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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Starring: Achouackh Abakar Souleymane | Briya Gomdigue | Hadje Fatime N'Goua | Rihane Khalil Alio | Saleh Sambo | Youssouf Djaoro
Brett says: “The film LINGUI, translated as ‘The Sacred Bond(s),’ is a culturally compelling work at the very least. It is a story of a single mother and her 15-year old daughter in Chad who are caught in a web
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Samuel Kay Forrest
Starring: Andriana Manfredi | Beatrix Michelet | Enzo de Liguoro | Ian Loughran | Javier Taboada | Jurjen van Nes | Marie Céline Yildirim | Samuel Kay Forrest
Michael says: “After appearing in a handful of shorts and supporting parts in low-budget features, actor Samuel Kay Forrest decided to produce, write, and direct his own film. In HIPBEAT, a love letter to the modern-day Berlin for young people,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Akim Tamiroff | Anna Karina | Eddie Constantine
Michael says: “It was about 30 minutes into ALPHAVILLE when I realized I don’t think I like Godard’s films. Now I’ve only seen two, this one and BREATHLESS, so I am still open to more (BAND OF OUTSIDERS and VIVRE
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Curt May | Dennis Franz | John Aquino | John Lithgow | John McMartin | John Travolta | Nancy Allen | Peter Boyden
Michael says: “After enjoying Antonioni’s BLOW-UP, I thought it might be fun to check out BLOW OUT, Brian De Palma’s nod to that classic. In the 1966 film about a photographer who inadvertently captures a possible murder while king pictures of
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Blair Brown | Bob Balaban | Charles Haid | Drew Barrymore | Miguel Godreau | Thaao Penghlis | William Hurt
Michael says: “From his crazed musicals (TOMMY; THE BOY FRIEND) to his hallucinogenic movies (GOTHIC; THE RAINBOW; LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM) I knew what I was getting into when I decided to watch ALTERED STATES. I’ve always been wary,
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ena Sendijarevic
Starring: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic | Ernad Prnjavorac | Jasna Djuricic | Lazar Dragojevic | Mirsad Tuka | Sanja Buric | Sara Luna Zoric
Michael says: “It sounded so interesting. A young woman leaves her mother’s home in the Netherlands where she was raised, to return to her native Bosnia and seek out a father that she barely remembered. Despite a solid performance by
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Isaac Rathé
Starring: Aaron Hrastovec | Leo Yako | Lucas Tommy Youkhana
Brett says: “A do-it-yourself thriller-comedy that throws back to Spielberg’s made-for-television DUEL, this film is a microscopic budget first feature that tosses out the tractor-trailer vs. automobile and inserts a motorboat and kayak instead. The absurdity of that concept is
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ludovic Boukherma | Zoran Boukherma
Starring: Alain Boitel | Anthony Bajon | Christine Gautier | Guillaume Mattera | Jean-Michel Ricart | Ludovic Torrent | Noémie Lvovsky
“TEDDY is a modern take on werewolf lore and is set for release next week in French theaters. The film’s title protagonist is a young man in his early 20s that is still very much lost in the world. He
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paul Meins
Starring: Antonio de la Torre | Carmen Maura | Edward James Olmos | Francesc Orella | Jessica Marais | Paz Vega | Quim Gutiérrez
Michael says: “Family saga about a multi-generational Spanish family with a successful wine business who move their family business to Australia. The film is told in flashback, when a young man returns home to Spain and discovers that the groundskeeper
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Daryl Wein | Zoe Lister-Jones
Starring: Bobby Lee | Cailee Spaeny | Finn Wolfhard | Logan Marshall-Green | Nick Kroll | oe Lister-Jones | Tawny Newsome | Whitney Cummings
Chris says: “Shot entirely during the COVID-19 quarantine, this end-of-the-world indie-com has a good premise (although Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT got there first more than two decades ago), an impressive ensemble and a rather shoddy execution. Feeling much, much longer
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