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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Raman Hui
Starring: Bai Baihe | Eric Tsang Chi-wai | Jing Boran | Sandra Ng Kwun-yu | Wallace Chung Hong-leung | Wu Jiang
Jason says: “I’ve read that the English-dubbed version of MONSTER HUNT (releasing at about the same time the original Mandarin version hits the United States) cuts a few scenes, including one where dog meat is seen offered for sale in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ken Lonergan
Starring: Casey Affleck | Kyle Chandler | Lucas Hedges | Michelle Williams | Susan Pourfar
Michael says: “Writer/director Ken Lonergan made a big splash with his directorial debut, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME. Since then, it’s been sixteen years, and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA is only his third directorial effort. He’s written a bunch of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Whit Stillman
Starring: Chloe Sevigny | JennMurray | JTom Bennett | Kate Beckinsale | Lochlann O'Mearáin | Morfydd Clark
Thom says: “I’d like to recommend LOVE & FRIENDSHIP. Sire, who doesn’t love Jane Austen & Whit Stillman but this adaptation from Lady Susan a novella from the divine Austen is downright brilliant. Kate Beckinsale is stunning as the wicked
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Philippe Garrel
Starring: Antoinette Moya | Clotilde Courau | Jean Pommier | Lena Paugam | Stanislas Merhar | Vimala Pons
Bruce says: “Filmed in black and white reminiscent of the 1960s, Philippe Garrel’s IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN follows the dissolution of a marriage. Both husband and wife are having extra-marital affairs although they are happily married and deeply in
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Benjamin Utzerath | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | Vincent Nemeth
Bruce says “As he did with the Hermitage in RUSSIAN ARK, Sokurov takes on the Louvre mixing art, history and folklore. In spite of meandering – as a Sokurov film is wont to do – the focus ultimately settles on
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yang Qing
Starring: Bai Baihe | Chen Kun | Qin Hao | Yu Entai
Jason says: “There are bits of CHONGQING HOT POT that are clever, nifty, and well-executed enough that one almost wishes that filmmaker Yang Qing had a little bit more room to maneuver than he has in a contemporary Chinese crime
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Banlop Lomnoi | Jarinpattra Rueangram | Jenjira Pongpas | PetcharatChaiburi
Thom says: “I’ve been quite a fan of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul for some 15 years now since and his brilliant return to form here is as exciting as films get if your aura takes a cerebral nature. He’s been
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Bruce says: “A prerequisite to seeing this film is knowledge of Tsai Ming-laing’s films and his muse and leading man in all of his films, Lee Kang-sheng. The two men are lovers, spiritually and emotionally. They work together and live
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Peter Pau | Tianyu Zhao
Starring: Bao Bei-er | Chen Kun | Li Bing bing | Summer Jike Juanyi | Winston Chao | Yang Zi-shan
Jason says: “Maybe the best way to describe ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL (to give it the full name that appears on-screen) is to imagine if Ray Harryhausen had been born in China, making the sort of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daigo Matsui
Starring: Ai Hashimoto | Jun Aonami | Marie Machida | Yu Inaba
Jason says: “As soon as I saw this one, I figured that it may need some mulling over, although more for its downright peculiar ending than the occasional sense that as someone who is not a teenage Japanese girl, this
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