THE KING’S SPEECH tells the story of George VI who becomes king after his brother, Edward VII abdicates. Berte (Colin Firth) cannot make a speech without
Read the review...Love Crime (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Alain Corneau
Starring: Gérald Laroche | Guillaume Marquet | Julien Rochefort | Kristin Scott Thomas | Ludivine Sagnier | Marie Guillard | Olivier Rabourdin | Patrick Mille
Vicki says: “In this, his last film, Alain Corneau creates a taut psychological thriller with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier squaring off. Thomas plays Christine, a cold conniving high powered office executive to Sagnier’s seemingly innocent and supportive office
Read the review...Red State (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: John Goodman | Kyle Gallner | Melissa Leo | Michael Angarano | Michael Parks | Nicholas Braun | Stephen Root
TC says: “Call me a flatterer, but Melissa Leo seems way way WAY too young to play the daughter of Michael Parks. But then again, it’s the kind of challenge that brings the best out of all her performances. As a
Read the review...Janie Jones (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Abigail Breslin | Alessandro Nivola | Brittany Snow | Elisabeth Shue | Frances Fisher | Frank Whaley | Joel David Moore | Peter Stormare
Scott says: “In a brief but pivotal scene, Frances Fisher provides the missing piece of the puzzle to the character of her estranged son, a rock and roll musician in the midst of a career meltdown and a surprising personal
Read the review...Detropia (2012)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Heidi Ewing | Rachel Grady
Chris says: “In 1930, Detroit was America’s fastest-growing city. Today, in a postindustrial economy, it is the country’s fastest-shrinking one. In its meditative, collage-like approach, DETROPIA alternates stunning imagery of the city’s empty streets and ravaged, decaying landscapes with profiles
Read the review...A Royal Affair (2012)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Cyron Melville | David Dencik | Mads Mikkelsen | Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | Thomas W. Gabrielsson | Trine Dyrholm
Toni says: “This Danish film contains several standout performances adroitly balancing the personal and romantic with the political and philosophical. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard plays the ‘crazy’ King who is more naïve and irrepressible, not suited to palace intrigue. Alicia Vikander
Read the review...Sweet River (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Justin McMillan
Starring: Bryan Probets | Charlotte Stent | Chris Haywood | Eddie Baroo | Geneviève Lemon | Lisa Kay | Marti Sacks | Sam Parsonson
Wildcat (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jonathan W. Stokes
Starring: Ali Olomi | Georgina Campbell | Ibrahim Renno | Luke Benward | Maz Siam | Mido Hamada
In the Earth (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Ellora Torchia | Hayley Squires | Joel Fry | John Hollingworth | Mark Monero | Reece Shearsmith
Brett says: “From Director Ben Wheatley comes this eerie tale whose paranoia and alarm runs parallel to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but as the viewer soon discovers, this is no “Coronavirus: The Movie.” “After an establishing montage of the haunting,
Read the review...Bloodthirsty (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Amelia Moses
Starring: Greg Bryk | Jayce McKenzie | Jesse Gervais | Judith Buchan | Katharine King So | Lauren Beatty | Michael Ironside
Together Together (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nikole Beckwith
Starring: Bianca Lopez | Ed Helms | Fred Melamed | Nora Dunn | Patti Harrison | Rosalind Chao | Tig Notaro | Timm Sharp | Vivian Gill
Chris says: “Worth watching for Ed Helms and Patti Harrison, both of whom have rarely been more understated; however, the narrative might’ve benefited from being less understated, as much insight as it had on the practice of surrogacy. 3 cats“
Read the review...Stowaway (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Joe Penna
Starring: Anna Kendrick | Daniel Dae Kim | Shamier Anderson | Toni Collette
Michael says: “STOWAWAY is serviceable science fiction flick about a doomed mission to Mars and the four people on board who must race against the clock to find the slimmest chances of survival. It’s what I call an ethical thriller,
Read the review...Beate (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Samad Zarmandili
Starring: Donatella Finocchiaro | Felicitè Mbezelè | Lucia Sardo | Maria Roveran | Paolo Pierobon
Gunda (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Viktor Kosakovskiy
Jeff says: “For those who enjoyed the cinema verité of SWEETGRASS’s unstructured portrayal of life on Montana’s last working sheep ranch, GUNDA similarly mostly follows around a bunch of growing baby pigs and their fearsome matriarch with some chickens and some
Read the review...Jakob’s Wife (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Travis Stevens
Starring: Barbara Crampton | Bonnie Aarons | C.M. Punk | Jay DeVon Johnson | Larry Fessenden | Mark Kelly | Nyisha Bell | Robert Rusler | Sarah Lind
