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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rob VanAklemade
Bruce says: “This film would make a great double feature with AUDIENCE OF ONE. Both feature overzealous ministers who stop at nothing to accomplish goals which are both ill-defined and elusive. WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? is the story of Reverend
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Fredi M. Murer
Starring: Julika Jenkins | Teo Gheorghiu | Urs Jucker
Bruce says: “**Spoilers** “VITUS is a surprisingly slick and competent drama about a child prodigy who desperately wants to be normal. When we first see Vitus (Teo Gheorghiu) he is twelve and has stolen a private plane which he is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Henriette Mantel | Steve Skrovan
Bruce says: “‘A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’ When George Bernard Shaw wrote these words he
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Phil Grabsky
Bruce says: “AMADEUS did Mozart great disservice, portraying him as silly and deluded during the last decade of his life. Phil Grabsky is out to set the record straight by tracing Mozart’s career from the time of his first known
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alessandro Angelini
Starring: Giorgio Colangeli | Giorgio Pasotti | Michaela Cescon
Bruce says: “Director Alessandro Angelini does a great job in setting up his story. The tight writing and editing seem the work of a much more seasoned filmmaker. SALTY AIR is skimpy on plot but the general flavor and intense
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Starring: Bojana Novakovic | Dragan Jovanovic | Lazar Ristovski | Mira Banjac | Nebojsa Glogovac | Nebojsa Milovanovic | Slavko Stimac
Bruce says: “THE OPTIMISTS is a series of five vignettes about those who more or less take advantage of the situation rather than rise to the occasion. The first is about a hypnotist who visits a peasant village. The hapless
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Bruce says: “Mr. Vig is 82. His ‘old ambition is to create something enduring’ and to that end he has decided to give his estate, Hesbjerg Castle, to a Russian Orthodox religious order. As the film begins, Sister Ambrosija arrives
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Péter Forgács
Bruce says: “Tracking down home movies and combining them with other (usually professional) archival footage is an intriguing way of telling a story, creating a verité effect while providing a history lesson. Péter Forgács is a founder of the Private
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Bruce says: “Anyone glued to the nightly news during the saga of journalist Daniel Pearl knows the sad ending of his harrowing kidnapping story. A MIGHTY HEART is based on the writings of his wife Mariane, herself a journalist. Daniel
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Béla Tarr
Starring: Erika Bók | Gyula Pauer | István Lénárt | Miroslav Krobot | Tilda Swinton | Volker Spengler
Bruce says: “THE MAN FROM LONDON, Béla Tarr’s black and white homage to French film noir, opens with a seemingly never-ending tracking shot that takes your breath away. The camera moves from a reflection of a rope and boat in
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