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Re-Generation (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Anaïs Granofsky
Starring: Ingrid Veninger | Jackie Burroughs | Peter Stebbings

Bruce says: “The time is the distant future. Just how far we aren’t sure but one business boasts its existence ‘since 2032.’ Hints are dropped from time to time. ‘The birds are returning to the Pacific.’ Water is undrinkable unless

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I’m Not Scared (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gabriele Salvatore
Starring: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón | Dino Abbrescia | Giorgio Careccia

Bruce says: “My memories of Gabriele Salvatore’s MEDITERRANEO are hazy but my feelings about it remain perfectly clear. I wasn’t wild about it. It felt glossy and superficial. While Salvatore’s I’M NOT SCARED is an improvement, I’m still not a

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Bruce says: “For starters, I’m a big Jim Carrey fan. Let me qualify that. I think that he is one of the most talented actors alive. He needs a strong director. His performances too often have traces of juvenilia, mugging

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Code 46 (2004)

Bruce says: “The prolific Michael Winterbottom (BUTTERFLY KISS, JUDE, WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, WONDERLAND, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and IN THIS WORLD) could never be accused of making the same film twice. Each of his works is very different from the

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Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

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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Bright Young Things (2004)

Janet says: “Stephen Fry draws on his experience as Wodehouse’s Jeeves in adapting this busy story of male and female Bertie Woosters. Lots of fun to watch, with some superb acting (Fenella Woolgar is a millefeuille pastry of irony layered

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Balseros (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Carol Bausch | José María Doménech

Barbara says: “What I found interesting about this documentary was that it was so neutral politically. I thought it would be a big anti-Castro film focusing on the perils faced by the Cuban refugees who try to escape by homemade

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Secret Lives: Hidden Children and their Rescuers During World War II (2003)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Aviva Slesin

Laura says: “When Academy Award winning documentarian Aviva Slesin (THE TEN YEAR LUNCH: THE WIT AND LEGEND OF THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE) returned to Lithuania after fifty years to meet the woman who had saved her as a baby from

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Northfork (2003)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Michael Polish
Starring: Claire Forlani | Duel Farnes | James Wood | Mark Polish | Nick Nolte

Laura says: “Writer/director Michael and Writer/star Mark Polish complete their American Heartland trilogy with a dreamlike meditation on death and departure. Using two groups of angels, the bureaucratic guardians of the real world and a rag tag assemblage looking for

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The Good Thief (2003)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Emir Kusturica | Nick Nolte | Nutsa Kukhianidz

Bruce says: “What possesses talented directors to remake films which for one reason or another are considered classics of their genre? Neil Jordan, director of MONA LISA, THE CRYING GAME, THE BUTCHER BOY and THE END OF THE AFFAIR, must

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