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Benares (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Barlen Pyamootoo
Starring: Davidsen Kamanah | Jérôme Boulle | Kristeven Mootien

Bruce says: “BENARES is the first film from novelist Barlen Pyamootoo who has lived and studied in France. It is also the first film ever from the country of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar with

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The Boys of Baraka (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Heidi Ewing | Rachel Grady

Bruce says: “Twenty African-American boys, age 12, are selected each year to attend a two year program in Kenya. The Baraka School was built buy money from The Abel Foundation in Baltimore as an experiment to save some of Baltimore’s

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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Beat Takeshi | Gadarukanaru Taka | Michiyo Ookusu | Michiyo Yasuda | Tadanobu Asano

Diane says: “Samurai spaghetti western with a heavy dose of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. While samurai gangs destroy each other, Kitano shows what’s happening to the disenfranchised regular folks. Beat Takeshi, playing the lead role of THE BLIND

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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alexandra Cassevetes

Hilary says: “Xan (Alexandra) Cassavetes’ first feature-length foray into the ‘family business’ tells the story of Z Channel, the the nation’s first pay-cable station, founded in 1974 in LA. “Z Channel’s founder, Jerry Harvey, was a rabid cinemaphile who influenced

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Young Adam (2004)

Chris says: “YOUNG ADAM features Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton having lots of steamy, hot sex in the repressed 1950s. It’s not a skeezy film, nor a really pleasurable one. At least no one pays too dearly for their sins;

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Tokyo Godfathers (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Satoshi Kon | Shôgo Furuya
Starring: Aya Okamoto | Toru Emori | Yoshiaki Umegaki

Michael says: “While foraging through the trash on Christmas, three homeless friends, a teenaged girl, a transvestite, and a middle-adged man find a baby who has been abandoned. Rather than bringing the infant to the police, the three embark on

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Touch of Pink (2004)

Bruce says: “You were born in Kenya but all your ancestors were from India. You were raised in Canada and now you live away from your family in London. Who can you turn to? Cary Grant, of course. Alim (Jimi

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Three Step Dancing (2004)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Salvatore Mereu
Starring: Daniele Casula | Michele Carboni | Yaël Abecassis

Bruce says: “The four seasons represent the four stages of life in THREE STEP DANCING. The film is not about the life of any single person, it is the collective lives of the residents of a village in Sardinia. The

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A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2004)

Michael says: “This atmospheric Mexican film surprised me after its initial dreary opening. While not nearly as brilliant a either of these, PEACE is a bit of a cross between Tsai Ming Liang’s WHAT TIME IS IT THERE and Wong

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The Terminal (2004)

Bruce says: “Anyone wishing to argue Steven Spielberg’s shortcomings as a director need look no further than THE TERMINAL. This film is a textbook case. “Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a tourist from a fictional Eastern European country, who becomes

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