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Crónicas (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sebastián Cordero
Starring: Alfred Molina | Damián Alcázar | John Leguizamo | José María Yazpik | Leonor Watling

Bruce says: “Similar in message to CAPOTE, this film tells the story of a reporter who is willing to compromise his integrity for fame and professional recognition. What makes the film interesting is how this comes about, a grim reminder

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Crash (2005)

Amanda says: “I just saw CRASH last night and I cannot stop thinking about it. Sign of: good film that you want to share (like this), bad film that you want people to avoid (I don’t know if I should

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Cowards Bend the Knee (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Amy Stewart | Darcy Fehr | Melissa Dionisio

Chris says: “If Guy Maddin’s most accessible effort, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, failed to move you, I’m not even going to try to convince you to check out this hour-long film that was made roughly around the same

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Côte d’Azur (2005)

Michael says: “This delightful French sex farce from the director of THE ADVENTURES OF FELIX, is a pleasure from start to finish. Mark and Béatrix are spending a summer in their seaside villa in Italy with their two teenaged children.

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The Constant Gardener (2005)

Bruce says: “Had anyone asked I would have said John Le Carré is prolific, but that is hardly the case considering he has published only eighteen novels in forty four years. “Le Carré (The Tailof of Panama, The Spy Who

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The Common Wealth (2005)

Michael says: “I try to see any film that Carmen Maura appears in that is released in the States. I still think Pedro Almodóvar’s best films were during the Carmen Maura period. Carmen has done some mediocre films since she

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Michael says: “Scot and I got passes to a special sneak preview of the much-anticipated THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE, the film version of the first part of C.S. Lewis’ children’s fantasy series. There

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The Chorus (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Christophe Barratier
Starring: François Berléand | Gérard Jugnot; Jean-Baptiste Maunier | Kad Merad | Marie Bunel

Michael says: “After Eric Jausseran’s ‘performance’ at the 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards last March, I had to give Christophe Barristier’s THE CHORUS a try. Unfortunately, the little I expected from this treacly, sentimental French drama came to pass. A successful

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Childstar (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Don McKellar | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Mark Rendall | Peter Paige

Michael says: “In what was surprisingly a disappointing film at the Festival (not because it was bad, but because of what McKellar has already produced), CHILDSTAR is the second film written and directed by Canadian talent Don McKellar after the

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Changing Times (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: André Téchiné | Catherine Deneuve | Gérard Depardieu | Gilbert Melki

Diane says: “Caught this newAndré Téchiné film at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts French Film Festival. Gerard Depardieu is a well-to-do French businessman overseeing construction in Tangiers, where, coincidentally, the love of his youth and of his life (Catherine

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Caterina in the Big City (2005)

By Michael Colford
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paolo Virzi
Starring: AliceTeghil | Margherita Buy | Sergio Castellitto

Michael says: “CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY is a sweet little Italian coming-of-age film about a young girl, Caterina, who moves with her parents from a small village in Italy to Rome. In school, she finds herself torn between two

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Capote (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Bennett Miller
Starring: Bruce Greenwood | Catherine Keener | Chris Cooper | Clifton Collins Jr. | Philip Seymour Hoffman

Michael says: “If I were casting the role of Truman Capote, author of that seminal work of non-fiction, In Cold Blood, Philip Seymour Hoffman is not the first name that would have popped into my head. Fortunately, three high school

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Café Lumière (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Starring: Masato Hagiwara | Tadanobu Asano | Yo Hitoto

Bruce says: “CAFÉ LUMIÈRE is Hou Hsaio-hsien’s tribute to Yasujiro Ozu, the Japanese master whose films are noted for their breathtaking beauty and their gentle narrative of everyday life. Ozu’s great attentions to the details of the environment his characters

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Brothers (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Connie Nielsen | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Sarah Juel Werner | Ulrich Thomsen

Michael says: “Susanne Bier made a splash among Chlotrudis members with 2002’s OPEN HEARTS. In BROTHERS she creates a situation involving Michael (Ulrich Thomsen), a major in the Danish army who is being sent to Afghanistan as part of a

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Brother to Brother (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rodney Evans
Starring: Anthony Mackie | Larry Gilliard Jr. | Roger Robinson

Ron says: “BROTHER TO BROTHER is a compelling look at the Harlem Renaissance as seen through the eyes of Bruce Nugent, a writer and painter of the era, now living in a homeless shelter in New York. Bruce befriends Perry

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Broken Flowers (2005)

Chris says: “In Jim Jarmusch’s Cannes-winning film, Bill Murray plays Don Johnston, a weathered, aging lothario and terminal bachelor forever explaining to bemused people that his last name is Johnston with a ‘T.’ Shortly after his latest flame, Sherry (Julie

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Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Shannon says: “I don’t really have time to give this review the attention it deserves, but I saw BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN at the closing night of the Denver International Film Festival on Saturday. I woke up Sunday morning with the film

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Bright Future (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.75
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Jô Odagirin Tadanobu Asanon | Sayuri Oyamada | Takashi Sasanoi | Tatsuya Fuji

Diane says: “Can’t say I really liked BRIGHT FUTURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director), a coolly presented surrealist story of two disaffected youth whose family ties are broken–to say nothing of the jellyfish. The gang of purposeful-seeming yet directionless kids in the

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Bride and Perjudice (2005)

Michael says: “Two days later, and BRIDE AND PREJUDICE is pretty disappointing. While I wasn’t expecting much more than some sweet, fluffy, Bollywood-inspired fun, there was very little that has lasted these couple of days (except maybe the image of

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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Brendan Gleeson | Cillian Murphy | Liam Neeson | Ruth Negga | Stephen Rea

Hilary says: “Neil Jordan’s latest film BREAKFAST ON PLUTO is anchored by an excellent performance by Cillian Murphy as Patrick ‘Kitten’ Braden. Kitten’s mission in life is to leave life in his sleepy Irish village behind and go in search

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