The Absence of Eden (2024)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Marco Perego
Starring: Adria Arjona | Garrett Hedlund | Morningstar Angeline | Tom Waits | Zoe Saldana
Licorice Pizza (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Alana Haim | Benny Safdie | Bradley Cooper | Cooper Hoffman | Jon Peters | Maya Rudolph | Sean Penn | Tom Waits
Chris says: “Not as shaggy or wacky as INHERENT VICE but pretty damn close at times. Magnificently directed, as usual. Could’ve done without the whole Penn/Waits sequence but only if it allowed time for more Hoffman/Haim sparring–at peak moments, their
Read the review...The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Adam Driver | Bill Murray | Carol Kane | Chloe Sevigny | Danny Glover | Steve Buscemi | Tilda Swinton | Tom Waits
Thom says: “It would be presumptuous of me to call myself a huge Jim Jarmusch fan but he certainly has had a large number of top-rated films with me including PATERSON, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, BROKEN FLOWERS, COFFEE & CIGARETTES,
Read the review...The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Christopher Plummer | Colin Farrell | Heath Ledger | Johnny Depp | Jude Law | Lily Cole | Tom Waits
Jason says: “Ordinarily, when good people make a bad movie, there’s a tendency to hunt for where things went wrong. THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS offers an obvious and logical culprit: The sudden death of its star, Heath Ledger, midway
Read the review...Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Alfred Molina | Bill Murray | Cate Blanchette | Iggy Pop | Steve Coogan | Tom Waits
Diane says: “Found most of this tedious. Maybe because I don’t like coffee _or cigarettes? I enjoyed three or four of the eleven conversations: the closing one with Rice and Mead listening to an imagined Mahler lied (Beckett-like), the great
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