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At World’s End (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tomas Villum Jensen
Starring: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen | Birthe Neumann | Nicolas Bro | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Jason says: “It’s a little bit amazing, when you come to think of it, how quirky action/adventure films made outside the Hollywood system can be. Maybe it’s just because I am used to the conservative thinking that is typical here

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Asylum Seekers (2010)

Jason says: “It’s a hoary old chestnut, but one that has stuck in the English language every since Shakespeare first used it in Hamlet because here’s a truth contained in it: ‘Method to madness.’ It’s not enough to just say

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Applause (2010)

Bruce says: “At the 2007 premiere of her film WITH YOUR PERMISSION at the Toronto International Film Festival Paprika Steen announced that she and the film’s star, Lars Brygmann, would be playing George and Martha in Copenhagen in the spring

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Animal Kingdom (2010)

TC says: “This Aussie crime thriller is an amazingly taut, heart-stopping ride from beginning to end. The story of a Melbourne crime family on the way down as seen from J, the 18-year-old nephew of the family whose mother kept

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American Grindhouse (2011)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elijah Drenner

Jason says: “Cinema lovers: Have you spent your time in theaters and at the video store working your way through the Criterion Collection, absorbing the work of international masters, and seeing the most acclaimed films of a century of motion

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Amer (2010)

Jason says: “The most popular phrases being used to describe AMER tend to include the word giallo – it is giallo-inspired, reminiscent of the giallo films of the 1970s, etc., etc. This is true, but also misleading, because such descriptions

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Air Doll (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Arata | Du-na Bae | Itsuji Itao | Jô Odagiri | Sumiko Fuji

Michael says: “One day an inflatable air doll, a substitute for sexual pleasure, wakes up to find she has a heart. She is self-animated, self-aware, and filled with wonder as she discovers the world around her. On a meandering sojourn

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Agora (2010)

Jason says: “I adore AGORA, and I’ll readily admit that a large part of it is that I agree with the politics and philosophy of the thing. Rather than it being a movie about a scientist who encounters something her

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Aftershock (2010)

Jason says: “It’s not hard to get the wrong impression of AFTERSHOCK; the poster in the theater lobby notes that it was released in IMAX (interestingly, though showing the North American release date, the text on that one-sheet is almost

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Action Replayy (2010)

Jason says: “Western movie fans may have some doubts about the provenance of Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s new film, ACTION REPLAYY. It’s an adaptation of a 1994 play with almost the same name (the play spells it correctly), although Warner Brothers,

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8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Reed Cowan | Steven Greenstreet

Thom says: “You might well have thought that due to my living in California & being gay & Proposition 8 being right in my state I would have been more appreciative of this piece of agitprop. It’s certainly not because

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127 Hours (2010)

Jason says: “There is not a whole heck of a lot to 127 HOURS, story-wise: Guy goes climbing on his own, gets pinned by a falling boulder, and has to figure out a way to get out of a thoroughly

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Youth in Revolt (2009)

Jason says: “The night I saw this, I tweeted that I wasn’t sure whether Youth in Revolt was more amusingly or annoyingly mannered, and I still haven’t decided. It is, frequently, very funny, with great combinations of slapstick, wordplay, situations

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Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Bruce says: “Films about artists often fall short because the filmmaker does not know how to balance the personal life of the artist with the product he or she has created. The two united several years ago I was in

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The Young Victoria (2009)

Jason says: “A quality, old-fashioned costume drama, well-done enough that there’s really not a whole lot to say about it. Emily Blunt is fairly impressive in the title role, humanizing a figure often thought of as little but stern and

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You the Living (2009)

Michael says: “It’s nearly impossible to describe the absurdist films of Roy Andersson, whose SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR was a minor Chlotrudis hit several years ago. Andersson’s films examine the human condition, with sly, deadpan humor, and static shots

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New York, I Love You (2009)

Thom says: “This companion piece to PARIS JE T’AIME isn’t quite as good as the Paris version. The former concentrated on all different districts of the ‘City of Light,’ each with its own yarn, and was quite a bit more

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.6 cats
Director: Aviva Kempner

Diane says: “The radio show ‘The Goldbergs’ began in 1930 and morphed into a TV show in the ’50s. This docu is about the show’s creator and star, Gertrude Berg, who played a warm and somewhat ditsy matriarch with a

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Yodok Stories (2009)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrzej Fidyk

Bruce says: “YODUK STORIES is one of those films that makes perfect sense during the screening but disintegrates considerably the further one gets from the viewing. The concept is unusual. Andrzej Fidyk traveled to North Korea to make a short

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Year of the Carnovire (2009)

Thom says: “JUNO meets SHORTBUS as one reviewer states. Well, not really & it’s never wise to compare an inferior film to another. My opinion is that this film didn’t belong at TIFF & got a shot due to its

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