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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Jun Kunimura | Kippei Shiina | Ryo Kase | Takeshi Kitano | Tomokazu Miura
Jason says: “Takeshi Kitano has apparently been doing unusual stuff lately, with GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER and TAKEHSHIS apparently being considered weird for even Japan. Those projects haven’t been doing quite so well, so Kitano has gone back to the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Hiroki Matsukata | Mikijiro Hiro | Naoko Takenaka | Shido Nakamura | Susumu Terajima
Jason says: “For the last few years, I’ve had this recurring joke about how hiring TakashivMiike to direct family movies is the Japanese equivalent of Warner Brothers getting the rights to Harry Potter and deciding that the right man for
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Drake Doremus
Starring: AlexKingston | Anton Yelchin | Charlie Bewley | Felicity Jones | Jennifer Lawrence | Oliver Muirhead
Jason says: “First love can burn very bright but not be that complicated, and since that’s what LIKE CRAZY is about, it makes a bit of sense for it to have a certain shallowness about it as well. The question
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Alice da Cunha | Iain Glen | Jim Broadbent | Meryl Streep | Phoebe Waller-Bridge | Susan Brown
Diane says: “IRON LADY has been disparaged for giving an uncritical view of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government. True, true! But we already have that down. I went to see IRON LADY for a portrayal of a woman with
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Anne Dorval | Monia Chokri | Niels Schneider | Xavier Dolan
Michael says: “Caught up with HEARTBEATS, Xavier Dolan’s follow-up to the Chlotrudis multiple-nominee, I KILLED MY MOTHER. Once again, Dolan writes, directs and stars, this time tackling the mysteries of love, particularly in the more modern age of fluid sexuality.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Hideaki Anno | Kazuya Tsurumaki | Masayuki
Starring: Fumihiko Tachiki | Kôichi Yamadera | Kotono Mitsuishi | Megumi Ogata | Yûko Miyamura
Jason says: “I didn’t think much of the first REBUILD OF EVANGELION movie when I saw it a couple years ago, but there might have been mitigating circumstances – the version I saw was dubbed, and it was the first
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Todd Rohal
Starring: Koko Lanham | Miki Ann Maddox | Robert Longstreet | Steve Little | Wally Dalton
Jason says: “There are two distinct types of strange at play in THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM – weird characters in a somewhat conventional situation and parts that are just plain bizarre. Some in the audience aren’t going to be down for
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Wuershan
Starring: Ashton Xu | Kitty Zhang Yuqi | Liu Xiaoye | Masanobu Andô | You Benchang
Jason says: “THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF, AND THE SWORDSMAN certainly doesn’t lack for style; it’s got more styles than you can shake a stick at. At times, overwhelmingly so – though the movie is often quite funny and exciting, director
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mike Cahill
Starring: Brit Marling | DJ Flava | Matthew-Lee Ehrlbach | Meggan Lennon | William Mapother
Jason says: “I’m not sure which part of ANOTHER EARTH annoys me more – the terrible science or the weird relationship that develops over the course of the film. Though stranger things than the latter have happened in real life,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shirin Nehsat | Shoja Azari
Starring: Arita Shahrzad | Mehdi Moinzadeh | Orsolya Tóth | Pegah Ferydoni | Shabnam Toloui
Michael says: “This Iranian film by first-time filmmaker Shirin Neshat was on my list of films to see in Toronto back in 2009, but I ended up missing it. Then it had a brief run at the Museum of Fine
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