The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Cate Blanchett | Gwyneth Paltrow | Jack Davenport | James Rebhorn | Jude Law | Matt Damon | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Magnolia (1999)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Jason Robards | John C. Reilly | Julianne Moore | Melora Walters | Philip Baker Hall | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Tom Cruise | William H. Macy
Chlotrudis says: “MAGNOLIA is Paul Thomas Anderson’s three-hour epic of loss, loneliness, forgiveness and coincidence. Beautifully shot and engagingly acted, MAGNOLIA can alternately humor, sadden, shock and amaze as it weaves together a multitude of story lines about several people
Read the review...Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Brad Anderson
Starring: Alan Gelfant | Callie Thorne | Holland Taylor | Hope Davis | José Zúñiga | Ken Cheeseman | Lyn Vaus | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Happiness (1998)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Camryn Manheim | Dylan Baker | Jane Adams | Jon Lovitz | Lara Flynn Boyle | Molly Shannon | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Boogie Nights (1997)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Don Cheadle | Heather Graham | John C. Reilly | Julianne Moore | Mark Wahlberg | Philip Seymour Hoffman | William H. Macy
God’s Pocket (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Slattery
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones | Christina Hendricks | Eddie Marsan | John Turturro | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Richard Jenkins
Jason says: “There are moments, especially toward the end of GOD’S POCKET, when I wonder if John Slattery has made a Trojan Horse of a movie, giving an audience expecting an honest-but-affectionate story about earthy folks in a tough neighborhood
Read the review...The Master (2012)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Ambyr Childers | Amy Adams | Joaquin Phoenix | Laura Dern | Lena Endre | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bruce says: “Much has been said about THE MASTER being a thinly disguised biopic of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology. Hubbard may have been the inspiration for the film but THE MASTER is about cultism in general.
Read the review...The Ides of March (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood; Marisa Tomei | George Clooney | Jennifer Ehle | Paul Giamatti | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Ryan Gosling
Thom says: “Governor Mike Morris (Clooney) is running hot & hard for his party’s Presidential candidacy and the latest crucial primary state is Ohio. His closest competitor is Senator Pullman. Morris’ hot-shot campaign manager Paul Zara (Hoffman in another spot-on
Read the review...Jack Goes Boating (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Starring: Amy Ryan | Daphne Rubin-Vega | John Ortiz | Philip Seymour Hoffman
Michael says: “Hats off to Philip Seymour Hoffman! Not only is his directorial debut a warm, funny, brilliantly acted, gorgeously written romance, it’s also the most adept depiction of the internal lives of people I’ve seen on screen. It’s a
Read the review...Mary and Max (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Elliot
Starring: Barry Humphries | Bethany Whitmore | Eric Bana | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Toni Collette
Jason says: “It’s interesting how certain things seem to arrive in clusters. Stop-motion animation never seemed to disappear quite so completely as the traditional cel-based form, but what has appeared over the last year or so has been an unexpected
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